Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Research Associates
Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Research Associates
| Post-docs | |||
| Tish Robertson | Post-doc 2004-present: Monitoring fish and macroinvertebrates for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). Ph.D. Rutgers, Newark | ||
| Brooke Sargeant | Post-doc 2006-present: Tracing carbon flow and food web structure at the landscape scale in the Everglades by use of stable isotopes. Ph.D. Georgetown University | ||
| Doug Creer | Post-doc 2003-2005: Population genetics of Everglades fish. Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis. Current: Assistant Professor, Concord University, West Virginia | ||
| Nathan Dorn | Post-doc 2003-2005: Crayfish and aquatic foodwebs in the Everglades. Ph.D. Michigan State Univ. Current: Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University. | ||
| Jennifer Rehage | Post-doc 2003- 2004: The effects of canals on fish communities in the Everglades. PhD. University of Kentucky. Current: Assistant Professor, Nova Southeastern University. | ||
| Thomas McElroy | Post-doc 1999-2002: Population genetics of Everglades aquatic animals. Current: Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University | ||
| Carl Ruetz | Post-doc 2002-2003: Size-structured analysis of population dynamics of Everglades fishes. Current: Assistant Research Scientist, Annis Water Resources Institute | ||
| John Chick | Post-doc 1997-2000: Size-structured predator-prey interactions and large predatory fishes in the Everglades. Current: Director, Great Rivers Laboratory, Illinois Natural History Survey | ||
| Karen Kandl | Post-doc 1997-1999: Population genetics of Everglades aquatic animals. Current: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University. | ||
| Joe Pechmann | Post-doc 1997-1999: Ecology of Everglades aquatic macroinvertebrates. Current: Asst. Prof., Western Carolina University | ||
| Andrew Turner | Post-doc 1995-97: Ecology of Everglades aquatic macroinvertebrates. Current: Assoc. Prof., Clarion University | ||
| Ph.D. Students | |||
| Clifton Ruehl | Ph.D. candidate: Factors controlling snail density in an oligotrophic sub-tropical wetland. MS, Texas A&M | ||
| Robin Bennett | Ph.D. candidate: MS, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Adam Obaza | Ph.D. candidate: BS University of Miami | ||
| Elizabeth Harrison | Ph.D. candidate: BS Howard University | ||
| Shawn Liston | Ph.D. awarded 2004: Dissertation title, Defining the role of floating periphyton mats in shaping food-web dynamics in the Florida Everglades. EPA-STAR Fellowship awardee. Current: Assistant Research Scientist, Audubon Society, Tavernier Research Center | ||
| William Loftus | Ph.D. awarded 2000: Dissertation title, "Bioaccumulation of Hg in Everglade food webs." Current: Research Scientist, USGS | ||
| Tom Turner | Ph.D. awarded 1997: Dissertation title, "A comparative study of life history and gene flow in darters (Pisces: Percidae). Current: Associate Professor University of New Mexico, Albuquerque | ||
| Michael Schirripa | Ph.D. awarded 1997: Dissertation title, "Evaluation of growth rate estimation from fish otoliths using a striped bass bioenergetics model." Current: fisheries biologist, NOAA-NMFS, Oregon | ||
| M.S. Students | |||
| Raul Uregelles | M. S. candidate. The spatio-temporal dynamics of larval dragonfly (Odonata:Anisoptera) assemblages in relation to habitat variables in the freshwater marshes of the Florida Everglades. B.S. Florida International University | ||
| David Green | M.S. candidate. Fish community structure in the Everglades oligohaline zone revealed by delta13C and delta15N stable isotope analyses. B.S. University of Miami | ||
| Chuck Goss | M.S. awarded 2006: Fish colonization of temporary wetlands in the context of the Everglades landscape. Current: Biological Scientist I, FIU | ||
| Shawna Baker | M.S. awarded 2004: Effects of hydroperiod on life-history parameters of Lucania goodei (Fundulidae) in the Florida Everglades. Current: Texas Department of Fish and Wildlife. | ||
| Jade Williams | M.S. awarded, 2004: Effect of productivity and hydroperiod on food-chain length in the Everglades. EPA-STAR Fellowship awardee; Current: Biologist, Environmental Consulting Firm | ||
| Lawrence Lopez | M.S. awarded 2004: Seed predation and seedling herbivory by rodents and leaf-cutter ants on land-bridge islands. Current: Biologist, Environmental Consulting Firm | ||
| Timothy Konnert | M.S. awarded 2002, The effects of hydroperiod on the life history parameters of Poecilia latipinna and Heterandria formosa (Poeciliidae) in the Florida Everglades. Current: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington D.C. | ||
| Kyoko Nakamura | M.S. awarded 2001: Thesis title: "Isolation and characterization of nuclear microsatellite markers in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna." Current: technician in molecular laboratory, USDA | ||
| Robert Kobza | M.S. awarded 2001: Thesis title: "Refuge use and colonization by fishes in a karst landscape." Current: Biological Scientist, SFWMD | ||
| Xavier Pagan | M. S. awarded 2000: Thesis title: "Ecology of centrarchid nest predation in relation to hydrology." Current: Biological Scientist, FL Dept of Transportation | ||
| Pamela Geddes | M.S. awarded 1999: Thesis title: "Omnivory and periphyton mats: uncoupling and quantifying consumer effects in the Florida Everglades." Current: Ph.D., University of Chicgo; Post-doc, Loyola University, Chicago | ||
| Adrian Jelenzsky | M.S. awarded 1999: Thesis title: "Life history variation in the eastern mosquitofish from nutrient gradients in the Florida Everglades." Current: Junior High School Teacher | ||
| Ryan Taylor | M.S. awarded 1999: Thesis title: "The effects of competition and age-structured predation in an Everglades fish community." Current: PhD Univerersity of Louisiana, Lafayette, Assistant Professor, Salisbury University, MD | ||
| Kenneth Howard | M.S. awarded 1995: Thesis title, "Seasonal dynamics of fishes in artifical culvert pools in the C-111 basin, Dade County, Florida." Current: Environmental Analyst, Palm Beach County, FL. | ||
| Dana Neff | M.S. awarded 1994: Thesis title, "Fat storage fluctuations as a function of seasonality and reproduction in sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna (Pisces: Poecilidae), in southern Florida." Current: High School Teacher | ||
| Andrea Dinep | M.S. awarded 1991: Univ. of MS, thesis title, "Variation among populations in the pattern of multiple paternity in sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna." Current: Homemaker. | ||