Names and Affiliations
Principal Investigator
Dr. Thomas Smith – Founder and Director of the UCLA Center for Tropical Research, Acting Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment, Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary biology, and an expert in avian ecology and evolution.
Project Collaborators
Dr. Elena Berg – Senior Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Tropical Research and an expert in the application of genetic methods to determine avian connectivity.
Dr. Camille Bonneaud – Senior Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Tropical Research, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, and an expert in avian disease.
Dr. Walter Boyce – Professor and Executive Director of the Wildlife Health Center at the University of California, Davis, and an expert in Wildlife health and the ecology and epidemiology of disease.
Dr. Robin Bush – Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine, and an expert in the molecular phylogenetics and population genetics of the influenza virus.
Dr. David DeSante – The founder and executive director of the Institute for Bird Populations (IBP).
Dr. Scott Layne – Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, Director of the UCLA High Throughput Lab Network Against Infectious Diseases (HTLN) facility, and the Principal Investigator of the Center for Rapid Influenza Surveillance and Response (CRISAR).
Dr. Linda Long – Research Wildlife Biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory and the coordinator for the Landbird Monitoring Network of the Americas (LaMNA).
Dr. Phil Nott – Landscape ecologist at IBP and an expert in avian survivability and demographic analysis.
Dr. C. John Ralph – Research Wildlife Biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory, Co-chair for the Partners in Flight Monitoring and Inventory Working Group, and Faculty Associate in the Biology Department at Humboldt State University.
Dr. Anne Rimoin – Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health and an expert in human epidemiology.
Dr. Sassan Saatchi – Senior Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Tropical Research, Researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and an expert in remote sensing and associated predictive modeling.
Dr. James Saracco – Director of IBP’s winter banding programs, Monitoring Avian Winter Survival (MAWS) and Monitoreo de Sobrevivencia Invernal (MoSI).
Dr. Mark Steinhoff – Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an expert in human epidemiology.
Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger – Senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and an expert on influenza viruses and the implementation of molecular diagnostic assays for infectious disease.
Research Staff / Contacts
Emily Curd – Research Associate, UCLA (eecurd@ucla.edu)
Dr. John Pollinger – Director, UCLA Conservation Genetics Resource Center (jpolling@ucla.edu)