Chris is planning to work in the US and Argentina to contrast breeding phenologies of ecologically similar southern and northern hemisphere birds. She aided with the neotropical migrant project in the field, and worked on the telomere project in the lab. Sara Kaiser Sara Kaiser has aided with the DNA fingerprinting in the lab. She spent the summer of 2000 working in the eastern US with an intensive bird banding study, and will continue in the lab during the 2000-2001 academic year. Sara is currently working with Carol on plasma creatine kinase levels in migrating vireos, warbler, and sparrows.
Creatine kinase is an index to recent muscle activity.
She is part of the UMEB program and will be entering graduate school in the fall of 2001. She will determine how relative abundance of leukocyte types changes with condition and stress. Eboniece Cason Eboniece is a participant in the UMEB program . She helped with the migrant bird project in the fall of 2000, and is currently working on phenotypic plasticity in amphibian larvae with David Vleck and Eugenia Farrar. Post-Docs and Faculty Associates Dr. Theresa Bucher Terry joined our field team in Antarctica from her home bases in Los Angeles and Montana.