EEB Grads and Postdocs

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Name / Email [link]	Status	Year Entered	Dept	Lab	Research Focus	Website
Aldrich, Serena	PhD	2003	GEOG	Cairns/Lafon	Fire history and stand dynamics in central Appalachian pine and oak forests
Ariza, Martha	PhD	2007	ESSM	Rogers	Biogeochemistry of subtropical savanna ecosystems
Banerjee, Sikhar	MS	2008	GEOL	Raymond	Terrestrial POM in Pennsylvanian marine shales
Barman, Apurba	PhD	2007	ENTO	Medina	Finding reproductive isolation in an agricultural insect pest driven by host association
Barre, David	MS	2006	ESSM	G. Moore	Estimating deep drainage using soil chloride in semi-arid rangelands: effects of land clearing
Bell, Michael	MS	2008	MARB	Armitage	The effects of nutrient enrichment on the development of restored coastal marshes	Website
Bellota, Edwin	MS	2009	ENTO	Bernal	Domestication and agronomic selection influences on maize defense against a specialist herbivore
Bertrand, Nick	PhD	2009	WFSC	DeWitt	Evolutionary ecology of fishes
Bockoven, Allison	PhD	2009	ENTO	Eubanks	Community ecology and plant-insect interactions	Website
Bohn, Kisi	Postdoc	2008	BIOL	Smotherman	Behavior and vocal communication in bats, currently focusing on the courtship song of Mexican free-tailed bats.	Website
Boswell, Andy	MS	2007	ENTO	Behmer	Insect nutritional ecology and physiology.	Lab website
Bowden, Stephen C	PhD	2009	GEOL	Wade	Micropaleontology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography/Paleoclimatology	Website
Boyle, TJ	PhD	2006	BIOL	Wicksten	Behavior and population genetics of invasive crustaceans
Brophy, Juliet K	PhD	2005	ANTH	de Ruiter	Documenting paleoenvironments associated with the South African hominins and how changes in these environments might have influenced hominin evolution	Website
Butcher, Jerrod	Postdoc	2008	WFSC	PetersonM	Habitat factors accounting for white-winged dove range expansion
Calhoun, Kirby	MS	2009	WFSC	PetersonM	Estimating reproductive rates, breeding season survival rates, and harvest distributions of urban banded white-winged doves
Cameron, Mika	MS	2006	ENTO	Wharton	Evolution of ovipositor morphology in ctenopelmatine Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)
Carlson, Charles	PhD/MS	2006	PHIL/BIOL	Sansom/Rosenthal	Philosophy of biology
Carr, Liam	PhD	2006	GEOG	Heyman	Use of local ecological knowledge in tropical fisheries management
Carson, Evan	Postdoc	2007	WFSC	Gold	Population genetics of marine and freshwater fishes
Castro, Erin	PhD	2009	ESSM	West/Boutton	Environmental chemistry/biogeochemistry
Caveny, Robert	MS	2007	WFSC	PetersonM	Proximate causes of Rio Grande wild turkey abundance variation.
Cheleuitte-Nieves, Christopher	PhD	2007	ESSM	Wu/Perotto	Spatial distribution and interactions of cattle in savanna landscapes
Colvin, Aubrey	MS	2006	ENTO	Wharton	Phylogenetic systematics of Metopius (Hymenoptera)
Cook, Steve	Postdoc	2008	ENTO	Behmer	Ant nutritional ecology and foraging behavior; evolution.	Lab website
Correa, Bibiana	PhD	2005	WFSC	Winemiller	Ecology of frugivorous fishes in South American lowland rivers
Cuellar, Rosa Leny	PhD	2006	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Community management of wildlife by indigenous people in Bolivia
Culumber, Zachary	PhD	2007	BIOL	Rosenthal	Chemical signaling in mate choice and the genetics of sexual selection and mate choice.	Website
DalMolin, AnaMaria	PhD	2008	ENTO	Woolley	Systematics and evolution of parasitic wasps, bioinformatics.
Davis, Brian	PhD	2007	GENE	Murphy	Genetics of hybrid sterility and speciation in felids
Dickey, Aaron	PhD	2006	ENTO	Medina	Host associated differentiation in an insect community on indigenous trees
Edwards, Patty	PhD	2006	ESSM/MARB	Armitage/Rogers	The influence of sediment type on the ecological outcomes of salt marsh restoration
Errera, Reagan	PhD	2008	OCNG	Campbell	Toxin production in Karenia brevis
Esparza, Andres	MS	2007	WFSC	Packard	Land trusts: mediating science and policy on conservation lands
Fall, Leigh	PhD	2004	GEOL	Olszewski	The Role of Local and Regional Processes on Brachiopod Diversity	Website
Fan, Li	MS	2009	ESSM	Moore	Ecohydrology of Arundo donax
Fender, Erin	PhD	2009	WFSC	Light	Population genetics and ecology of Mexican mammals
Ferro, Pamela	PhD	2006	VTPB	PetersonM/Lupiani	Ecological and molecular characterization of avian influenza viruses obtained from waterfowl on the Texas Coast
Flatley, Will	PhD	2006	GEOG	Cairns/Lafon	Fire history, stand dynamics, and landscape ecology of fire on southern Appalachian landscapes
Foote, Julie	PhD	2008	ESSM	Boutton	Biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems
Giresi, Melissa	PhD	2009	BIOL	Jones/Gold	Population genetics and phylogeography of marine fishes
Gocke, Kelsey	MS	2006	WFSC	Neill/Gelwick	Historical Trends in Fish Community Structure of an Urbanizing Reservoir
Gonzalez, Lisa	PhD	2008	WFSC	Gelwick	Response of estuarine fish communities to anthropogenic stressors in Galveston Bay and Matagorda Bay, Texas.
Graff, Chris	MS	2004	GEOG	Millington	Human appropiration of net primary productivity in Texas
Granados-Dieseldorff, Pablo	PhD	2008	GEOG	Heyman	Fisheries ecology and habitat connectivity of small scale fisheries in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.	Website
Greenwald, Charles	PhD	2005	PLPM(GENE)	Wilkinson	Filamentous fungal genome evolution
Grow, Nanda	PhD	2006	ANTH	Gursky-Doyen	Altitudinal effects on pygmy tarsiers
Guthrie, Josiah	MS	2008	WFSC	PetersonM	Rio Grande wild turkey nest-site selection, nesting success by nest-site characteristics, and hens/brood behavior
Gutierrez, Maria	PhD	2005	ESSM	Wu/Torres	Misconceptions in ecology education and the influence of cultural background
Haller, Sarah	MS	2006	ESSM	Rogers	Conservation strategies for the federally endangered orchid, Spiranthesis parksii
Hammer, Rick	PhD	2002	BIOL	Manhart	Systematics, evolution and and hybridization in the grass subspecies complex Dichanthelium acuminatum. Conservation genetics of Texas Trailing Phlox (Phlox nivalis ssp. texensis)
Hanna, Ashley	MS	2008	WFSC	Gold	Conservation genetics of Trans-Pecos Dionda
Hartfield, Emilie	MS	2007	ENTO	Medina	Reproductive isolation of pecan nut casebearer	Website
Henrichs, Darren	PhD	2005	BIOL	Campbell	Population Genetics of Karenia brevis, the alga responsible for harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico
Hilding-Kronforst, Shari	PhD	2008	GEOL	Wade	Use of geochemical signals present in microfossils found in deep sea sediments to answer questions about the timing and magnitude of past marine productivity, temperature, ecological and other environmental changes.	Website
Hill, Michael	MS	2005	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Nesting ecology of Sceloporus arenicolus
Hsiung, Shi-Yi	MS	2009	GEOL	Raymond	Palynology of Late Cretaceous paleotropical island communities
Ireland, Patrick	MS	2007	WFSC	Gelwick	Community Structure and Habitat Relationships in an Urbanizing Reservoir System
Janecka, Jan	Postdoc	2006	VIBS	Murphy	Mammalian phylogenetics; felid (snow leopard) conservation genetics
Jing, Xiangfeng	PhD	2007	ENTO	Behmer	Insect nutritional physiology.	Lab website
Johnson, J. Bradley	PhD	2003	BIOL	Rosenthal	Evolutionary ecology of hybrid zones in poeciliid fishes
Jones, Joshua	PhD	2008	ENTO	Oswald	Systematics and phylogeny of Haplogleniinae (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) owlflies.	Website
Kane, Emily	MS	2006	WFSC	Marshall	Odontocete feeding kinematics	Website
Kantola, Ilsa	PhD	2006	ESSM	Boutton	Relationships between vegetation dynamics and biodiversity of soil microbial communities
Kasl, Emily	PhD	2009	BIOL	Criscione	Population genetics and phylogeography of parasites
King, Jonathan	MS	2008	ENTO	Oswald	Abundance and distribution of selected south Texas beetles
Klug, Christopher	PhD	2007	GEOL	Olszewski	Ecologic Fidelity of Shallow Marine Molluscan Death Assemblages
Kobara, Shin	PhD	2004	GEOG	Heyman	morphology and spatial distribution of reef fish spawning aggregation sites
Krzton, Ali	PhD	2008	ANTH	Gursky-Doyen	Cooperation in Chinese snub-nosed monkeys
Laurencio, David	MS	2001	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Environmental correlates of species diversity in Costa Rica
Leavitt, Daniel J.	PhD	2007	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Landscape management practices and desert herpetofauna
Lenhart, Paul	PhD	2008	ENTO	Eubanks/Behmer	Insect community and nutritional ecology	Website
Li, Kui	MS	2009	ESSM	Moore	Ecohydrology of Arundo donax
Li, Hsiu-Ping	PhD	2005	WFSC	Roelke/Davis	Role of freshwater inflows in plankton community and nutrient seasonal dynamics
Li, Gang	PhD	2008	VIBS	Murphy	Adaptive evolution of sensory perception and reproductive genes in cats and others carnivores
Liu, Kung-Jen	PhD	2007	WFSC	Davis	Hydrologic controls on benthic nitrogen and phosphorus exchange in the southern Everglades
Lodrigue, Jr., KJ	PhD	2005	WFSC	Fitzgerald	American alligator population dynamics
Martinez, Humberto	PhD	2009	WFSC	Mateos	Evolution of Drosophila-Spiroplasma association
McCray, Chevaun	PhD	2008	WFSC	Winemiller/DeWitt	Evolutionary ecology of fish
Menard, Katrina	PhD	2005	ENTO	Woolley	Systematics and evolution of plant bugs (Homoptera, Heteroptera, Miridae).
Menasco-Davis, Lauren	Other	2009	BIOL	Stidham	tba
Montaña, Carmen	PhD	2007	WFSC	Winemiller	Comparative ecology and evolution of South American fishes
Mooberry, Kari	MS	2007	ESSM/MARB	Armitage	Linking sediment history with the recovery of bacterial and macrophyte assemblages in restored salt marshes
Moore, Jason	Postdoc	2007	GEOL	Olszewski	Vertebrate Paleontology and Taphonomy
Nero, Bertrand	PhD	2008	MEPS	G. Moore	Transpiration of invasive woody species on Karst Ecosystems
Neuenhoff, Rachel	MS	2007	WFSC	Marshall	Age and population structure of Texas bottlenose dolphins	Website
Neyin, Rosemary	MS	2009	OCNG/GEOL	Mills/Tice	eobiology of banded iron formations
Ou, Chouly	PhD	2008	WFSC	Winemiller	Trophic ecology of fishes in the Mekong River, Cambodia.
Paczolt, Kim	PhD	2005	BIOL	Jones	Genetics of development and morphology in pipefish and seahorses
Palacio, Maura	PhD	2009	WFSC	Mateos	Evolution and conservation of Poecillid fishes
Pease, Allison	PhD	2005	WFSC	Winemiller	Community ecology of stream fishes	Website
Pipkin, Ashley	MS	2008	GEOG	Lafon	Ericaceous shrub dynamics under fire exclusion in the Appalachian Mountains
Popescu, Oana	PhD	2005	ESSM	Tjoelker	Respiratory flux in southern oak savanna in response to altered precipitation and warming
Portnoy, David	Postdoc	2008	WFSC	Gold	Molecular ecology of Caribbean groupers
Powell, Rob	PhD	2005	WFSC	Slack	Conservation and ecology of migratory birds in Mexico
Ramirez, Ricardo	Postdoc	2008	ENTO	Eubanks	Predator-prey interactions and agroecology	Website
Ratterman, Nick	PhD	2006	BIOL	Jones/Rosenthal	Evolution of sex-role-reversed mating systems	Website
Reddick, Kristie	MS	2005	ENTO	Wharton	Ecology and diversity of Kenyan Solifugae (Arachnida)
Redman, Cory	PhD	2006	GEOL	Olszewski	Vertebrate Paleontology/terrestrial paleoecology
Reese, Brandi	PhD	2007	OCNG	Mills/Morse	Molecular biogeochemistry analysis of sulfate and iron reduction in marine sediments
Reyna, Steven	MS	2009	ENTO	Bernal/Medina	Insect/plant-mediated reproductive isolation and coevolution
Ripple, Jared	MS	2007	ENTO	Eubanks	Plant-Herbivore and Predator-Prey Interactions
Roach, Katie	PhD	2007	WFSC	Winemiller	Food web ecology and ecological dynamics of large rivers
Robertson, Clint	MS	2005	WFSC	Winemiller	Comparative ecology of gars in the Brazos River
Robledo, Denise	PhD	2006	ESSM	Wu	Landscape ecology and e-learning in ecology education
Roeder, Karl	MS	2007	ENTO	Behmer	Insect nutritional ecology and physiology.	Lab website
Romo, Reggie	PhD	2007	ESSM	Wu	Land use change and ecosystem function of forest landscapes
Rosch, Eric	PhD	2007	BIOL	Wicksten	Sexual selection in fiddler crabs
Rose, Emily	PhD	2009	BIOL	Jones	Evolutionary and molecular ecology of syngnathid fishes
Rosenstein, Rachel	PhD	2007	ESSM	Boutton	Biogeochemistry of subtropical savanna ecosystems
Santamaria, Carlos	PhD	2006	WFSC	Hurtado	Systematics of marine invertebrates
Schalk, Christopher	PhD	2008	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Community ecology, population dynamics, and landscape ecology of reptiles and amphibians in the Gran Chaco
Scobell, Sunny	PhD	2006	BIOL	Jones	Evolution of mating systems and female aggressive behavior in syngnathids
Sconiers, Warren	PhD	2009	ENTO	Eubanks	Plant-insect interactions	Website
Sekoni, Tosin	PhD	2008	ESSM	Rogers	Ecological restoration of grasslands
Shepard, Alicia	PhD	2008	OCNG	Mills	Characterization of microbial populations in the deep subsurface biosphere
Sifuentes, Matt	PhD	2009	ESSM	Wu/Crider	Landscape use and landowner acceptance of expanding black bear populations in Mexico
Silva, Nadisha	PhD	2006	BIOL	Mateos/Rosenthal	Evolution of Drosophila-Spiroplasma association
Small, Clay	PhD	2005	BIOL	Jones	Sexual Selection and evolutionary genetics/genomics
Smolensky, Nicole	PhD	2008	WFSC	Fitzgerald	Bush meat harvest of herpetofauna
Sosa, Gabriela	MS	2007	ESSM	Rogers	Using hot summer fire to control prickly pear cactus in degraded Texas rangelands
Szczepaniec, Adrianna	Postdoc	2009	ENTO	Eubanks	Plant-insect interactions and Integrated Pest Management	Website
Tarin, Daniel	PhD	2005	BIOL	Manhart	Origins of invasive Arundo donax in North America
Thompson, Natalie	PhD	2008	BIOL	Campbell	Gene expression of toxin produced by Karenia brevis
Timm, Lori	PhD	2008	WFSC	Marshall	Ecomorphology of feeding in sea otters and allies	Website
Tobler, Michael	Postdoc	2008	WFSC/BIOL	Winemiller/Rosenthal	Evolutionary ecology of fishes	Website
Twidwell, Dirac	PhD	2006	ESSM	Rogers	Ecological dimensions of using hot summer fire and herbicide to control woody encroachment in degraded Texas rangelands
Verzijden, Machteld	Postdoc	2008	BIOL	Rosenthal	Evolution of behavior in swordtails
Vilchez, Igor	PhD	2004	WFSC	Mateos	Evolution of Drosophila-Spiroplasma association
Ward, Matthew	PhD	2008	BIOL	T. Lints	Vocal learning in mockingbirds
Weaver, Carolyn	PhD	2008	ESSM/MARB	Armitage	The influence of direct and indirect trophic interactions on community diversity	Website
Welborn, Sarah	MS	2009	WFSC	Light	Biogeography of Texas Mammals
Wilder, Shawn	Postdoc	2008	ENTO	Eubanks	Invasion ecology of ants	Website
Williams, Amy	PhD	2007	ESSM	Feagin	Coastal ecology	Website
Wilmot, Fiona	PhD	2009	GEOG	Heyman	Multiple stressors on Caribbean coral reef ecosystems: human and evolutionary biological ramifications
Witmer, Angela	PhD	2006	BIOL	Wicksten	Marine invertebrate ecology, mating systems, coastal ecology	Website
Wonkka, Carissa	MS	2008	ESSM	Rogers	Endangered orchid conservation
Xie, Jialei	PhD	2008	WFSC	Mateos	Evolution of Drosophila-Spiroplasma association

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