The Fairywren Project was developed by Joe Welklin and Allison Johnson. Learn a bit more about our research and our collaborators below!

Joseph Welklin, PhD

Project Co-founder

Joe is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno, department of biology. For more on Joe's research,

see: www.josephwelklin.com

Allison Johnson, PhD

Project Co-founder

Allison is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences. For more on Allison's research, see: allisonelainejohnson.weebly.com

Collaborators

We aren't doing this alone! In addition to citizen scientists like you, we are also joined by other amazing researchers! Learn a bit more about their own research programs below.

Lyanne Brouwer, PhD

Collaborator

Lyanne is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands and a honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University. For more information on Lyanne's research see: www.myscience.eu/lyanne

Jordan Karubian, PhD

Collaborator

Jordan is an Associate Professor at Tulane University, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. For more information on his research , see: http://karubian.tulane.edu/

Sarah Khalil

Collaborator and Social Media Coordinator

Sarah is a PhD student at Tulane University in Jordan Karubian's lab. Her research focuses on the evolution of carotenoid-based signals in fairywrens. Follow her on Twitter.

Daizaburo Shizuka, PhD

Lauren Smith

Research/Social Media Technician

Lauren is the Fairywren Project's research and social media technician. She helps us keep our facebook account running and is in charge of our Fairywren Friday posts! Lauren is going to study Superb Fairywrens using Fairywren Project data.

Mike Webster, PhD

Collaborator

Mike is the Robert G. Engel Professor of Ornithology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. For more on his research, see Mike's website.