About me

I'm Kelly, a Phd student in the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at the University of California Davis, in the McCowan Animal Behavior Laboratory for Welfare & Conservation.  This summer I am participating in the EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institutes) program in Japan, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, where I am working with Dr. Andrew MacIntosh at CICASP in the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. My research interests lie at the intersection of animal behavior and complexity science, studying animal behavior as a complex adaptive system. Specifically, I am interested in fractal patterns in behavior and social networks, and this summer I will be studying the relationship between health, behavioral complexity, and social networks in the Japanese macaques of Koshima Island in southern Japan.