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Brian Weeks

Brain Weeks
Assistant Professor
Ecosystem Science and Management
Conservation + Restoration
bcweeks@umich.edu
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Brian Weeks joined SEAS in 2019 as an assistant professor. He is an evolutionary ecologist who studies how bird species and bird communities have responded to environmental change. He is a museum-, field-, and lab-based biologist with interests ranging from the influence of macroevolutionary processes on the vulnerability of communities in the Solomon Islands to morphological changes over the past 40 years in North American birds. Brian got his PhD in 2017 at Columbia University, where he was also affiliated with the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History.

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PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
MA and M.Phil, Columbia University
Affiliated PhD student, American Museum of Natural History in the Department of Ornithology
BA, Brown University

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Faculty Accolades

Faculty Accolades

Professor Paul Mohai was appointed senior policy adviser at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He joined the Office of Environmental Justice as an expert on...

SEAS Assistant Professor Brian Weeks Receives Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
October 18, 2022

SEAS Assistant Professor Brian Weeks receives Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

(Los Altos, CA)—The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today the 2022 class of Packard Fellows in Science and Engineering. This year’s class features 20...

Brain Weeks
April 19, 2022

Ecological Society of America announces 2022 award recipients

Contact: Heidi Swanson The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2022 awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to ecology in...

birds
February 24, 2022

Body measurements for all 11,000 bird species released in open-access database

Brian Weeks, assistant professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, is one of the researchers who contributed to the AVONET database and one of the...

birds natural history museum specimen
February 24, 2022

Higher levels of biodiversity appear to reduce extinction risk in birds

A new University of Michigan study has found that higher levels of biodiversity— the enormous variety of life on Earth and the species, traits, and evolutionary history...

Why it matters that climate change is shrinking birds
July 12, 2021

Why it matters that climate change is shrinking birds

This article first appeared in The Hill and is reposted with permission. Many of the benefits that humanity derives from the natural world, like the provisioning of...

Drawer of birds
June 21, 2021

Untangling the multiple impacts of climate warming on birds

ANN ARBOR—When a University of Michigan-led research team reported last year that North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades and...

December 1, 2019

Migratory birds shrinking as climate warms, new analysis of four-decade record shows

UPDATE: The following study, which analyzed the effects of global warming on migratory birds, achieved the highest Altmetric Attention Score in the history of the journal...

In the Media
02/07/2022
Brian Weeks
Many Birds Are Shrinking and Growing Longer Wings as the World Warms. Why? (Audubon)
11/12/2021
Brian Weeks
Birds in the Amazon have been shrinking. Here's why scientists think it's happening (NPR)
08/12/2021
Brian Weeks
Why some animals are shrinking (Vox YouTube channel)
07/06/2021
Brian Weeks
Animals are shrinking. Blame climate change. (Vox)
06/21/2021
Brian Weeks
U of M researchers find changes in birds' physical forms and migration not connected (Michigan Radio)
12/01/2019
Brian Weeks
Climate change is causing birds to shrink, new study says
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