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Welcome to the Essner Lab

Current Graduate Students

Amy Docter Feeding and locomotor behavior in the Illinois Chorus Frog
Carolyn Kinnunen Survey of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Ranavirus in a sand prairie amphibian community
Alexis King Radiotelemetry in the Illinois Chorus Frog
Kevin Helenthal Effectiveness of artificial breeding habitat in the Illinois Chorus Frog
Garima Ranabhat TBD
Kehinde Adeniyi TBD

 Current Undergraduate Students 

Spencer Orvis Demography and Behavior in the Illinois Chorus Frog
Hayden Isham Habitat use and home range in the Illinois Chorus Frog
Devin Moore Diet and geometric morphometrics in bullhead catfish

Former Graduate Students

Vance Jones Features and associations of sand prairies in Illinois
Lisa Hebenstreit Population demography of the State Threatened Illinois Chorus Frog in Southwestern Illinois
Rachel Sullivan Handedness in the Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog
Chris Huff Trail camera survey of deer gut piles
Candice Johnson A comparison of feeding and jumping in the Northern Leopard Frog, Lithobates pipiens
Stacia Novy Bill morphometrics in a clade of neotropical raptors
Larry Werner Hibernation ecology in the Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog, Ascaphus montanus
Jeremy Howard Habitat use and movement patterns in the Southern Flying Squirrel, Glaucomys volans
Katie Wiesehan Population demography in the Illinois Chorus Frog, Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis
Jacob Forbes Diet in the Illinois Chorus Frog, Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis
Andrew Bulla Speed effects in snake locomotion.  Andrew is currently conducting small mammal research in the Ozarks for the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Loren Dunham Habitat Modeling and Demography in Flying Squirrels.  Loren is currently employed by Americorps as a crew leader conducting biodiversity surveys at Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park in Southern Texas.
Paul Le

Avian Habitat Use in a Chronosequence of Bottomland Hardwood Forest Restoration Sites.  Paul is currently a doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Denver.

Hollie Lybarger

Detection of Heavy Metals in Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog (Ascaphus montanus) tadpoles near abandoned mines in Northern Idaho.  Hollie is currently an instructor at the College of Coastal Georgia.

Jamay Michael

A Comparison of Aquatic and Terrestrial Landing in Leiopelmatid and Lalagobatrachian Frogs.  Jamay is currently living in Texas and working on publishing her research.

John Wendler

Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Pelvic Shape in Kangaroo Rats (Genus Dipodomys).  John recently finished a second B.S. degree in Computer Science at SIUE.

Travis Wood

Effects of prescribed burning on grassland avifauna at Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary.  Travis is a senior biologist at United Industries in St. Louis.

 

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