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Alison Styring
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Alison Styring (born Robinson, 1972) is an American ornithologist. She is currently an associate professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Styring's work mainly deals with the birds of Malaysia and Indonesia. Leben Styring was born in 1972.<ref name="richthofen2011" /> She studied biology at the Indiana University Bloomington. During a year abroad in Australia in 1993, she decided to take up a career as ornithologist. She applied for the PhD program at Louisiana State University and received her degree working on the effect of deforestation on woodpeckers in Southeast Asia.<ref name="lsu2006" /> Later she worked for Disney's Animal Kingdom, supervising a program for monitoring the native fauna of Florida. Since 2005 she is teaching at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Currently, Styring is holding the position of an associate professor.<ref name="uow2005-10" /> Work Styring's research concentrates on Southeast Asian birds, with particular emphasis on woodpeckers and hornbills.<ref name="styring2011" /> During 2011 she plans to perform major field studies in the Tawau Hills Park in Borneo for the purpose of recording bird and other animal sounds as yet not recorded. She received media attention in the US and Germany by putting her project on the crowdsourcing site kickstarter.com, where she hopes to collect the $20,000 required for her plans. Styring said no conventional institution or foundation had been willing to fund her work so she had to appeal to a web audience in order to gather financial support.<ref name="richthofen2011" /><ref name="lin2011" /> Bibliography * Thomas Lin: Turn to Crowds on the Web to Finance Their Projects. In New York Times, 12 July 2011, p. D3. (Online) * Dietrich von Richthofen: In ' (36), 1 September 2011. (Online) * University of Wollongong: US Biologist Found Career Direction During Study Aboard. In Campus News 8 (4), December 2005, p. 10. ([http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@media/documents/doc/uow024412.pdf PDF]) 
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