Michael Powers Email & Phone Number

Corning, New York, Usa

I am excited that I spend each day exploring Physical Sciences such as chemical reactions, force and motion, waves, and planetary science with my 8th grade students.

Watkins Glen, Ny

I taught Life Science to middle school students and Forensic Science to high school students.

Corning, Ny

I taught a variety of introductory biology courses, from those designed for non-majors with a focus on either animals and plants to those that focus on human biology or integrate anatomy, physiology, and chemistry.

Ithaca, New York Area

I used acoustic technology to remotely monitor birds to track migration paths and phenology, assess importance of migratory stopover habitats, inventory hard-to-detect species, and explore animal communication. My team analyzed thousands of hours of nocturnal recordings to better understand the timing and magnitude of migrating songbirds across the United States, using the results to help inform decisions regarding placement of wind turbines. We also used remote sensors to monitor sensitive, nocturnal species such as the Spotted Owl and Whip-poor-will, enabling local biologists to better understand their distribution, abundance, habitat preferences, and calling activity.

Ithaca, New York Area

I led the collection and analysis of acoustic recordings made from various locations across the southeastern U.S. that may hold the possibly-extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Based at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY, I worked with a team to deploy, collect, and process hundreds of thousands of hours of sounds recorded from bottomland hardwood forests in South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, and Arkansas. You can read about this extensive and unprecedented project here: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory

Ithaca, New York Area

I managed the development and implementation of eBird, a real-time, online checklist program that engages bird watchers of all kinds in collecting scientific data. eBird revolutionized the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds, providing rich data sources for basic information on bird abundance and distribution around the world. You can explore this project here: http://ebird.org

During and following graduate work in biology I worked on a variety of biological research projects.

Ma, Biological Sciences

B.A., Biology