Education
Teaching
BIOLOGY 212: HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
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BIOL 367/567: Field Ornithology (Pigeon Lake Field Station)
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BIOLOGY 319/519: GENERAL ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
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BIOL 766: ADVANCED TOPICS - Animal Ecological Physiology
BIOL 766: ADVANCED TOPICS - Comparative Developmental Physiology
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Research Interests
I am an animal ecological physiologist with research interests in animal thermoregulation and energetics. I have worked on projects involving songbirds, kestrels, and American marten. I am most interested in thermoregulation in songbirds. Most of my research deals with how small, nonmigratory songbirds can survive in winter in cold temperate regions. Winter birds undergo a possible suite of changes including physiological, morphological or physical, and behavioral adjustments that allow them to survive the short days and long nights of winter. My lab uses a combination of both field and lab techniques to address questions on this process of seasonal acclimatization in songbirds.
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Selected Publications
Cooper, S. J. 2007. Daily and seasonal variation in body mass and visible fat in Mountain Chickadees and Juniper Titmice. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. In press.