Here you will find information about the students and postdocs that I mentored as a researcher while working in academia at UMass-Amherst, College of the Holy Cross, and Lycoming College
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​Dr. Robert (Bob) F Smith
Currently:
External Monitoring and Data Coordinator for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's Watershed Planning Program.

Formerly:
  • Assistant Professor, Clean Water Institute and Dept. of Biology, Lycoming College
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, College of the Holy Cross
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Previous Lycoming College student research collaborators and postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Leslie Rieck (Postdoctoral Scholar 2019-2021): Developing a college-community stormwater partnership model for small urbanized watersheds​
  • Currently Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Lycoming College (Dr. Rieck's Website)

Bailey Schwenk (Class of 2021): Spatial assessment of hydrogeomorphic characteristics of urban river-towns (Departmental Honors in Biology). 
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Jenna Tasker (Class of 2022): Climate effects on adult stonefly (Plecoptera) activity and movement (Lycoming Gaul Research Scholar)

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Brooke Millisock (Class of 2021): Education and outreach for a college-community stormwater partnership
  • Currently an Aquatic Biologist with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Ruric Bowman (Class of 2020): Vertical migration of adult stoneflies (Plecoptera) into forest canopies (Departmental Honors in Biology)
  • Currently PhD student in the Resetarits Lab at the University of Mississippi
Mikayla Schappert (Class of 2020): Geographic analysis of landscape vulnerability to effects of climate change
  • MA in Geography from Miami University (of Ohio) with GIScience certificate (2023)
  • Currently a PhD student in Geography at Clark University
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
  • Positions as Lead Horticulture Technician, Assistant Production Manager, and Production Team Lead at horticulture facilities and farms.
  • Currently Site Success Coordinator at Greenphire
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​