Staff and Student Directory

Faculty - on site
Non-Faculty Scientists - on site
Affiliated Faculty- on Rose Hill Campus
Support Staff
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
High School Students

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Faculty – On site
John D. Wehr, Professor & Director - Aquatic Ecology
Thomas J. Daniels, Associate Research Scientist - Vector Ecology
Richard C. Falco, Associate Research Scientist - Medical Entomology
Craig L. Frank, Associate Professor - Mammalian Ecology
J. Alan Clark, Assistant Professor - Avian Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, and Conservation Biology
Steven Franks, Assistant Professor - Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Natural Plant Populations
James D. Lewis, Assistant Professor - Plant Ecology
Amy R. Tuininga, Assistant Professor - Fungal Ecology

Non-faculty Scientists – On site
Alissa Perrone, Assistant Director
Kam Truhn, Research Technician (Wehr lab)

Affiliated Faculty – On Rose Hill campus
Martin Hegyi, S.J., Associate Professor - Freshwater zooplankton
Daniel J. Sullivan, S.J., Professor - Insect behavior and ecology

Support Staff
Mike G. Lambros, Caretaker
Petra E. Del Valle, Administrative Assistant / Business Manager

Graduate Students
Jason Aloisio - Rooftop Ecology (Lewis, Tuininga)
Rachel Bricklin - Quantifying the effects of light and noise pollution on birds migrating through an urban-rural 
                               corridor (Clark)
Huansheng Cao - Adaptive and non-adaptive evolution of experimental bacterial populations (Plague)
                              - Awards: Burroughs Wellcome Travel Scholorship; Kathleen O'Connell Tamburro, M.D. and Carlo 
                                 H. Tamburro Memorial Scholorship
Anthony Caragiulo - Elucidating cougar (Puma concolor) population genetics across their geographic range using
                                      DNA extracted from scat samples (Clark; American Museum of Natural History)
                                    - Awards: Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
Andrea Caruso - Physiological ecology of Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) (Lewis)
Matt Cashman - Effects of urbanization on stream periphyton(Wehr)
Jillian K. Decker - Links between potamoplankton assemblages and nutrient dynamics in the Upper Mississippi 
                                 River, near La Crosse, WI (Wehr)
Evelyn Fetridge - Effects of intragenomic homologous recombination on fitness and evolution in intracellular 
                                 bacteria (Plague); Landscape correlates of native bee diversity in suburban gardens 
                                (Langellotto)
Seth Ganzhorn - Genetic diversity of an endemic tree species in the Atlantic forest of southern Bahia, Brazil (Lewis 
                               & W.W. Thomas, NYBG)
                             - Awards: Fullbright (Brazil)
Tim Kerin - Changes in nutrient status, mycorrhizal symbionts and health of surviving eastern hemlock (Tsuga 
                     canadensis) trees in a shifting forest community resulting from herbivory and climate change (Tuininga)
Suzanne Macey - Assessing and improving census methods forthe endangered bog turtle (Clark)
Scott Neabore - Population genetics of Aasian Golden Cats (Catopuma  temminckii) (Clark)
DustinPartridge - The Potential for Green Roofs in NYC to Act as Stopover Habitat for Migratory 
                                  Birds/Biodiversity on green roofs (Clark)
                                - Awards: 2010 McCarthy Award 
Jesse Ross - Vocalization of the Stripe-Throated wren, Cantorchilus leucopogon (Clark)
Joseph Rozek
Xian Wang - Cyanobacteria and its relationships with nutrient variations (Wehr)
David Waring - Population dynamics of the invasive plant Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) along an urban-rural 
                            gradient (Franks)
Rachel Welt - The effect of local adaptation to climate change on gene flow between two populations of Brassica 
                          rapa in southern California (Franks)
                        - Awards: Kathleen O’Connell Tamburro, M.D. and Carlo H. Tamburro Memorial Scholarship Award
Sarah Whorley - Nutritional quality of early colonizing periphyton (Wehr)
Kyle Wright - Birds as Vectors and/or Resevoirs for Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (Clark)
Christine Zolnik - Influence of host community on tick-borne disease dynamics (Falco/Daniels)

Undergraduate Students
Mariel Boyd - Cuticle-degrading enzymes of entomopathic fungi (Daniels, Falco & Tuininga)
Samantha Boustani - Experimental evolution of insertion sequence expansion in intracellular bacteria (Plague)
Chuck Cerbini - Inducing earlier breeding through visual and vocal enrichment in captive Chilean Flamingos (Clark)
Cody Desjardins (Bowdoin College) - Organic and inorganic nitrogen pools and fluxes in Tsuga canadensis stands infested with hemlock wooly adelgid (Lewis & Tuininga)
Garry Van Genderen - Inducing increased breeding through vocal and visual enrichment in captive Northern Bald Ibises (Clark)
Rebecca Lachlan - The effects of climate change on gene flow in an annual plant (Franks & A. Litt, NYBG)
Sara Ludwig - Nest site selection and long-term pair bonds in an urban population of Canada geese (Clark)
Katherine McConnell - Experimental evolution of insertion sequence expansion in intracellular bacteria (Plague)
Camille McNally - Noninvasive genetic tools to genotype nematodes infecting baboons (Archie)
Marjon Rahimian - The relationship between torpor patterns and body fat reserves in little brown bats (Frank)
Gaelle Voltaire - Experimental evolution of insertion sequence expansion in intracellular bacteria (Plague)

High School Students
Oliver Hegglin (Fox Lane High School) - Role of morphological differences between eastern and western hemlock in differential susceptibility of these hosts to the hemlock woolly adelgid (Lewis)
Dylan Sri-Jayantha (Ossining High School) - Use of algae in managing nutrients from farm wastewater
Andrew Tom (Pleasantville High School) - Interactive effects of chemotrophic and phototrophic cues on host-seeking by dodder (Cuscuta spp.) (Lewis)