Erich Eberts

I recently graduated from Loyola Marymount University, where I studied biology with an emphasis in ecology. As an undergraduate, my primary research projects included Photosynthetic Characterization of Invasive Plant Species in Los Angeles County, Predator (American Crow) Electrical Shock Aversion System for Endangered California Least Terns, and Urban Hummingbird Biodiversity and Behavior. After graduation, I spent three months in Ecuador working with Anusha Shankar on her hummingbird research, and backpacking in the Peruvian Andes. Upon my return, I was excited to continue my research in urban wildlife biology, and especially in hummingbird behavior and physiology, at the LMU Center for Urban Resilience, where I spent three years as an undergraduate researcher. As the CURes Research Fellow, I primarily guide and mentor 15 undergraduate researchers on their urban wildlife and social science research projects. I am excited to involve a number of these students with this project, since they will be instrumental in finding nests and gathering data, and because I hope it will inspire them to ask interesting research questions and to develop innovative ways to investigate them. I plan to pursue a Ph.D. in Ecology to further develop my interests and experience in avian physiological and behavioral ecology, and to continue this research project!

October 2016