Rachel Page joins STRI
November 23, 2009
Rachel Page joined STRI this month as staff scientist. Page has a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, where she studied Japanese and East Asian Studies
Rachel Page joined STRI this month as staff scientist. Page has a bachelorīs degree from Columbia University, where she studied Japanese and East Asian Studies. Her career then took a sharp turn into the field of biology, starting with seabird work on Great Gull Island with Helen Hays of the American Museum of Natural History. She worked with honeycreepers, terns, puffins and guillemots at the USGS, Hawaii, and the Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge in Maine.
In 2002, Rachel joined STRI research associate Mike Ryan at the University of Texas at Austin and started her Ph.D. studies in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. She was granted a STRI predoctoral fellowship, working with Stanley Rand and Elizabeth Kalko. Ryan, Rand and Kalko introduced her to the joys and rigors of tropical field biology. She obtained her degree in 2008.
Her research focuses on vertebrate behavior, in particular the cognitive behavior of animals in nature. She is interested in predatorprey interactions, the sensory and cognitive ecology of foraging, and the effect of eavesdroppers on the evolution of their prey, with the frog-eating bat, Trachops cirrhosus.
After her selection as staff scientist at STRI in 2008, Page completed a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, in comparative studies of learning and flexibility in European bat species.
Rachel is joined by husband David Bethel, a freelance science writer, and their 16-month-old daughter, Gwendolyn Wren. She will be dividing her time at between Gamboa, BCI, and Tupper. Her Tupper office is in room 426. Her office phone is 212-8252.
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