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Rachel Allee
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: alleer@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic:
Advisor: Deb Donovan
Link to advisor's webpage:Donovan Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Gwen Bury
Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: buryg@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
: I study the thermal requirements and sensitivities of a frog endemic to the pacific northwest, the coastal tail frog, Ascaphus truei.
Advisor: Dr. Roger Anderson
Undergrad institution and degree: Southern Oregon University, 2002.
Year started WWU: 2006 |
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Lauren Chomiczewski
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: chomicl@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: I am observing developmental affects on larval crabs by manipulating the algal diets of their heterotrophic prey, including toxic algae.
Advisor: Dr. Steve Sulkin
Adivisor's webpage: Sulkin Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Florida Institute of Tecnology; Marine Biology
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Justin Craig
Office: BI 437
Office phone:
Email: craigj5@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: I am studying a reverse genetic approach to elucidating the function of members of a proton pump gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Young
Advisor’s webpage: Young Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: University of Washington, B.S. Geological Sciences 1996
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Phillip Dugger
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: duggerp@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Community ecology and plant/herbivore/pollinator interactions.
Advisor: Roger Anderson
Link to advisor's webpage: Roger Anderson
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 (grad study) |
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Carmen Guerra
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: guerrac2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Gisele Muller-Parker
Link to advisor's webpageMuller-Parker Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Samantha Hamlin
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: hamlins@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Ben Miner
Link to advisor's webpage:Miner Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Sarah Hardee
Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: hardees@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic:"Home range size and intra-annual variation of harbor seal (Phoca vitulina
richardsi) abundance and haul-out site distribution in northern Washington and southern British Columbia." - I am looking at where harbor seals haul-out of the water during different times of the year and how far they travel from their main haul-out.
Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Acevedo
Advisor’s webpage: Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Bachelors degree in Biology and Environmental Studies from Whitman College in Walla Walla.
Year started WWU: 2006 |
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Sarah Harper Smith
Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: harpers2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic : "Relative influence of riparian cover and groundwater inflow on stream temperature in lowland Whatcom County, Washington" - I'm looking at stream temperatures in 500m reaches of 10 streams around the county, as well as evaluating the performance of the SSTEMP model with regards to those reaches.
Advisor:Dr. David Hooper
Advisor’s webpage:Hooper Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Seattle Pacific University & Audubon Expedition Institute (Lesley College); B.S. Ecological Studies - B.A. in Biology
Year started WWU: 2005 |
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Aaron Jacobsen
Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: jacobsa9@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: A Comparison of reptile and avian diversity and abundance in burned and unburned high elevation shrub-steppe habitat.
Advisor: Dr. Roger Anderson
Undergrad institution and degree: College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse NY – B.S. Environmental and Forest Biology, 2004
Year started WWU: 2007 |
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Mike Levine
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: levinem3@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Gisele Muller-Parker
Link to advisor's webpage:Muller-Parker Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Kathryn Luxa
Office: BI 348
Office phone:
E-mail: luxak@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: For my thesis, I'm describing harbor seal diet in two shallow, estuarine habitats in northern Puget Sound: Padilla Bay and Drayton Harbor. I'm currently working on scat sample processing and prey identification.
Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez
Link to advisor’s webpage: Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Southampton College of Long Island
University; B.S. Marine Science – Marine Vertebrate Biology concentration
Year started WWU: 2004 |
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Sasha Mcfarland
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: mcfarla3@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Alejandro Acevedo
Link to advisor's webpage:Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007
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Sean Powers
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: powerss6@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Roger Anderson
Link to advisor's webpage:
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007
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Mark Price
Office: BI 254
Office phone: 650-3928
Email: Mark.Price@wwu.edu
Thesis topic:
Advisor: Craig Moyer
Link to advisor's webpage:Moyer Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Appalachian State University, B.S. Biology
Year started WWU:2007 (grad study)
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Allen Rassa
Office: BI 440
Office phone: 650-7469
Email: rassaa@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Craig Moyer
Link to advisor's webpage:Moyer Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007
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Kenady Reuland
Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7464
Email: reulank@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Harbor Seal Foraging Ecology in the Inland Waters of Washington and Canada: Implications for Marine Protected Areas
Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez
Link to advisor’s webpage: Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Willamette University, B.A. in Biology
Year started WWU:2006 |
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Megan Riddle
Office: 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: riddlem2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: The DM Gene Family in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia
vitripennis: An analysis of gene structure and expression
Advisor: Dr. Carol Trent
Link to advisor’s webpage: Trent Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Western Washington University/ Spanish
Year started WWU: A long time ago |
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Johnathan Robinson
Office: 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: robins25@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Effects of Wave Force and Temperature on the Energetics of a Local Abalone
Advisor: Dr. Deborah Donovan
Link to advisor’s webpage: Donovan Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: B.A. Marine Science, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 2005.
Year started WWU:2006 |
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Tonya Santoro
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: santort@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Carol Trent
Link to advisor's webpage:Trent Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Sarah Schuster Howard
Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: schusts2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) ecology and foraging behavior in the San Juan Islands, WA
Advisor: Alejandro Acevedo
Link to advisor's webpage:Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Colorado College 2000 Year started WWU:2007
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Zachary Siegrist
Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: siegriz@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Temperature and salinity tolerances of the invasive purple varnish clam Nuttallia obscurata, the native littleneck clam Protothaca staminea and the commercially-important Manila clam, Venerupis philippinarum
Advisor: Deborah Donovan
Link to advisor's webpage: Donovan Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S. in Biology and French
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Daniel Slakey
Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7464
Email: slakeyD@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Dave Hooper
Link to advisor's webpage:Hooper Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 |
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Austen Thomas
Office phone: 650-2116
Email:thomas20@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis Topic: I plan to study the directed movements of harbor seals in the Georgia
Basin by analyzing changes in local oceanographic conditions that may motivate such behavior.
Advisor: Alejandro Acevedo
Web Page: Acevedo lab
Undergrad Institution and Degree: Bachelors degree in Biology WWU (2004)
M.S. Started: 2008 |
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Megan Twomey
Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7464
Email: twomeym@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic:Protein tracking in Petunia pistils
Advisor: Dr. Anu Singh-Cundy
Link to advisor's webpage:
Undergrad institution and degree:WWU- Biology
Year started WWU:2006 (grad) |
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Barry Wendling
Office: BI 235
Office phone: 650-7344
Email: wendlib@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: 'A phylogeographic analysis of selected rare Campanula from Western North America'.
The study will look at the relationship of a small number of primarily cordilleran Campanulas based on molecular and morphological information relative to their geographic and topographic distribution(s). This approach has the ability to illuminate cryptic diversity, refugial areas, routes of dissemination, factors promoting speciation, and even time of divergence.
Advisor: Dr. Eric DeChaine
Undergrad institution and degree:B.S. Biology, Plant Science Emphasis, 1984
Year started WWU: 2003 |
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Amanda Winans
Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: winansa@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: "Effects of hypoxia on feeding rates of the major
gelatinous predators in Puget Sound" I will be looking at how low dissolved oxygen affects feeding rates of jellyfish and ctenophores on their copepod prey.
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Purcell
Link to advisor’s webpage: Purcell Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Occidental College, B.A. in Biology,
emphasis on Marine Biology
Year started WWU: 2006 |
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Rachel Zack
Office:BI 447
Office phone:
Email: zackr@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic :My thesis will examine the evolution of reproductive barriers between the beetles Chrysochus auratus and C. cobaltinus. The study will focus on cuticular hydrocarbon pheromones important for mate recognition. I will examine cuticular hydrocarbons of C. auratus and C. cobaltinus females across a broad geographic range to test the hypothesis that reinforcing selection has led to divergence within the hybrid zone.
I will also use microsatellite analysis to study how differences in cuticular hydrocarbon composition relate to genetic differences between populations.
Advisor: Dr. Merrill Peterson
Link to advisor’s webpage: Peterson Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: B.S. from The Evergreen State College
Year started WWU: 2005 |
