| 1995-1998 |
MAPS Station Assistant: banded birds at Lake Somerville Wildlife Management Area, Texas , ~100 birds banded |
| 1997-1998 |
Field Assistant: colonial waterbird surveys at Padre Island National Seashore |
| 1998, 2001 |
Field Assistant: bird banding, ~ 350 birds banded, Padre Island National Seashore |
| 2000-2001 |
Project Leader: bird censusing at feral cat colonies as an integral part of a two-year study on feral cat colonies in Texas, duties included creation of censusing methodology, point counts and territory mapping of birds, data analysis, and manuscript preparation |
| 2001 |
Research Technician: forest bird surveys for Natural Resources Research Institute in Minnesota, including point counts, distance estimation, GPS use, vegetation sampling |
| 2001 |
Volunteer: nest searching for grassland birds in Wisconsin |
| 2002 |
Field Assistant: grassland bird surveys, Trinity River NWR, Texas |
| 2002 |
Research Technician: Small mammal live trapping, interval trapping, canopy sampling using both traps and track tubes, and structural vegetative data collection in tropical semideciduous, humid evergreen, and pine-evergreen (cloud) forests, La Reserva de Biosfera El Cielo, Tamaulipas, México |
| 2003 |
Research Technician: Surveys and target mist-netting for Black-capped Vireos in tropical thorn scrub of Mexico , including general point counts and vegetation data collection |
| 2004 |
Field Assistant: forest bird banding in Puerto Rico , part of a long-term monitoring project |
| 2007 |
Collaborating Investigator: avifaunal survey of northern Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul buffer zone, San Martin, Peru |
| 2004-present |
Principal Investigator: altitudinal migration of birds in southeastern Peru, doctoral thesis research |
| TransWorld Airlines Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2007 |
| Conservation Biology Fellowship, Conservation Biology Program, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007 |
| The Exploration Fund of The Explorer's Club, 2007 |
| Louis Fuertes Agassiz Award, Wilson Society of Ornithology, 2006 |
| Ethyl Sue Lumb Scholarship, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006 |
| Life Sciences Fellow, University of Missouri, 2003-2007 |
| Distinguished Student, Texas A&M University College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, spring 2001 |
| Distinguished Student, Texas A&M University College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, spring 1999 |
| Honors Candidate, Texas A&M University Honors Program/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, spring 1999 |
| Barnes & Nobles Scholarship, Texas A&M University, 1998-2002 |
| President's Endowned Scholarship, Texas A&M University, 1998-2002 |
