Undergraduates

There are several undergraduates working in the lab, as independent study students or as paid research assistants. There are new openings most semesters.

Technicians

Maggie Simon

Current Graduate Students

Allison Bauer. She is working on the effects of habitat fragmentation on seed predators, and is especially interested in the ecology and evolution of bruchid beetles.

Amanda Buchanan. Amanda is co-advised with Nora Underwood and is working on putting pollination biology into a community context. She does field work with bees and plants at the Rocky Mountain Biology Lab in Colorado (RMBL).

Heather Gamper has worked on interactions among oaks, scale insects, and birds in southern Mexico, and is now following her interests in community mapping, conservation, and biogeography via the Geography department. She has her own webpage here.

Josh Grinath is co-advised with Nora Underwood. Josh is working on an ant-membracid mutualism and its effects on the host plant and an herbivorous beetle. His field work is near RMBL.

Ben Nomann is co-advised with Tom Miller, and works on source-sink demogrpahy of a tropcial plant and the conservation value of different habitat types, with fieldwork in Brazil.

Brian Spiesman works on community and landscape ecology.

If you are potential graduate student and want to see your name up here too, please read my letter to prospective students, check out the E&E goup here, and then send me an email if you're still interested in working with me at FSU.

Post-docs and Research Associates

Charlotte Lee (FSU) collaborates with me on several projects, and also does cool work on historical human ecology and demography.

Some Lab Alumnae

Tom E.X. Miller (2007-2009) was a USDA post-doctoral research fellow, co-sponsored by Nora Underwood. Tom does a mix of theory and field work on insect invasions and plant-insect interactions. He is now at Rice University.

Kurt Anderson (2005-2007) was a USDA post-doctoral research fellow working on spatial models of herbivores and plants, and collaborated with Nora Underwood's lab to get data on plants with induced resistance. He is now faculty at the University of California, Riverside.

Brian Seitzman did an undergraduate Honors project (2006-2007) on the forked fungus beetle and its interactions with Ganoderma fungi and their host trees. He is now working on a PhD at Clark University, on fungal systematics and insect-fungus associations.

Lauren Brothers (2005-2006) worked with the C. maculatus and the wasps as an undergraduate independent study project.

Hege Vårdal was a US-Norway postdoctoral fellow (2005-2006) working on the evolution of cynipid gall wasps and their venom glands. She got a job as a curator of entomology in Stockholm!

Katie McAlister (2005-2006) was a technician for Nora Underwood and me. Now she is teaching environmental education in California.

Robin Hopkins (2004-2005)was a technician for me and Nora Underwood. Now she is in grad school at Duke. Her favorite color is PINK. She doesn't always wear clip cages on her head....