Graduate Students

Research focuses on investigating the interactions between invasive feral swine and disease vectors, as well as the impact of their ecological synergism on ecosystems, human helth, and human activities. Broader research interests include entomology, vector and invasive species ecology, traditional ecology, wildlife biology, conservation biology, and environmental science

Research focuses on molecular origins of life-history variation across biological scales, particularly via epigenetic modifications, as mediated by environmental and genetic factors.

Research focuses on the movement and spatial ecology of large carnivores, with an emphasis on predator-prey dynamics, carnivore community interactions, and wildlife conservation in working and natural landscapes

Investigating how heavy metals and pathogens impact humans and wildlife within urban habitats that vary in socioeconomic status

Research focuses on understanding infectious disease dynamics in wild mammal populations. He uses spatial ecology, GIS, and machine learning approaches to investigate how environmental and landscape factors influence pathogen dynamics in wildlife.

Research focuses on freshwater ecosystem ecology and conservation, including the role of freshwater turtles in ecosystem function, the impacts of human activity on aquatic habitats, and the intersection of ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation education, and computational biology

Research interests include disease ecology, epidemiology, vector-borne diseases, and wildlife health. Her current work focuses on identifying mosquito and Culicoides midge vector species reproducing in wild pig wallows. Additionally, she screens for microbial infectious agents from wild pigs (Sus scrofa) and their wallows to clarify the roles each have in pathogen transmission pathways.

Interested in how physiological processes and environmental variability regulate water and carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems, with a current focus on improving the accuracy of sap flow measurement techniques to quantify tree transpiration

Interested in the influence of land management practices on terrestrial and aquatic microbial structures and nutrient processing

Interested in the application of quantitative modeling in ecotoxicology and environmental health to support ecological risk assessment of PFAS exposure in humans and wildlife. Research integrates Bayesian networks and Monte Carlo simulations to characterize risk under uncertainty

Research focuses on vegetation dynamics following prescribed fire, including patterns of foliar damage, plant response, and ecosystem recovery after disturbance

Broadly interested in the effects of urbanization on wildlife, African carnivore ecology, and human-wildlife coexistence

Research focuses on the conservation practices in the Korean Demilitarized Zone and Civilian Control Zone with a concentration on the human-wildlife interactions in crane feeding practices and their social-ecological effects on the Korean DMZ

Avian ecology, impacts of urbanization on bird communities, and the use of citizen science and open data in scientific research

Research focuses on how an organism’s environment and epigenome interact to produce different phenotypes, especially those associated with development and aging trajectories; interests include evolution, genomics, ecotoxicology, and integrative approaches to biology

Research focuses on wild pig management and invasive species ecology, with interests in spatial ecology, wildlife management, and the human dimensions of conservation and natural resource management

Interests include behavioral ecology, biodiversity and community ecology of fishes; research focuses on the effects of legacy contaminants on freshwater fish communities

Investigating how heavy metals and pathogens impact humans and wildlife within urban habitats that vary in socioeconomic status

Interests are in spotted hyena movement and behavioral ecology in Northern Botswana with a focus on olfactory deterrents to reduce conflict

Research focuses on wildlife management and applied conservation research, including wild pig removal efforts, population monitoring, GPS collaring studies, and human-wildlife interactions across Southeastern ecosystems

Carnivore ecology, human-wildlife interactions, and spatial ecology; research focuses on the efficacy of aerial removal as a management strategy for wild pigs

Research interests are temperature-dependent sex determination mechanisms and ecological consequences in alligators and PFAS and health in largemouth bass.

Mammalian ecology and wildlife behavior; currently investigating how insects impact the pickup rates of oral rabies vaccines by target meso carnivores

Research focuses on n understanding how habitat management and restoration practices shape herpetofaunal communities, particularly upland snakes. His research examines how variation in management regimes and understory composition influences snake occupancy across historic longleaf pine savannas. Using drift fence and camera trap arrays, he will compare snake communities among sites with differing habitat conditions and management histories. This research addresses a key knowledge gap in longleaf pine restoration by evaluating how understory structure and composition affect the wildlife historically associated with these ecosystems.

Research focuses on anthropogenic contaminants including bioaccumulation, biological effects of contaminants, developing exposure response relationships to identify potential biomarkers of effect, internal distribution, and analytical method development.

Research focuses on aquatic macroinvertebrate sampling methodologies and how different methods change water quality ratings, as well as how to improve current methods at SRS.

Research focuses on the ecological role of mosquitoes in plant–pollinator networks, with an emphasis on how behavioral and physical traits influence floral visitation and olfactory cue response. Work combines behavioral assays, pollen load analysis, and chemical ecology to better understand mosquito-mediated pollination.

Small and meso mammal population ecology, wildlife conservation, and wild mammal immunization initiatives. Current research is focused on small mammal populations and how they have been affected by climate and landscape changes over time on the SRS

Research focuses on transport of cesium-137 and metals in riparian wetlands, and their associations with natural organic matter.

Research focuses on developing synthetic blends of host-derived odors that can be used as attractants to aid in ornithophilic (``bird-loving``) mosquito trapping and surveillance

Interested in the role of mycorrhizal fungi in agroecology. Research focuses on how farming practices affect the relationships that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi make with their plant hosts and microbial neighbors

Research focuses on finding potential sorbents of inorganic contaminants and radionuclides in water

Considers the use of passive sampling devices as a surrogate for monitoring bioaccumulation of PFAS in aquatic biota, as well as the exposure pathways, concentrations, and distribution of PFAS in biotic and abiotic media. More broadly, interests include ecotoxicology, community ecology and ecological conservation

Research interests include inorganic and radionuclide contaminant geochemical interactions in soil and groundwater; it will look into adsorption and fate of radionuclide contaminants in permeable reactive barriers.

Research focuses on longleaf pine carbon storage and how disturbance impacts carbon dynamics across different life history stages, with broader interests in forest ecology, restoration ecology, and fire ecology

Research focuses on the behavioral ecology of head started gopher frogs. He is investigating key elements of gopher frog behavior like boldness, personality and choice. The research aims to learn more about the behavior of gopher frogs to better understand the best land management and release practices for repatriation.