Kristina Chyn is a 3rd year PhD student in Lee Fitzgerald’s lab. Kristina is broadly interested in conservation, landscape ecology, and herpetology.
For her dissertation, she studies the direct and indirect effects of roads on reptiles and amphibians in Taiwan and is conducting her fieldwork on a Fulbright fellowship (2016-2017).
She received her B.S. in Science of Natural and Environmental Systems from Cornell University before joining the EEB program at TAMU.
Janelle Goeke is a PhD student interested in coastal ecology. She received her BS from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Janelle will be studying community shifts due to mangrove encroachment into salt marshes along the Gulf coast. She is particularly interested in the changes in food web interactions as a result of the mangrove encroachment.
Stephen Bovio is a first year graduate student in the Rosenthal lab and is interested in mate choice and its evolutionary consequences.
Stephen received his BS in biology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where he studied the social and mating system of the Northern Pygmy Mouse (Baiomys taylori).
Erin Buchholtz is a 3rd year PhD student whose research interests broadly include ecology and conservation biology. She received her Bachelor’s degree with honors in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. Erin came to Texas A&M as an NSF-IGERT Fellow through the Applied Biodiversity Program and she is now conducting her doctoral research in Botswana as a PhD Fellow with the Ecoexist Project.
