Elizabeth Jarrell Fellow, Dept. of Biology jarrell@biology.utah.edu Lab: (801) 585-9590

I was born and raised in Georgia (the state, not the country). I went
to college in Texas, spent one year studying abroad at the University
of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and graduated in 2003 with a BS
in Zoology from UT Austin. Before ending up in Utah, I worked as a
backpacking counselor in Colorado, a naturalist and kayak guide on
Kiawah Island in South Carolina, and an Environmental Education
Instructor in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I love working
with young people and doing what I can to instill in them an
appreciation and ability to enjoy the world around us. I am currently
a graduate student in the Biology department at the U. I have always
been interested in animal behavior and communication. For my
research, I am looking at the process of how song and song display
are learned and develop in birds. To learn more about this, I am
studying Yellow-headed blackbird males and females in our lab at the
University as well as in their natural marsh habitat at Farmington
Bay. An important upcoming change in my life is that I will be
getting married in October, 2006.