People

Current Tingley Lab Members

Morgan Tingley
Principal Investigator
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Kendall Calhoun
Post-doctoral Researcher
Kendall researches how altered fire regimes and climates impact wildlife conservation and human-wildlife interactions in California

Joseph Curti (starting Jan 2025)
Post-doctoral Researcher
Joseph studies the effects of artificial light at night and urban noise on bat species in southern California

Olivia Sanderfoot
Post-doctoral Researcher
Olivia is exploring the impacts of wildfire smoke on the distribution and movement of birds in the western U.S.

Graham Montgomery
PhD student
Graham is studying population-level declines in flying insects and avian insectivores

Auxenia Grace Privett-Mendoza
PhD student
Auxenia Grace is interested in the impacts of wildfire on landscape connectivity and species distributions

Kelsey Reckling
PhD student
Kelsey is evaluating the effects of light pollution on migrating birds along the Pacific Flyway

Tania Romero
PhD student
Tania is studying migratory songbird movements and biology through California

Chris Sayers
PhD student
Chris investigates the impacts of artisanal gold mining on tropical bird populations

Ben Tonelli
PhD student
Ben is investigating the role of migratory birds as dispersal agents of diseases and their vectors

Yue Wang
Visiting PhD student
(East China Normal University)
Yue is evaluating the effect of imperfect detection on estimates of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity

Joanna Wu
PhD student
Joanna is studying the survival and conservation of female birds

Lab Alumni

Postdocs

Monte Neate-Clegg, 2021–2024

Casey Youngflesh, 2018–2022

Valerie Steen, 2017–2019

Jacob Socolar, 2016–2018

PhD Students

Austin Spence, 2021

Andrew Stillman, 2021

Manette Sandor, 2018

Short-term Lab Members

Hayley Spina, 2022–2024 (Visiting PhD student, University of Guelph)

Madeleine Siegel, 2021–2024 (as part of D.Env. program)

MS Students

Evelyn Malamut, 2022

Claire Bailey, 2020

Kathryn Weeks, 2019

Genevieve Nuttall, 2018

Undergrad Honors Thesis Students

Ethan Kahn, 2025

Megan Nakamoto, 2025

Jake Jacobsen, 2024

Mia Rosati, 2024

Anna Nihei, 2023

Amanda Ung, 2023

John Loverin, 2020

Sadie Rumsey, 2019

Nick Russo, 2018