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 2003 AOU Research Awards Committee
Gary Ritchison, Chair
Reed Bowman
Charles R. Brown
Chris Hill
Scott Lanyon
Michael T. Murphy
Brian Peer
Scott Robinson
Beth Slikas
Charles F. Thompson