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Recipients of 2009 AOU Research Awards

Medhavi Ambardar, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The effects of temperature and food abundance on breeding season length in single-brooded and double-brooded birds

Gustavo A. Bravo, Louisiana State University
Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic divergence in the antbirds (Thamnophilidae)

Courtney Coon, University of South Florida
Are invasive House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) released from their natural pathogens?

Allison Cox, University of Missouri
Natal dispersal of Red-bellied Woodpeckers (Melanerpes carolinus) in a fragmented landscape

Emily R. A. Cramer, Cornell University
The effects of energy on song structure in House Wrens

Raymond M. Danner, Virginia Tech
Cross-seasonal natural and sexual selection in a short distance migrant

Heather Farrington, University of Cincinnati
Extinction in the Galapagos: using ancient DNA to determine genetic structure in historic populations of Darwin's finches

Anna M. Forsman, Cornell University
Immune-based maternal effects in relation to microbial diversity across the breeding range of the Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor);

Samantha Franks, Simon Fraser University
Carry-over effects in a long-distance migratory shorebird: How do winter origin, foraging habitat, and age affect reproductive success?

Kristen B. Gorman, Simon Fraser University
Divergent population response by Pygoscelis penguins to rapid climate warming: nutritional and physiological stress mechanisms

David Hof, University of Massachusetts
Reliability and maintenance of aggressive signals in Parulid warblers

Joanna Hubbard, University of Colorado
Reading between the morphs: The genetic basis of continuous phenotypic variation

Sara A. Kaiser, Washington State University
Adaptive significance of plasticity in hormone-mediated avian reproductive behaviors

Tess Killpack, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ontogeny of immune function in altricial birds and its response to resource limitation

Jay McEntee, University of California, Berkeley
Bird song and sky island speciation

Loren Merrill, University of California, Santa Barbara
Do female Brown-headed Cowbirds use vocal performance to assess male quality?

Hernan Vazquez Miranda, University of Minnesota
Timing the times: a multi-locus analysis of avian diversification in Baja California

Greg Mitchell, University of Guelph
Factors that limit individual performance of migratory songbirds during autumn migration

Dana L. Moseley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Female preference development in the Swamp Sparrow

Dawn O'Neal, Indiana University
Does immune function mediate differential migration in the Dark-eyed Junco?

Eloisa Helena Reis Sari, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Colonization history and pathogens pressure in the Galapagos Flycatcher

Allison Schultz, San Diego State University
The relative role of different color production mechanisms in the evolution of avian sexual dichromatism

Jaclyn Smolinsky, University of Southern Mississippi
Factors influencing the migratory path of songbirds confronted with a large water body

Calandra Stanley, York University
Tropical deforestation and the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina): Exploring the consequences of winter habitat quality and determining migratory connectivity

David Swan, University of Western Ontario
Do cowbirds "farm" their hosts?

Angela Tringali, University of Central Florida
Alternative explanations for the evolution of ornamental traits: tests of multiple hypotheses in juvenile Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

Michael E. Uffenbeck, University of Central Arkansas
Determining age and assessing fitness of passerines using telomere restriction fragment analysis

Daniel Wetzel, University of Kentucky
A genetic basis of individual variation in parental care in wild birds?

Matthew Wilkins, University of Colorado
Multimodal signaling and the evolution of reproductive isolation in two sympatric subspecies of the Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica

Stephanie G. Wright, Villanova University
Individual responses to song playbacks in the Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina (P. carolinensis) chickadee hybrid zone of southeastern Pennsylvania

Members of the 2009 AOU Research Awards Committee