Interests: I am broadly interested in understanding how plant communities respond to and interact with disturbance in forested ecosystems and how changing plant communities influence biogeochemistry, biogeography, and energy balances. Currently, I am pursuing these interests in the temperate coastal rainforest of Southeast Alaska. Please visit my professional website for more information, https://www.trevoracarter.com/
Research Interests: I’m a landscape and spatial ecologist, in my 4th-year as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Colorado Denver. I work in the intersection of paleoecology, landscape ecology, and disturbance ecology, using field, lab, and modeling tools to study how ecosystems change over space and time.
Interest: I'm interested in urban raptor ecology and the urban wildlife information network. Please visit my professional website for more information. https://www.alyssadavidge.com/
Research interests include understanding how young adults learn biological concepts using cooperative and phenomena-based approaches and how to best support teacher implementing those strategies.
Joseph has graduated into the department's PhD Program. Interests: designing a novel way to extract and isolate nascent-RNA in hopes to determine the thermal sensitivity of transcription.
Research Interests: Broadly I am interested in all things related to insects and have a passion for pollinators and how they interact with their environment. My research questions use Drosophila melanogaster to answer questions about developmental plasticity and further our understanding of how insects respond to cold stress.
Interests: My doctoral work is on limber pine at treeline in Rocky Mountain National Park, determining its treeline distribution, variables associated with its occurrence there, and the viability of limber pine seeds produced across high elevations. More broadly, my research interests include remote sensing and GIS applications to landscape ecology and biogeography, and restoration ecology under changing climate.
Interest: I'm interested in urban raptor ecology and the urban wildlife information network. Please visit my professional website for more information. https://www.alyssadavidge.com/
Interests: My broad research interests include animal population dynamics and behavioral ecology. Currently, my research focuses on migratory ecology and demography of an inland breeding shorebird of conservation interest, the Mountain Plover. I am interested in how migration strategies vary between individuals across the landscape and how this variation is affected by environment and phenotype. Additionally, how does this variation translate to population level effects on seasonal distribution and population...
Interests: Demographics, Species Distribution Modeling, Population Genetics, Plant Conservation. The study of applied plant conservation. I conduct field research on plant population dynamics and model species distributions, population level genetic structure, and response to climate change.
Interests: include restoration ecology, seed-based conservation, and plant ecology. Her PhD dissertation is on the ‘Implications of Local Adaptation on Seed Sourcing for North American Prairie Restoration Under Climate Change’. She conducts field, greenhouse, and genetic research on prairie restoration at Denver Botanic Gardens York St. and Chatfield Farms.
Ph.D. • 2018 • Cushing Lab, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Department of Integrative Biology
Research Interests: Desert zombies, mata vendados, spawns of satan, and madre de alacranes are all colloquial names for camel spiders. Camel spiders, in the arachnid order Solifugae, are an interesting and perplexing group of arachnids distributed on all continents except Antarctica and Australia. Erika Garcia is a doctoral student based at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science working with Dr. Paula Cushing on camel spiders within the family Eremobatidae...
Ph.D. • 2021 • Cushing Lab, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Department of Integrative Biology
I am currently studying evolutionary relationships between camel spiders (solifuges) using phylogenomics and revising taxonomic characters used to name camel spider species. I also am interested in camel spider behavior, specifically how they locate their prey and their use of daytime retreats.
