Current Members
John bates
Curator
jbates@fieldmuseum.org
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Shannon HAckett
The Richard and Jill Chaifetz Associate Curator of Birds
shackett@fieldmuseum.org
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Ben Marks
Collections Manager, Birds
bmarks@fieldmuseum.org
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Mary Hennen
Assistant Collections Manager, Birds; Director, Chicago Peregrine Program
Tom Gnoske
Assistant Collections Manager, Birds
Daryl Coldren
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chad Eliason
Senior Research Scientist
celiason@fieldmuseum.org
Abhimanyu Lele
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
alele@fieldmuseum.org
Abhimanyu is interested in investigating the links between environmental variation, local adaptation, and species ecology. For his PhD dissertation, he is investigating the effects of habitat fragmentation and elevational habitat change on adaptation and gene flow, incorporating fieldwork in western Ecuador, molecular work, and computational techniques. Abhimanyu is passionate about building inclusive communities within academia, and about incorporating pedagogical theory into scientific education.
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Jacob Drucker
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
jdrucker@fieldmuseum.org
Jacob is fascinated by the link between climate and ecology over shallow and deep time. His dissertation pursues this interest by studying how birds navigate life in tropical climates through two lenses: variation in ecological traits within and between species across elevation in the Ecuadorian Andes, and the ebb and flow of bird migration across the dynamic landscape of Colombia. Through rigorous field, lab, and computational work, he seeks to answer ecological and evolutionary questions with applications in conservation. His passion for birds and natural history is complemented by a love of dim sum, tacos, and expanding the flute's musical niche
Taylor Hains
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
thains@fieldmuseum.org
pronouns: he/him
Louise BoDT
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
lbodt@fieldmuseum.org
pronouns: she/her
Growing up in Brooklyn, Louise spent many of her high school years in various science classes and internships at the American Museum of Natural History, which sparked her interest in science and museum collections. She earned a BA from Smith College where she studied biochemistry and molecular biology. She worked as a science educator for three years at two private schools in NYC. She also worked as an educator at the American Museum of Natural History while receiving her MS in Biology from NYU, where she focused on ecology and evolutionary biology, studying the population genetics of introduced European starlings. She also spent two years working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s DNA Learning Center as the Urban Barcode Project manager before coming to Chicago to pursue her PhD in evolutionary biology.
Marky Mutchler
PhD Student, University of Chicago
mmutchler@uchicago.edu
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