EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
Ph.D. 2004. Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (behavioral ecology and conservation of a Neotropical wood-quail)
M.S. 1998. Ecology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (territorial behavior in brown jays)
B.S. 1995. Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
B.A. 1995. Spanish, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Starting 2007 Visiting Research Professor, Department of Biology, Texas Christian University
2005-2007 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biology, University of Miami (molecular systematics of flowering plants)
2005 Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Miami

PUBLICATIONS
Williams DA and AM Hale. 2007. Female-biased helping in a cooperatively breeding bird: female benefits or male costs? Ethology 113:534-542.

Hale AM. 2006. The structure, context, and functions of group singing in black-breasted wood-quail (Odontophorus leucolaemus). Behaviour 143:511-533.

Hale AM. 2006. Group living in the black-breasted wood-quail and the use of playbacks as a survey technique. The Condor 108:107-119.

Williams DA and AM Hale. 2006. Helper effects on offspring production in cooperatively breeding brown jays (Cyanocorax morio). The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology 123:847-857.

Hale AM. 2004. Predation risk associated with group singing in a Neotropical wood-quail. The Wilson Bulletin 116:167-171.

Williams DA, E Berg, AM Hale, and CR Hughes. 2004. Characterization of microsatellites for parentage studies of white-throated magpie-jays (Calocitta formosa) and brown jays (Cyanocorax morio). Molecular Ecology Notes 4:509-511.

Hale AM, DA Williams, and KN Rabenold. 2003. Territoriality and neighbor assessment in brown jays (Cyanocorax morio) in Costa Rica. The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology 120:446-456.

Hale AM and CR Hughes. 2003. Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in a Neotropical wood-quail, Odontophorus leucolaemus. Molecular Ecology Notes 3:508-510.

MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW AND PREPARATION
Hale AM and CR Hughes. In revision. Fine-scale genetic structure in a Neotropical wood-quail, Odontophorus leucolaemus.

Williams DA and AM Hale. In review. Investment in nesting activities and patterns of within-group genetic paternity in a cooperatively breeding bird.

Hale AM, PA Groff, and BA Whitlock. In prep. Genetic diversity and phylogeography of two mountain-meadow fringed gentians, Gentianopsis simplex and G. holopetala, inferred from amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs).

Whitlock BA, Wilkins C, and AM Hale. In prep. Biogeography and diversification rates of Lasiopetaleae (Malvaceae) in southwestern Australia.

Williams DA, AM Hale, and J Daniels. In prep. Fine-scale genetic structure in a Neotropical cloud forest tree across an elevational gradient.

GRANTS
2002 American Ornithologist's Union Research Award; Organization for Tropical Studies Research Fellowship; Center for Latin American Studies Dissertation Research Award, UM

2001 Cooper Ornithological Society – Mewaldt-King Student Research Award; Organization for Tropical Studies Research Fellowship

2000 Organization for Tropical Studies Post Course Research Grant; Research Grant from the Dept. of Biology, UM; American Museum of Natural History - Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund

1996 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research

1995 Indiana Academy of Science Research Grant

AWARDS
2004 Max and Peggy Kriloff Graduate Student Travel Scholarship, UM
2002 Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Biology, UM
2000 Organization for Tropical Studies Participant in Tropical Biology Course 00-1
1999 Maytag Fellowship, Dept. of Biology, UM (Stipend & Tuition for 3 years)
1998 Reed W. Fautin Memorial Scholarship and Outstanding General Biology Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Zoology & Physiology, Univ. of Wyoming
1997 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Biological Sciences, PU
1993 Spanish Association of the Midwest Scholarship

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005 Lecturer, University of Miami (Evolution and Biodiversity; Honors Genetics Laboratory; Workshop Leaders in Biology; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratory)

1997 & 1999 Course Co-Instructor, AP Environmental Science Workshop, Purdue University

1997 – 2004 Guest Lecturer (Genetics, University of Miami; Ornithology, University of Wyoming; Introduction to Ecology, Purdue University)

1995 – 2004 Graduate Teaching Assistantships (Principles of Genetics, 4 semesters; General Biology, 4 semesters; Cell and Molecular Biology, 2 semesters; Introduction to Ecology, 1 semester)

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Whitlock BA, AM Hale, and PA Groff. 2007. Biogeography and the evolution of life histories in Gentianopsis (Gentianaceae). Botany & Plant Biology Joint Congress, Chicago, IL.

Groff PA, AM Hale, SA Eliason, and BA Whitlock. 2007. Disjunction and phylogeny in Western North American mountain-meadow gentians. Botany & Plant Biology Joint Congress, Chicago, IL.

Hale AM and CR Hughes. 2004. Group structure and sex-biased dispersal in a Neotropical wood-quail, Odontophorus leucolaemus. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Meeting, Miami, FL.

Williams DA and AM Hale. 2004. Levels of investment in breeding activities by behaviorally reproductive male brown jays, Cyanocorax morio: a species with complex patterns of genetic paternity. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Meeting, Miami, FL.

Williams DA and AM Hale. 2003. Contributions to nestling care in an avian cooperative breeder with male-biased dispersal. Animal Behavior Society Meeting, Boise, ID.

Hale AM, DA Williams, and KN Rabenold. 1998. Between-group interactions in the cooperatively breeding brown jay. North American Ornithological Conference, St. Louis, MO.

Williams DA and AM Hale. 1998. Behavioral and genetic parentage in the cooperatively breeding brown jay. North American Ornithological Conference, St. Louis, MO.

INVITED SEMINARS
2005 Department of Zoology, University of Florida
2005 Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
2007 Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan - Dearborn

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Ornithologist’s Union
Animal Behavior Society
Association of Field Ornithologists
Botanical Society of America
Cooper Ornithological Society
Partridge, Quail and Francolin Specialist Group of the IUCN
Wilson Ornithological Society