Carla Cicero, PH.D
Curator and Researcher
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California, Berkeley
PH: 510-642-7868
Fax: 510-643-8238
E-mail: ccicero@berkeley.edu

PERSONAL INFORMATION: Born 28 November 1959, Caracas, Venezuela. Languages: Spanish, Italian.

POSITION: Curator and Researcher; primary emphasis on curation of bird specimens, terrestrial vertebrate tissue samples, and sound recordings.

RESEARCH INTERESTS : Avian systematics, phylogeography, geographic variation, and contact zones. Research focuses on molecular, morphologic, and/or vocal variation in birds, with a geographic emphasis on western North America. Projects (many collaborative) include studies on Sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus sp.), Steller's Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri), Gray Jays (Perisoreus canadensis), Western Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma californica), vireos (Vireonidae), Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris), Oak and Juniper titmice (Baeolophus inornatus and B. ridgwayi), Spotted Towhees (Pipilo maculatus), and Sage Sparrows (Amphispiza belli).

FIELD WORK: USA - Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington; CANADA - British Columbia, Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec; OTHER - Dominican Republic, Paraguay.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: AOU Committee on Bird Collections; AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of North and Middle American Birds

REVIEWER: American Naturalist, Auk, Berkeley Scientific, Condor, Conservation Biology, Conservation Genetics, Evolution, Journal of Avian Biology, Journal of Heredity, Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Western Birds, Wilson Bulletin, Zoological Studies; National Science Foundation (Systematic Biology program, Biological Research Collections program).

EDITORIAL: Editorial Board, University of California Publications in Zoology.

HONORS: Elective Member, American Ornithologists' Union, 1999. Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union, 2005.

National Science Foundation (subcontract for collaborative proposal with Kansas University and 29 other institutions, total budget $1.5M), $802,589 (MVZ budget), “ORNIS: A Community Effort to Build an Integrated, Distributed, Enriched, and Error-checked ORNithological Information System,” 2004-2009.
National Science Foundation (Craig Moritz and Chris Conroy, co-PIs), $300,000 + two REU supplements, “The Digital Museum: Data Capture and Digitization of MVZ Ancillary Material,” 2003-2006.
National Science Foundation (David B. Wake, co-PI), $169,890 + REU supplement, “Support for the tissue collection of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley,” 1998-2000.
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (N. K. Johnson, Principal Investigator), $8500, "A multidimensional analysis of geographic variation in the Plain Titmouse (Parus inornatus) complex," 1990-1992.

PUBLICATIONS

LINKS OF INTEREST:
American Ornithologists' Union
Animal Diversity Web
BIRDNET
Bird Families of the World
Birds of North America Online
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
ORNithological Information System

Copyright © 2002, Carla Cicero, Revised 4 April 2005.