Outreach

We aim to make science accessible to broad audiences in a variety of ways: We teach workshops, volunteer with school groups through WYOBIRD, participate in local educational initiatives, give museum tours, and lead specimen preparation demos. Lab members work closely with the University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates to grow and promote natural history collections.

In regions where we do fieldwork, we collaborate with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and museums, such as Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad in Peru and Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado in Bolivia to mentor students, teach, train volunteers and field assistants, lead workshops, and collect data for collaborative projects. 

Lab members write about ornithology and evolution for popular audiences. Check out our recent pieces:

• What It Takes To See 10,000 Bird Species (Online) & Damn It Feels Good To Be A Lister (May/June Print Issue). 2023. Outside Magazine. 

Press: Longreads, Cornellians

• How eBird Changed Birding Forever. 2020. Outside Magazine. 

Press: New York Times, Longreads, The Morning News

• Why don’t birds get chronic mountain sickness? 2019. Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS) at UNM. 

• An Ornithologist Reads The Feather Thief”. 2018. Outside Magazine.