Courses Taught @ Hobart and William Smith Colleges 

 

• Biological Statistics 

• Ecology 

• Aquatic Biology 

• Invasive Species Biology 

• Suspended Animation: how & why organisms put life on hold

• Nature in the Future

• Science/Fiction/Prediction 

 

Study Abroad Programs and Courses

 

Italy 2020

• Urban Ecology of Rome 

• The Art & Science of Graphical Representations 

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Guatemala 2016

• Ecology & Culture in Guatemala 

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Australia and New Zealand  2010, 2012

• Sustainability Down Under 

• Biogeography of Australia and New Zealand 

 

Russia 2009

• Modern Siberia 

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Undergraduate Research Projects

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Ecology projects

• Leaf Decomposition in the Glenwood Cemetery Creek, Coppers' Woods (Sarah Gray)

• Differences in the food-web structure and productivity of pond habitats (Penelope Murphy)

• Taxonomic composition and methylmercury in zooplankton (Rachel Best)

• Methylmercury bioaccumulation in nearshore invertebrates (Kayleigh Buffington)

• The potential use of environmental DNA for detection of Hemimysis (Kathleen Mendez)

• Age and size predictors of mercury accumulation in Lake Trout (Alexander Gatch)

• Using paleolimnology to study the last 100 Years of Owasco Lake (Corey Gallagher)

• Effects of temperature and prey type on Hemimysis feeding (Nicolas Steijn)

• Invasive plankton and the potential impacts on fish diets (Matthew Paufve)

• Sediment loading and seiche transparency impact Daphnia retrocurva (Eleanor Milano)

• Water quality controls in the southern basin of Cayuga Lake (Owen Hatch)

• Population dynamics of Corbicula fluminea in the Seneca River (Bart Fylnn)

• Developing light-based traps as a novel detection method for Hemimysis (Jamila Roth)    

• Measuring predation of native and naturalized fish predators with video (Madison Sutton)

• The fishhook waterflea’s impact on the native plankton assemblage (Jessica Popp)

• Resting egg accumulation in deep and shallow locations of Seneca Lake (Michael Ellis)

• Analysis of two management techniques for European frogbit (Bethany Bashaw)

• Tracking the history of Cercopagis pengoi in Owasco Lake via lake sediments (Cam Avelis)

• Does the PEG model apply to Seneca Lake? (Emily Runnells)

• The Road to Immortality: exploring resting stages of native zooplankton (Taylor Raufus)

• A tale of two ponds: the patterns of zooplankton in the Hanley ponds (Matthew Whalen)

• Fish predators shape divergent pond productivity (Ryan Aruk)

• Using zooplankton size to investigate trophic cascades in pond ecosystems (Stephanie Fisher)

• Potential impacts of the fishhook waterflea in Seneca Lake (Laura Cummins)

• Effects of the invasive diatom Didymosphenia geminata on stream invertebrates (Clancy Brown)

• Vertical migration in the crustacean zooplankton taxa of Seneca Lake (Thomas Rood)

• Invertebrate predator density and distribution (Joe Sullivan)

 

Environmental and interdisciplinary studies

•  Lake Huron water-level fluctuations are impacting island and inland-lake area (Janne Knieke)

• Aquatic education in the Finger Lakes, new materials for Science on Seneca (Rachel Best)

• Connecting dance and the environment (Kathleen Merino)

• Cold frame farming at Hobart & William Smith (Derek Weiss)

• Using Lake Baikal as tool for environmental education (Margaret Yovanoff)

• Capturing underwater wonder through watercolor (Melissa Gaydos)