2021 / 2022

Lyn Brown (Mentor) and Trevor MacLaurin (Undergraduate Researcher), Trent University: The impact of vegetation encroachment on American Oystercatcher nesting distribution and hatching success

2020

Lindsey Walters (Mentor) and Chrisula Stone (Undergraduate Researcher), Northern Kentucky University: Assessing the use of nestling Tree Swallow feathers as a bioindicator of environmental methylmercury contamination

Kristen Covino (Mentor) and Francesca Foltz (Undergraduate Researcher), Loyola Marymount University: The feasibility of using excreta samples to quantify hormone levels in breeding gulls

2019

Joanna Hubbard (Mentor) and Melissa Bailey (Undergraduate Researcher), Truman State University: Do early developmental conditions affect structural and melanin-based plumage color in Eastern Bluebirds, Sialia sialis?

Daniel Shustack (Mentor) and Hannah Wait (Undergraduate Researcher), Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts: Establishing migratory connectivity of Slate-colored Juncos (Junco hyemalis hyemalis) using stable isotopes

2018

Martha Desmond (Mentor) and Jadzia Rodríquez (Undergraduate Researcher), New Mexico State University: Influence of local and landscape factors on Burrowing Owl artificial habitat site occupancy in Arizona

Robert L. Curry (Mentor) and Taylor Heuermann (Undergraduate Researcher), Villanova University: Influences of DRD4 and SERT on intraspecific and interspecific variation in boldness in chickadees

2017

Morgan Tingley (Mentor) and Nicholas Russo (Undergraduate Researcher; photo below), University of Connecticut: Avian spring migration as a dispersal pathway for insect invasion

Kevin Fraser (Mentor) and Ellyne Geurts (Undergraduate Researcher), University of Manitoba: Investigating moult and migration strategies in a long-distance migratory songbird by using stable-isotope analysis

2016

Joel Ralston (Mentor) and Kathryn Marshall (Undergraduate Researcher), Saint Mary’s College: Documenting regional variation in genetic diversity in boreal forest bird populations threatened by climate change

Mark Deutschlander (Mentor) and Madison Sutton (Undergraduate Researcher), Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Orientation and energetics of migrant warblers during spring at a northern stopover site