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 Azure Bevington and Elizabeth Dukes collecting salt marsh snail data at Waties Island.

Undergraduate research

Students in the Department of Biology at CCU are encouraged to become involved in faculty research. Students interested in conducting ecological research should contact me. Typically, students first volunteer to help with lab or field research I am conducting to learn whether research is something they would like to do. Next, students wanting to do more research will usually sign up for 1 or more undergraduate research credits (BIOL 399) for 1 or more semesters. Students wishing to do independent research can sign up for BIOL 499 credits. Finally, I also work with honor's students working on their honor's thesis. Honor's research is best started at least 1 year before graduation.

BIOL 399 students:
Student Status Project(s)
Ammie Levi Graduated Stream bioassessment
Matthew Farrell Graduated Stream bioassessment
Jason Rumpler Graduated; ORISE student researcher at US EPA Salt marsh ecology
Daniel Susral Graduated; High-school teacher Stream bioassessment
Monica Levitt Graduated Stream floodplain ecology
Marguerite Casil Graduated, CCU MAT student Salt marsh ecology
Allie Boltz Graduated; MS student at Johns Hopkins Salt marsh ecology
Katie Brazel Graduated Stream bioassessment
Wyatt Wise Graduated Stream bioassessment
Melanie Carter Graduated Stream bioassessment
Robert Barnes Graduated Stream bioassessment
Kasey Greenwald Graduated Stream bioassessment
Christina Taylor Graduated Stream bioassessment
Chris Sauri Graduated Wetland invertebrate ecology; Salt marsh ecology
Brittany Thomas Graduated Waccamaw streams bioassessment
Sunni Stewart Graduated Venus flytrap prey
Scott Tomko Graduated Waccamaw streams bioassessment; Venus flytrap prey
Azure Bevington Graduated; PhD from LSU Salt marsh snail ecology
Elizabeth Dukes Graduated Salt marsh snail ecology
Christa Flick Graduated Development effects on high marsh
Lauren Greenfield Graduated Salt marsh snail ecology
David Player Graduated; Employed with SC DNR Salt marsh snail ecology
Sarah Rider Graduated Development effects on high marsh
Lori Waite Graduated Development effects on high marsh

Honor's thesis students:
Student Status Project(s)
Abby Taylor Current student Prey availability for Venus flytraps in resident and introduced populations
Steven Rosen Graduated Prey capture by very small Venus flytraps in resident and introduced populations
Amber Martin Graduated; Medical school student Functional response of the Venus flytrap using small prey
Emily Marchini Graduated; USGS intern

Prey capture in response to removing cilia from Venus flytraps

Mason Truluck Graduated Differences in food availability for Venus flytraps in resident and restored populations
Jessica Humenik Graduated; Pharmacy school student Effects of prey size on Venus' fly trap feeding
Blair Paul Graduated; Ph.D. Program, UC Santa Barbara Effects of salinity on squid growth
Sunni Stewart Graduated; Indiana U School of Optometry Functional response of the Venus' fly trap
Timothy Downs Graduated Golf course impacts on stream benthic macroinvertebrates
Ryan Lloyd Graduated Development effects on freshwater and saltwater wetlands

Left: Lauren Greenfield attaching permanent tags to periwinkles for growth measurements in the field. Right: Sunni Stewart and Scott Tomko collecting prey from Venus flytraps at Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve.