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Welcome to my cyber-résumé. Browse around to find out about my research and publications on birds of prey, birds of the New World Tropics ("Neotropics"), habitat fragmentation in the Amazon, ecology, and conservation, as well as my graduate students, courses taught (ornithology and sometimes field ecology), and links to interesting pages on the Web, including a number of local conservation organizations with which I'm involved.

Ospreys: I've been studying the Osprey population on Martha's Vineyard, MA, since 1969. Recently (June 2000), in collaboration with Dr. Mark Martell of The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota, Mark and I have put satellite transmitters on a total of 11 birds, 10 on Martha's Vineyard and one in Charlotte. In 2004 we tagged five birds--two adults and three fledglings on the Vineyard. 

    Read about the Osprey research in more detail.

Barred Owls in Suburban Habitats: My current research is primarily focused on telemetry-based studies of Barred Owls in the Charlotte area. Barred Owls are very common in the old, densely populated (by humans) suburbs around Charlotte. A small flock of my graduate students is currently trapping, tagging, and following adult and juvenile Barred Owls to see how they're making a living in the midst of all those humans and if, indeed, they really are as successful as they appear to be. See more about this project.

Lessons from Amazonia - the book I have been editing for what seems like forever along with Claude Gascon, Tom Lovejoy, and Rita Mesquita was finally published by Yale University Press. While the official publication date is 2001, the book was first seen in the flesh in early 2002. This multi-authored volume summarizes 20 years of research into habitat fragmentation that has been carried out by myself and many, many collaborators on the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project. The table of contents of the book are just a click away....