Jennifer Long received her B.S. in Environmental Biology and Management from the University of California at Davis. She then traveled the country and the world exploring her passion for avian research, spending three years working as a field researcher, studying avian behavioral ecology throughout North America, Central and South American and the Caribbean. Jennifer then continued her formal education at Southeastern Louisiana University, where she received her M.S. degree in Biology. Jennifer then migrated to the University of Maine, Orono where she received her Ph.D. in Biology in 2007. Jennifer's research interests focus on the hormonal basis of migratory behavior and physiology in songbirds.