People

Graduate students

I am currently searching for a Masters Student to investigate the impact of essential fatty acids subsidies from aquatic habitat on upper trophic levels of terrestrial food webs. This project will focus on the impacts of essential fatty acids on immune function of upper-level consumers. This position will be supported by a teaching assistantship and will have a tuition waiver. Summer funding is also likely.

Dylan Horton

I graduated from Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, AR in 2017. The following three years, I assisted graduate students with research on Least Terns on the Arkansas River, Ring-necked Pheasant in Kansas and Greater Sage Grouse in California. I joined the Ducks Unlimited team in November of 2019-present. I currently work out of the USDA Service Center in Jackson, MO where I assist NRCS with implementation of the ACEP Wetland Reserve Easement program on private lands. One of my favorite things to do on the weekends is play the piano at gigs with the classic rock band, Project 573! I’m excited about the opportunity to learn more and meet new people.

Dylan is currently studying the effects of timing of inundation and hydroperiod on aquatic insect and amphibian emergence from temporary ponds.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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

adian decker

Adian is a Wildlife and Conservation Biology major. He is currently investigating how beaver activity influences aquatic-terrestrial food web connectivity.

past Graduate students

Lindsey Dewey

Lindsey is currently a PhD student at the University of Dayton, OH.

Lindsey investigated the effects of beaver recolonization on aquatic insect communities in high desert streams. Her manuscript is currently in review.

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.

Elizabeth Yohe

Elizabeth is currently a Community Health Index Coordinator with the University of Missouri.

Elizabeth studied the population demographics of Eastern tiger salamanders in the sand prairie of Scott County, Missouri.

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.

Past Undergraduate lab members

Amber Garris

Amber is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a B.S. in Organismal, Ecological, and Evolutionary Biology. She assisted on a project investigating the importance of terrestrial insect subsidies to temporary pond food webs.

Logan oleson

Logan is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a B.S. in Organismal, Ecological, and Evolutionary Biology. She assisted on a project investigating the importance of terrestrial insect subsidies to temporary pond food webs.