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Ethan White |
My research focuses on quantitative macroecology, using large ecological databases, advanced statistical methods, and theoretical modeling to understand broad scale ecological patterns. I am also interested in the temporal dynamics of biological systems and the use of sensor networks for collecting ecological and environmental data. |
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Morgan Ernest |
My research is a mix of community ecology and macroecology, with a dash of life history interests. I am primarily an empirical ecologist with a field ecology background. Officially, I'm interested in the long-term dynamics of communities - how communities respond to environmental changes or shifts in the identity of the dominant species. My core field site is the Portal Project, a long-term research site initiated by James H. Brown and associates in 1977. Unofficially, I'm broadly curious and go where my curiosity takes me. |
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Katherine Thibault |
Kate is interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying community assembly across space and time and, therefore, biodiversity and dynamics in this changing world. She uses a combination of field techniques and ecoinformatics to this end. Her field experience has encompassed rodents, bats, and cougars, primarily in the southwestern U.S., and her informatics experience includes extensive use of relational databases, including MSAccess and MySQL, ArcGIS, and programming in MATLAB and php. |
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Xiao Xiao |
Xiao joined the lab in Fall 2008. She has a background in theoretical and microcosm ecology having done theoretical work on the coexistence of species on a single resource under predator-prey oscillations and experimental research on the influence of competition on zooplankton dispersal. She is currently interested in ecological theories that are general enough to be applied to large spatial scales. |
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Glenda Yenni |
Glenda works at the Portal Project and so far she is interested in how coexistence among species is affected by invasion, extinction, and climate change. She is also currently working on a M.S. in Statistics working with Mevin Hooten. |
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Sarah Supp |
Sarah started Fall 2007 and comes to us from Valparaiso University. Sarah is interested in exploring metacommunity dynamics and has also discovered that rodents really aren't that bad. |
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Ken Locey |
Ken joined the lab in Fall 2008. He has an extensive background in field biology having studied dispersal ecology in Mediterranean Geckos, avian community ecology and Spiny-tailed Iguanas in Brownsville Texas, Sonoran Mud Turtle populations in New Mexico, and Barn Owl prey diversity across Oklahoma. His current research interests include microbial biogeography. |
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Mikaelle Giffen |
Mikaelle joined the lab in Fall 2008. She is currently working on a research project in the Ernest lab related to understanding changes in the body size of Dipodomys species in response to climate change. She is working in the White lab collecting data on mammal communities from the literature. |
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Clayton Bingham |
Clayton is working on a project trying to understand the influence of body size on community structure in mammals. |