I am an ecologist, with particular interests in species distributions, interspecific interactions, feeding ecology, and conservation of birds. Fundamentally, I am fascinated by the various reasons why species are distributed where they are, and how new sources of data can expand our knowledge of those patterns.
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Much of my ongoing work focuses on seabirds of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.  At the moment, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, working on a project in partnership with Viking Expeditions, to examine how eBird data can be used to map seabird distributions.
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Contact:
mbs295 [at] cornell.edu
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell University
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850

See more pictures from my fieldwork in my Flickr album here.

You can watch my remote PhD defense (from 15 Apr 2020) here on Youtube.

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Learn more about my research by clicking on the following images, or by going to the Reseach tab above:

The Antarctic

Projects

Analysis