Current Areas of Research:

My research interests are focussed on problems of behavioral ecology and population genetics using the Canada Snow Goose as my study population. Details on the research problem and my approaches may be found on my website.

Selected Publications:

• Rockwell, RF, BM Pezzanite and P Matulonis. 2003. Developmental abnormalities in wild populations of birds: examples in lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens). American Museum of Natural History Novitates 3400:1-14.
  
• Rockwell, RF, CR Witte, RL Jefferies and PJ Weatherhead. 2003. Response Of Nesting Savannah Sparrows To 25 Years Of Habitat Change In A Snow Goose Colony. Ecoscience (in press).
  
• Cooch, EG, G Gauthier and RF Rockwell. 2003. Apparent differences in stochastic growth rates based on timing of census: a cautionary note. Ecological Modeling 159:133-143.
  
• Jefferies, RL and RF Rockwell. 2002. Foraging geese, vegetation loss and soil degradation in an Arctic salt marsh. Applied Vegetation Science 5:7-16.
  
• Cooch, EG, RF Rockwell and S Brault. 2001. Retrospective analysis of demographic responses to environmental change: a lesser snow goose example. Ecological Monographs 71:377-400.