Recipients of 2000 AOU Research Awards
Daniel R. Ardia, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- Geographic variation in interactions among individual quality, immune function and reproductive effort
Elena C. Berg, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Davis -- Reproductive cooperation and conflict in the White-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta formosa)
Peter Christie, M.S. candidate, Queen's University -- Song structure and mate choice from a distance in Black-capped Chickadees
Mario Cohn-Haft, Ph.D. candidate, Louisiana State University -- Biogeographic patterns of morphological, vocal, and genetic variation in Amazonian Hemitriccus flycatchers
Emily H. DuVal, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Berkeley -- Cooperative mating display in the Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceloata)
Mark E. Hauber, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- Conspecific recognition in a brood parasitic bird
Jeffery A. Johnson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee -- Conservation genetics of the Greater Prairie Chicken
Daniel Joshua Mennill, Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University -- The ecology and evolution of female eavesdropping and female choice of extra-pair partners
Troy Murphy, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- Sexual selection and assortative pairing in the Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa)
Jennifer Owen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern Mississippi -- Avian immune function and the energetic demands of long-distance migration
Sunshine A. Van Bael, Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois -- Avian insectivory in neotropical forest canopies
Matthew Wasson, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- An experimental investigation of calcium limitation in the reproduction of a North American passerine bird
Pamela Yeh, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-San Diego -- Evolution of the Dark-eyed Junco following invasion of a novel habitat
Members of the 2008 AOU Research Awards Committee
- Gary Ritchison, Chair
- Randall Breitwisch
- Charles R. Brown
- Perri Eason
- Rebecca L. Holberton
- Jeffrey S. Marks
- Michael T. Murphy
- Beth Slikas
- Charles F. Thompson
- Doris Watt
