#  Jonathan Schmitt 

Graduate Student

 

 

 



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 I am broadly interested in avian adaptation, coloration, diversification, and hybridization. I earned my Bachelor of Science degree (2012) at the University of New Mexico, where I was formally introduced to ornithology and museum-based science. As a Master’s student at the University of New Mexico (2015), I studied the genetic basis and evolutionary maintenance of a melanic color polymorphism in the Vermilion Flycatcher. As aPhD student in Dr. Scott Edwards’ lab at Harvard University, I plan to study the physiological genomics, introgression and phylogeography of neotropical birds.

 **Publications**

 1. **Schmitt, C. J.**, et al. Pre-industrial melanism: The origin, maintenance, and genetic basis of an urban melanic morph of the vermilion flycatcher. *Evolution*, (in press).

 2. **Schmitt, C. J.**, et al. 2013. The expanding known range of Stygian Owl (*Asio stygius*) in the Andes. *Boletín Informativo de la Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú (UNOP)* 8 (2): 37-45.

 3. **Schmitt, C. J.**, et al. 2013. Avifauna of a relict *Podocarpus* forest in the Cachil Valley, Northwest Peru. *Cotinga*, 35: 15-23*.*

 4. Sánchez, C., … **Schmitt, C. J.** … et al. 2012. New and noteworthy Records from Northwestern Peru, Department of Tumbes. *Boletín Informativo de la Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú (UNOP)*, 7 (2): 18 - 36.

 5. Benham, … **Schmitt, C. J.** … et al. 2010. Satellite imagery reveals new critical habitat for endangered bird species in the high Andes of Peru. *Endangered Species Research,* 13 (2): 145-157.

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 Field Work, Andean Forest, Peru, 2017



 

 

 





 

 

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