Alexa Duchesneau

I am interested in nutritional ecology and how nutrient intake across life history stages interacts with fitness outcomes. I am particularly interested in how climate change impacts nutritional landscapes and how this, in turn, alters nutrient availability and fitness outcomes. My study species is white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus), whom I have studied at the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project in Costa Rica since 2016. I have also collected data for Dr. Joan Silk’s Comparative Analysis of Baboon Sociality Project and enacted endangered species’ management strategies with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. I am the secretary of the non-project organization, The Wild Capuchin Foundation, a Writing Partner at the Yale Writing Center and a former Yale Peabody Museum project coordinator. My scholarship is, in part, funded by the NSF GRFP, NSF DDRG, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and various Yale entities.