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stu_photos.push('Custer.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Kevin Custer</b><br />My research is looking at the effects of Nickel spiked sediments <i>in situ</i> on benthic communities, indigenous aquatic insects, and selected USEPA surrogate organisms.  Nickel flux and sediment chemistries will also be examined to look at fate and effects of Nickel over time <i>in situ</i>.  These compartments will help determine the toxicity and bioavailability of Nickel to these selected groups organisms.');



stu_photos.push('kirandeep_dhami.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Kirandeep Dhami</b><br /> Population genetics through studies of the evolutionary relationships using ducks as model species.');

stu_photos.push('qin_ke.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Ke Qin</b><br /> My research interests include co-metabolism of chlorinated compounds in wetlands using ammonia oxidizing bacteria.');

stu_photos.push('clayton_angie.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Angie Clayton</b><br />');

stu_photos.push('lavretsky_phil.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Philip Lavretsky</b><br />I am interested in population genetics and evolutionary ecology. My research focuses on the Mallard Complex composed of 13 extant mallard-like species found around the world. The group impeccably illustrates radiating speciation with increasing concern of genetic extinction by introgressive hybridization.');

stu_photos.push('bourne_michael.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Michael Bourne</b><br />');

stu_photos.push('Lumeng Huang 9-10.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Lumeng Huang</b><br /> Using multi-phase simulation model explore how geologic architecture affects CO2 injection and sequestration.');

stu_photos.push('Renalda Munubi 9-10.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Renalda Munubi</b><br />');

stu_photos.push('Nora Hunter 2010.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Nora Hunter</b><br /> Developing environmentally friendly syntheses of green nanomaterials to investigate their corresponding cytotoxic, antimicrobial, and biosensing properties.');

stu_photos.push('Shishir Adhikari 2010.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Shishir Adhikari</b><br /> Using modeling and GIS techniques to determine the distribution pattern of species and their related habitat.');

stu_photos.push('Samantha Davis 2010.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Samantha Davis</b><br /> Investigating the mechanisms of invasion by exotic species, and the effects of invasive species on native community composition and rare species survival.');

stu_photos.push('Phuong Khanh Nguyen 2010.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Phuong Khanh Nguyen</b><br />');

stu_photos.push('Holly Schlotman 2010.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Holly Schlotman</b><br />');

stu_photos.push('Behzad Ghanbarian Alavijeh 2010.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Behzad Ghanbarian Alavijeh</b><br /> My main research interests are in development of theoretical methods to model hydraulic properties e.g., hydraulic conductivity and solute transport in porous media based on fractal geometry and percolation theory.');


stu_photos.push('Devlin.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Shawn Devlin</b><br />Shawn Devlin - I am interested in Carbon cycling in lakes, in particular, the role of Benthic Algal contributions to whole lake food webs, the role of bacteria in regulating benthic productivity and how the microbial loop integrates terrestrial Carbon sources and, in lake production in food webs.');

stu_photos.push('Jeremy Heath 8-07.JPG');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Jeremy Heath</b> (<a href="http://www.wright.edu/~heath.22/"> Website </a>) <br />I am studying the adaptive radiation of a group of gall midges, Asteromyia spp. (Cecidomyiidae: Diptera) on their goldenrod host plants. Complex interactions between these midges, host-plant defenses, parasitoid wasps, and a mutualistic fungus instrumental in gall formation may be spurring rapid evolutionary diversification. Understanding the ecology and evolution of this system will provide insight into the process of speciation and may aid in the sustainable control of invasive plants and agricultural pests.');

stu_photos.push('Duell.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">David Duell</b><br />I am interested in anaerobic degradation of chlorinated ethenes in wetlands.');

stu_photos.push('Milks.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">James Milks</b><br />I am interested in the processes involved in reforestation and impacts of reforestation on local ecosystem processes. I am also interested in general forest dynamics and the population and community ecology of mammals.');

stu_photos.push('Salisbury.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Richard Salisbury</b><br />Using molecular tools to understand and define environmentally mediated immune suppression');


stu_photos.push('Smigelski.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Jeffrey Smigelski</b><br /> As a member of the Complex Systems Research Group here at WSU, my focus has been using a quantitative approach to understand and model the internal dynamics of physical systems using novel mathematical methods and digital signal processing techniques.   The mathematic models may then be used to determine the impact of environmental noise and variations on populations embedded within these systems drawing from concepts in Chaos Theory, Complexity Theory, Fractal Geometry, Population Ecology, and Nonlinear Dynamics.  Understanding biological-physical coupling through this inter-disciplinary approach is essential to developing an accurate picture of the ecosystem under investigation. ');


stu_photos.push('Lieurance.jpg');
stu_captions.push('<b class="green">Deah Lieurance</b><br /> My research interests include invasive plant biology, plant ecophysiology, plant allometry, and the biocontrol of alien exotic plants.');


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