People

Fall 2019. Left to right: John Woloschuk, Jacob Buchanan, Alessia Saul, Margaret Duffy, Rachel Paull, Kevin McCluney, Missy Seidel. Not pictured: Kaitlyn Niek, Savanna Brown
Fall 2017. Left to right: Melanie Marshall, Missy Seidel, John Woloschuk, Jamie Becker, Andie Fisher, Justin Burdine, Kevin McCluney, Gabby Metzner. Not pictured: Ashley Everett, Erin Plummer
Fall 2017. Left to right: Melanie Marshall, Missy Seidel, John Woloschuk, Jamie Becker, Andie Fisher, Justin Burdine, Kevin McCluney, Gabby Metzner. Not pictured: Ashley Everett, Erin Plummer

Lab Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/McCluneyLab/

Current Lab Members


Dr. Kevin E. McCluney

Google Scholar Profile
(with links to papers)

Faculty page

CV

Twitter
Research Gate
Academia.edu

Email: kmcclun@bgsu.edu


Jacob BuchananPhD Student
Interested in spatial and temporal variation in populations, communities, and ecosystems

Alessia SaulMS Student
Studying effects of PFOA on food webs and amphibians

MJ LashbrookPhD Student
Studying physiological limitation in bee communities

Jonathan BrokawMS Student
Interested in effects of wastewater chemicals on stream communities

Kaitlyn NiekUndergraduate Student
Interested in nutritional ecology of pollinators

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 BurdinePhD, 2019

Currently TT faculty at Cornerstone University

Studied factors influencing pollination services in urban gardens
Website


Dr. Melanie MarshallPhD, 2019

Currently TT faculty at Wright State Lake Campus

Studied how trace chemicals influence aquatic-terrestrial linkages in riverine ecosystems

Melissa SeidelMS, 2019

Studied pollinator food webs

John WoloschukMS, 2019

Studied bat and spider spillover predation


Gabrielle MetznerMS, 2018

Currently a project scientist at Kieser & Associates.

Studied rates of phosphorus flux via emergent insects across ditch management.

Jamie BeckerMS, 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.

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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.