Student Research

    This page tells you about the graduate and undergraduate students working in my lab.

    Graduate Students

    Timothy Worrall (in the bandana)

    • Received his B.S. from Middle Tennessee State University
    • Thesis Project:  Mercury contamination in a population of cottonmouths in East Texas.
    • Plans to finish in 2009

     
     

    Carrie Casteel

    • Received her B.S. from University of Tennessee at Martin
    • Thesis Project:  Effect of nest emergence timing on whole body performances of hatchling turtles. 
    • Plans to finish in 2009

     
     

    Diane Massey

    • Received her B.S. from Minnesota State University-Mankato
    • Thesis Project: Role of temperature on prey preference in kingsnakes.
    • Plans to finish in 2009
       
    Lacy Danikas
    • Received her B.S. from Francis Marion University
    • Thesis Project: Latitudinal cline in the thermal physiology of the watersnake Nerodia sipedon.

     

    Interested M.S. Students - Contact me, but I am close to maximum capacity for 2008.

    Undergraduate Students - None at the time, so climb aboard if you are interested.

    Recent Students

    • Chad Hanna, graduated 2005, M.S.  Thesis - Thermal Consequences of Nest-Site Selection in the Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia viridans (Araneae: Oxyopidae), currently Ph.D. student at University of Louisville.
    • Jeff Green, graduated 2005, M.S.  Thesis - Thermal Biology of the Eastern Racer (Coluber constrictor) in Middle Tennessee, currently a biology instructor at Nashville State Community College.
    • Brad Glorioso, graduated 2006, M.S.  Thesis - Population Ecology and Feeding Activity of the Skinkpot Turtle, Sternotherus odoratus Latreille (Kinosternidae), at Reelfoot Lake, Lake Co., Tennessee., currently a field biologist in Louisiana.
    • Jake Pruett, graduated 2006, B.S.  Researched rattlesnake movement and body temperature via telemetry, currently a M.S.at University of Texas at Tyler.
    • Collin Jaeger, graduated 2008, M.S. Thesis - Spatial Ecology of the Painted Turtle and Red-eared Slider in Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, currently a Ph.D. student at Northern Illinois University.


    If any MTSU biology major is interested in getting some research experience with reptiles, please contact me.  We can consider current or new projects.  I would consider thermal projects on a variety of organisms, such as spiders.

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    Last Update: 8/15/08 
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