Chris Templeton
Assistant Professor of Biology
contact: Department of Biology
Western Washington University
516 High Street, MS-1960
Bellingha, WA 98225
phone: +1 (360) 650-2321
email: chris DOT templeton AT wwu DOT edu
Undergraduate Students:
Lab Alumni: gone but not forgotten!
Michelle Winfield
Pacific Biology 2023
Chickadees are fierce
In traffic noise and capture
Owie he bit me
Nora Carlson
PhD 2017 University of St Andrews
Current Position: Marie Curie Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology/Universitie of Konstanz, Germany
Esmeralda Quiros Guerrero
PhD 2019 University of St Andrews
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Sarah Strack, Pacific Biology 2019
Noise pollution leads
To decrease in cognitive
Skill in chickadees
Current position:Vet student, Oregon State Univ
Alan Tran, Pacific Biology 2019
For the zebra finch
Noisy cars and noisy roads
Impair their learning
Katri Herranen, Pacific Biology 2019
Hear a tune so high,
tangled in low noise. Frightful,
the birds win this round
Megan Meatte, Pacific Biology 2020
Wrens sing chorus songs
Assessing invader groups
Defend your homeland
Former Undergraduate Students
Why scientific haiku? read more here
Former PhD Students
May Murakami-Smith,
Pacific Biology 2022
Carrie Nunnenkamp,
Pacific Biology 2022
Reece Rhinehart
Pacific Biology 2023
Why scientific haiku? read more here
Maren Duffy
WWU Biology 2025
Chickadees calling
Now I hear them all around
Thanks to the Bird Lab!
Jasper McCutcheon
WWU Biology 2024
Nuthatch's alarm call,
Do chickadees stop to hear?
Someday we will know
Brigitta Coan
WWU Env Sci 2024
Focal bird is perched
Ten meters from the speaker
Focal bird..is...gone....?
Logan Young
WWU Env Sci 2024
Annika Dank
Pitzer College
Cognitive Science
Cvetty Ilic
WWU Biology 2024
2024
2025
Current Lab Team
Postdocs:
Lainey Bee
Grace Nugent
Lindsey Doyel
Jess Matyas
MS Students:
