Education
B.A., Clinical Psychology
Humboldt State University
May 1994
B.S., Biology
University of Illinois, Chicago
May 2004
Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution
University of Illinois, Chicago
December 2010
Courses Taught
* Bio 2305 General Biology I
* Bio 2205 General Biology Laboratory I
* Bio/Zoo 4414 Ecology
* Bio/Zoo 3416 Vertebrate Zoology
* ENSC 2400 Environmental Science
Research Interests
*Foraging ecology
*African wildlife biology
*Urban behavioral ecology
Publications
Emerson, S.E., Brown, J.S. and Linden, J. 2011. Identifying Sykes’ monkeys’, Cercopithecus albogularis erythrarchus, axes of fear through patch use. Animal Behaviour, 81:455-462.
Emerson, S.E., Brown, J.S., Whelan, C.J. and Schmidt, K.A. Scale dependent neighborhood effects: shared doom and associational refuge. Oecologia, 81:455-462.
Emerson, S.E. and Brown, J.S. Diet choice among Sykes’ monkeys in the Soutpansberg, South Africa. International Journal of Primatology, 33:1420-1438.
Presentations (recent)
Emerson, Sara, Abu Baker, M.A. and Brown, J.S. 2012. When bunnies go to college: habitat and dietselection of urban cottontail rabbits. Contributed oral talk presented at the American Society of Mammalogists 92nd Annual Meeting 22-26 June 2012, Reno, NV, USA.
Emerson, Sara, Brown, J.S. 2011. Resource use by Sykes' monkeys at Lajuma, South Africa. Contributed oral talk presented at the first joint meeting of the International Ethological Conference and the Animal Behavior Society 25-30 July 2011, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Emerson, Sara, Brown, J.S. and McArthur, C. 2010. The interaction of predation risk with food chemistry in Sykes’ monkeys (Cercopithecus albogularis erythrarchus). Contributed oral talk presented at the Ecological Society of America 95th Annual Meeting 1-6 August 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Professional Memberships
*Animal Behavior Society
*Ecological Society of America
*American Society of Mammalogists
