Our research focuses on gaining a mechanistic understanding of 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

  • Am thrilled that Julian Garcia Walther was awarded a graduate fellowship by CONACYT and the Mexican government last week. Julian is launching the first network of Motus towers in Mexico to track the movements of endangered coastal birds, like Red Knots and Elegant Terns. This fellowship will allow Julian to carry out his fieldwork and engage with local partners, and should pay real dividends for both avian science and conservation!
  • We have been tracking Black-tailed Godwits for nearly a decade now and have learned a considerable amount, but that doesn't mean there isn't more to learn! Our latest paper by Mo Verhoeven in the Journal of Ornithology shows that the majority of godwits use emergency stopover sites along the Moroccan coast during northward migration at least once in their life. If we were to only have followed godwits for a single year, this pattern would not have been apparent. But it suggests that we cannot just focus our conservation efforts on big sites where lots of birds congregate.
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senner at mailbox.sc.edu
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina​
Coker Life Sciences 406
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.