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Claire Teitelbaum

Post-doctoral Research Scientist, NASA Earth eXchange (NEX)

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Affiliation: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Earth eXchange (NEX)

Branch: Biospheric Science Branch (SGE)

Email: claire.s.teitelbaum@nasa.gov

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kFKjTJYAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1

Professional Biography

Claire Teitelbaum is a postdoctoral research scientist at NeX and BAERI. Her research focuses on animal movement and infectious disease in wildlife, including how remote sensing and animal tracking data can be combined to answer questions about disease dynamics in highly mobile animals. She holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia, where she studied nomadic movement patterns in mammals and birds. Her other research has included studies of social behavior in reintroduced migratory Whooping Cranes, modeling dynamics of white-nose syndrome in bats, and most recently, studies of avian influenza in migratory waterfowl in the Pacific Flyway. 

Education

Ph.D. Ecology, University of Georgia
B.A. Biology, Pomona College

Experience

2023-Present: Post-doctoral researcher, NASA Ames Research Center & Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
2021-2023: Quantitative Ecologist, USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center
2016-2021: Doctoral student researcher, University of Georgia
2019: Graduate Research Intern (NSF GRIP), USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
2014-2016: Research student, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre

Research Interests

Animal migration, movement ecology, infectious diseases, conservation biology, mathematical modeling, landscape ecology

Awards and Honors

2021: Stoddard-Burleigh-Sutton Award for excellence in wildlife conservation, University of Georgia (dissertation award)
2018-2021: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2016-2021: Presidential Fellowship, University of Georgia
2020: Best Student Poster, North American Congress for Conservation Biology
2020: Best Oral Presentation, Odum School of Ecology Graduate Student Symposium
2020: James Carmon Scholarship Honorarium, University of Georgia

Publications

see Google Scholar page for an up-to-date publication list

  • Teitelbaum, C. S.,  Bachner, N. C., &  Hall, R. J. (2023).  Post-migratory nonbreeding movements of birds: A review and case study. Ecology and Evolution,  13, e9893. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9893
  • Teitelbaum, Claire S.,  Casazza, Michael L.,  McDuie, Fiona,  De La Cruz, Susan E. W.,  Overton, Cory T.,  Hall, Laurie A.,  Matchett, Elliott L., et al.  2023. “ Waterfowl Recently Infected with Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza Exhibit Reduced Local Movement and Delayed Migration.” Ecosphere  14( 2): e4432. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4432
  • Mendgen, P., Converse, S. J., Yetter, A. P., Teitelbaum, C. S., & Mueller, T. (2023). Differential shortstopping behaviour in Whooping Cranes: Habitat or social learning? Global Ecology and Conservation, 41, e02365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02365
  • Abrahms B, Teitelbaum CS, Mueller T, Converse SJ. 2021. Data from: Ontogenetic shifts from social to experiential learning drive avian migration timing. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.t23vm852
  • Taylor, J. J., Sullivan, J. D., Teitelbaum, C. S., Reese, J. G., & Prosser, D. J. (2022). Comparing Landsat Dynamic Surface Water Extent to alternative methods of measuring inundation in developing waterbird habitats. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 28, 100845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2022.100845
  • Teitelbaum Claire S., Ackerman Joshua T., Hill Mason A., Satter Jacqueline M., Casazza Michael L., De La Cruz Susan E. W., Boyce Walter M., Buck Evan J., Eadie John M., Herzog Mark P., Matchett Elliott L., Overton Cory T., Peterson Sarah H., Plancarte Magdalena, Ramey Andrew M., Sullivan Jeffery D. and Prosser Diann J. 2022Avian influenza antibody prevalence increases with mercury contamination in wild waterfowlProc. R. Soc. B.2892022131220221312, http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1312
  • Teitelbaum, C. S., Altizer, S., & Hall, R. L. (2021). Habitat Specialization by Wildlife Reduces Pathogen Spread in Urbanizing Landscapes. The American Naturalist, 000. https://doi.org/10.1086/717655
  • Buck, E. J., Sullivan, J. D., Teitelbaum, C. S., Brinker, D. F., McGowan, P. C., & Prosser, D. J. (2022). An evaluation of transmitter effects on adult and juvenile Common Terns using leg-loop harness attachments. Journal of Field Ornithology, 93(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/jfo-00136-930403
  • Abrahms, B., Teitelbaum, C.S., Mueller, T. et al. Ontogenetic shifts from social to experiential learning drive avian migration timing. Nat Commun 12, 7326 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27626-5
  • Nomadic Animal Movement and Infectious Disease in Changing Landscapes – ProQuest. (n.d.). https://www.proquest.com/openview/cd3ad2f511691abe310467931bcc18ec/1?cbl=18750&diss=y&pq-origsite=gscholar&parentSessionId=ggPi5ve2jYKXmaRqHsRzkr33vJgMpJQT%2BBI3qJ0kR30%3D
  • Teitelbaum, C. S., Sirén, A. P. K., Coffel, E., Foster, J. A., Frair, J. L., Hinton, J. W., Horton, R. M., Kramer, D., Lesk, C., Raymond, C., Wattles, D. W., Zeller, K. A., & Morelli, T. L. (2021). Habitat use as indicator of adaptive capacity to climate change. Diversity and Distributions, 27(4), 655–667. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13223