Current Graduate Students

 

 

• Travis Blunden (M.S. candidate) -- Effects of scrub restoration techniques on small mammal and herp communities. Read the Herald Tribune News Story about Travis's research!

 

 

• Brian Camposano (M.S. candidate) -- Morphology and geographic distribution of native and non-native anole lizards (Anolis sp.) in Florida.

 

 

• Raya Pruner (M.S. candidate) -- Brood foraging behavior, habitat use, and factors affecting chick survival in the Cuban Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus tenuirostris) a state-threatened species in Florida that nests along the Gulf Coast.

 

 

• Jennifer Bernatis (Ph.D. candidate) -- Ecophysiology and impacts of invasive freshwater channeled apple snails in Florida.

 

 

Previous Graduate Students

 

 

• Gabriel Miller (M.S. December 2008) investigated the ecology of upland snake species of the Southeast, specifically the Florida Pine Snake (Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus), and its interspecies relationships with the Southeastern Pocket Gopher (Geomys pinetus).

 

 

• Betsy Roznik (M.S., December 2007) used radiotelemetry to investigate the movements and microhabitat use of juvenile and adult Florida Gopher Frogs (Rana capito). Betsy currently lives and works in Australia, where she hopes to pursue a doctoral degree.

 

 

• Kris Hoffmann (M.S., December 2007) used novel visual implant elastomer (VIE) to conduct a capture-mark-recapture and removal study of invasive and native treefrogs, in order to evaluate impacts of the invasive Cuban Treefrog.