08/12/08

My lab currently is teaming with activity in a multitude of directions, focusing in pollination ecology, mammalian ectoparasites, and forensic entomology.

The lab is made up of three current graduate students, listed below:

Traci Guckian - Endoparasitic Communities of Small Rodents in the Trans-Pecos

Cynthia McAlister - Pollination ecology of CDRI - What's the Buzz?

Rosalva (Rosie) Meraz - Ectoparasitic Communities of Small Rodents in the Trans-Pecos

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Andrew Berezin (a graduate student in Dr. Platt's Lab) is also involved with the monitoring and management of the salt cedar beetle, Diorhabda elongata, from Candelaria to Presidio, thanks to a grant issued to the RGI.

Prior students associated with the lab.

Amy Slover - Biology of Opuntia davisii (Graduated Summer 2006) - Coadviser

Jeff Bardwell - Diet selection by ontogenetic patterns in the yellow mud turtle (Kinosternon flavescens) - (Graduated Fall 2006)

Anne Marie Hilscher - education specialty, non-thesis option (Graduated Spring 2006)

Kari Murabito - education specialty, non-thesis option (Graduated Summer 2006)

Ron Schulze - education specialty, non-thesis option (Graduated Fall 2006)

Tiffany Beck - Environmental factors affecting ectoparasite density in bridge roosting Tadarida brasiliensis (Chiroptera: Molossidae). (Graduated Spring 2007)

Allison Leavitt - non-thesis option (Transferring to Texas A&M)

Dan Leavitt - Reassessing a lizard survey in Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. (Graduated Spring 2007)

Tara Poloskey - A Comparison of Artificial Structure Use and Associated Vegetation Characteristics between Midwestern and Trans-Pecos Bats (Graduated Summer 2008)

Tim Mullet - GIS model validation for predicting Mexican Spotted Owl habitat in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas (Defended Summer 2008)

PICTURES!

Cynthia McAlister taking readings during her pollinator study at CDRI (photo by C. Hoyt)

Tara Poloskey wading for bats in Indiana       Tiffany Beck weighting a bat

And congrats to our most recent graduates...

Tara Poloskey & Tim Mullet!!!

  More Pictures and Progress to Come...