Mark Hauber
Ornithologist
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Mark Erno Hauber is an American ornithologist and Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research considers the development of avian recognition systems.
Mark Erno Hauber | |
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| Alma mater | University of Auckland Yale College Cornell University Victoria University of Wellington |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Cognitive challenges for brood-parasitic cowbirds : species recognition and host discrimination (2002) |
| Website | Cowbird Lab |
Early life and education
Hauber was born and raised in Hungary.[1] He has said that he always wanted to become an ornithologist.[1] He attended high school in Italy, before moving to the United States for college. Hauber was an undergraduate student at Yale College, where he majored in organismal biology.[2] He started focusing on birds, and the differences between the brains of different species.[1] He worked toward his doctorate at the Cornell University, where he studied brood parasitic cowbirds.[3] After graduating, Hauber moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral research fellow.[citation needed]
Research and career
In 2003, Hauber moved to New Zealand, where he joined the faculty at the University of Auckland. Whilst in New Zealand, he studied psychology, and earned a Doctor of Science on avian recognition systems.[4] His doctoral thesis for this degree was entitled Cognitive ecology of avian recognition systems : studies of brood parasitic and parental taxa.[5] He returned to the United States in 2009, where he joined the faculty at Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[6] Here he oversaw the biopsychology and behavioural neuroscience program.[6]
Hauber was appointed to the faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017. He established the Cowbird Laboratory, which investigates the evolution of recognition systems.[7] For example, Hauber has studied the color and shape of eggs that "host" birds will accept in their nests.[8][9] He has shown that pointy eggs are more likely to survive being in a bird's cliffside nest.[citation needed] Hauber focused his research on parasitic birds and the impact of climate change.[10] He showed that in unstable climates, distributing eggs amongst a variety of different nests made a species more resilient.[10] Hauber studies the birds that live in tree farms in East Urbana, Illinois.[1]
Selected publications
- Joanna K Hubbard; J. Albert C. Uy; Mark E Hauber; Hopi Hoekstra; Rebecca J Safran (8 April 2010). "Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function". Trends in Genetics. 26 (5): 231–239. doi:10.1016/J.TIG.2010.02.002. ISSN 0168-9525. PMID 20381892. Wikidata Q37728546.
- Kevin J McGraw; Emiko A Mackillop; James Dale; Mark E Hauber (1 December 2002). "Different colors reveal different information: how nutritional stress affects the expression of melanin- and structurally based ornamental plumage". The Journal of Experimental Biology. 205 (Pt 23): 3747–3755. ISSN 0022-0949. PMID 12409501. Wikidata Q48616134.
- Hauber ME; Sherman PW (1 October 2001). "Self-referent phenotype matching: theoretical considerations and empirical evidence". Trends in Neurosciences. 24 (10): 609–616. doi:10.1016/S0166-2236(00)01916-0. ISSN 0166-2236. PMID 11576676. Wikidata Q34384297.
Books
- The Book of Eggs Hauber, Mark E. (2014). The book of eggs : a lifesize guide to the eggs of six hundred of the world's bird species. John Weinstein, John Bates, Barbara Becker. Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-05778-1. OCLC 860757198.
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Personal life
Hauber came out as gay after moving to the United States.[11] He is a member of the grassroots organization 500 Queer Scientists.[11]