Karen Bayly   
Karen is a postgraduate student investigating the relationship between vocal signals, dominance, and reproductive success in galliforms.
She recently finished her PhD thesis. And there is much rejoicing.

Email:karen@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au

Daniel Van Dyk
Daniel joined the lab from UNSW, where he studied social behaviour in macropod marsupials, in 2004. His PhD project focusses on the function of visual displays in lizards.The image at right shows Daniel after a year in the lab.
Email:daniel@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au
Links: Lizard project home page

Chris Evans
Chris has a wide range of interests with the common theme of communication and social behaviour. He is now somewhat older than his portrait would suggest.


Email:chris@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au
Links: Lab home page

CSE portrait

Libby Eyre
Libby is conducting an MSc project on variation in the song of migrating humpback whales. She is using tools from the study of bird song and other signals to understand changes at different levels of organization.
Email:leyre@rna.bio.mq.edu.au

Linda Evans
Linda is a research associate studying vocal communication in chickens. She is also a postgraduate student in Egyptology, examining animal behavior as depicted in Egyptian art.

Email: lqe@galliform.psy.mq.edu.au
Links: Egyptology Discussion Group

Ximena Nelson
Ximena is an ARC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow. She joined the lab in early 2005, after completing a PhD on blood-crazed spiders. Her research continues to involve the analysis of visual cognition, but she has now switched to vertebrates and is studying the signals of birds and lizards.

Email:ximena@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au

Carolynn (K-lynn) Smith
K-lynn has just joined the lab after spending several years with the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. The picture at right depicts field work on bats - a group with which she has an enduring fascination. K-lynn's PhD project will focus on the production and perception of multi-modal signals.

Email:kls@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au

David Wilson
David joined the lab from the Great White North in mid-2005. After completing an MSc with Jim Hare at the University of Manitoba, he decided to move up from rodents, and is working on the relationship between signalling and fitness in birds.

Email: david@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au

Kevin Woo
 Kevin is doing a PhD on visual sensory processing in lizards. He is using simple conditioning techniques to measure sensitivity to biological motion. Results will help to explain the design of threat displays, by identifying constraints on receiver processing.
Email: kevin@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au
Links: Lizard project home page


Attempting to break the lab record for simultaneous equipment use.

Visitors

Julia Salnicki
Julia has recently completed an MSc at the University of Zimbabwe on the behaviour and ecology of hyaenas.

 

Simone Hartwig
Simone is working at Monarto Zoological Park in Adelaide on the vocalizations of African wild dogs. She spends part of each year in the lab doing acoustic analyses.

Some Recent Alumni

Laura Anthony
Laura has recently completed an honours project on the development of communication in cephalopods. She has a particular interest in the integration of behaviour and wildlife conservation.

 

Jodie Ardron
Jodie's honours thesis described the effects of kinship on vigilance behaviour in tammar wallabies. She is now a High School Biology teacher.

Karla Biebouw
Karla was a visiting scholar in the lab during 2001. As part of her degree at the University of Liege, she studied the effects of monthly variation in light level on the nocturnal behaviour of tammar wallabies. Karla is now the Conservation Education Officer at the
Isle Of Wight Zoo.

Dan Blumstein
Dan was an ARC postdoctoral fellow 1999-2001. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution at UCLA. Dan is also somewhat older than this image suggests.

Email: marmots@ucla.edu
Links: Blumstein lab home page

Paul Carlile
Paul has just completed an MSc thesis on the way in which Jacky Dragons (a native Australian lizard) recognize aerial predators.
Links: Lizard project home page

Janice Daniel
Janice was a research associate studying macropod antipredator behaviour. She is now a research assistant at UCLA.
Email: janice@ucla.edu

Andrea Griffin
Andrea's research combined animal cognition and conservation by investigating ways to enhance the antipredator behaviour of captive-bred animals. She completed her PhD in December 2001 and is now an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at Newcastle University.
Email:andrea.griffin@newcastle.edu.au

Stacey Kuan
Stacey is a recent honours student who worked on cognition in birds. She is now a postgraduate student in MACCS.
Email: philosophia@one.net.au

 

Thea O'Conor
Thea's honours project explored the movement cues that mediate recognition of insect prey by lizards. She now works as a research Psychologist for the Australian Army.

 

Terry Ord
Terry did a PhD on the ecology and evolution of visual communication in lizards. He submitted his thesis in 2002 and is now an NSF postdoc with Judy Stamps at UC Davis.
Email: tjord@ucdavis.edu

 
Ann Göth
Ann was a postdoc supported by a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2002-2004). She worked on the mechanisms underlying behavioural development in brush turkeys, with a particular focus on the problem of recognition. Ann now works for NSW Parks & Wildlife.

Links: Megapode project home page

Richard Peters
 Richard completed a PhD on the design and perception of complex visual signals in lizards in 2003. He is now an ARC postdoctoral fellow with Jochen Zeil in the Visual Sciences Group at ANU.
Email: richard.peters@anu.edu.au

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