Publications

  • Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History: The Indigenous Landscape

    Longcore, T. and P. J. Ethington, eds. 2023. Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History: The Indigenous Landscape. Report to the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

    I co-authored with Dr. Eric Wood Chapter 7 of this report, beginning on p. 69.

  • American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) Migration in Chicago, Revisited

    Poster presented to the American Ornithological Society and BirdsCaribbean Joint Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in June 2022.

  • Tool-use in the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in an Illinois Suburb

    Published in Meadowlark, A Journal of Illinois Birds by the Illinois Ornithological Society.

  • Promoting Biodiversity on Maize Smallholdings: Importance of Birds

    English version of article published by ECHO Development Notes in 2020.

  • Kukuza Hali ya Kibayolojia Kwenye Mashamba Madogo Ya Mahindi: Umuhimu wa Ndege

    Kiswahili version of article “Promoting Biodiversity on Maize Smallholdings: Importance of Birds” published by ECHO Development Notes in 2020.

  • Promouvoir la Biodiversité dans les Petites Exploitations de Maïs: Importance des Oiseaux

    French version of article “Promoting Biodiversity on Maize Smallholdings: Importance of Birds” published by ECHO Development Notes in 2020.

  • Promoviendo la Biodiversidad en las Pequeñas Granjas de Maíz: la Importancia de las Aves

    Spanish version of article “Promoting Biodiversity on Maize Smallholdings: Importance of Birds” published by ECHO Development Notes in 2020.

  • PLUME: Phenotypic Linkage Utilizing Multimedia in EMu

    Poster depicting workflow of digitally imaging salvaged birds for the Field Museum of Natural History, presented in Cape May, NJ in 2019.

  • Tanzanian Agroecology: Ecosystem-Level Biodiversity on Maize Smallholdings

    Project report presented to Human Needs and Global Resources at Wheaton College upon completion of Agroecology Research Internship with ECHO East Africa.

  • Promoting Restorative Landscape Use: Birds and the Need for Ecologically-Sustainable Agricultural Business

    Senior honors thesis for the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Wheaton College, combining the disciplines Biology and Business.

Contributions to other publications

  • Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats

    Luedtke, J.A., Chanson, J., Neam, K., Hobin, L., Maciel, A.O., Catenazzi, A., Borzée, A., Hamidy, A., Aowphol, A., Jean, A. and Sosa-Bartuano, Á., 2023. Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats. Nature, pp.1-7.

    As a Program Officer for the IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group, I prepared assessments for over 400 species for the Global Amphibian Assessment II, data which was used in this paper published in Nature.

  • Underestimated Neotropical diversity: Integrative taxonomy reveals two unrelated look-alike species in a suboscine bird (Pachyramphus albogriseus)

    Musher, L.J., Krabbe, N.K. and Areta, J.I., 2023. Underestimated Neotropical diversity: Integrative taxonomy reveals two unrelated look-alike species in a suboscine bird (Pachyramphus albogriseus). Ornithology, 140(1), p.ukac047.(online link)

    On staff at the Field Museum of Natural History, I imaged relevant specimens from the Bird Collection for this project.

  • Field characters, taxonomy and distribution of the ‘buff-bellied’ forms of the Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli (Sharpe) in East Africa

    Bradley, J.E., Turner, D.A., Chansac, T., Shema, S. and Finch, B., 2022. Field characters, taxonomy and distribution of the ‘buff-bellied’ forms of the Grey Penduline Tit Anthoscopus caroli (Sharpe) in East Africa. Scopus: Journal of East African Ornithology, 42(2), pp.23-37. (online link)

    On staff at the Field Museum of Natural History, I imaged relevant specimens from the Bird Collection for this project.

  • Systematics of Thraupis (Aves, Passeriformes) reveals an extensive hybrid zone between T. episcopus (Blue-gray Tanager) and T. sayaca (Sayaca Tanager)

    Cueva, D., Bravo, G.A. and Silveira, L.F., 2022. Systematics of Thraupis (Aves, Passeriformes) reveals an extensive hybrid zone between T. episcopus (Blue-gray Tanager) and T. sayaca (Sayaca Tanager). PLOS One, 17(10), p.e0270892. (online link)

    On staff at the Field Museum of Natural History, I imaged relevant specimens from the Bird Collection for this project.

  • La Importancia de Obtener Evidencia Multimedia: El Caso de los Semilleros Piquigordos de Colombia, con Registros de Sporophila atrirostris y un Llamado a Buscar Sporophila maximiliani

    Rocha-López, D., Quinonez-Calle, M., Carantón-Ayala, D., Betancur-López, A. and Acevedo-Charry, O., 2021. La Importancia de Obtener Evidencia Multimedia: El Caso de los Semilleros Piquigordos de Colombia, con Registros de Sporophila atrirostris y un Llamado a Buscar Sporophila maximiliani. Boletin SAO, 30. (online link)

    On staff at the Field Museum of Natural History, I imaged and measured relevant specimens from the Bird Collection for this project.

  • Diverse Sorghum bicolor accessions show marked variation in growth and transcriptional responses to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    Watts‐Williams, S.J., Emmett, B.D., Levesque‐Tremblay, V., MacLean, A.M., Sun, X., Satterlee, J.W., Fei, Z. and Harrison, M.J., 2019. Diverse Sorghum bicolor accessions show marked variation in growth and transcriptional responses to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plant, Cell & Environment, 42(5), pp.1758-1774. (online link)

    As a summer research assistant at Cornell University, I processed sorghum samples for this project.