Eben Goodale

Lecturer and Research Associate, The University of San Diego

Visiting Scholar, The Nieh Lab, The University of California, San Diego

E-mail: eben.goodale@gmail.com Web: http://sites.google.com/site/ebengoodale/

Education:

 ·    University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2005), Ph.D. Thesis title: “Interspecific communication in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest.”  Major advisors:

Bruce E. Byers and Donald E. Kroodsma. 4.0 GPA.

 ·    Harvard College (1997), B.A., magna cum laude in Biology.

 

Research Positions:

·    Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego (1/10-present); Research

Associate, University of San Diego (2/10-present). Studying interspecific information

transfer among pollinating insects in James Nieh’s lab.

·    Research Associate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1/09-12/09). Affiliated

with Jeffrey Podos’ lab; studied cultural evolution in the songs of Darwin’s finches.

·    Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Fellowship Program (1/07-4/07; 8/07-8/08; 1/09-4/09; 9/09-12/09). Studied developmental, cognitive and functional aspects of vocal mimicry in mixed-species flocks of Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea.

·    Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Media Lab (8/06–11/06; 5/05-7/07). Worked with Dale

Joachim on an NSF-sponsored program using cell phone technology to remotely conduct

playback experiments.

·    Consultant, Yale School Forests (9/05–7/07). Designed and conducted the first bird

survey of the Yale-Myers managed forest.

·    Research Associate, Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL; 5/05–present). Responsible for planning research agenda, finding funding, and supervising students.

 Teaching Positions:

 · Lecturer, University of San Diego (1/10-5/12). Taught a survey course on the biology of organisms (BIOL 221, lecture and lab), a course in the principles of environmental science (BIOL 102), and a lab in cellular biology (BIOL 225).  Also mentored students on their independent research project (BIOL 495).                                                                                                       · Lecturer, University of San Diego, California (10/10-12/10; 10/11-12/11). Taught two semesters of UCSD’s introductory course in ecology, behavior and evolution (BILD 3).                                    · Lecturer, University of New Haven (8/08-12/08).  Taught an undergraduate course (BIO 320) and a graduate course (ENV 601) in the principles of ecology, with laboratory                                       · Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (8/08-12/08).  Presented 13 lectures on evolution for the large introductory lecture class for non-majors, “Social Issues in Biology” (BIO 105).                                                                                                                                         · Visiting Lecturer, University of Colombo (1/07-3/07; 3/08-5/08). Taught 10 hours of lectures on experimental design and statistical analysis and an additional five hours of lectures on behavioral ecology.                                                                                                                                    · Instructor, Yale School for Forestry and Environmental Sciences (8/07).  Designed and conducted lab demonstration on freshwater ecology and biodiversity for their Masters orientation program.                                                                                                                                   · Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1/05–5/05; 9/02–5/03).

  Scholarships and Fellowships:

·    National Science Foundation, International Research Postdoctoral Fellowship

(awarded 8/06, for two years).

·    American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Fellowship (awarded 10/05, for four

months), to study the effect of land-use on mixed-species flocks of India.

·    National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship (awarded 4/00, for three years).

·    Fulbright Junior Scholarship (awarded 9/97, for one year). 

Grants:

·   US Forest Service ($30,000 awarded to FOGSL 12/11), to study the Central Asian migratory pathway in Sri Lanka.
·   San Diego Foundation Blasker Science and Technology Grant ($35,916 awarded 5/11)

·    Conservation, Food & Health Organization ($12,935 originally awarded to FOGSL

 6/06, for twelve months; $12,022 funded for a second year 11/07), to study the effect of

 land-use on flocks of Sri Lanka.   

·    National Science Foundation, International Research Postdoctoral Fellowship

($48,100 in research funds, awarded 8/6/06).

·    National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($11,500

awarded 7/03). 

·    American Ornithologists Union, Student Research Grant ($2500 awarded 6/03.

·    Sigma-Xi Grant-in-Aid-of-Research ($1000 awarded 6/03 and $500 12/01).  

·    Woods Hole Scholarship for Field Research ($3200 awarded 3/02). 

·    American Ornithologists Union, Maria Brady Tucker Travel Award ($1200 awarded

6/02).

 Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications:

22) Goodale, E., Goodale, U. and Mana, R. 2012. The role of toxic pitohuis in mixed-species flocks of lowland forest in Papua New Guinea. Emu – Austral Ornithology 112: 9-16.
21) Beauchamp, G. and Goodale, E. 2011. Plumage mimicry in avian mixed-species flocks: more or less than meet the eye? Auk 128: 487-496.
20) Sidhu, S., Raman, T. R. S. & Goodale, E. 2010. Effects of plantations and home-gardens on tropical forest bird communities and mixed-species bird flocks in the southern Western Ghats. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 107: 91-108
19) Goodale, E. & Ruxton, G. D.  2010. Antipredator benefits from heterospecifics. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (Breed, M and Moore, J., editors). Academic Press, Oxford.       
18) Goodale, E. and Podos, J. 2010. Persistence of song types in Darwin’s finches, Geospiza fortis, over four decades. Biology Letters 6: 589-592.  
17) Goodale, E., Beauchamp, G., Magrath, R. D., Nieh, J. C. & Ruxton, G. D. 2010. Interspecific information transfer influences animal community structure. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.01.002.

16)    Satischandra, S. H. K., Kodituwakku, P., Kotagama, S. W. & Goodale, E.  2010. Assessing “false” alarm calls by a drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) in mixed-species bird flocks. Behavioral Ecology. DOI:10.1093/beheco/arp203.

15)    Goodale, E & Beauchamp, G.  2010. The relationship between leadership and gregariousness in mixed-species bird flocks. Journal of Avian Biology 41: 99-103.

14)    Ratnayake, C. P., Goodale, E. & Kotagama, S. W.  2010. Two sympatric species of passerine birds imitate the same raptor calls in alarm contexts. Naturwissenschaften 97: 103-108.

13)    Goodale, E., Nizam, B. Z., Robin, V. V., Sridhar, H., Trivedi, P., Kotagama, S. W., Padmalal, U. K. G. K., Perera, R., Pramod, P. & Vijayan, L. 2009. Regional variation in structure and composition of mixed-species bird flocks of the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka: a review. Current Science 97: 648-663.

12)    Goodale, E., Lalbhai, P., Goodale, U. M., & Ashton, P. M. S. 2009. The effect of shelterwood cuts and crown thinnings on the abundance and distribution of birds in a southern New England forest. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 314-322.

11)   Goodale, E. & Kotagama, S.W. 2008.  Responses to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lanka rainforest. Behavioral Ecology 19: 887-894.

10)    Goodale, E. & Kotagama, S.W.  2007.  Some observations on the geographic variation of mixed-species bird flocks in Sri Lanka. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 104: 96-98.

9)    Joachim, D. & Goodale, E.  2007. On the use of cellular telephony for audio interaction with animals. Biology Letters 3: 603-606.

8)    Sathischandra, S.H.K., Kudavidanage, E.P., Kotagama, S.W. & Goodale, E.  2007. The benefits of joining mixed-species flocks for a sentinel nuclear species, the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus. Forktail 23: 145-148. 

7)    Goodale, E. & Kotagama, S.W.  2006. Vocal mimicry by a passerine bird attracts other species involved in mixed-species flocks. Animal Behaviour 72: 471–477.

6)    Goodale, E. & Kotagama, S.W. 2006. Context-dependent mimicry by a passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B, Biological Sciences 273: 875–880.

5)    Goodale, E. & Kotagama, S.W. 2005. Alarm calling in Sri Lankan mixed-species bird flocks. Auk 122: 108–120.

4)   Goodale, E. & Kotagama, S.W. 2005.  Testing the roles of species in mixed-species bird flocks of a Sri Lankan rainforest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21: 669–676. 

3)   Jayarathna, A., Caldera, P. & Goodale, E.  2005.  Observations on the nesting and parental behaviour of the Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush (Garrulax cinereifrons). Forktail 21: 163­–164.

2)   Kotagama, S.W. & Goodale, E.  2004.  The composition and spatial organization of mixed-species flocks in a Sri Lankan rainforest. Forktail 20: 63–70.

1)    Kroodsma, D.E., Byers, B.E., Goodale, E., Johnson, S. & Liu, W.   2001. Pseudoreplication in playback experiments, revisited a decade later. Animal Behaviour 61: 1029­–1033.

Publications In Press / In Review:

· Goodale, E., Silverman, E. D. & Kotagama, S. W.  In press. The effects of land-use on mixed-species bird flocks of Sri Lanka: a preliminary report. The Sri Lankan Forester

· Goodale, E., Ratnayake, C. and Kotagama, S. W. Resubmitted. Conspecific and heterospecific audiences for context-dependent vocal mimicry in a passerine bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
· Goodale, E. and Nieh, J. C. In review. Asymmetry in heterospecific responses to olfactory information about predation between honey bees and bumble bees. Animal Behaviour.

Selected Popular Publications:

· Robinson, J. W., Nieh, J. C. and Goodale, E. In press. Testing honey bee avoidance of predators: teaching the scientific process through an engaging field experiment. American Biology Teacher.
· Goodale, E. and Sridhar, H. 2010. Mixed-species bird flocks: a bibliography. Internet database at https://sites.google.com/site/mixedspeciesbirdflocks/.                                                                  · Goodale, E., Salgado, A., and Kotagama, S. W.  2008. Birds of a different feather. Natural History 117: 24-28.                                                                                                                                                        ·   Goodale, E., Caldera, P. and Kotagama, S. W.  2006. Twenty-five years of research on the mixed-species bird flocks of Sri Lanka. Siyoth 1: 22-28.                                                                                ·   Goodale, E., Caldera, P. and Jayarathna, A. 2004. The sounds of Sinharaja. Audio CD. Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka.                                                                                ·   Goodale, E. 2002. A journey by bus.  Pp. 207–210 in: Excursions and explorations, cultural encounters between Sri Lanka and the United States (Jayatilaka, T., ed.). The United States – Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 

 Presentations at Scientific Meetings:

From 2006-2010, 11 invited talks at the following venues: Central Connecticut State Univ.

· Indian Institute of Science · Natl. Centre for Biological Sciences (India) · Natl. Univ. of

Singapore · Natl. Forestry Symposium (Sri Lanka) · Nature Conservation Foundation 

(India) · School of Natural Resources and Environment, Univ. of Michigan · Texas Tech

University (scheduled April, 2010) · University of California, San Diego · Yale Forest

Lecture Series (2 talks).

 

From 1998-2010, 10 presentations and 3 posters at the following meetings: American Ornithological Union (3 talks, 1 poster) · Animal Behavior Society (1 talk, 1 poster) ·

Center for Tropical Forest Science · International Society for Behavioral Ecology (1 talk,

1 poster) · Rockefeller Univ. Bird Song Workshop (2 talks) · Society for Conservation

Biology · Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Reviews for and Service to Journals:

·    Associate Editor, Forktail (5/07 – present).

·    Journals reviewed for (# of reviews):

             ·    Animal Behaviour (6)

          ·    Auk (1)  

          ·    Behaviour (1) 

             ·    Behavioral Ecology (3)

          ·    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (3)

          ·    Biology Letters (2)

          ·    Condor (2)

          ·    Ecology (1)

          ·    Ethlogy (2)

             ·    Forktail (4)

          ·    J. of Animal Ecology (1)

          ·    J. of Field Ornithology (3)

          ·    J. of Sustainable Forestry (1)

          ·    J. of Tropical Ecology (1)

          ·    Ornis Fennica (1)

          ·    Wilson J. of Ornithology (1)

·    Grants reviewed for (# of reviews):

              ·    National Science Foundation International Research Postdoctoral Program (1).

 

Voluntary Educational Activities:

·    Workshop organizer, with Uromi M. Goodale, and lecturer for: two-session program

introducing R (Divine Word University, 9/09), two-day program on the research process

(the National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea, 9/09, and the Binatang Research

Center, 12/09), two-day program on statistics (University of Colombo, 3/09), one-day

program on career development (Port Moresby, PNG, 12/07), one-day program on proposal

writing (University of Colombo, 9/07), and a four-day program on scientific analysis and

writing (FOGSL, 1/07).

·    Project leader and lecturer (12/06 – 1/09), for secondary school education program by

FOGSL and funded by the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation, that visited 23

schools in Sri Lanka and took them on visits to nearby rainforests.

·    Participant (1/08-3/08) in the project “Empowering Students in Ecology, Music, and

Computer Science through Active Participation in an Elementary Bird Song Curriculum”,

funded by the Lindbergh Foundation; prepared podcasts for elementary grade school

children to get them interested in birds and animal behavior.

·    New Haven Science Fair Mentor, for two high-school students (10/05–5/06).  The

students won the first prize from the New Haven Bird Club and were Finalists and

Medalists at the Connecticut Science Fair.

·    Guest lectures given: FOGSL general meeting (3/07, 10/04), Sri Lanka Fulbright

Commission (9/04), Biology 521 / Community Ecology, University of Massachusetts,

Amherst (5/03); Undergraduate Ornithology, University of Colombo (3/07, 2/07, 8/02);

Masters Program in Wildlife Ecology, University of Peradeniya (7/01 and 9/98). 

·    Fieldtrip organizer and demonstrator of research activities on mixed-species bird flocks

 in the Sinharaja World Heritage Reserve: FOGSL (9/04, 8/03, and 7/03), Masters Program

in Wildlife Ecology, University of Colombo (7/04 and 7/02), Undergraduate Ornithology,

University of Colombo (8/03).

·     Scientific Advisor, to Walk-with-Jith (www.walkwithjith.com), Sri Lankan ecotourist

company (8/04–present).

Advisor on Student Theses:

·    External Advisor to S. Harsha K. Satischandra, University of Sabaragamuwa, Masters

in Science program. Thesis title: “Evaluating false alarm calls in the Greater Racket-tailed

Drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus).” Graduated 2009.

·    Informal External Advisor to Chaminda P. Ratnayake, University of Colombo, Ph.D.

program.  Thesis title: “Ecology and behaviour of the Sri Lanka Blue Magpie (Urocissa

ornata).” Graduation expected 2010.

·    Informal External Advisor to Punit Lalbhai, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental

Science. Thesis title: “The effect of shelterwood cuts and crown thinnings on the

abundance and distribution of birds in a southern New England forest.” Graduated 2007. 

·    External Advisor to S. Harsha K. Satischandra, University of Sabaragamuwa,

Undergraduate thesis. Thesis title: “The foraging ecology of the Greater Racket-tailed

Drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus).” Graduated 2006.

 

Technical Skills:

·    Bird identification / banding. Three years of experience using mist nets in Sri Lanka

with over 150 birds captured. Twenty years experience with bird identification in the field. 

·    Sound recording. Training by the Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell University (6/96).

Eleven years of using shotgun and parabolic microphones, and mono and stereo tape

recorders, both analog and digital.

·    Sound analysis. Extensive experience using Signal, Avisoft and Raven. 

·    Radio-telemetry. Tracked five Greater Racket-tailed Drongos (Dicrurus paradiseus)

over a period of four months in the Sinharaja World Heritage Reserve, Sri Lanka.

·    Statistics. Two semesters of 500 level classes in the Department of Statistics,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Extensive experience using R, SAS, SYSTAT,

and Minitab.

·    Experience with other computer programs.  Moderate experience with ArcView GIS

software and C++ programming.

·    Languages other than English. Conversational in Sinhala and Tok Pisin. Reading in

French and Latin.