Graduate Students
| Name and degree | Project title | |
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David Sherer MS, 2019 |
Variation in prospecting behavior and drivers of post-fire habitat preference among juvenile Florida Scrub-Jays
Current position: Biologist, US Fish and Wildlife Service |
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Alicia Huber MS, 2017 |
Mucking about: hydrologic regime and soil C storage in restored subtropical wetlands Current position: Ecologist, Atkins, Atlanta, GA |
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Lindsay Skovira MS, 2016 |
Transforming the urban aquatic landscape: nutrient status and management of stormwater basins Current position: Interdisciplinary Physical Scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency |
Undergraduate students
| Name | Year | Project title |
| Yaelle Reeve | 2024 | How sweet it is: enhancing nectar production in native plants for urban landscapes |
| Jennifer McNamara | 2023 | If you plant it, will they come: attracting pollinators in suburban landscapes |
| Marie Burdett | 2023 | Flower power: using native plants to enhance pollinator habitat in suburban developments |
| Robin Pitilon | 2022 | Indirect effects of compost on pollinators in suburban native plant landscapes |
| Tuesday Piper | 2022 | Hygienic behavior an varroa mite infestation in the honey bee, Apis mellifera |
| Alexander Gregory | 2021 | Seasonal and diurnal patterns of pollen collection by honeybees, Apis mellifera |
| Caroline Ibarra | 2021 | Pollinator abundance and diversity in urban and natural landscapes |
| Ghada Swissi | 2019 | Assessing treatment thresholds for varroa mites (Varroa destructor) using two common monitoring methods |
| Michelle Winter | 2019 | Prevalence of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha in monarch, Danaus plexippus butterfly populations in different central Florida habitats |
| Elise Decuba | 2018 | Sub-lethal effects of herbicide, glufosinate ammonium, on a non-target plant, Bidens alba |
| Allison Malay | 2018 | Assessing honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging behavior using olfactory conditioning |
| Jessica Jowais | 2017 | Predicting induced secondary metabolite response in Helianthus species using spectral reflectance methods |
| Shiala Naranjo | 2017 | Seasonal patterns of bee diversity in three different habitat types on the UCF campus |
| Matthew Rudolph | 2017 | Distribution of wild honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera in the UCF natural lands |
| Yvelande Raymond | 2016 | A comparative study of bee diversity in three different urban landscape types |
| Corine Faehn | 2015 | Effects of invasive apple snail (Pomacea insularum) on littoral vegetation of urban stormwater ponds |
| Jessica Sandoval | 2014 | Impact of roosting bats in stormwater pipes on urban stormwater quality |
| Melissa Paduani | 2013 | How “natural” are shoreline plant communities in constructed stormwater ponds? |
| Marisa Zimmerman | 2012 | Distribution and habitat use of sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) in a complex urban landscape |
| Danielle Lang | 2011 | Differences in aquatic macroinvertebrate community structure between natural lentic systems and human made lentic systems |
| Linh Anh Cat | 2011 | An apple snail a day keeps the plants away: effects of an invasive snail on aquatic plants and ecosystems |
| Sasha Tittel | 2011 | Effects of companion planting on pest occurrence and plant growth |
| Rachel King | 2010 | Seasonal patterns of nutrient (N and P) concentrations of stormwater ponds on the UCF campus |