| Nathalie Seddon |
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| 14th January 1974 |
Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PS
UK
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| +44(0)1865 271202 |
| +44(0)1865 271168 |
| Royal Society University Research Fellow |
| 1997-2001 |
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge:
PhD (supervised by Prof. N. B. Davies) entitled "The Ecology, Communication and Conservation of the Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi" (253 pages, 6 data chapters; submitted on 19/02/01, awarded on 09/10/01) |
| 1993-1996 |
Newnham College, University of Cambridge BA (Hons) - 1st Class (top marks in year)
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| 2009 (5+ yr) |
Tutorial Fellow in Biology, Wadham College, Oxford
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| 2008 (3 yr) |
Hugh Price Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
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| 2005 (1 yr) |
Visiting By-Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge
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| 2001 (3 yrs) |
Junior Research Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge
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| 2001 (1 yr) |
Gibbs Travelling Research Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge
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| 2008 |
Start-up Grant from the John Fell Fund, Oxford University
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| 2008 |
Early Careers Grant from the British Ecological Society
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| 2005 |
Research Grant from the Royal Society
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| 2004 |
Small Project Grant from the British Ecological Society
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| 2002 |
Junior Research Fellowship, Newnham College, Cambridge University
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| 2002 |
Katherine Stott Prize, Newnham College, Cambridge University
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| 2001 |
Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowship, Newnham College
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| 1997 |
NERC PhD studentship
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| 1996 |
'Frank Smart' prize for top mark in final exams; Rajiv Ghandi Travelling Scholarship
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| 1995 & 1994 |
Scholarships from Newnham College and Worts Society; expedition grants from the British Ecological Society, Royal Geographical Society, BirdLife International/FFI Conservation Expedition programme, British Ornithologists' Union, British Trust for Ornithology, People's Trust for Endangered Species
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| 2008 |
Invited Seminar. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA.
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2008 |
Invited seminar. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Imperial College, London, UK.
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2008 |
Invited seminar. NERC Centre of Population Biology, Imperial College London, UK.
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2008 |
Avian diversity in Amazonia: exploring the roles of social signals and sexual selection. British Ecological Society Early Careers Conference, Tropical Ecology Group, Oxford , UK.
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2008 |
Social signals and speciation in suboscine birds. Plenary. Edward grey Institute Student Conference, Oxford, UK.
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| 2007 |
Sexually selected traits predict species richness in Neotropical suboscine birds. VIII Neotropical Ornithology Congress in Maturin, Venezuela.
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| 2007 |
Speciation in Neotropical suboscines: the role of mating signals. Invited symposium. Avian speciation. 125th meeting of the AOU, Wyoming, USA.
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| 2005 |
Invited seminar. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.
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| 2005 |
Invited seminar. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.
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| 2004 |
Bird speciation In Amazonia: divergence in a mating signal acts as an incipient barrier to gene flow. 10th Behavioural Ecology Congress, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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| 2000 |
Communal singing in the cooperatively breeding mesites: evidence of numerical assessment? 8th Behavioural Ecology Congress, Zurich, Switzerland.
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| Associate Editor for the Journal of Animal Ecology.
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| Reviewer for the following journals: American Naturalist, Animal Behaviour, The Auk, Behaviour, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Behavioural Ecology, Ibis, Biological Conservation, Bird Conservation International, Evolution, Oryx, Proceedings of the Royal Society.
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Reviewer of fellowship applications for Kings and Peterhouse Colleges, Cambridge, and the Royal Society (2007-08)
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| Review panel for Marsden Research Council, Royal Society of New Zealand (2007)
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| Consultant for Threatened Birds of Asia Project, BirdLife International (2001)
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| 2009- |
Lecturer in Statistics for Biologists (MSc course)
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| 2006- |
Lecturer in Environmental Biology (Avian Ecology)
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PhD student (Claire Salisury, Oxford)
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Masters students (Richard Merrill, Oxford; Job Aben, Radboud University, Netherlands)
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Supervising second-year undergraduate courses at Oxford University in Environmental Biology
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| 1996-2005 |
Supervising first, second and third-year undergraduate courses at Cambridge University: Evolution and Behaviour, Animal Biology, Ecology and Behavioural Ecology, Conservatiom Biology, Population Biology and Mammalian Evolution.
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| 1994-2003 |
Training Bolivian, Peruvian, Tanzanian and Malagasy co-workers in field and statistical techniques (sound recording, mist-netting, data collection and analysis).
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| 2002-present |
Principal Investigator for research on signal evolution and speciation in antbirds (Peru, Bolivia and Brazil)
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| Oct-Dec 2001 |
Principal Investigator for project on acoustic communication in the pale-winged trumpeter Psophia leucoptera (Peru)
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| Mar-Dec 1996 |
Field assistant for study of bronze-winged jacana Metopidius indicus, India
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| Jun-Oct 1995 |
Leader of conservation expedition to Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania
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| Jun-Oct 1994 |
Co-leader of conservation expedition to Cordillera de Colán, Peru
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| Mar-Aug 1993 |
Conservation work for Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers
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| Sep-Dec 1992 |
Member of expedition to Irian Jaya, Indonesia with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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- Prof. Nick Davies, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
- Prof. Ben Sheldon, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
- Dr William Foster, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
- Dr. Nigel Collar, BirdLife International, Welbrook Court, Girton, Cambridge, UK.
- Dr. Ann Mullinger, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK
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| A full list of publications are available here - Nathalie's publications
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