Carla Cicero

Summary

My professional activities focus on avian systematics research, museums and biodiversity informatics, and professional ornithology. My main research focuses on how populations of birds vary in morphology, genetics, song, and/or ecology, especially in western North America. These data are used to study species limits, re-assess taxonomy, and examine contact zones between divergent lineages. As Staff Curator at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), I manage the museum’s bird, egg, and sound collections, and co-manage the archival collections. I also mentor many students through the MVZ Undergraduate Program and the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program. In addition, I am active in the broader collections community, especially with regard to facilitating online access to biodiversity data (mostly specimen-based). I am co-Chair of the American Ornithological Society Collections Committee and Committee on Taxonomy and Nomenclature of North and Middle American Birds. I have published over 70 papers and have received multiple grants in support of museum collections and data accessibility.

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Taxonomy Zoology

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