Personal information for Brant Faircloth

The microscale work comprises all of what is currently my PhD dissertation, the title of which is: Social and reproductive systems in a non-migratory, avian species bearing precocial young: an integrative study.

I work for two guys (my major professors), John Carroll and Bill Palmer. I carry out most of my work in one of two places: Tall Timbers Research Station and the Gamebird Research Group at the Warnell School of Forest Resources. Our primary lab facility is located within the Warnell School of Forest Resources on the UGA campus.

I would quickly like to thank the folks who have helped make this project a reality. This would include the professors, staff, students and administrators of the Warnell School of Forest Resources, Tall Timbers Research Station, Donors to and members of Tall Timbers Research Station.

If you are interested in my CV, you can find it here.

Here is a very short bio:

I was born in Nashville, TN and shortly emigrated to Chattanooga, TN when I was about 6 months old. I don't remember the name of my pre-school or kindergarten. I spent a very unproductive year in public school where my teacher accused me of being developmentally-challenged because I could not cut with right-handed scissors (I am left-handed). I ended up in a private school for a fun year of 2nd grade, and we packed up the bags and moved to Covington, LA where I attended yet another school. In sixth grade we moved back to Chattanooga, TN, and I went back to the school which I attended prior to leaving for a year. Then, I was lucky enough to have attended the Baylor School in Chattanooga, where I was introduced to the sport of rowing.

Not too long after that, we moved to Savannah, GA where I attended Savannah Country Day School. I graduated and enrolled in Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT in 1995 and really had a great time, overall. I made some great friends, and we had some good times in the snow (and some bad ones - remember the igloo?). I managed to change majors about 100 times moving from classical studies to pre-medicine and biology to english. I eventually ran out of money, worked for a stint in the Trauma Center at Memorial Hospital in Savannah (not a fun place - but interesting work), and transferred to Athens, GA and the Warnell School of Forest Resources. I received my BSFR from the Warnell School of Forest Resources in 2000. In 2001, I began what would eventually evolve into my PhD project, doing coursework in the University of Georgia Graduate School along with 3 years of fieldwork (primarily capture and radio-location of Northern Bobwhite) at Tall Timbers in Tallahassee. Currently, I am in the process of analyzing microsatellite DNA extracted from samples collected in the field. This work is being done in the Warnell School's Wildlife Genetics Lab.