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Past and present lab personnel

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​Dr. Robert F Smith
Assistant Professor, Lycoming College Clean Water Institute and Dept. of Biology (Download CV)

Dr. Leslie Rieck
Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Biology and Research Associate with the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute.

Bailey Schwenk
Lycoming College, Dept. of Biology ('21)
Departmental honors project: Spatial assessment of hydrogeomorphic characteristics of urban river-towns
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Jenna Tasker
Lycoming College, Dept. of Biology ('22)
Lycoming Gaul Research Scholar: Climate effects on adult stonefly (Plecoptera) activity and movement

Previous Lycoming College student researchers
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Brooke Millisock (Class of 2021 - January): Education and outreach for a college-community stormwater partnership
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Ruric Bowman (Class of 2020): Vertical migration of adult stoneflies (Plecoptera) into forest canopies (Departmental Honors in Biology)
  • Will be joining the Resetarits Lab as a graduate student at the University of Mississippi (Spring 2021)
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Mikayla Schappert (Class of 2020): Geographic analysis of landscape vulnerability to effects of climate change.
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Brittany Lenze (Class of 2019): Effects of elevated soil temperature on the growth of Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)
  • Graduated with a professional MS in horticulture from Cornell University
Previous lab personnel at Lycoming College
  • Braeden Gonzales ('20; Lycoming College, Dept. of Biology), CWI chemistry lab manager and AVD grant student research assistant
  • ​Sarah Musheno ('19; Lycoming College, Dept. of Biology), Summer research assistant
  • Cayla Treaster ('19, Lycoming College, Dept. of Biology), Summer research assistant
Additional past student collaborators and lab members
  • Hannah Yeates (Undergraduate independent study, College of the Holy Cross): The effects of impervious cover on the functional diversity of benthic stream invertebrate communities in Massachusetts streams
  • Kristin Cheney (Co-mentor for undergraduate honors research project, UMass-Amherst): Spatial and temporal variation in stream insect emergence from headwater streams of New England
  • Laura McPherson (Undergraduate research assistant at UMass-Amherst): Predicting artificial light pollution at the UMass campus
  • Alison Tenhulzen (Undergraduate research assistant at UMass-Amherst): Tan Brook (the UMass campus stream) as a teaching and research tool
  • Sean McCanty (Co-mentor for undergraduate honors research project, University of Maryland): Morphological differences in collected females of Dolophilodes distinctus (Trichoptera) at urban and rural headwater streams​
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