Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students

Dr. Erin Boydston (PhD 2001)

eboydston [at] usgs.gov
tel. 714-508-4704 / fax. 714-508-4701
Research Ecologist
USGS Western Ecological Research Center
320 Commerce, Suite 150
Irvine, CA 92602
USA

Nature Conservancy Article on Erin's Work

Dr. Stephanie M. Dloniak (PhD 2004)

dloniak [at] kenyaweb.com
Director, The Mara Carnivore Conservation Project
PO Box 86
Karen 00502
Nairobi KENYA
Mobile phone: +254 736 192 242

Dr. Anne Engh (PhD 2002)

anne@babooncamp
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Joseph Kolowski (PhD 2007)

Post-doctoral Fellow
Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program
The Smithsonian Institution
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr. SW
Washington, DC 20560-0705
Program Tel. 202.633.4793
MSU Website

Ms. Teresa McElhinny (MSc 1996)

mcelhinn [at] msu.edu
PhD Candidate, Michigan State University Department of Zoology

Dr. Eva Maria Muecke (PhD 2005)

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Pacific University
2043 College Way
Forest Grove, OR, 97116

Dr. Scott Nunes (PhD 1997)

nunes [at] usfca.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology , University of San Francisco ,
2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117
phone: (415) 422-5645 fax: (415) 422-6363

Dr. Micaela Szykman Gunther (PhD 2001)

Dr. Micaela Szkyman Gunther observing African wild dogs

ms147 [at] humboldt.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Wildlife
Humboldt State University

1 Harpst Street
Arcata, CA 95521
Ph: 707-826-3520
Fax: 707-826-4060
Director, African Wild Dog Reintroduction and Conservation Program
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, Conservation & Research Center, USA
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ReproductiveScience/African_Wild_Dog

Dr. Jaime B. Tanner (PhD 2007)

jtanner@admin.umass.edu
Darwin Postdoctoral Fellow
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Program
319 Morrill 3
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003

Dr. R.C. Van Horn (PhD 2004)

Research Associate, Applied Animal Ecology
Conservation & Research for Endangered Species (CRES)
Zoological Society of San Diego
15600 San Pasqual Valley Road
Escondido, CA 92027-7000
http://cres.sandiegozoo.org/staff/div_applied_cons.html

recent publication:
Van Horn, R.,
J. Altman, and S. Alberts (2008). Can't get there from here: inferring kinship from pairwise genetic relatedness. Animal Behavior 75, 1173-1180.

Dr. Sofia Wahaj (PhD 2004)

1302 Nebraska Ave., Apt 5-D
Fort Pierce, FL 34950
(517)-775-3618

Dr. Heather Watts (PhD 2007)

hewatts [at] ucdavis.edu
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior
University of California, Davis
Animal Communication Lab
Davis, CA 95616

Former Post-docs

Dr. Susan Cooper

Assistant Professor
Texas Agricultural Experimental Station
1619 Garner Field Road

Uvalde, TX 78801

Dr. Carmen Salsbury

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Butler University
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208