Research Opportunities
Undergraduate Students:
Students are welcome to join the lab for independent study projects. I am currently seeking one student with strong bird-identification skills for a woodpecker community monitoring project. Every winter, we census populations of six woodpecker species that inhabit Wright State Woods. This is part of a long-term project to assess how invasive insects (like emerald ash borer) influence woodpecker populations.
I also seek students with strong plant identification skills for ongoing projects in Ohio and Wisconsin.
Please contact me for more information about this or any other potential research project.
Graduate Students:
Graduate students can join the lab through
admission to one of two programs at
Wright State University:
Wright State's interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in environmental sciences is demanding, and students are required to complete course work in chemistry and geology in addition to biology.
If you are interested in joining my lab as a graduate student, I recommend that you contact me directly to ask if I will be taking on new students. I do not have space in my lab every year for new graduate students, so it is better to contact me to find out rather than apply only to find out after you were accepted that I am not taking new students.
Most full-time MS students receive teaching assistantships from our department.
I usually require project funding before I can accept a PhD student. This requirement can be waived if the prospective PhD student has a fellowship or other alternate source of funding.
My main area of research focuses on white-tailed deer herbivory in eastern North America and how deer influence biodiversity. See the projects page for current research activities.