Degrees:
B.S., Pomona College, 1969
M.Sc, University of Texas, Austin, 1972
PhD., University of Washington, Seattle, 1982

Piersma, T. and Ramenofsky, M. (1998) Long-term decreases of corticosterone in captive migrant shorebirds that maintain seasonal mass and moult cycles. J Avian Biology 29:97-104.

Wingfield, J.C., Maney, D.L., Bruener, C.W., Jacobs, J.D., Lynn, S., Ramenofsky, M., and Richardson, R.D. (1998) Ecological bases of hormone-behavior interactions; the “emergency life history stage”. Amer. Zool. 38:191-206.

Wingfield, J.C., and Ramenofsky, M. (1999) Hormones and behavioral ecology of stress. In “Stress Phyisology” (P. Balm, ed.), Sheffield University Press, Sheffield, U.K.pp 1-51.

Wingfield, J.C., Jacobs, J.D., Soma, K., Maney, D.L., Hunt, K., Wisti-Peterson., D., Meddle, S., Ramenofsky, M., and Sullivan, K. (1999) Testosterone, aggression, and communication: ecological bases of endocrine phenomena. In “The biology of communication” (M. Konishi and M. Hauser, eds.) M.I.T. Press, Cambridge.

Ramenofsky, M., Savard, R., and Greenwood, M.R.C. (1999) Seasonal and diel transitions in physiology and behavior in the migratory dark-eyed junco. Comp Biochem Physiol A 122:385-397.

Meddle SL, Foidart A, Wingfield JC, Ramenofsky,and M, Balthazart (1999) Effects of sexual interactions with a male on fos-like immunoreactivity in the female quail brain. J Neuroendocrinol 11(10):771-84

Piersma, T., Reneerkens, J., and Ramenofsky, M. (2000) Basal corticosterone peaks in shorebirds with maximal energy stores for migration: a general preparatory mechanism for rapid behavioral and metabolic transitions? Gen Comp Endocrinol. Gen Comp Endocrinol 120:118-126

Hiebert, S.M., Ramenofsky, M., Salvante, K, Wingfield, J.C., and Gass, C.L. (2000) Noninvasive methods for measuring and manipulating corticosterone in hummingbirds, Gen Comp Endocrinol, 120:235-247

Hiebert, S.M.,Salvante, K., Ramenofsky, M., and Wingfield, J.C. (2000) Corticosterone and nocturnal torpor in the rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus), Gen Comp Endocrinol, 120:220-234.

Reneerkens, J., Morrison, R.I., Ramenofsky, M., Piersma, T., Wingfield, J.C. (2002) Baseline and stress-induced levels of corticosterone after a long migratory flight, preparation for breeding and during incubation of a high arctic breeding shorebird (Red Knot, Calidris canutus). Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 75(2):200-208.

Landys, M.M., Ramenofsky, M., Piersma, T., Jukema, J., Castricum Ringing Group, Wingfield, J.C. (2002) Baseline and stress-induced plasma corticosterone during long-distance migration in the bar-tailed godwit, Limos lapponica. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 75(1):101-110,

Reneerkens, J., Ramenofsky, M., Piersma, T. (2002) An experimental test of the relationship between temporal variablity of feeding opportunities and baseline levels of corticosterone in a shorebird. J. Exp. Zool. 293:81-88.

Ramenofsky, M., R. Agatsuma, M. Barga, R. Cameron, J. Harm, M. Landys, T. Ramfar (2003) Migratory behavior: new insights from captive studies. In Berhold P, Gwinner, E, Sonnenschein, E (eds), Avian Migration, Springer, Berlin, pp 97-112

Landys, M.M., T. Piersma, M. Ramenofsky, and J.C. Wingfield. (2004) The low-affinity glucocorticoid receptor regulates behavior and energy metabolism in the migratory red knot Calidris canutus islandica. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 77(4):658-668

Landys, M.M., M. Ramenofsky, and J.C. Wingfield. (2004) The low-affinity glucocorticoid receptor regulates feeding and lipid breakdown in the migratory white-crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207:143-154.

Landys, M.M., J.C. Wingfield, and M. Ramenofsky (2004) Plasma corticosterone increases during migratory restlessness in the captive white-crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii, Hormones and Behavior 46:574-581

Landys, M.M., Piersma, T., Guglielmo, C.G., Jukema, J., M. Ramenofsky, and J.C. Wingfield, (2005) Metabolic profile of long-distance migratory flight and stopover in a shorebird. Proc. Royal Society, 272:295-302

Ramenofsky, M. and Wingfield, J.C. (2006). Physiological conflicts in migrants: the transition between migration and breeding, J of Ornithology, 147:135-145.

Landys, M.M. Ramenofsky, M., Wingfield, J.C. (2006) Actions of glucocorticoids at a seasonal baseline as comparaed to stress-related levels in the regulation of periodic life processes. Gen Comp Endocrinol 148:132-149

Agatsuma, R. Ramenofsky M. (2006) The migratory behaviour of captive White-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii differs during autumn and fall migration. Behaviour, 143(10):1219-1240.

Ramenofsky, M. and Wingfield, J.C. (2007) Regulation of Migration. Bioscience, 57(2):135-143.

Bonier, F, Martin, PR, Jensen, JP, Butler, LK, Ramenofsky, M, and Wingfield, JC.(2007) Pre-migratory life history stages of juvenile arctic birds: cost, constraints and tradeoffs. Ecology 88:2729-2735.

Thorup, Kasper, Bisson, Isabelle-A., Bowlin, Melissa S., Holland, Richard A., Wingfield, John C., Ramenofsky, Marilyn, and Wikelski, Martin. (2007) Evidence for a navigation map stretching across continental U.S. in a migratory songbird. PNAS 104:18115-18119.

Lynn, Sharon, E., Egar, Joseph M., Walker, Brian G., Sperry, Todd S., and Ramenofsky, Marilyn. Fish on Prozac®: A simple, non-invasive physiology lab investigating the mechanisms of aggressive behavior in Betta splendens. Advances in physiology education (in press)

Coverdill, A.J., Bentley, G.E., and Ramenofsky, M. Circadian and masking control of migratory restlessness in Gambel's white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) Journal Biological Rhythms (in press).