Join Our Team!
Are you interested in studying animal communication, cognition, behavioral ecology, or conservation? Join us! We are always excited to have motivated and engaged researchers of all levels join our research group.
Our lab is composed of a diverse group of researchers connected by a passion for understanding the natural world. We strongly believe that diverse backgrounds bring diverse perspectives that in turn inspire intellectual creativity and facilite scientific progress for all. We welcome and support all people, all races, all ethnicities, and all gender identities in the lab. We recognize that systemic racism and discrimination permeate both society and the academy, creating major challenges for the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, and we especially encourage these students to join us. Our lab group is a safe and supportive space that welcomes and celebrates all axes of diversity.
Undergrads:
Undergraduates interested in gaining research experience during the summer or school year should contact me directly via email. We have lots of different opportunities for undergrads of all levels to learn new techniques in acoustic analysis, help with field and lab work, or develop their own capstone thesis research projects. Workstudy positions and paid summer research positions are often available in the lab.
Graduate students:
I am recruiting graduate students to join the lab at Western Washington. If you're interested in pursuing graduate work at the MS level, please contact me directly via email. I have also co-supervised graduate students and served on PhD thesis committees at other institutions and I remain happy to do so in the future.
Postdocs:
We will soon have an opening for an NSF funded postdoc to work on the effects of traffic noise on avian cognition. Please get in touch if you're interested in working on this project.
In addition, I am always happy to work with interested students to write grant or fellowship applications to support a variety of other postdoctoral projects in the lab.
