Research
My post-doctoral training was supported by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) at the EPA.
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My work focuses on determining the effects of pesticides on the North American bumble bee Bombus impatiens.
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See my publications list to see my bumble bee related manuscripts
For my doctoral degree, I examined the influence of abiotic factors on daphnid environmental sex determination. I worked with Daphnia pulex and Daphnia magna for this piece of my research, and the results have been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
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Additionally, I examined the neuroendocrine connection involved in the male sex determining process, and investigated whether neuroactive chemicals perturbed daphnid sex ratios. The results of these studies have been published.
While at NC State, I also had the opportunity to work with aquatic insects and examined their thermal physiology and temperature-related sensitivity to pesticides. The majority of the work was conducted with the mayfly Cloeon dipterum, shown left.
Additionally, I conducted field work and collected benthic macroinvertebrates from around the state.
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Several publications were generated from this work.
After completing college at UW, I worked at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center. There I contributed to a variety of projects including stream sampling, PIT tagging and lavaging fish in the field, conducting developmental toxicity screens in embryonic zebrafish, and sorting and IDing aquatic insects from stream samples.
