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Undergraduate students
María Paula Sierra
Winter 2026 - Present
María Paula is exploring how widespread vocal mimicry is in the genus Sporophila as part of her undergraduate internship.
Maia Fregonese
Fall 2025 - Present
Maia is currently working on her thesis, “Anthropogenic noise in a biodiversity hotspot: Comparing song structure of temperate songbirds in edge vs center locations of urban park fragments”. Maia is being co-mentored by Dr. Dan Mennill and me.
Kristine Kamensky
Fall 2024 - Winter 2025
Kristine did her thesis on “The effects of Anthropogenic noise on the song structure and habitat occupancy of the Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”. Kristine presented her thesis at Ontario Biology Day and is currently a Master's student at the Sensory Ecology Lab, led by Dr. Hannah ter Hofstede, at the University of Windsor.
Teaching experience
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Speciation. Winter 2026
Professor: Dr. Stéphanie M. Doucet, University of Windsor. Windsor, ON
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Principles of Biological Anthropology. Fall 2023, 2024 & 2025
Professor: Dr. John Albanese, University of Windsor. Windsor, ON
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Animal Communication. Winter 2025
Professor: Dr. Hannah ter Hofstede, University of Windsor. Windsor, ON
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ornithology. Winter 2024
Professor: Dr. Dan Mennill, University of Windsor. Windsor, ON
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Teaching Assistant, Colombian Marine Ecosystems. 2017
Professor: Dr. Alberto Acosta, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia
Workshops for the broad public
II Bioacoustic Workshop in Cali, Colombia, in concert with the VIII Colombian Ornithological Congress. December, 2025.
As part of the Colombia Resurvey Project, along with other colleagues, we led workshops on monitoring methods and bird study for biology students, birdwatchers, and people from environmental monitoring groups.
June 2021
Huila, Colombia
September 2021
Caquetá, Colombia
Bird Banding
I have been a volunteer bird bander at the Holiday Beach Migration Observatory in Amherstburg, Canada, for Fall 2023, 2024, and 2025. Since I became a bander, I have used bird banding as an educational and research tool in Canada and Colombia, particulaly near the sites where I conduct fieldwork.