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.