Professor David W. WinklerDavid Winkler spent his teenage and early undergraduate years chasing birds across California with Rich Stallcup and many other fine field observers. As an undergrad at UC Davis, he co-led a student research group doing the first comprehensive study f the ecology of Mono Lake and the adjacent Mono Basin. In 1978, he joined his mentor and friend, David Gaines, in founding the Mono Lake Committee. He returned to graduate school at Berkeley that same year, pursuing his PhD with detailed studies of the causes of the small clutch sizes of Mono Lake’s gulls. After postdocs in Europe and at Cornell, he joined the faculty there in 1988 and has pursued studies of swallows throughout the Western Hemisphere (including the Mono Basin) ever since. Read More Read Less