PI: Gunnar Kramer (CV)
(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
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; currently graduate student, Cornell
Owen Burrack (ISU AECL + Honors Program ’25) – thermal characteristics of desert songbird nests; currently Naturalist, Worth County Conservation
Matthew Parr (ISU AECL ’25) – physiological consequences of climate change on desert songbirds; currently graduate student UT – Tyler
Jairo Yepez Mujica (WFCE ’26, McNair Scholar) – host-parasite interactions: grassland songbirds, telomeres; currently graduate student at Michigan