Graduate students

Lindsey Dewey

Lindsey graduated from Murray State University in 2020 with a B.S. in Biology. She has worked for the Montana Conservation Corps and AmeriCorps. She is a coauthor with Dr. Lucas Kirschman on a manuscript on the investigation of physiological trade-offs between reproductive effort and cellular immune responses in female wolf spiders, which was published in Physiological Entomology.

Lindsey is currently investigating the effects of beaver recolonization on aquatic insect communities in high desert streams. 

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Elizabeth Yohe

Originally from southern Illinois, Elizabeth graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2017 with a B.S. in Zoology, focusing on wildlife ecology. After graduating she began working for Missouri Department of Conservation as Assistant Natural History Biologist in the Southeast region.

Elizabeth is currently studying a fringe population of Eastern tiger salamanders in the sand prairie of Scott County, Missouri. Upon graduation, she hopes to continue in an ecologically-driven career field. 

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

I am looking for undergraduate students interested in participating in research activities. Email me for more information.

Amber Garris

Amber is an Organismal, Ecological, and Evolutionary Biology major who plans to attend graduate school. She is assisting on a project investigating the importance of terrestrial insect subsidies to temporary pond food webs.

Logan oleson

Logan is an Organismal, Ecological, and Evolutionary Biology major who plans to attend graduate school. She is assisting on a project investigating the importance of terrestrial insect subsidies to temporary pond food webs.