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My name is Emily (Em) Donahue, and I am currently a PhD Candidate at Arkansas State University. My dissertation work investigates the impacts of agricultural toxin exposure on wildlife. Loggerhead Shrikes in agricultural areas of NE Arkansas are my current study system. Aside from impacts of toxins, I am also monitoring their long-term survival, site fidelity, and reproductive success. I am interested in combining both field and lab work to understand mechanistic workings at the cellular level and use that make inferences about individual- and population-level health and behavior.

Dissertation: Exploring Breeding Ecology and Potential Physiological Effects of Pesticide Exposure in Agricultural Loggerhead Shrikes.


Ph.D in Molecular Biosciences
Current Program
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
Co-advisors: Dr. Than Boves
and Dr. Lorin Neuman-Lee

View my C.V. to learn more about my qualifications.

I look forward to future opportunities to collaborate and learn with people!

You can contact me by email if you have any questions or would like to have me on your team.

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”  ~John Muir

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Morning full of chatty thrashers and vir
Cruella was the feistiest of the shrikes
Sandhill Crane foraging in the singed co
Lucky to get a view of this beauty in th
Some of the warblers (and a lucky Grassh
Yellow rumps everywhere! #yellowrumpedwa
One of the squeakiest of nuthatches! #br
Ornithology lab got some great looks at
I did not have much of a #globalbigday b
A pair of scissortail-tailed flycatchers
This shrike hung around after her releas
From my summer travels, this ibis stood
An amazing morning at the banding statio
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The Anhinga_ half-bird, half-fish #anhin
This great creasted flycatcher stopped t
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We caught the first loggerhead shrike of
After the day’s many trials and tribulat
Mature White-eyed Vireo!
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Tofurky is a feisty older male!
Nice molt limit in young Misty
Western Bluebird nestlings
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Summited Mt
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Broad-tailed Hummingbird
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