ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Fall 2005   Seminar on College Teaching, Teaching Resources Center, University of California, Davis
Nine-week seminar designed to aid in preparation to teach college-level courses. Topics covered: course design and management, differences in learning, evaluation and assessment, student diversity and use of technology in the classroom.

Summer 1994   Cosen Research Workshop in Tropical Biology and Conservation, Costa Rica
Conducted group and independent field studies on the ecology of the montane, dry and rain forests, and the marine biology of the Pacific coast.  Field stations: Las Cruces, La Selva, Tamarindo and Santa Rosa. Instructors: Drs. Raymond Heithaus and Marilyn Loveless

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Fall 2005- present   Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
PI:  Dr. Karen Bales

Summer 2005   Field Instructor, Ometepe Biological Field Station, Nicaragua

Spring 2005    Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Sacramento City College

Spring 2005   Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, American River College

Spring 2005   Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento

1997-1998   Laboratory Technician, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY

1996-1997   Behavioral Technician, Caribbean Primate Research Center, Puerto Rico

Summer 1995   Research Scholar, Duke University Primate Center

TEACHING INTERESTS

Vertebrate Field Ecology
Animal Behavior
Science Writing
Tropical Ecology

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Summer 2005   Field Instructor, Primate Behavioral Ecology, Ometepe Biological Field Station, Nicaragua

Spring 2005   Instructor, Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Sacramento City College

Spring 2005   Instructor, Fundamentals of Biology, Department of Biology, American River College

Spring 2005   Instructor, Laboratory in Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology,
California State University, Sacramento

Spring 2001   Teaching Assistant, Animal Behavior, Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois

Spring 2000   Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois

1994-1995   Writing Tutor, Expository Writing Department, Oberlin College
Tutored students in writing courses, including science courses.  Organized and led writing review sessions, and assisted with paper revisions and oral presentations.

1994   Instructor, Introduction to Portuguese, Experimental College Program, Oberlin College
Developed and taught an extra-divisional, credit-bearing language course.

1993-1996   Tutor in Biology and Psychology, Office of Student Support Services, Oberlin College

Public Instruction

2002-2003   Instructor, Tropical Ecology Field Trips, Vila Ananim School, Brazil
Developed and led a series of five field trips for local school children (grades 1-6) and their teachers, at a forested field site in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil

1994   Howard Hughes Pre-college Science Teaching Program, Oberlin College
One of five students selected to work with teachers in Oberlin public schools to develop and implement hands-on laboratory projects for 5th grade students.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2004   Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Travel Grant, University of Illinois $700
2002   Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid $1,000
2001   Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois $5,000
2001   American Society of Primatologists Small Grant $1,500
2001   Animal Behaviour Society Student Research Grant $1,000
2001   School of Life Sciences Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Summer Research Grant $683
2001   University of Illinois Graduate College Conference Travel Grant $150
2000   Women in Science and Engineering Conference Travel Grant, University of Illinois  $500
2000   Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Field Research Fellowship $2,000
1998   National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (3 years)
1998   University of Illinois Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (3 years)
1998   State University of New York at Buffalo Presidential Fellowship (declined)
1998   Tulane University Graduate Fellowship (declined)

HONORS AND AWARDS

2000   List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois
1996   Norman H. Wright Prize, Biology Department, Oberlin College
1996   Elected to Sigma Xi, Scientific Honor Society
1995   Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society
1995   Hope Hibbard Award, Biology Department, Oberlin College
1994   One of two students nominated for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Biology Department,   
          Oberlin College

PUBLICATIONS

Stone, A. I.  (in review) Ecological risk aversion and foraging behaviors of juvenile squirrel monkeys.  Journal of Mammalogy

Stone, A. I.  (in press) Age and seasonal effects on predator-sensitive foraging in juvenile squirrel monkeys: a field experiment. American Journal of Primatology

Stone, A. I.  (in press) Responses of squirrel monkeys to seasonal changes in food availability in an Eastern Amazonian rainforest.  American Journal of Primatology

Stone, A. I.  2006. Foraging ontogeny is not linked to delayed maturation in squirrel monkeys. Ethology 112: 105-115.

Stone, A., Ford, N. and Holtzman, D.A. 2000.  Spatial learning and shelter selection by juvenile spotted pythons, Anteresia maculosus. Journal of Herpetology 34: 575-587.

Stone, A.  1999.  Scientific Writing: What's so Difficult About It Anyway?  In: Podis, L.A. and Podis, J.M. (eds.) Working with Student Writers: Essays on Tutoring and Teaching, pp. 185-192.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Stone, A. and Holtzman, D.A. 1996.  Feeding responses in young boa constrictors (Boa constrictor imperator) are mediated by the vomeronasal system.  Animal Behaviour 52: 949-55.

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

* Indicates undergraduate co-author
Stone, A.I. 2006. Sex differences in the foraging ecology of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil.  American Journal of Primatology

Stone, A.  2005. Comportamento de forrageio de juvenis e bionomia em um primata neotropical, o macaco-de-cheiro (Saimiri sciureus). Laboratory Primate Newsletter 44: 8

Calouro, A.M., Garber, P.A., Stone, A. and Chaves, W.A*. 2000.  Censusing a primate community in Brazil: a multimethod approach.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology [Suppl] 30:117.

Tanaka, J., Giles, M.A., Szechter, L., Stone, A., & Lantz, A. 1996.  The expertise of face recognition.  Brain and Cognition , Proceedings from Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Neuropsycholgie Experimentale Theroreticale (TENNET) VI, Montreal.

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

* Indicates undergraduate co- author
2006   Stone, A.I., Lima, E.M, Aguiar, G.F.S., Camargo, C.C.*, Flores, T.A.*, Kelt, D.A., Marques-Aguiar, S.A., Queiroz, J.A.L.*, Ramos, R.M. * and Silva-Júnior, J.S.
Preliminary data on mammalian diversity in fragments in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil.   American Society of Mammalogists,  Amherst, Massachusetts.

2004   Stone, A.  Predator-sensitive foraging in juvenile squirrel monkeys: a field experiment.  Animal Behaviour Society, Oaxaca, Mexico.

2001   Stone, A.  Age-sex differences in feeding behaviors of squirrel monkeys, Saimiri sciureus, in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil.  Animal Behaviour Society, Corvallis, Oregon.

2001   Stone, A.  Utilization of palms by squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil. Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

1999   Holtzman, D.A. and Stone, A.  Aggregation of eastern garter snakes, Thamnophis s. sirtalis, and milk snakes, Lampropeltis t. triangulum, in western New York State.  Society for the Study of Reptiles and Amphibians, State College, Pennsylvania.

1998  Stone, A., Ford, N. and Holtzman, D.A. 2000.  Spatial learning and shelter selection by juvenile spotted pythons, Anteresia maculosus. Society for the Study of Reptiles and Amphibians, Guelph, Canada.

INVITED SEMINARS

April 2006   “Field investigations of squirrel monkey ecology in a village in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil”
Guest Lecture for Animal Behavior course, Holy Names University, Oakland, California

March 2006   “Vertebrate sociality: why do animals live in groups?”
Invited seminar, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida

November 2005   “Social and sexual behavior in vertebrates” 
Guest lecture for Biological Psychology course, University of California, Davis

May 2005   “Field investigations of squirrel monkey ecology in a village in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil”
Guest lecture for Ecology of Tropical Latitudes course, University of California, Davis

May 2005   “Juvenile life history and ecology of squirrel monkeys”
Animal Behavior Graduate Group seminar series, University of California, Davis

February 2005   “Development of foraging abilities in neotropical primates”
Psychobiology seminar series, University of California, Davis

2001   "Intragoup variation in foraging patterns of squirrel monkeys, Saimiri sciureus”
Primate Ecology seminar, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

July-August 2006    Dispersal of juvenile brush-mice (Peromyscus boylii) in response to different habitat types in northern California.  Assisted with tracking nocturnal movements and finding nests using radio-telemetry.

Supervisor: Karen Mabry

January-February 2006   Pilot study: Effects of forest fragmentation on the diversity and ecology of neotropical mammals in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil. Project involved live trapping and diurnal and nocturnal censusing.

Co-PI:  Dr. Douglas Kelt

January 2006- present  Post-doctoral research on the effects of alloparental care on future reproductive success in the cooperative breeding prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster

Supervisor: Dr. Karen Bales

2000-2003   Dissertation research on life history and ecology of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil.

Supervisor: Dr. Paul Garber

1999   Field research on the behavioral ecology of mixed species troops of Callimico goeldii, Saguinus labiatus and Saguinus fuscicollis in Western Amazonia, Brazil.
Assisted with behavioral data collection and with trapping, marking and radiotracking of study animals.

Supervisor: Dr. Paul Garber

1997-1998   Comparative studies on the spatial learning and orientation of juvenile snakes (spotted pythons, corn snakes, garter snakes and milk snakes) in western New York State.
Experiments conducted both in field and laboratory settings.  Responsible for experimental design, data collection, assistance with trapping wild snakes and supervising undergraduates.
Supervisor: Dr. David Holtzman

1996-1997    Longitudinal investigation on individual differences in the development of juvenile rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), led by the National Institutes of Health.   Responsible for collecting and tabulating behavioral data throughout the year and assisting with physiological measurements.

Supervisor: Dr. Kathy Rasmussen

Summer 1995  Independent project on reproductive and parental strategies of free-ranging ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) at the Duke University Primate Center.
Supervisor: Dr. Frances White

1994-1996   Research Assistant- Psychology Department, Oberlin College
Worked on cognitive studies involving face and object recognition by humans.  Responsible for developing stimuli, recruiting subjects, running experiments and analyzing data.

Supervisor: Dr. James Tanaka

1994   Independent Research Project- Neuroscience Department, Oberlin College.

Studied snake feeding behavior and chemoreception in juveniles.  Investigated, through behavioral studies, the role of the vomeronasal organ in prey odor detection by boa constrictors (Boa constrictor imperator).  Also used autoradiography to investigate the transport mechanism of chemical molecules to the vomeronasal system. 

Supervisor: Dr. David Holtzman

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Animal Behaviour Society
American Society of Mammalogists
American Society of Primatologists
Sigma Xi

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2006   Judge of student oral presentations and posters, 29th meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, TX

2006  M.S. Thesis Committee:  Aline M. Nunes (Zoology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).   Thesis:  “Cognitive ecology and social foraging of Callithrix penicillata x Callithrix jacchus hybrids introduced to the island of Santa Catarina”

2005-present   Reviewer, American Journal of Primatology

2005   Reviewer, “A Primatologia no Brasil (volume 10)”, edited by J.C. Bicca-Marques, Brazilian Primatological Society

2001   Secretary, Graduate Students in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (GEEB), University of Illinois, a student organization designed to increase interaction among ecology, evolution and conservation biology students across campus.

OTHER SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

2004- present   Co-Chair, Brazil in Davis, an organization that promotes interactions among Brazilians at UC-Davis and among community members interested in Brazilian culture.

1995-1996   Co-chair, Biology Majors Committee, Biology Department, Oberlin College
Promoted student-faculty interaction by coordinating student input on tenure decisions, working closely with faculty in hiring new professors, and organizing student meetings and other events.   

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Portuguese- native speaker
Fluent in spoken and written Spanish