Lab Members
C-Wild Principal Investigators
Miya Warrington
Miya Warrington is a Research Fellow with the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University (UK), and is also an adjunct professor with the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba (Canada). She was previously a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Manitoba (Canada), an assistant professor at St.George's University (Grenada, West Indies). She completed her PhD at Macquarie University (Australia). Her work explores animal sociality, acoustic communication and adaptation to human activities and climate change.
Her work leverages long-term study populations: 1) Siberian jays in Swedish Lapland (co-PI with PD Dr. Michael Griesser, University of Konstanz, Germany), and 2) South ground squirrels in South Africa, (collaboration with Prof. Jane Waterman at University of Manitoba, Canada) and using open-access databases for large-geographic scale, or cross-species phylogenetic analyses.
Michael Griesser
Michael Griesser is Heisenberg Fellow at the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz (Germany), and is associated with the Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz, and the Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour. He was previously an SNF Research Professor at the University of Bern and the University of Zurich (Switzerland) where he worked at the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies. He was before that Assistant Professor at the Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala (Sweden). His work explores animal sociality, animal linguistics and climate adaptation in boreal environments. A main part of his work leverages his long-term study populations of Siberian jays in Swedish Lapland. He is the PI of the Siberian jay project since 2004 and Director since 2012.
Postgraduate and Project Students
Olivia Carter (PhD student, Oxford Brookes University, 2024 - current)
Glenn Honstetter (Masters student, University of Konstanz, 2024 - current)
Alex Ixer (Masters student, Oxford Brookes University, 2024 - current)
Kate Thatcher (Masters student, Oxford Brookes University, 2024 - current)
Peter Thorley (UG student, Oxford Brookes University ,2024 - current)
Jess Gibbings (UG student, Oxford Brookes University, 2024 - current)
Past Students
Izzy Clarke, M.Res -- Impacts of climate and environmental factors on nesting success in Siberian Jays (Perisoreus infaustus), Oxford Brookes University, 2023 - 2024
Charlotte Stewart, M.Res. -- Keeping Up With the Capes: Following Behaviours in A Socially Living African Ground Squirrel, Imperial College, 2022 - 2023
Ramon Williams, M.Sc. --
Ramon Williams has completed his Master of Natural Resource Management at the University of Manitoba under the supervision of Miya Warrington and Nicola Koper. Ramon's thesis focused on the Distribution, Diversity, and Abundance of Grenadian Terrestrial Birds, Including Endemic and Restricted-range Species. Together with Miya and Nicola, Ramon published the report from his master's research: Avian use of anthropogenic and natural habitats in a Small Island Developing State.