Gabreille Russel – PhD student studying climate change’s impacts on headwater stream function in Northeast Ohio
Chathumadavi Ediriweera – PhD student studying the evolution of sex chromosomes.
Past Students
Vivien Marcus (1996) – Thesis: Senescence in the ephemeral pond crustacean, Eulimnadia texana. Currently employed as a Real Estate Agent at Keller-Williams in Andover, MA.
Bruce Hart (1997) – Thesis: A study of pollution on life history traits of the bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus) within the Cuyahoga River watershed. Currently employed as an Environmental Manager at Ferrovial Agroman US Corp. in Atlanta, GA
Glenn Bixler (1997) – Thesis: The effect of flow velocity on reproductively active western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). Currently employed at the Army Corps of Enginners as the Project Manager for the San Diego Sector Project Delivery Team (overseeing the environmental compliance for the construction of the border fence between Mexico and the United States).
Bobbi Crosser (1999) – Thesis: Estimates of inbreeding depression in two populations of the ephemeral pond crustacean, Eulimnadia texana. Currently employed at Brothers Grimm Landscape and Design Company.
Derek Schroeder (2002) – Thesis: Relative survivorship of three sexual types of Eulimnadia texana based on a linkage block hypothesis and the male behavioral component. Currently as the Parks and Recreation Director for the Twinsburg Parks and Recreation Department.
Rich Bernhardt (2002) – Thesis: Field measures of relative survivorship of males and hermaphrodites of the androdioecious clam shrimp Eulimnadia texana.
Tom Sanderson (2006) – Thesis: Genetic components of male relative to hermaphrodite survival in the clam shrimp Eulimnadia texana. Currently employed as an Operations Supervisor at Akron water reclamation facility in Akron, OH.
Dr. Chiara Benvenuto (2008) – Dissertation: Precopulatory mate guarding behavior in clam shrimp: A case of intersexual conflict. Currently employed as a Lecturer in Zoology in the School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Dr. Sadie Reed – (2013) Dissertation title: A systematic and biogeographic study of the clam shrimp genus Eulimnadia packard, 1874 (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) and an investigation into the evolution and maintenance of androdioecy in Eulimnadia dahli Dakin, 1914. Currently employed as the Department Chair of the Biological and Environmental Sciences Department, Manchester Community College in Manchester, NH.
Dr. Lara Roketenetz – (2014) Dissertation title: Investigation of inter- and intraspecific genetic variability of Euhrychiopsis lecontei, a biological control agent for the management of Eurasian watermilfoil. Currently employed as the Field Station Manager for the Martin Field Station at The University of Akron.
Dr. Tim Astrop – (2013) Dissertation title: The evolutionary dynamics of sexual systems in deep time: an integrated biological and paleontological approach. Currently employed as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath.
Dr. Bryan Brown (2011) Honorary Graduate Student (i.e. undergrads who work as hard as graduates!) Currently employed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Seattle Children’s Hospital in Seattle, Washington.
Alissa Calabrese (2021) – Dissertation: Theoretical and empirical tests of evolutionary models predicting androdioecy to be an evolutionarily stable mating system
Not Pictured Above:
Bob Bennett (1998) – Thesis: Inbreeding depression in the androdioecious clam shrimp, Eulimnadia texana.
Julie Hutchison (1999) – Thesis: Fertilization rates in two populations of the androdioecious ephemeral pond crustacean, Eulimnadia texana.
Parker Stoller (2019) – Thesis: The impact of road salt on macroinvertebrate communities in temporary wetlands in northeast Ohio.
Jessica Parant (2019) – Thesis: A comparative study of small headwater streams in northeast Ohio regarding restoration.
Connor Lang (2021) – Thesis: Exploring the sex chromosome evolution of clam shrimp.
