Most of my graduate students are co-advised with Dr. John McCarty. Students interested in joining our lab should contact either Dr. McCarty or me.
Current graduate students:
Michelle Biodrowski, Heather WIlls, and Jonas Grundman joined the lab this fall and are in the process of developing their thesis projects.
Melissa Mount is studying the effects of urbanization on prairie birds
Lindsey Reinarz is studying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function. Her thesis work addresses whether herbivory rates and insect communities are affected by grassland diversity.
Erin Kucera is studying the effects of grazing on plant and avian communities in the sandhills prairie.
Previous M.S. students
Lorelle Berkeley. 2004. The postfledging ecology of Dickcissels (Spiza americana). MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Page Klug. 2005. The effects of local grassland habitat and surrounding landscape composition on the predators of grassland bird nests. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Nichollette ZooknRider. 2006. The cumulative effects of using transgenic herbicide-tolerant (HT) soybeans on plant and butterfly diversity in marginal field habitat. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Joel Jorgensen. 2007. Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngities subruficollis) Abundance, Habitat Use, and Distribution During Migratory Stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. MS Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha.