Background:

Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. May 1994.
B.A., Yale University, American Studies with an Environmental Concentration, May 1983.


Research Interests:

Catherine A. Lindell is an associate professor in the Department of Zoology and the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations. Her primary research interests include the effects of tropical habitat conversion, in particular the change from forest to agricultural systems, on the biodiversity of communities and the demography of populations. Her work combines on-the-ground sampling and monitoring of bird populations in Costa Rica with analysis of remote sensing data to investigate these relationships. In addition, she is documenting the characteristics of those species that inhabit forested and agricultural areas in efforts to predict which species are most at risk from conversion to agriculture. Dr. Lindell's recent graduate students have conducted projects on: 1) the post-fledging ecology of a neotropical resident species, the White-throated Robin 2) edge effects on growth rates of nestling Wood Thrush, and 3) edge effects on nest predator distributions and abundances. Dr. Lindell teaches the Biology of Birds and the interdisciplinary Introduction to Zoogeography. Dr. Lindell has conducted research projects and/or worked with collaborators in Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, and Costa Rica.