Ongoing Projects
- Winter ecology of migratory open-field/grassland birds
- Population monitoring and habitat modeling Black-capped Vireo populations in Blaine Co., Oklahoma
- Applied conservation efforts in Ozark karst caves (entrance gating and stygobitic fauna surveys)
- Ecological and human social perceptions of the increasingly crowded sky
- Evaluating the extinction risks of IUCN Red-List bird species due to severe hailstorm outbreaks
- Using weather radar to examine severe thunderstorm escape distance among shorebirds
Completed Projects
- Indicators of hailstorm-associated stress incorporated into developing nestling feather tissues (see Ross et al. 2015) – [Read more]
- Associating grassland bird nest losses to hailstorm intensities measures by Doppler weather radar (see Carver et al. 2017) – [Read more]
- Correlating radar-estimated rotational wind field of tornado to realized destruction of Bald Eagle nests on the ground (see Ross et al. 2016) – [Read more]