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Current Lab Members
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Dr. Kevin McCluney
Associate Professor & Interim Director of the Center for Great Lakes and Watershed Studies
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Email: kmcclun@bgsu.edu
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Dr. Lauren Brown
H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Plant Research Coordinator/Post-doc (C0-supervised with Helen Michaels)
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Ewan Isherwood
H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Plant Research Coordinator (C0-supervised with Helen Michaels)
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Ethan Glassman
H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Plant Research Technician (C0-supervised with Helen Michaels)
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Jonathan Brokaw
MS Student
Interested in effects of wastewater chemicals on stream communities
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Lakshan Beligala
MS Student (co-advised with Angelica Vazquez-Ortega)
Interested in understanding soil health and water quality using isotopes
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Salim Shamsudeen Mohammed
MS Student (co-advised with Angelica Vazquez-Ortega)
Interested in understanding soil health and water quality using isotopes and molecular techniques
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Everett Turner-McCool
MS Student (co-advised with Mason Murphy)
Interested in the effects of urbanization on amphibians
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Chloe Craft
Undergraduate Student
Helping with research on the climatic sensitivity of urban bees
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Bili Shimkus
Undergraduate Student
Helping with research on the climatic sensitivity of urban bees
Graduate Student Alumni
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Jacob Buchanan
PhD, 2024
Studied the population and community dynamics of invertebrates and plants, primarily in the prairie potholes of North Dakota
Currently TT Faculty at Bluffton University
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Mica Rumbach
MS, 2024
Studied animal mediation of nutrient cycling in wetlands
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Toby Shaya
MS, 2024
Currently Pollinator Atlas Entomologist with the Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife
Studied bee thermal physiology and conservation
![]() | Alessia Saul | MS, 2022 Currently Senior Research Technician at Ohio State’s Stone Lab Studied effects of PFOA on mosquitoes and damselflies |
![]() | Margaret Duffy | MS, 2020 Currently a research technician with the USDA ARS Studied how isotopes could be used to understand phosphate recycling in agricultural soils |
![]() | Rachel Paull | MS, 2020 Studied how animals and plants influence nutrient cycling in agricultural ditches experiencing different management |
![]() | Dr. Justin Burdine | PhD, 2019 Currently TT faculty at Cornerstone University Studied factors influencing pollination services in urban gardens |
![]() | Dr. Melanie Marshall | PhD, 2019 Currently TT faculty at Wright State Lake Campus Studied how trace chemicals influence aquatic-terrestrial linkages in riverine ecosystems |
![]() | Melissa Seidel | MS, 2019 Studied pollinator food webs |
![]() | John Woloschuk | MS, 2019 Studied bat and spider spillover predation |
![]() | Gabrielle Metzner | MS, 2018 Studied rates of phosphorus flux via emergent insects across ditch management. |
![]() | Jamie Becker | MS, 2017 Currently with the US EPA, Wetlands and Streams Regulatory Section Studied how water balance interacts with life-history to influence foraging behavior.(Website) |
Undergraduate Alumni
![]() | Gabriella Muller | Undergraduate Student Helping with research on the climatic sensitivity of urban bees |
![]() | Ashlia Toles | Undergraduate Student Research on wetland plant-fungal interactions and freshwater crustaceans |
![]() | Nicole Hildebrand | Undergraduate Student Helping with H2Ohio wetland plant monitoring |
![]() | Caitlyn Schankula | Undergraduate Student Helping with H2Ohio wetland plant monitoring |
![]() | Alaina Evinger | Undergraduate Student Helping with H2Ohio wetland plant monitoring |
![]() | Connor McHugh | Undergraduate Student Helping with H2Ohio wetland plant monitoring |
![]() | Emily Fargo | Undergraduate Student Helping with research on the climatic sensitivity of urban bees |
![]() | Kaitlyn Niek | Undergraduate student helping with research on the climatic sensitivity of urban bees |
![]() | Rafael Castillo | Undergraduate Student Helping with H2Ohio wetland plant monitoring |
![]() | Jenna Ward | Undergraduate Student Helping with research on pharmaceuticals and aquatic food webs (pursuing a career in genetic counseling) |
![]() | Daniel Clark | Undergraduate Student Interested in effects of waterfowl nutritional physiology on survival of branchiopod cysts (but pursuing a career in dentistry) |
![]() | Jordan Gessner | Undergraduate Student Helped with research on waterfowl transportation of freshwater crustacean propagules |
![]() | Jordan Davidson | Undergraduate Student Helped with research on pharmaceuticals and aquatic food webs |
![]() | Erin Plummer | Investigated urban bees |
Kaleigh Obrock | Investigated bee physiology | |
![]() | Lana Neff | Helped with ditch nutrient cycling project |
![]() | Neal Kolonay | Helped with cyanobacterial algal bloom nutrition project and other projects |
![]() | Ashley Everett | Investigated the influence of fluoride on biofilms |
Andie Fisher | Helped with all aspects of research | |
Edward Lagucki | Studied association between urbanization and flying arthropods (Lagucki et al. 2017) | |
Matt Zach | Studied thermal and hygric limits of spiders and crickets | |
![]() | Nadya Mirochnitchenko | Studied effects of washed-up algal blooms on lakeshore food webs along Lake Erie |
![]() | Haley Ingram | Studied effects of different statements about water quality on human perceptions |
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