The following folks are currently working with me:

Elise Zipkin - MS candidate [e.mail]

Elise is currently working on the optimal harvest and control of structured populations. Her work - co-supervised with Pat Sullivan (DNR - Cornell) - involves assessment of various fisheries systems, under the assumption that harvest pressure is independent of the functional response of the prey.

The following is a list of some gone but not forgotten students.

Paul Conn - post-doctoral fellow [e.mail]

After completing his PhD with Gary White at Colorado State, Paul spent some time on the finch project working on statistical methods for parameter estimation which account for state specification uncertainty and state-specific detection probabilities - two nasty problems on which we've made some significant progress. Paul is now working for NOAA.

Cristina Faustino - MSc (2003) [e.mail]

Cristina worked on aspects of the finch disease project. In particular, she evaluated seasonal differences in the rates of infection/recovery, and survival, using analysis of mark-encounter data. She is now taking a bit of time off, finishing off a paper, before starting the next phase of her career.

Cindy Hauser - PhD (2006) [e.mail]

Cindy joined us from the Department of Mathematics and the Ecology Centre at The University of Queensland. While here at Cornell, Cindy worked on some of the technical aspects of optimal harvest of structured populations.

Chris Jennelle - PhD (2007) [e.mail]

Chris recently completed his PhD working on the finch project (where he considered transition rates among clinically relevant states). His primary focus was on sources of individual heterogeneity in movement and survival over a geographically explicit landscape. He is now a post-doc with Mike Samuel at the Wildlife Health Labs in Madison, WI.

Johnny Merrill - MSc (2003) [e.mail]

Johnny was a MSc student (finished May, 2003) working on modeling effects of sterilization on controlling urban deer populations, and probably on aspects of harvest theory as well. He's taking some much needed time off before continuing his graduate studies at the PhD level.

Vijay Patil - Honor's BS (2005) [e.mail]

Vijay was an honors undergaduate in the Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University. His honor's thesis involved the relationship between habitat selection and developmental plasticity in lesser snow geese, which is part of the larger research program association with the Hudon Bay Project. Vijay is now pursuing a MSc with David Hik at the University of Alberta.

Nancy Sundell-Turner - PhD (2002) [e.mail]

Nancy was a PhD student (finished May, 2002) in the Center for Applied Math here at Cornell (under the supervision of Rick Durrett), and worked on the trophic dynamics of goose-herbivore interactions. She has recently accepted a post-doctoral position at the University of Utah.

Elizabeth (Li) Van Nostrand - Cornell Presidential Scholar [e.mail]

Li worked with us for ~3 years - as a Cornell Presidential Scholar. Li was a computational biology major, who has been developed a simulation environment to look at the interaction of small population size, social structure, and disease dynamics. In particular, she considered the degree to which social interactions in small populations might generate multi-modal seasonal dynamics in disease prevalence.