Evan Preisser
Principal Investigator
I am a broadly-trained community ecologist who wants to understand how food webs 'work.' I am interested in interspecific interactions and how these interactions affect community structure. I seek to design and conduct field experiments that test both basic and applied ecological questions. My work involves collaboration with researchers from a range of fields. More specifically, I plan to continue using large-scale geographic surveys to document general patterns of plant-animal interactions, and to develop both field and laboratory manipulative experiments that answer questions generated by these patterns.
Research Associates
Sara Gomez
Post-doctoral Fellow
Staff
D.J. Cox
Research Technician
I am interested in many aspects of the natural history of insects, especially solitary wasps and ants. What are they eating? How do they persist? I try to find out what they are doing, why they might be doing it, and then think of a way to test it to make sure I'm not crazy.
Graduate Students
Mailea Miller-Pierce
M.S. Student
What is the nature of the interaction between two invasive herbivores (elongate hemlock scale and hemlock woolly adelgid) on a single native host (eastern hemlock)?
Laura Radville
M.S. Student
Undergraduate Students
Jackie Vansant
Nick Iannacone
There's little insects
In the forests of hemlock
Behold! Adelgid
Jenna Turner
Callie Crawford
Lab Alumni
Laura Ingwell
M.S. in Biology 2007-2009
Currently: PhD. student at the University of Idaho in the laboratory of Dr. Nilsa Bosque-Perez
Are some eastern hemlock trees (Tsugae canadensis) naturally resistant to hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)? What is the best way to find resistant trees?
Matt Fitzpatrick
Post-doctoral researcher 2007-2009
Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies
What factors influence global patterns of biodiversity? How will global change (climate change, biological invasions, etc) alter these patterns?
Pre-K
Juliette Preisser Thornber
Small One
“Read book, papa. Read now!”
The Lab: (clockwise from top left) Keith Steinmann, D.J. Cox, Evan Preisser, Callie Crawford, Derek Brockmann, Mailea Miller-Pierce, Jeff Backer, Laura Ingwell, Jenna Turner.
