
PI: Gunnar Kramer
(grk [at] iastate.edu)
Graduate Students

Coralee Bodeker (MS student) – Red-shouldered Hawk space-use and migration ecology

Robin Deisig (MS student) – grassland songbird productivity and management

Kat Wilkins (MS student) – migration ecology and demography of Wood Thrush
Undergraduate Researchers
Trevor Longnecker (WFCE) – effects of climate change on breeding behavior of desert songbirds
Jairo Yepez Mujica (WFCE, McNair Scholar) – host-parasite interactions: cowbirds and grassland songbirds
Grace Binstock (WFCE) – blood histology of grassland songbirds
Jess Kowalski (ENSC/WFCE + Honors Program) – behavioral ecology and song recognition in tropical birds
Lab Alumni: Undergraduates
Nicole Mejia (Harvard OEB, ’22) – climate change and desert birds
Owen Burrack (ISU AECL + Honors Program ’25) – thermal characteristics of desert songbird nest materials
Matthew Parr (ISU AECL ’25) – physiological consequences of climate change on desert songbirds