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Recipients of 2003 AOU Research Awards

Alexa Bontrager, University of California-San Diego -
Development and expression of a sexually selected trait: a field study

Shannon N. Bouton, University of Michigan -
The effect of multiple environmental stressors on the behavior, growth and survival of nestling Cliff Swallows

Carlos Daniel Cadena, University of Missouri-St. Louis -
Ecology, evolutionary history, and the distribution of Buarremon brush-finches: insights from ecological niche modeling, molecular systematics, and phylogeography

Nicola Leanne Chong, University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum -
The role of the MHC in mate choice of the Red-billed Gull

Stephanie Correa, Cornell University -
A mechanism for sex ratio manipulation in birds

Maria Jose Fernandez, UC-Berkeley -
Air density and hovering aerobic cost in the Giant Hummingbird

Aaron P. Gabbe, University of California-Santa Cruz -
The effects of sucrose concentration on hummingbird foraging behavior: implications for the evolution of dilute sucrose concentration in hummingbird pollinated plants

Julie C. Garvin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee -
The effects of the immune system on extra-pair mate choice in socially monogamous bird populations

Eben Goodale, University of Massachusetts -
The adaptive benefits of vocal mimicry in a mixed-species flock participant

Mark F. Haussmann, Iowa State University -
An investigation of avian physiological mechanisms of aging

Jill E. Jankowski, Purdue University -
Distribution of endemic species in montane rainforest and implications for their persistence

Frans Juola, Bucknell University -
Seasonal bias in offspring sex ratios of Great Frigatebirds

Jeremy J. Kirchman, University of Florida -
Historical biogeography of rails in Oceania: a molecular and morphological study of Gallirallus

Jessica L. Koederitz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee -
The evolution of avian sexual dichromatism: an unbiased assessment in the ultraviolet and visible wavelengths

Ellen Martinsen, University of Vermont -
Diversity and host specificity of avian malaria parasites

John E. McCormack, University of California-Los Angeles -
A comparison of natural selection and genetic drift in promoting differentiation between populations of the Mexican Jay

Kevin McGraw, Cornell University -
The physiological costs of being colorful: how nutritional stress affects carotenoid utilization

Borga Mila, University of California at Los Angeles -
Phylogeographic approaches to test the role of Pleistocene climate in the evolution of migration in New World passerines

Kristen J. Navara, Auburn University -
Differential allocation of yolk content in birds: do females play favorites?

Christopher Olson, Iowa State University -
Developmental consequences of thermal fluctuations to avian embryos

Marc C. Pedersen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee -
Extraterritorial movements of male and female Common Yellowthroats in relation to a male ornamental trait

Sushma Reddy, Columbia University and American Museum of Natural History -
Historical biogeography of southern Asia: investigating patterns of biotic assemblages and their relationships using endemic avian taxa

James W. Rivers, University of California-Santa Barbara -
Assessing the factors that influence begging intensity in a generalist brood parasite

Katrina Gotia Salvante, Simon Fraser University -
Physiology underlying the ‘cost of reproduction’: lipoprotein lipase activity and very-low density lipoprotein particle-size distribution in energy challenged birds

Annette Sauter, University of Zurich -
The effects of human-provided foods on Florida Scrub-Jay nestling growth and survival

Adam M. Siepielski, New Mexico State University -
Coevolutionary meanderings in the geographic mosaic of selection for Clark’s Nutcrackers, bird-dispersed pines, and red squirrels

Nicole A. Taylor, Boise State University -
Sex ratio variation in Burrowing Owls: test of the Trivers and Willard hypothesis

Gregor Yanega, University of Connecticut -
Consequences of beak morphology for insectivory in North American hummingbirds

Bethanne Zelano, University of Washington -
Mate choice and the major histocompatibility complex in European Starlings

Members of the 2008 AOU Research Awards Committee