Current Professional Experience

Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist
      Services for Pet Owners: Behavior Consulting
      Services for Shelters: Behavior Evaluations
      Services for Professionals: Legal Consulting

Associate Adjunct Professor - Farmingdale State College
      Courses: Introduction to Psychology and Child Development

Professional Experience

Adjunct Professor - New York Institute of Technology
      Course: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Residency - American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
      Behavior modification of shelter animals;Behavior consultations with
      companion animal owners; Dog training; Director of Volunteer Behavior
      Helpline; Principal Researcher in animal feeder study; Assistant Researcher
      in DAP study

SAS Biostatistics Laboratory Instructor - City College Biology Department

Graduate Instructor/Assistant - Hunter College Psychology Department
      Introduction to Psychology
      Experimental Psychology

TV Appearances

WCBS TV - Canine Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome
NY1 - Shelter Cat Adoption Series

Academic Preparation

Graduate Center of the City University of New York
      Ph.D. in Psychology, Biopsychology/Animal Behavior Subprogram

Dissertation Title: The Foraging Behavior of Lesser Snow and Ross’s Geese on La Pérouse Bay

Hunter College, of the City University of New York, M.A. in Psychology

Queens College, of the City University of New York, B.A. in Spanish 

University of Quebec, Trois-Rivieres, Intensive Summer French Program

Research Experience

Biopsychology Program/American Museum of Natural History
      Analysis on goose foraging behavior
      Teratology project on Lesser Snow Geese

Biopsychology Program/American Museum of Natural History
      Analysis of sexual dimorphisms in the anal fin of the electric fish, G. petersi.

Guest Lecturer & Presentations

9th Interdisciplinary Forum for Applied Animal Behavior (IFAAB)
      Arousal Conditioned to People Leaving

ASPCA Feral Cat Socialization Seminar

Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine Seminar on Shelter Animal Evaluations

8th Interdisciplinary Forum for Applied Animal Behavior (IFAAB)
      Conditioned Reduced Barking in Shelter Dogs

10th North American Arctic Goose Conference
      Differences in brood size and condition of gosling Lesser Snow and
      Ross’s geese at La Pérouse Bay

9th North American Arctic Goose Conference
      Abnormal Lesser Snow Geese embryos - A teratological examination

25th Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention
      What Mormyrid electrically discharging fish can tell us about androgen
      effects on structure and behavior

77th Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists
      Anal-fin ray bone expansion in Mormyridae

Peer Reviewed Publications

Pezzanite, B., R.F. Rockwell, J.C. Davies, M.J.J.E. Loonen, and R.J. Seguin.  2005.  Has habitat degradation affected foraging behaviour and reproductive success of lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens)?  Ecoscience 12 (4): 439-446.

Rockwell, R.F., B.M. Pezzanite, and P. Matulonis.  2003.  Developmental abnormalities    in wild populations of birds: examples in lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens).  American Museum of Natural History Novitates 3400: 1-14.

Pezzanite, B., and P. Moller.  1998.  A sexually dimorphic basal anal-fin ray expansion in the weakly discharging electric fish Gnathonemus petersii.  Journal of Fish Biology 53: 638-644.

Publications

All I Want for Christmas is a Good Night's Sleep - Petfinder.com
Cats Are Meticulous By Nature - Petfinder.com
Oreo's Long Story-O - ASPCA Animal Watch Fall/Winter 2004

Professional Memberships

Animal Behavior Society
Interdisciplinary Forum on Applied Animal Behavior
American Psychological Association
American Museum of Natural History