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Research Interests


I am generally interested in habitat and population research that assists resource agencies and conservation organizations to understand factors that limit wildlife populations. 

Current Projects

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Restoration of Piping Plovers to Lake Ontario
  • Funding: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NY Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Collaborators: Audubon New York, Onondaga Audubon Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NY Department of Environmental Conservation, New York Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
  • Personnel: Alison Kocek, PhD Candidate; Michelle Stantial, PhD Candidate

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Avian demographic response to salt marsh restoration, with emphasis on salt marsh breeding sparrows in coastal New York state, and experimental habitat restoration for tidal marsh birds
  • Funding: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NY Department of Environmental Conservation, Gateway National Recreation Area
  • Collaborators: NYC Parks, NYC Audubon, Salt Marsh Habitat and Avian Research Program, Biodiversity Research Institute
  • Personnel: Alison Kocek, PhD Candidate; Alex Cook, MS student

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Photo Credit: Steve Maslowski
Monitoring responses of avian communities and focal bird species to forest management in Pennsylvania
  • Funding: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
  • Collaborators: Dr. Jeffery  Larkin (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
  • Personnel: Cameron Fiss, PhD Student

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Impacts of roadways and vehicle collisions to breeding snowy plovers and other wildlife at Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida
  • Funding: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund, National Park Service (Gulf Islands National Seashore), Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
  • Collaborators: Florida Parks Service, Audubon Florida, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Personnel: Maureen Durkin,  PhD Candidate

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Factors limiting imperiled New England cottontail rabbit populations in New York State, and Scientific Management of New England cottontails
  • Funding: New York Department of Environmental Conservation, US Department of Agriculture
  • Collaborators: Whipps Lab at SUNY ESF, Ryan Lab at University of Florida, New York Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Wildlife Conservation Society, Kovach Lab at University of New Hampshire
  • Personnel: Amanda Cheeseman, post-doc; Drew Eline, MS student

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Photo credit: Conserve Wildlife NJ

Factors limiting reproductive success of piping plovers in New Jersey
  • Funding: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service New Jersey Field Office
  • Collaborators: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, Atlantic Coast Piping Plover Recovery Program
  • ​Personnel: Michelle Stantial, PhD Candidate

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Decision support population modeling for piping plover recovery
  • Funding: Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
  • Collaborators: Atlantic Coast Piping Plover Recovery Program
  • ​Personnel: Abigail Darrah, Post-doc; Maureen Durkin,  PhD Candidate; Michelle Stantial, PhD Candidate

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Photo credit: Cornell University
American black duck and mallard interactions and habitat separation during winter in the Finger Lakes region of central NY 
  • Funding: New York Department of Environmental Conservation, US Fish and Wildlife Service/American Black Duck Joint Venture
  • Collaborators: Dr. Michael Schummer (SUNY Oswego)
  • Personnel: Justin Droke and Adam Bleau, MS Students

Past Projects

  • Impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on snowy plover behavior, reproductive success, and habitat selection in the Florida Panhandle (Conservian Inc., USFWS)
  • Piping plover movements, flight heights, and avoidance of obstructions during the breeding season: implications for risk of collision with turbines and other human structures (USFWS, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection) 
  • Methods for estimating ring-necked pheasant populations in western New York (NY DEC)
  • Mercury contamination in songbirds on Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, NY (USFWS)
  • Influence of protected lands on changes in forest breeding bird distributions in NY and PA
  • ​Effect of human disturbance on roseate tern behavior and habitat use on Cape Cod, MA (NPS)
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