Fengyi Guo
Education: Ph.D. ’24, Princeton University
Cornell Faculty Mentor: Andre Dhondt, Cornell CALS/Lab of Ornithology
External Adviser: Bridgett Costanzo, USDA
Themes: Advancing One Health
Long-term Trends in Migratory Landbird Stopover Density Following 30 Years of Land-use Change in the Contiguous United States
Fengyi (Freda) Guo studies the stopover ecology and conservation of migratory land birds in North America. Combining data-intensive radar remote sensing and eBird participatory science, her research focuses on identifying stopover hotspots and key habitats for migratory landbirds during the en-route period, thereby completing the full annual cycle conservation of migratory species.
At the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, she uses data from weather radar to reconstruct the long-term population trends of migratory landbirds during stopover in the contiguous United States. Based on that, she will quantify the impacts of past land-use changes and assess the effectiveness of different conservation measures.
In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCRS), she also helps develop conservation recommendations to protect and restore important stopover habitats for migratory landbirds in North America.