Susan M. Smith was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Zoology from the University of British Columbia, and her Ph.D. (on Loggerhead Shrike behavior) at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1969. She is currently a Professor of Biology at Mount Holyoke College, where she has taught since 1979. She has also taught at Wellesley College, Adelphi University, and the University of Costa Rica. Her professional interests are in avian behavioral ecology, especially how floaters fit into social systems; she has also worked on the responses of avain predators to color patterns of coral snakes. Address: Department of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075.
About the Revisers
Jennifer Foote received her B.Sc. from St. Mary’s University (2002) and her M.Sc. from Dalhousie University (2004), where she studied song matching in an eastern population of Song Sparrows. She received her Ph.D. from Queen’s University (2008) where she studied dawn chorusing behaviour of Black-capped Chickadees from a communication network perspective. Jenn conducted NSERC-funded postdoctoral research at University of Windsor. She joined the faculty at Algoma University in 2010 and established a research program focused on the dawn chorus singing behaviour in temperate breeding songbirds. email:
jenn.r.foote@gmail.com Dan Mennill received his B.Art.Sc. from McMaster University (1998) and his Ph.D. from Queen’s University (2003). His dissertation focused on male song and female mate-choice in Black-capped Chickadees as a communication-network based process. Dan conducted NSERC-funded postdoctoral research at Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology and Auburn University, where he established an ongoing study of duetting behaviour of Rufous-and-white Wrens in Costa Rica and helped to pioneer the use of microphone array recordings for spatial monitoring of wild birds. He joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Windsor in 2005 where he is now an Associate Professor. He runs an NSERC-funded research laboratory that uses innovative field-based technologies to study acoustic communication in both temperate and tropical birds. In addition to long-term studies of Black-capped Chickadees and Rufous-and-white Wrens, Dan and his students conduct acoustic studies of owls, woodpeckers, antshrikes, ground-sparrows, pihas, and many other species of tropical wrens. email:
dmennill@uwindsor.ca Laurene Ratcliffe received her B.Sc. from Queen’s University and her Ph.D. from McGill University where she studied species recognition in Darwin’s Finches. She is now a Professor at Queen’s University and recently completed a term as Associate Dean (Research). Her NSERC-funded research investigates the adaptive basis of variation in vocal and visual reproductive signalling in migrant and resident songbirds, by combining behavioural and molecular ecological techniques with novel field experimentation and life history analyses. email:
ratcliff@biology.queensu.ca
