8 September 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Tick Infestation Consequences for Ohio Appalachian Breeding Birds

Presenter: Anna Rose, Master’s of Science graduate student, The Ohio State University, Werner and Hildegard Hesse Research Grant, 2024

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15 September 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: The genetic landscape of inbreeding depression and gene flow in a wild population of Florida Scrub-Jays

Presenter: Faye Romero, Ph.D. candidate, University of Rochester; Werner and Hildegard Hesse Research Grant, 2024

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22 September 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Exploring the complex genomic architecture of divergence in a North American backyard bird, the Northern House Wren

Presenter: William Anderson, Ph.D. student, University of Colorado Boulder; AOS Student Research Grant, 2022

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29 September 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: From Fairways to Forests: Assessing the Avian Community Response to Habitat Restoration Techniques 

Presenter: Lauren Gingerella, Ph.D. student, University of Georgia; AOS Student Research Grant, 2024

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6 October 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: The solar reflectance properties and structures of iridescence in Sturnidae and their potential biomimetic applications 

Presenter: Samantha Rutledge, Ph.D. candidate, Louisiana State University; AOS Student Research Grant, 2023

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20 October 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Modeling the effects of wildfire smoke, body condition, and diet guild on the oxidative status of migrating birds

Presenter: Megan Miller, graduate research assistant, Colorado State University-Pueblo; AOS Student Research Grant, 2024

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27 October 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Telomeres, mitochondrial copy number (mtDNAcn), organismal metabolic rate and growth rate-what is the connection in the developing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)

Presenter: Holland Galante, PhD candidate, North Dakota State University; AOS Werner and Hildegard Hesse Research Grant, 2022

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3 November 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Endocrine mechanisms behind an adaptive maternal effect: linking breeding site quality and offspring behavior

Presenter: Haley Gee, M.Sc. student, University of Arizona; AOS Werner and Hildegard Hesse Research Grant, 2022

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10 November 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Patterns of collective host selection in the Brown-headed Cowbird system

Presenter: Juliana Villa, PhD. student, George Mason University; AOS Student Research Grant, 2022

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17 November 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Revealing migration strategies of high-latitude breeding myrtle warblers using multi-sensor geolocators and stable isotopes

Presenter: Steph Szarmach, James Smithson Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center; AOS Student Research Grant, 2022

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24 November 2025, Noon ET

SEMINAR: Who knows where the food is? Exploring intra- and interspecific information transmission in cowbirds

Presenter: Charo López, Ph.D. candidate, Universidad de Buenos Aires; AOS Student Research Grant – Latin America, 2024

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1 December 2025, Noon ET

Investigating Nascent Urbanization Effects on Physiology and Behaviors in Darwin’s Finches

Presenter: Michelle Ross, Ph.D. student, Brock University; Betty and Herbert Carnes Research Grant, 2022, 2024

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8 December 2025, Noon ET

Conserving the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw (Ara ambiguus) From First Word to First Flight: A study of geographic vocal variation, vocal development, and post-fledging movements

Presenter: Alexander Allison, Master’s of Science graduate, New Mexico State University; AOS Mewaldt-King Research Grant, 2024

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