Contact Information
Publications
Huang, Z., Besozzi, E., Pandit, M., Bridge, E., Zhu, R., Li, Y. 2023. A seasonal, long short-term memory network (S-LSTM) for estimating biological acoustic activity. IEEE. In review.
Sharp, A., Rushing, C., Contina, A., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Sillett, S., Bridge, E., Besozzi, E. M., Muller, J., Kelly, J., Given, A. 2022. The strength of migratory connectivity in Painted Buntings is scale-dependent and shaped by molting behavior. Journal of Field Ornithology 94(1): 7
Velde, M., Besozzi, E., Krochuk, B., Henderson, K., Tsuru, B., Velásquez Restrepo, S., Garrod, H., Cooper, J. 2022. What constitutes a community? A co-occurrence exploration of the Costa Rican avifauna. Neotropical Biodiversity 9(1): 64-75.
Besozzi, E., Chew, B., Allen, D., Contina, A. 2021. Stable isotope analysis of a migratory songbird aberrant feather. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 133(1): 151-158.
Adams, A., Besozzi, E., Shahrokhi, G., Patten, M. 2021. Interspecific benefits, intraspecific conflicts: differential meta-analytic support for the stress gradient hypothesis. Ecology Letters 25(1):202- 217.
Sharp, A., Rushing, C., Contina, A., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Sillett, S., Bridge, E., Besozzi, E. M., Muller, J., Kelly, J., Given, A. 2022. The strength of migratory connectivity in Painted Buntings is scale-dependent and shaped by molting behavior. Journal of Field Ornithology 94(1): 7
Velde, M., Besozzi, E., Krochuk, B., Henderson, K., Tsuru, B., Velásquez Restrepo, S., Garrod, H., Cooper, J. 2022. What constitutes a community? A co-occurrence exploration of the Costa Rican avifauna. Neotropical Biodiversity 9(1): 64-75.
Besozzi, E., Chew, B., Allen, D., Contina, A. 2021. Stable isotope analysis of a migratory songbird aberrant feather. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 133(1): 151-158.
Adams, A., Besozzi, E., Shahrokhi, G., Patten, M. 2021. Interspecific benefits, intraspecific conflicts: differential meta-analytic support for the stress gradient hypothesis. Ecology Letters 25(1):202- 217.
Presentations and Posters
Besozzi, E. M. (2022). Coding Outreach for Data Education (CODE) Workshop: Graduate students addressing inequities in data science. Invited speaker and discussion leader, Biology and Society undergraduate senior capstone course, Norman, OK.
Besozzi, E. M. Stable isotope analysis of an aberrant feather: Potential insights into wintering ground movements of a migratory passerine. Invited speaker, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, UNESCO Cascade Head Biosphere Reserve, OR (2021); presentation, Oklahoma Ornithological Society, 3rd place student presentation award, University of Oklahoma, OK (2019). Besozzi, E. M. (2019). Patterns of home range use by the Volcano Junco, a Costa Rican highland endemic. Presentation, American Ornithological Society, Anchorage, AK. Besozzi, E. M., Muller, J. A., Grzybowski, J. A., Ross, J. D. 2018. Habitat analysis of Black-capped Vireos (Vireo atricapilla) at Salt Creek Canyon, Blaine County, Oklahoma. Poster presented at the 2018 American Ornithological Society Meeting, Tucson, AZ. Besozzi, E. M., Grzybowski, J. A., Ross, J. 2017. A survey of Black-capped Vireos at Salt Creek Canyon: Blaine County, Oklahoma. Presentation at the Oklahoma Ornithological Society Fall 2017 meeting, Oklahoma Biological Station, OK. Besozzi, E. M., Fassler, A., Anderson, E., Jones, T., Bellemare, J., Fraser, D. 2016. Drivers of salamander distribution in a threatened hemlock forest. Poster presented at the Ecological Society of America Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Besozzi, E. M., Fassler, A., Anderson, E., Jones, T., Bellemare, J., Fraser, D. 2015. Drivers of Red-backed Salamander distribution in hemlock forests. Poster presented at the 15th Northeast Natural History Conference, Springfield, MA. |
Selected Fellowships and Awards
STEM Diplomacy
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skills and proficiencies
Computation Skills
Field Skills
Collections Skills
Trained by Dr. Tamaki Yuri at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
September 2016 to 2018
- R/rStudio statistical coding software: data management, statistical analysis, data visualization, spatial statistics, Bayesian analysis
- qGIS: Open-source geospatial analysis
- Open Science Framework and GitHub: version control and project management
- LaTeX and Overleaf document preparation coding software
Field Skills
- Passerine extraction and banding workshop at the Powdermill Avian Research Center, SU 2017
- Passive passerine extraction and banding at OU Field Skills in Avian Ecology Course, ~50 hours
- Target netting and banding passerines with audio lures, ~350 hours
- Brachial vein blood collection, blood plasma and red blood cell separation in the field
- Stable isotope tissue collection
- Baited trap management (Brown-headed Cowbirds, Molothrus ater)
- Snare line extraction and handling of shorebirds up to 500 g
- Management of Audiomoth automated recording unit arrays
- Surveying salamander occupancy using artificial cover object arrays
Collections Skills
Trained by Dr. Tamaki Yuri at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
September 2016 to 2018
- Prepared 20 birds (12.0g – 630.0g)
- Skills include skinning, stuffing, and tissue collection (brain, heart, liver, gut, stomach muscle)
Work experience
- Graduate Assistant: Dissertation research on Costa Rican montane birds, OU, 2016 to Present
- Research Assistant: Lights Out Fort Worth – artificial light and bird migration, summer 2023 to present
- Research Assistant: CODE Workshop – organized 100-participant virtual workshop, summer 2021
- Virtual Student Federal Service Intern: U.S. Embassy, Equatorial Guinea, 2020 to 2021 (see language study below)
- Research Assistant: Dr. Andrea Contina – migratory connectivity in Painted Buntings, SU 2018
- Research Assistant: Dr. Jeremy Ross – Black-capped Vireo brood parasite management, SU 2017
- Teaching Assistant: Intro Ecology and Evolution (2020), Biology (2016), Zoology (2017, 2019, 2022), Human Anatomy (2017)
- Manager of Peer Content Tutors (Humanities), Smith College, 2014-2016
- Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation Tutor, Smith College, 2014-2016
Language study
Boren Fellow, Taiwan (Mandarin)
Virtual Student Federal Service Intern (Spanish)
Undergraduate Study Abroad, Taiwan (Mandarin)
National Security Language Initiative for Youth (Mandarin)
Language Study for Dissertation Research (Spanish)
- Defense Language and National Security Education Office Fellowship 2022-2023: three seasonal courses (9 months) at National Chengchi University's Chinese Language Center, $27,000
- OPI 2+ (limited working proficiency), June 2023
- Supplemental coursework: Traditional Bookbinding, Idioms from the Art of War, Understanding the News
Virtual Student Federal Service Intern (Spanish)
- Bioko, Equatorial Guinea 2020-2021: developed local venous snake identification resources with Embassy facilities staff in Spanish and English (view the project page/download snake fact sheets)
Undergraduate Study Abroad, Taiwan (Mandarin)
- Student at National Taiwan Normal University, one seasonal Mandarin course (three months)
- Supplemental coursework: Erhu, Taiwanese Cooking, Taiwanese Folklore, Introductory Taiwanese
National Security Language Initiative for Youth (Mandarin)
- Semester Fellow, September 2011 to December 2011: U. S. State Department Fellowship to study Chinese Language and Culture in Beijing, ~$30,000
- Summer Fellow, June 2010 to August 2010: U. S. State Department Fellowship to study Chinese language and Culture in Shanghai, ~$17,000
Language Study for Dissertation Research (Spanish)
- Field work conducted over ~7 cumulative months in Costa Rica, as well as undergraduate research in Panama and Belize
- Permits from SINAC (2019, 2021), CONAGEBIO (2021), and the National Museum (2021) written and acquired in Spanish
- Two semesters of undergraduate Spanish at the University of Oklahoma, six years middle/high school Spanish, language exchange with Oviedo, Spain