Personnel

Eric L. Walters, grand poobah

Eric grew up in Canada and obtained his BSc in marine biology at the University of Victoria in 1989. He worked as a consultant for a number of years before returning to UVic to attend graduate school. He obtained his MSc in 1997. Following a couple of summers working in Arizona, Eric entered a PhD program at Florida State University, where he obtained his degree in 2004. Following his PhD, Eric worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, University of California Berkeley, and Cornell University. He started at Old Dominion in 2011.

Anna Brownson, MS Candidate

Anna is a native of Holland, Michigan. She obtained her BS from Hope College in 2009. She worked for the University of California Berkeley and Cornell University before joining Eric at Old Dominion in 2011.

Katie Zarn

Katie is a native of Washington State and obtained her BS from Gonzaga University in 2011.

Charles is a native of Massachusetts and obtained his BA from Connecticut College in 2010. 

Yanni Hedjar  

Yanni is an ODU freshman. He is helping us with data management and inventory of our bird and mammal collections. 

LaCheryl Ball  

LaCheryl is an ODU honor's student. Her undergraduate research focuses on enrichment behavior in Squirrel Monkeys at the Norfolk Zoo.

Tamara Morris  

Tamara is an ODU senior. Besides being the Secretary of the Marine Biology Student Association, Tamara is helping us enter data for our multi-state models to explore demographic properties of our long-term acorn woodpecker dataset.

Volunteers

Michael Bennett

Mike obtained a BS from James Madison University in 2011. Mike is using multi-state models to explore demographic properties of our long-term acorn woodpecker dataset.

Walt Koenig

Cornell University

Joey Haydock

Gonzaga University