OPUS: Synthesizing research on the adaptable snowbird: hormonal pleiotropy, phenotypic integration, and rapid population divergence

该奖项将综合40多年来对鸣禽黑眼junco的研究。junco在新物种的起源、环境对繁殖时间的影响以及睾酮在适应行为和生理中的作用这三个领域一直是重要的研究对象。该奖项将产生三种产品。第一本书将描述对junco的研究成果，包括关于其迁移，繁殖，对冰川退缩的历史反应，对气候变化和城市崛起的反应的新知识，以及它作为睾酮如何调节许多行为和生理属性的模型系统的作用。第二个产品将是一个基于网络的数据档案，第三个产品将是一系列媒体项目，包括纪录片和课堂视频。总之，这些产品将有助于促进公众对科学的理解，并将有助于正在进行的生态学和鸟类及其他生物的进化研究。这本书将综合四十年的研究成果，目标读者是专业人士。基于网络的档案将允许其他研究人员利用生理和行为方面的大量数据集。这些媒体项目将把主要发现传达给不同的受众，包括科学研究的公众消费者，无论老少，在教室里，在博物馆里，在公共电视上。总之，最终的综合结果将引起学生、教育工作者、科学家同行和公众的强烈兴趣。

This award will synthesize research conducted over 40 years on a songbird, the dark-eyed junco. The junco has been an important research subject in three areas: the origin of new species, the role of the environment in timing reproduction, and the role of testosterone in adaptive behavior and physiology. The award will lead to three products. The first is a book that will describe the outcomes of research on the junco, including new knowledge about its migration, its reproduction, its historical response to glacial retreat, its response to climate change and the rise of cities, and finally its role as a model system for how testosterone mediates numerous behavioral and physiological attributes. The second product will be a web-based data archive, and the third will be a series of media projects, including a documentary film and classroom videos. Together, these products will help to promote public understanding of science, and will contribute to ongoing research in ecology and evolution of birds and other organisms. The book, which will be aimed at a professional audience, will synthesize four decades of research. The web-based archive will allow other researchers to take advantage of extensive data sets on physiology and behavior. The media projects will convey key findings to diverse audiences including public consumers of scientific research, young and old, in the classroom, in museums, and on public television. Together, the resulting synthesis will be of strong interest to students, educators, fellow scientists, and the public.