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Current Lab Members
![]() | Dr. Kevin E. McCluney | Google Scholar Profile |
![]() | Jacob Buchanan | PhD Student Interested in spatial and temporal variation in populations, communities, and ecosystems |
![]() | Alessia Saul | MS Student Studying effects of PFOA on food webs and amphibians |
![]() | MJ Lashbrook | PhD Student Studying physiological limitation in bee communities |
![]() | Jonathan Brokaw | MS Student Interested in effects of wastewater chemicals on stream communities |
![]() | Kaitlyn Niek | Undergraduate Student Interested in nutritional ecology of pollinators |
![]() | Daniel Clark | Undergraduate Student |
![]() | Jordan Gessner | Undergraduate Student |
![]() | Jordan Davidson | Undergraduate Student |
![]() | Jenna Ward | Undergraduate Student |
Graduate Student Alumni
![]() | 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 Currently a project scientist at Kieser & Associates. Studied rates of phosphorus flux via emergent insects across ditch management. |
![]() | Jamie Becker | MS, 2017 Currently an ORISE EPA Research Fellow. Studied how water balance interacts with life-history to influence foraging behavior.(Website) |
Undergraduate Alumni

Erin Plummer
Investigating urban bees
Kaleigh Obrock
Investigating bee physiology

Lana Neff
Helping with funded project to better understand how animals and plants influence nutrient cycling in agricultural ditches experiencing different management.

Neal Kolonay
Helping with project to understand nutritional quality of cyanobacterial algal blooms for shore consumers and with other projects in the lab.

Ashley Everett, BS 2018
Investigating the influence of fluoride on biofilms. Currently in dental school at Ohio State University.
Andie Fisher, BS 2018
Helping with all aspects of research. Her own research interests lie with sea turtle conservation. Currently in graduate school at University of South Florida.
Edward Lagucki, BS 2017
Studied association between urbanization and flying arthropods (Lagucki et al. 2017). Currently MS student at Colorado State.
Matt Zach, BS 2016
Studied thermal and hygric limits of spiders and crickets.

Nadya Mirochnitchenko, BS 2016
Studied effects of washed-up algal blooms of varying toxicity on lakeshore food webs along Lake Erie. Currently MS student at University of Nebraska.

Haley Ingram, BS 2016
Examined the relationship between riverine ecosystem condition (e.g. water quality) and human perception of those conditions within different socioeconomic groups, as well as the effects of exposing study participants to different types of written statements about local ecosystem condition. Currently law student at Ohio State.
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