Current Lab Members

Shannon Dickey

PhD student

Shannon’s research explores the use of eDNA to produce insights into managing aquatic ecosystems in the face of global change.

sd1266 (at) scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Alumni

Mariel Vandegrift, Research Scientist, Cornell University

Mike Allen, PhD, Consultant, Tsuga Biodiversity Insights, NJ

Ryan Almeida, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Villanova University, PA

Jeff (Brown) Clark, PhD, Senior Manager of Applied Climate Research, The Natural Areas Conservancy, NY

Alex Safiq, PhD Marine Salmon Fisheries Policy Coordinator, Washington Depart. of Fish and Wildlife, WA

Lella CrystaL, PhD Data Scientist on Copilot, GitHub, Inc., CA

Oliver Stringham, PhD, Research Analyst, Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute, NJ

Kevin Aagaard, PhD, Senior Data Scientist, AE Strategies, VA

Julian Avery, PhD, Associate Research Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State University, PA

Ben BaIser, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, FL

Curtis Burkhalter, PhD, Sr. Product Manager, AI & Machine Learning, HP, CO

David La Puma, PhD, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service at Cellular Tracking Technologies, NJ

Blake Mathys, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Ohio Dominican University, OH

Alison Seigel Nurok, PhD, Laboratory Professor in Biology, Middlebury College, VT

Liba Pejchar, PhD, Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, CO

Orin J. Robinson Jr., PhD, Research Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, NY

Tom Virzi, PhD, Executive Director, Research Ecologist, Conservation InSight, OR

Laura Reynolds, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Worcester State University, MA

Chris Field, PhD, Director for the Office of Planning and Resilience, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, CT

Rafael Valentin, PhD, Bioinformatics Scientist, Elysium Health, FL

Donnie Peterson, PhD, Marie Curie Post-doc, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SWE

Dustin Welbourne, PhD, Quantitative Geography Consultant, Canberra, AUS  

Rebecca Boulton, PhD, Founder RLB Ecology, AUS

Phillip Cassey, PhD, Australian Research Council Industry Laureate Fellow at the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide.

James Gilroy, PhD, Lecturer in Ecology, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

Robert Somes, MSc, Senior Zoologist, Endangered and Nongame Species Program, NJ

Thom Almendinger, MSc, Director of Stewardship at Teatown Lake Reservation, NJ

William Lynch, Jr., MSc, Director of Engagement & Communication, New Jersey Conservation Foundation.