Dr Amanda Hale, Avian Team Lead

Department of Biology, TCU

Amanda Hale is an Assistant Professor of Biology at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.  Her academic background is in the areas of ecology and evolution, genetics, and conservation biology.  Amanda has a B.A. in Spanish, B.S. in biology, and M.S. in ecology from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN.  She received her PhD from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.

Amanda has field experience in a wide range of habitats including hardwood deciduous forests of Indiana, endangered pine rockland of south Florida, and cloud forests of Costa Rica.  In the majority of her research projects she has combined the use of genetic markers and detailed field studies to address ecological and evolutionary questions in avian biology.  Her taxonomic interests are broad, however, and several ongoing research projects address evolutionary and biogeographical questions in flowering plants.  Amanda is also collaborating with Dean Williams on a conservation genetics study of the threatened Texas horned lizard, Phrynosoma cornutum.