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

  • 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!
  • Congrats to Maina Handmaker on winning the Bergstrom Award from the Association of Field Ornithologists! Maina's research is focused on understanding how the distribution of foraging and roosting sites influences the stopover dynamics of Whimbrel along the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. Lots more to come very soon!
  • Julian Garcia Walther has a new piece out in The Conversation detailing his efforts to create a Motus network spanning much of northwest Mexico to track migratory birds during their time in the region. Julian has done an incredible job bringing together partners from across the region to erect 15 towers over the next year. Can't wait to start seeing what stories the network helps us tell!
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Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina​
Coker Life Sciences 406
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.