Mario Pesendorfer is a postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He currently lives and works on the Hastings Natural History Reserve near Monterey, California, where he studies reproductive strategies and seed dispersal dynamics of oaks. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014. His dissertation studied the role of scatter-hoarding by island scrub-jays as seed dispersal for oaks. In collaboration with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, where he was a fellow from 2012-2014, The Nature Conservancy, and the United States National Park Service, he is also conducting a long-term study on oak ecosystem dynamics and conservation in Channel Islands National Park.

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