Professional Appointments                                          

     2009 –present  Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University

     2003 – 2009      Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University

     2001 – 2003      Assistant Research Biologist, Department of Biology, UC Riverside 

     1999 – 2001      Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Biology, UC Riverside

Education                       

1998            Ph.D. in Organismal Biology and Ecology, University Montana, Missoula MT

1991            B.A. in Geography and Ecosystems. University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Recent Invited Presentations and Workshops                                             

2013Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Sweden

2013Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Symposium, San Francisco, CA

2012Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Davis, CA

2012Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, FL

2011Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Canada

2011Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada

2011Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, IL

2011Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, MT

2010MIGRATE Conservation of Migrants in Dynamic Landscapes, Konstanz, Germany

2010Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Nebraska, NE

2010Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, NY

2009National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Working Group, Duke University, Durham, NC

2009Society of Experimental Biology Symposium, Awaji Japan

Grants & Fellowships                                   

2012       NSF-DDIG Evolutionary Ecology: Spatial variation in bill morphology and genetic structure in the Island Scrub-Jay: Adaptive divergence within a single-island endemic?

2011       Good Family Visiting Professor Fellowship, Queens University

2011NSF- Dimensions: Collaborative Research: An integrative traits-based approach to predicting variation in vulnerability of tropical and temperate stream biodiversity to climate change.

2010       NSF- DDIG: Population and Community Ecology. Ecological aspects of species distribution limits: interaction of biotic and abiotic factors

2009       NSF- Faculty Early Career Development CAREER: The role of phenotypic plasticity in adaptive evolution.

2009       Smithsonian Institution; Ecological and evolutionary determinants of avian parental care strategies;

2008       NSF-DDIG: Ecological and Evolutionary Processes. Mechanisms maintaining sympatric morphological divergence in Ilyodon furcidens

2007       The Nature Conservancy; Ecology of the landbirds on the California Channel Islands

Professional Societies                                

Member: American Society of Naturalists (ASN), Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)