Former Lab Members

Matt Kamm, PhD (2019)
Thesis: "The specifics of avian natural history and their relevance to conservation of declining species"
Current Position: Outreach Coordinator with the Field Conservation Department at Zoo New England

Charles van Rees, PhD (2018)
Thesis: "Landscape connectivity and extinction risk for the Hawaiian Gallinule under changes in land use and climate"
Current Position: Postdoc at the University of Georgia, working in the River Basin Center on the biodiversity arm of a project with the Network on Engineering with Nature

Jen Mortensen, PhD (2016)
Thesis: "How social behavior affects the dynamics and extinction risk of small animal populations, particularly cooperative breeders"
Current Position: Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas

Sasha Keyel, PhD (2012)
Thesis: "Examining the effects of behavior, landscape fragmentation, and climate change on avian distributions"
Current Position: Research Affiliate, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health

David DesRochers, PhD (2010)
Thesis: "Distribution and ecology of the Hawaiian Moorhen"
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Natural Sciences, Dalton State College

Brian Tavernia, PhD (2010)
Thesis: "Evaluating violations of modeling assumptions as potential contributors to apparently inconsistent landscape effects within imperiled ecological systems"
Current Position: Saline Lakes Ecologist, National Audubon Society

Peter Clark, MS (2005)
Thesis: "Butterfly diversity in an urban to suburban gradient"
Current Position: Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences

Nina Fefferman, PhD (2005)
Thesis: "Application of various modeling techniques to problems in disease spread"
Current Position: Full Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee

Mark D. Cooperman, MS (2003)
Thesis: "Factors contributing to physiological stress in a pool-breeding amphibian, Ambystoma maculatum"
Current Position: Owner, EcoTerra Design & Consulting, LLC

Rebecca N. Homan, PhD (2003)
Thesis: "Conservation studies of amphibian health at individual, population, and landscape scales"
Current Position: John and Christine Warner Professor, Department of Biology, Denison University

Jon R. Regosin, PhD (2003)
Thesis: "Terrestrial habitat use by pool-breeding amphibians in a suburban landscape"
Current Position: Deputy Director, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife

Eve N. Schlüter, PhD (2003)
Thesis: "Moss community composition and persistence in industrial and old-growth forests: implications for forest management"
Current Position: Assistant Director of Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife

Rebecca J. Harris, PhD (2001)
Thesis: "The effects of fragmentation by forestry on behavior, movement, and reproductive success of black-throated blue warblers"
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Masters in Conservation Medicine Program, Cumming School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University

Marcelo Bonta, MA (2000), joint degree between Biology and Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy
Thesis: "Recovery plans for endangered and threatened birds form the contiguous U.S.: How can the scientific basis of recovery criteria be strengthened?"
Current Positions: Founder & Executive Director, Center for Diversity and the Environment; President, Marcelo Bonta Consulting

Scott A. Fleury, PhD (2000)
Thesis: "Population and community dynamics in western riparian avifauna: the role of the red-naped sapsucker"
Current Position: Principal, Habitat Conservation Planning, ICF International