Our research uses movement ecology as a framework to understand how individuals and populations respond to changes in their environment in order to project how future change may alter a population’s dynamics and evolutionary trajectory. ​

Breaking News

  • Following up on our article in Wader Study, the writer Deborah Cramer has published an amazing piece in the New York Times about Deveaux Bank and its importance to Whimbrel and other coastal birds. If you're interested in learning more, considering joining the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources' panel discussion and question-and-answer session this coming Tuesday. 
  • Maina Handmaker, along with colleagues at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Cornell Lab of Ornithology, have discovered that nearly half of the Atlantic Coast population of Whimbrel--20,000 birds--roost each night on tiny Deveaux Bank, SC during northward migration. Our findings are out today in Wader Study and also in a short film made by the Conservation Media Center at the Cornell Lab. We're hoping that this has huge conservation implications, so stay tuned for more news soon!
  • Luke Wilde is now a Master of Science! He successfully defended his thesis on April 2nd and is off to the University of Wyoming and Matt Kauffman's lab to study Mule Deer migration. If you're interested in Luke's godwit research, one of his chapters is up on BioRxiv, so check it out!
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Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina​
Coker Life Sciences 406
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.