Allison Shultz to be the Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

July 4, 2018
Allison Shultz
Allison holding a Long-tailed Rosefinch during a MCZ collecting trip to eastern Mongolia in the summer of 2012.
Allison Shultz, former MCZ graduate student, will be the new Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles starting in September 2018. The collection has over 121,000 bird specimens from over 5,400 species, and specializes in North America, Africa, South America, and the Pacific Ocean. Allison studied avian population genetics and evolution in Scott Edward's lab and received her PhD in 2017.  
See also: Ornithology