Carolyn Coyle
Wildlife Ecologist
Welcome! My name is Carolyn Coyle, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, housed in the Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Department at Colorado State University.
My research centers on plant-animal interactions, with a special focus on songbirds as potential pollinators. With interests that span conservation biology, ornithology, and pollination ecology, I have developed a deep passion for understanding how birds contribute to ecosystem health, and a curiosity on how this may shift across urban gradients.
As a dedicated conservation biologist and advocate for mental health in academia, I seek to blend rigorous science with community engagement, ensuring that my research has both local and global impact. Currently, I am seeking postdoctoral opportunities where I can apply my expertise in plant-animal interactions, bird ecology, wildlife conservation, and participatory science. I also use survey and interview methods, ecological modeling, and spatial ecology tools in my work, and seek to strengthen my quantitative and qualitative skills as a postdoctoral fellow.
News:
4/2025 The Center for Collaborative Conservation has selected our project, “Nature in the City: Evaluating social and ecological outcomes of community-driven urban restoration projects in Fort Collins” for a CCC Fellowship. Carolyn is thrilled to be a part of the CCC Fellows Cohort 15! Read more about the project and other Fellow’s work, here.
2/2025 We are incredibly honored to have been awarded an NSF DEB Award for my dissertation work on songbird potential pollination. Read the award abstract here.
5/2024 Great news! The Colorado State University Office of the Vice President for Researcher (OVPR) has selected me as a part of the VPR Graduate Fellowship Cohort! Read more about this opportunity here.
5/2024 I am honored to have received a Wilson Ornithological Society Student Research Grant! Thank you to WOS for supporting my research endeavors. Read more here.
4/2024 Thank you to the Pasadena Audubon Society for awarding my dissertation research a student research grant! Read more here.
3/2024 I have received a Bloom-Hays Ecological Research Grant awarded by the Sea and Sage Audubon Society. Thank you for supporting my dissertation work! Read more here.
2/2024 I am honored that my dissertation research (SaP) has been featured in Dr. Jeff Ollerton’s new book: Birds and Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship. Read more here.