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Education

B.S. (Biology/Wildlife Biology): Ball State University, 2007

Research Interests or Responsibilities

Responsibilities include assisting in birdstrike identification for military and civil aviation. I have previously worked in the Division of Mammals and am continuing work on Squirrels of the World, a book to be published in 2010. My interests are broad, focusing mainly on vertebrate biology (ornithology, mammalogy, and herpetology), but also including entomology.

Selected Publications

Kawashima, T., Thorington, R.W., Jr. and Whatton, J.F. 2009. Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of the Cardiac Innervation in New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini, E. Geoffroy, 1812), Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, 292(5):670-691

Marra, P.P., Dove, C.J., Dolbeer, R., Dahlan, N.F., Heacker, M., Whatton, J.F., Diggs, N.E., France, C. and Henkes, G.A. 2009. Migratory Canada geese cause crash of US Airways Flight 1549, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7(6):297-301

Kawashima, T., Thorington, R.W., Jr., Kunimatsu, Y. and Whatton, J.F. 2008. Systematic morphology and evolutionary anatomy of the autonomic cardiac nervous system in the lesser apes, gibbons (hylobatidae), Anatomical Record, 291(8):939-59