Scott Taylor
Scott Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Director of the CU Boulder Mountain Research Station. Scott’s research is focused on using natural avian hybrid zones and recent avian radiations to understand the genetic bases of traits involved in reproductive isolation, population divergence, and speciation, and the impacts of anthropogenic change, including climate change, on species distributions, interactions, and evolution. He studies chickadees, redpolls, house wrens, rosy finches, and other bird species. Scott grew up in Inverhuron, ON, attended the University of Guelph as an undergraduate, did his PhD at Queen’s University, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. As an undergraduate student Scott worked as a naturalist at Macgregor Point Provincial Park and Rondeau Provincial Park across 5 years, eventually acting as the Head Naturalist at Rondeau Provincial Park for one year.