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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
Dr. Lauren Brown
H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Plant Research Coordinator/Post-doc (C0-supervised with Helen Michaels)
Ewan Isherwood
H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Plant Research Coordinator (C0-supervised with Helen Michaels)
Ethan Glassman
H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Plant Research Technician (C0-supervised with Helen Michaels)
Jonathan Brokaw
MS Student
Interested in effects of wastewater chemicals on stream communities
Lakshan Beligala
MS Student (co-advised with Angelica Vazquez-Ortega)
Interested in understanding soil health and water quality using isotopes
Salim Shamsudeen Mohammed
MS Student (co-advised with Angelica Vazquez-Ortega)
Interested in understanding soil health and water quality using isotopes and molecular techniques
Everett Turner-McCool
MS Student (co-advised with Mason Murphy)
Interested in the effects of urbanization on amphibians
Chloe Craft
Undergraduate Student
Helping with research on the climatic sensitivity of urban bees
Bili Shimkus
Undergraduate Student
Helping with research on the climatic sensitivity of urban bees
Graduate Student Alumni
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
Mica Rumbach
MS, 2024
Studied animal mediation of nutrient cycling in wetlands
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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