Join the lab

Undergraduate students:

The opportunity to dip my toes into the research world as an undergraduate is why I still study plants and insects today. I am always excited to work with undergraduates who are curious about exploring this world themselves. There are opportunities in the lab for students to work on honors or thesis projects and each summer we will be hiring to help collect data for the field season.

Postdocs: While I do not have a funded postdoc position available currently, I am happy to work with postdocs developing proposals for SESYNC, NSF, USDA-NIFA or other external fellowships. There is opportunity to work on projects within the ongoing BiodiversiTREE experiment or a new venture examining how landscaping practices in local urban and suburban yards (e.g. leaf litter removal) impact herbivore and parasitoid populations and nutrient cycling in those landscapes.

Graduate students: I am recruiting for Fall 2024. In general I encourage independent projects for grad students as long as they fit within the general goals of the lab's research program and encourage potential applicants to contact me as well as members of the lab.

Students can apply to the University of Maryland's grad programs through either Entomology (Masters and PhD degrees) or the Biological Sciences interdisciplinary BEES concentration in Behavior Ecology Evolution and Systematics (PhD degree). Either way your home department will be Entomology.