contact information:
 
Mari Kimura
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Evolutionary Biology Lab
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY  14850
Phone: 607-254-2142
Email: mk336 at cornell.edu
 
Education
9/02-present  PhD candidate, Cornell University, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
8/97-5/00:     San Francisco State Univ., MA Biology, Ecology and Systematics, 2002
                                more about my master’s research
9/84-6/88:     Columbia College, AB, concentration in English, awarded 1997
 
Awards
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($12000, 2006-2007)
SDE Graduate Women in Science, Hartley award ($3000, 2006)
American Ornithologists’ Union Student Research Award ($1800, 2006)
Exploration Fund, Diversa award ($1190, 2006)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Grant in Aid of Research ($1000, 2006)
Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research ($500, 2004)
Andrew D. Mellon student research grant ($500, 2004; $1100, 2006)
Cornell Fellowship (2002-2003)
California Predoctoral Fellowship – Sally Casanova award (2000)
GAANN fellowship (1997- 1999)
 
Teaching
8/05-5/06        Organizer, Ornithology seminar BIOEE758
8/04-present   Graduate TA, Introductory Biology 105-106 (autotutorial)
8/03-5/04        Graduate TA, Evolutionary Biology BIOEE 278 (fall) and Ornithology
                        BioEE 475 (spring)
8/98-12/98:     Graduate TA, Biology 240, SFSU Department of Biology
 
Before I went back to grad school I worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council for almost 4 years, first in New York and then in San Francisco.
 
Membership in professional societies
American Ornithologists’ Union
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Sigma Delta Epsilon (Graduate Women in Science)