New York People

Mitchell Eaton Assistant Unit Leader Email: meaton@usgs.gov Tel: (607) 255 - 4665

Mitch is a Research Ecologist and Assistant Leader of the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. He is an assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University

William Fisher Unit Leader Email: wlf9@cornell.edu Website: http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profiles/fisher.html Tel: (607) 255 - 2839

Bill is a research fishery biologist and leader of the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and an associate professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University.

Angela Fuller Assistant Unit Leader Email: angela.fuller@cornell.edu Tel: (607) 255 - 2841

Angela is a Research Wildlife Biologist and Assistant Leader of the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University

Kimberley Corwin Research Support Specialist II Email: kjcorwin@gw.dec.state.ny.us

Kimberley Corwin is an Ecologist with a specialty in birds and herps, and has experience as a scientific editor. She joined the New York Coop Unit in October 2011 to assist with the revision of the New York State endangered species list and the Species of Greatest Conservation Need list. She is stationed in Albany, NY within the NYSDEC’s Bureau of Wildlife. Prior to this work, Kimberley was the Project Coordinator of the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas Project and Co-Editor of the resulting publication, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State. Most recently, she spent a year working in Louisiana on the emergency oil spill response following the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Melanie Moss Administrative Assistant Email: mdm44@cornell.edu

Matt Adams Email: mca59@cornell.edu

Matt is from Hyattsville, MD, a suburb of Washington, D.C. He graduated from Penn State with a B.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science. Prior to coming to the NY Coop unit, Matt worked in the game bird division of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. He also worked on a grassland songbird project for Penn State. In his free time, Matt enjoys hiking and bird watching.

Alex Alexiades Email: ava29@cornell.edu

Originally from Knoxville, TN, Alex received his BS from Montana State University (2003), MS from University Neveda-Reno (2010), and he is currently a PhD student in Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology at Cornell.

Bénédicte Madon Email: benedicte.madon@gmail.com

I received my B.S. in ecology with an emphasis on marine biology from the University of La Rochelle (France) in 2003. During my undergraduate years, I completed a study on gorilla behavior in a French zoo, and a study on diet of grey seals at the Maurice Lamontagne institute (Fisheries and Oceans, Canada). In 2004, my master in Environmental Biology at the University of St Andrews (UK) led me to an internship at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California to work on the influence of diseases on blood parameters of sea lions, and later on to a PhD in Statistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. My research there focused on combining different sources of mark-recapture data to estimate abundance with an application to a humpback whale population. In 2010, I joined David Warton’s lab at UNSW in Australia to work on model selection in species distribution modeling, and I co-founded a NGO, Boomerang for Earth Conservation, to study and protect biodiversity at local scale. I now work at the interface between ecology and statistics with conservation always in mind.

Chris Nadeau Email: cpn28@cornell.edu

Chris comes from the Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research (AZFWRU) unit where he worked as a Wildlife Biologist since 2002. Chris coordinated numerous projects evaluating survey methods, management strategies, and the ecology of burrowing owls and secretive marsh birds while working at the AZFWRU. Some of these projects included: (1) evaluating the use of fire to restore early successional wetlands for two endangered marsh birds on the lower Colorado River, (2) adaptively managing water depth to optimize the abundance of two endangered marsh birds at Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, (3) coordinating the North American Marsh Bird Monitoring Program, including field experiments to test monitoring methods, and (4) studying the evolution of clutch size and behavioral traits in burrowing owls. Aside from his experience at the AZFWRU, Chris has a variety of other work experiences, including radio-tracking waterfowl and vaccinating raccoons and skunks against rabies. Chris obtained a B.S. in Landscape Analysis with a focus on Geographic Information Systems at the University of Arizona in 2009 (while working for the AZFWRU). He also obtained a Fish and Wildlife Technician Diploma from Sir Sandford Fleming College in 2000. Chris is currently interested in spatial ecology, community ecology, biogeography, and wildlife population viability in the face of climate change. Chris will be evaluating the threat of climate change to Species of Greatest Conservation Need in New York. When Chris isn’t working or studying, he finds himself cycling, mountain biking, kayaking, or hiking.

Phillips Perry Email: pcp35@cornell.edu

Christian received his BA in Field Biology and an MA in Outdoor Education from the University of Northern Colorado, and following a stint of working for a satellite imagery company and volunteering for the Peace Corps, completed his MS in Forestry and Natural Resources from Purdue University in 2011.

Kelly Robinson Email: kfr26@cornell.edu Tel: (706) 542 - 4833

I received my BA in Biology and Spanish from the University of Virginia in 2001 and my MS in Marine Biology from the College of Charleston in 2006. In Charleston, I studied commercially-important marine fishes, including deepwater species and members of the snapper-grouper complex. I completed my PhD in Fisheries Science at the University of Georgia in 2011. At UGA, I studied estuarine fish communities in impounded wetlands in coastal South Carolina. As part of my dissertation research, I used structured decision making (SDM) to assess ways to manage impoundments to minimize their effect on marine-transient fishes. As a postdoc at Cornell, I am using SDM to aid the NYSDEC in making decisions for wildlife and fish population management.

Tyler Ross Email: tjr84@cornell.edu

Born and raised in Oklahoma, T.J. Ross is a Master’s student at Cornell University. He obtained a B.S. in Kinesiology from Oklahoma Baptist University in May of 2008.

Cat Sun Email: cs752@cornell.edu

Hailing from Delaware, Cat graduated from the University of Delaware in May 2010 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences with a Concentration in Ecology and Organismic Biology. During her undergraduate career, Cat studied nemertean genomics, assisted in horseshoe crab spawning surveys, and researched the effects of nonnative plants on spider communities. In the summer of 2010, Cat worked as a field research assistant for Delaware State University mist-netting veeries and dissecting their nests for leaf litter decomposition. In her spare time, Cat enjoys watercolors, reading modern philosophy, and adding to her insect collection.

Jason Taylor Email: jmt345@cornell.edu

Jason received his BA (1997) and MS (2001) from University of North Texas and worked as an aquatic ecologist for the Nature Conservancy before returning to graduate school at Baylor University where he received his PhD in Biology (2011).

Maya Weltman-Fahs Email: mw482@cornell.edu

Maya Weltman-Fahs returns to here native Ithaca after 10 years spent in California, Hawai'i, and New York City. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz (2005) and a Master's in Climate Science and Policy from Columbia University (2010). She is a PhD student in Natural Resources at Cornell.