Professional

I earned a B.S. in Biology with a Minor in Chemistry from Nazareth College of Rochester in 2004 and I am currently in the Aquatic Ecology PhD program at Kent State University.  My research thus far has focused on the role of crayfish in detrital dynamics.  Stream-dwelling crayfish can be an important shredder in temperate-forested streams, and I have examined how crayfish processing of leaf-species of differing food quality can influence food quality of the resulting fine particulate organic matter.

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