Department of Biological and Allied Health Sciences

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815

E-mail: ccorbin@bloomu.edu

Phone: (570) 389-3134

 

Education

1997-2002      PhD, Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology focus – Ohio University, Athens.

1999              OTS Graduate – Tropical Ecology/Conservation Biology, Tanzania.

1993-1995      MNS, Biology – Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau.

1987-1992      BA, Zoology – University of Montana, Missoula.

 

Degree Research Projects

PhD              Morphological and ecological evolution in Old and New World flycatchers.

MS                The morphological structure of deciduous forest bird communities in southeast Missouri.

BA                Anatomy and function of the buccal cavity in Rana catesbiana.

 

Current Research Interests

1.       Morphological and performance consequences of foraging behavior. 

2.    Insectivore community emergent properties before and after buffering an AMD stream. 

3.    Insectivore nesting performance in AMD vs. non-AMD streams.

4.       Foraging behavior and morphology of the flycatchers in NE Costa Rica.

 

Professional Positions and Appointments

2003- Current    Assistant Professor of Biology, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

2001- 2003        Instructor of Biology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

2001, 2002        Research Biologist, USDA – FFS Ohio Hills study sites.

1997- 2001        Teaching and Research Assistant, Ohio University, Athens.

1996                 Adjunct Faculty, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas.

1996                 Wildlife Research Biologist, Wappapello, Missouri.

1995                 Teaching Assistant, Southeast Missouri State University.

1994                 Assistant Museum Curator, Southeast Missouri State University.

1993                 Wildlife Research Biologist Lower Mississippi River, Missouri.

1992                 Assistant Resource Forester, Missouri Department of Conservation.

 

Teaching Experience

Introductory:     General Biology, Zoology, and Biology for Living.

Taxonomic:       Invertebrate Zoology, Ornithology.

Ecology:            Ecology and Evolution, Animal Ecology, Field Ecology (TA), Community Ecology (TA), Population Ecology (TA), Behavioral Ecology (Summer 2005).

Conservation:    Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Animal Conservation Biology.

Anatomy:          Anatomy and Physiology, Vertebrate Histology, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy.

University:        University Seminar for Freshman Majors in Biology.

 

Awards

2003                 Professional Development Award, Bloomsburg University.

2003                 Special Initiatives Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomsburg University

1999-2002         Research Scholarship, Biological Sciences, Ohio Univ.

1999                 John Cady Fellow, Department of Research and Graduate Studies, Ohio Univ.

1999                 OTS – TBA exchange Scholarship, Tropical Biology Association.

1998                 Teaching Scholarship, Center for Innovation in Technology for Learning, Ohio Univ.

 

Publications

Corbin, C. E. and D. B. Miles.  In Review. Evolution of body size and morphological shape in elaenia and tody-tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae).   Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society.

Corbin, C. E.  In Review. Ecomorphology and concordance in American and African flycatcher communities. Journal of Avian Biology.

McBrayer, L. M. and Corbin, C. E. In Press.  Feeding function in lizards: Morphological and performance consequences of foraging mode.  In Reilly S. M., McBrayer, L. M. and Miles D. B.  Patterns and Paradigms in Lizard Foraging Ecology.  Cambridge University Press.

Corbin, C. E. and N. J. Cordeiro. 2006.  Gliding characteristics in Lord Derby’s anomalure (Anomalurus derbianus) in Tanzania. African Journal of  Ecology. 44:106-109.

Corbin, C. E.  2005.  Life history traits of Neotropical flycatchers: testing correlated evolution with independent contrasts.  Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences. 78:57-63.

Corbin, C. E. and J. M. Kirika. 2002. Foraging behavior of brown-hooded kingfishers (Halcyon albiventris) in the East Usambaras Mountains, Tanzania.  African Zoology 37:47-54.

Kirika, J. M. and Corbin, C. E. 1999.  Foraging strategies and success rates in a sit-and-wait foraging kingfisher.  Project Report of the Tropical Biological Association 99/2.

Corbin, C. E. 1999. Review of, “A field guide to the birds of the Gambia and Senegal”.  By Barlow, C. and Wacher, T.  1998. Yale University Press.  Quarterly Review of Biology 74:236.

Corbin, C. E. 1995.  Occurrence of Coluber constrictor in Cape Girardeau County, MO.  MO Herpetological  Association.  8:6.

Miles, D. B., Corbin, C. E. and D. L. Pearson. MS. The correlation between morphology and foraging ecology of migratory passerines in temperate and tropical environments.

 

 

In Prep:

Corbin, C. E., Malitsky, M. E. and M. L. Reiner. Morphology predicts foraging behavior in a guild of Costa Rican flycatchers.

Corbin, C. E. Attack rates, morphology and phylogeny in sit-and-wait passerine birds.

Corbin, C. E., Miles, D. B. and N. Ernst.  Morphological evolution in the Empidonax assemblage of flycatchers.

 

 

 Abstracts:

Miles, D. B., Corbin, C. E., and D. L. Pearson.  1998.  The ecomorphology and foraging regime of three lowland tropical forest passerine communities.  Ostrich 69:298-299.

Corbin, C. E. and D. B. Miles 2001.  Comparative morphological disparity in tyrant flycatcher lineages.  Journal of Morphology.  248 (3): 219.

 

Presentations:

Corbin, C. E. and Miles, D. B. 2006 (forthcoming). Morphology and foraging ecology of New World passerines:  the effect of migration distance on megapopulation coupling.  Symposium on Bird Migration at the 2006 Meetings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences.

Ernst, C. E. and C. E. Corbin. 2006 (forthcoming). Nesting Performance of insectivorous birds and AMD along tributaries of the Susquehanna River. 2006 Meetings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences.

Rogers, S. A., Corbin, C. E. and G. T. Wassmer. 2006. Prevalence of nest ectoparasites is independent of group size and nest density in barn swallows (Hirundo rustica).  2006 Meetings of the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology.

Corbin, C. E., Miles, D. B. and N. Ernst.  2006. Age of evolutionary origin or ecological diversity: which better explains the morphological disparity of New World flycatcher clades? 2006 Meetings of the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology.

Ernst, N. and C. E. Corbin. 2005. Nesting Performance of insectivorous birds and AMD along tributaries of the Susquehanna River. COST Fall undergraduate research day, Bloomsburg University.

Bucher, A. and C.E. Corbin. 2005.  Gait kinematics in running and swimming mallard breeds.  COST Spring undergraduate research day, Bloomsburg University.

Corbin, C. E., Malitsky, M. E. and M. L. Reiner. 2005.  Morphology predicts foraging behavior in a guild of Costa Rican flycatchers. 2005 Meetings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences.

Corbin, C. E. 2005. Attack rates, morphology and phylogeny in sit-and-wait passerine birds. 2005 Meetings of the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology.

Corbin, C. E. Foraging niche complementarity in three African sit-and-wait passerine birds.  2004 meetings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences.

Corbin, C. E. Behavioral and morphological concordance in North American and southern African flycatcher communities. 2004 Meetings of the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology.

McBrayer, L. M. and Corbin, C. E.  Feeding function in lizards: Morphological and performance consequences of foraging mode. 2003 Meetings of the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology.

Miles, D. B., Corbin, C. E. and D. L. Pearson. 2002 Between two worlds: the correlation between morphology and foraging ecology of migratory passerines in temperate and tropical environments. Invited presentation, Smithsonian Institution - Birds of Two Worlds Symposium.

Corbin, C. E. and J. M. Kirika, 1999.  Opportunistic foraging in Brown-hooded kingfishers in the East Usambara Mountains.  Midwest Ecology & Evolution Conference.

Corbin, C. E., and S. M. Reilly.  1998. Kinematics, speed, and ecological implications of running locomotion in quail (Coturnix japonica).  NA Ornithological Congress.

Miles, D. B., Corbin, C. E., and D. L., Pearson.  1997.  An ecomorphological analysis of three old world tropical passerine communities. American Ornithologist's Union.

Corbin, C. E. 1995.  The morphological structure of deciduous forest bird communities in southeast Missouri: a test of the competition hypothesis.  American Ornithologist's Union.

 

 

Professional Development / Service / Student Research

 

Consulting

2004 - 2005       Consultant for Praxis Biology, standardized testing – General Biology.

2004                 Consultant for Excelsior College, standardized testing – Anatomy and Physiology.

 

Extracurricular Service

2004                Chairman, Population / Community Ecology contributed papers session, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), 2004 Annual meetings.

 

University Committees

2004-6              Candidate – Honorary Degrees

2004                 Strategic Planning Committee:

                        Retaining Historically Under-Represented Individuals

Student Recruitment and Retention

2004                 University Safety Committee

 

Faculty/Departmental Committees

2003-05           Graduate faculty 2 yrs

                       Faculty evaluation 2 yrs

                       Planning 1 yr

                       Curriculum 1 yr

                       Marine Science Consortium 1 yr

                       New faculty search and screen 1 yr

                       Building renovation 1 yr

                       

Graduate/Undergraduate Research Advisory

2004                 Graduate*, undergraduate researchers and undergraduate interns:

                                                           

Professional Development / Community Service

 

Community service

2005                 Judge, Junior Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences presentations, Selinsgrove, PA.

2004                 Invited Speaker – Westminster College, Fulton, MO.

2003-2004         Ornithological consultant to the Knobel’s Grove Eagle Group.                 

2003                 Invited speaker – Lung tissue demonstration for American Teacher’s Association - middle school Science B.

2003                 Invited speaker – Biology Club at Bloomsburg University.

2002-2003         Judge and Super Judge, Ohio Regional Science Fair.

2002                 Team leader, USDA – Fire, Fire Surrogate Study, Hocking Hills regional sites.

1995                 Judge, Junior Missouri Academy of Sciences presentations, Cape Girardeau, MO.

1994-1995         Biology tutor, Southeast Missouri State University.

 

Information resources:

1999                 Teaching Fellowship, Center for Innovation in Technology for Learning Research Fellowship. Developed a web-based learning environment for Ornithology students.

1994                 Resource Librarian for Biology Students Southeast Missouri State University.

1994                 Assistant museum curator for Southeast Missouri Regional Vertebrate Museum.

1992                 Assistant resource forester, Missouri Conservation Department.  Public education / information specialist associated with Forests for the Future exhibit in Missouri.

 

Field biology / Museum work / Developmental Workshops:

2005                 Participant, Bioinformatics workshop at Houck Institute of Pennsylvania State University

2004                 Participant, Molecular biology workshop at Houck Institute of Pennsylvania State University

2004                 Participant, Powdermill Nature Reserve Bird Banding Development Workshop

2004                 Exploratory survey of the Birds of El Zota Biological Station, Costa Rica

2002                 Field Technician, Ohio University collecting expedition, Behavioral Ecology of the montane Xiphophorous fishes of Mexico.

2002                 Participant, Audubon Important Bird Area workshop, Clear Creek, Ohio.

2001-2002         Wildlife Biologist USDA/FFS study.  Effects of forest thinning and burning on small mammal populations, bird nesting and emergent properties of bird communities in Hocking Hills region of Ohio.

1998-2000         Supervised field teams during thesis and dissertation research.

1998-2001         Dissertation research on the habitat preferences and foraging behavior of Old and New World flycatchers.

1994-1995         Field technician, faunal inventory of Southeastern deciduous forests.  Inventories of birds, herps and small mammals.

1994-1995         Thesis research on species richness and diversity of forest interior birds.

1993                 Field technician, Missouri Department of Conservation / University of Missouri.  River fish sampling and identification on the lower Mississippi River.

1993                 Field technician. Missouri Department of Conservation / University of Missouri.  Behavioral Ecology of interior least terns on lower Mississippi River.

1992                 Assistant resource forester, Missouri Department of Conservation.  Forest conservation / management.

 

Professional Membership

 

Ecological Society of America

American Ornithologists’ Union

Association Field Ornithologists

Audubon Society (OH, PA)

Society for the Study of Evolution

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Zoological Society of Southern Africa

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Biologists

 

Journal Peer Reviewer

 

Journal of Herpetology

The Auk

Cambridge University Press book on Lizard Foraging

Journal of Tropical Ecology

 

References