Rebecca Lohnes
Rebecca Lohnes, MS/Ph.D. Student, Natural Resources
Rebecca Lohnes entered the MS/Ph.D. program in Natural Resources in fall 2006. She graduated with a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University in spring 2005.
During the year before entering graduate school, Rebecca gained field experience with many different taxa and ecosystems. She spent the year monitoring nesting songbirds in the cypress swamps of southern Missouri, interpreting raptor migration for park visitors at Grand Canyon National Park, monitoring nesting Golden-Headed Quetzals in the cloud forest of eastern Ecuador, and conserving Mountain Plover nests in agricultural fields in northeastern Colorado. She also has previous field experience in western Maryland, Cape Cod, and Kansas.
Rebecca is interested in nightjars, a widespread and diverse group of birds that is relatively poorly-known. One common and easily-observed member of this group is the Common Nighthawk.
Research
Behavioral ecology of nighthawks in the Konza Prairie.
Teaching/Support
Rebecca's studies at Cornell are funded by the Alfred P. Sloane Foundation and the SUNY Fellowship program.
Papers
TBA.
See www.rainbowspirit.com for more images of the Hastings Reserve
Contact Information
Janis L. Dickinson
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Rd,
Ithaca, NY 14850
Office: 607 - 254-2194
jld84@cornell.edu
My office in Fernow (Tue. afternoons only) Rm. 102A