Walker’s Personal Site

About me

Hi, my name is Walker Stanton. I’m currently a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan working with Dr. Jacinta Beehner to investigate endocrine flexibility in wild white-faced capuchins living in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. In particular, I look at the glucocorticoid response to social and energetic stressors, focusing on intergroup conflict. I am also interested in reproductive physiology, trade-offs, and life-history theory. I pursue such questions using EIA hormone analysis, behavioral data collection, and the use of longitudinal datasets to understand fitness outcomes.

I do this work with the long-term research project Capuchinos de Taboga where I do field and laboratory work, as well as data cleaning when I’m back in America. In July, I being my year-long field season at the Taboga site. During which I hope to update this site semi-regularly with field-life reflections.

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