Kerri Cornell Duerr, Ph.D

Current Position

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA 

 

Education

 

Ph.D. Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, VT 

• Major advisor: Dr. Therese Donovan

• Dissertation:  Scale-dependent mechanisms of habitat selection and demography for a migratory forest songbird in a heterogeneous landscape

 

M.S.  Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

• Major Advisor: Dr. Robert Curry

• Thesis: Hatching success and nestling sex ratio in black-capped and Carolina chickadees.  Do hybridizing chickadees in Pennsylvania follow Haldane’s Rule?

 

B.A. Biology, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 

• Major advisor: Dr. Michael Murphy

• Magna Cum Laude, with honors in Biology, Cumulative G.P.A. 3.65/4.0

• Minor: Environmental Science and Policy

• Thesis: Bird-habitat associations in an interior forest community

• Study abroad: Costa Rica (Jan 1995), San Salvador, Bahamas (Jan 1996, 1997)

 

Professional Experience

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Integrative Bird Behavior Studies / BioMathematics, Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185 

 

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Missouri – Columbia, Columbia, MO 

 

Research Technician, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 

 

Research Technician, U.S.G.S., Biological Resources Division, Big Island, Hawaii 

 

 

Publications

 

Cornell, K. L., C. R. Kight, R. B. Burdge, A. R. Gunderson, J. K. Hubbard, A. K. Jackson, J. E. LeClerc, M. L. Pitts, D. A. Cristol, J. P. Swaddle.  2011.  Reproductive success of Eastern Bluebirds on suburban gold courses.  The Auk 128: 577-586.

 

Hallinger, K.K., Cornell, K.L., Brasso, R.L. & Cristol, D.A. 2011. Mercury exposure and survival in free-living swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Ecotoxicology 20: 39-46.

 

Cornell, K. L. and T. M. Donovan. October 2010. Scale-dependent mechanisms of habitat selection for a migratory passerine: an experimental approach.  The Auk.

 

Cornell, K. L. and T. M. Donovan. 2010.  Effects of spatial habitat heterogeneity on habitat selection and demography for a forest songbird.  Landscape Ecology 25:109–122.

 

Davis, L. A., E. H. Roalson, K. L. Cornell, K. D. McClanahan, and M. S. Webster. 2006. Genetic divergence and migration patterns in a North American passerine bird: implications for evolution and conservation. Molecular Ecology 15:2141-2152.

 

Murphy, Michael T., Kerri L. Cornell, and Karmel L. Murphy.  1999.  Winter bird communities on San Salvador Bahamas.  Journal of Field Ornithology 69(3):402-414.

 

 

Professional Presentations (*indicates student author)

American Ornithologists’ Union, 127th Stated Meeting, Jacksonville, FL (Jul 2010)

•  Kerri Cornell Duerr, * Dan Cristol, John Swaddle, et al.  Reproductive success of Eastern Bluebirds on suburban gold courses. 

 

American Ornithologists’ Union, 126th Stated Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (Aug 2009)

•  Kerri Cornell Duerr, *Adam Pflugrath, Dan Cristol, John Swaddle.  Fledging success and offspring sex ratio in Eastern Bluebirds breeding on golf courses in Virginia.

 

American Ornithologists’ Union, 125th Stated Meeting, Portland, OR (Aug 2008)

• Estimating Abundance of Cerulean Warblers in the Central Hardwoods Region using time and distance methods

     

Ecological Society of America Student Section (2008)

• *C. Miles Walz-Salvador, *W. Andrew Cox, Kerri Cornell Duerr, Paul Porneluzi, John Faaborg.  Population trends of forest birds in Missouri: BBS gets it right

 

North American Ornithological Conference, 4th Stated Meeting, Veracruz, Mexico (Oct 2006)

• Determinants of territory occupancy and abundance for a forest songbird in a fragmented landscape:  Are conspecifics cues of quality?

 

Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Burlington, VT (2006)

• Landscape-scale patterns of Black-throated blue warbler demographics in Vermont

 

Meeting of the Cooperators of Vermont Natural Resource Agencies, VT (Jan 2005)

• Landscape-scale patterns of black-throated blue warbler abundance and reproductive success in Vermont 

 

The Wildlife Society, 12th Annual Conference, Madison, WI (Sep 2005)

• Landscape-scale patterns of black-throated blue warbler abundance and reproductive success in Vermont: Is abundance a useful predictor of habitat quality?

 

Meeting of the Cooperators of Vermont Natural Resource Agencies, VT (Jan 2004)

• Distribution and demography of Black-throated blue warblers in a fragmented landscape

 

Meeting of the Cooperators of Vermont Natural Resource Agencies, VT (Jan 2003)

• Demography of Black-throated blue warblers in a heterogeneous landscape

 

North American Ornithological Conference, 3rd Stated Meeting, New Orleans, LA.  (Sep 2002)

• Offspring sex ratio in a chickadee hybrid zone

       

American Ornithologists’ Union, 118th Stated Meeting, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada (Aug 2000)

•   Hybridizing chickadees in Pennsylvania: A test of Haldane’s Rule

•   Poster presentation

 

American Ornithologists’ Union, 117th Stated Meeting, Ithaca, NY (Aug 1999)

•  Genetic and morphometric variation across a chickadee hybrid zone in southeastern Pennsylvania

 

American Ornithologists’ Union, 115th Stated Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.  (Aug 1997)

•  Habitat use and long-term population trends in an interior forest community

•  Poster presentation

 

 

Leadership, Service & Public Outreach

 

Elected Council Member 2013-2016. Wilson Ornithological Society.

 

Student Presentations Judge, Wilson Ornithological Society annual meeting, Williamsburg, VA (March 2013).

 

Research award review committee member, Joseph Grinnell Student Research Award, Cooper Ornithological Society (May 2008)

 

Secretary, Board of Directors, American Association of University Women, Columbia Missouri Chapter (April 2008)

 

Scholarship Committee member, American Association of University Women, Columbia, Missouri Chapter  (Jan 2008)

 

Ad-hoc Journal peer reviews

• Conservation Biology

• Landscape Ecology

• Ecotoxicology

• Condor

• The Auk

• Oikos

 

 

 

Professional Memberships

 

The Wildlife Society

American Ornithologists’ Union

Wilson Ornithological Society

American Association of University Women