Esteban Fernández-Juricic

Funding

I am grateful to all of these Institutions for their support throughout these years. 

1996 Bird Life International & “Asociacion Ornitologica del Plata” (Argentina). Role: PI. Vocalizations of parrots in the Argentinean Chaco.
1997

“Ministerio de Cultura y Educacion”, Argentina. Role: PI. Human-wildlife interactions in protected areas: the role of behavior to predict wildlife responses.

1999 Queen Sofia Grant, Spain. Role: PI. Urban sprawl as forest fragmentation agent in natural landscapes.
2000

Municipality of Madrid, Spain. Role: PI. Wooded streets as wildlife corridors in urban environments.

2000

“Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas”, Argentina. Role: PI. The evolutionary role of neighbor distance in social foraging.

2001/2002 “la Caixa” Foundation, Spain. Role: PI. Effects of visual perception on the coordination of vigilance behavior.

2003

Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee (California State University Long Beach): Mini-grant. Role: PI. Group size vs. neighbor distance: which drives the changes in feeding and vigilant behavior in animal groups?
2004/2005 USDA Forest Service Grant. Role: PI. Impacts of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Human Activity on Animals.
2005-2006 British Petroleum Leader Award. Role: Co-PI. Responses of wildlife to patterns of human recreation. Implications for the development of a green corridor in Chicago.
2004-2005

Howard Hughes Medical Institute support for undergraduate research (2 students).

2005 Southern California Academy of Sciences (Research Training Program) support for young scientist research projects.
2005-2006

Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee (California State University Long Beach): Release Time. Role: PI. Developing a management tool to balance increasing recreational activities in protected areas with wildlife conservation.

2006

Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee (California State University Long Beach): Mini-grant. Role: PI. How do birds see the world? Effects of visual perception on acquiring information about predation.

2006 Mini-grant Department of Biological Sciences (California State University Long Beach). Role: PI. Inter-specific differences in avian visual fields.
2006-2007 Bureau of Reclamation. Department of Interior. Role: PI. Identification of individual and population level variation in Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus) vocalizations: applications for tracking individuals in time and space.
2006-2007 Orange County Vector Control District. Role: PI. Genetic variability and gene flow in house finch populations in Orange County: implications for the spread of West Nile Virus.
2006-2007 USDA/APHIS/WS - National Wildlife Research Center. Role: PI. Visual acuity and visual fields of two bird species implicated in bird-aircraft collisions: Brown-headed Cowbird and Mourning Dove.
2006-2007 Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) Program (NHI) support for undergraduate research (1 student).
2006-2009 Beckman Scholars Program to support research activities of outstanding undergraduates. Role: Research Associate.
2007-2009

National Science Foundation. Role: PI. The effects of the trade-off between visual acuity and visual fields on anti-predator behavior in social foraging birds.

2007-2009 National Institutes of Health (SCORE Program). Role: PI. Developing an alternative animal model system to study the biological basis of visual social perception.

 

                      

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