LAB MEMBERS
These are the up-and-coming professionals who make it all happen. . .
Present Members
Felisha Walls
Felisha is entering the final stages her PhD program, focusing on the co-drivers of environmental and human health. She has worked hard to assemble a robust, national scale data set on stream health and human health, and is now using a “macrosystems ecology” approach to better understand links between environmental and human health.
Kaycee Faunce
Kaycee is using a combination of radiocarbon and digital stream network data to model the age of carbon within U.S. rivers. This work is important because rivers move and store massive amounts of carbon, with significant (and underappreciated) consequences for global carbon budgets. She recently joined the U.S. Geological Survey here in Richmond, VA.
Giancarlo Racanelli
Giancarlo is studying the macroinvertebrate and fish size spectrum within the South Fork Rockfish River in Nelson County, VA. He is particularly interested in testing whether invertebrate and fish size spectra are temporally synchronous phenomena. If not, it may be prudent to model the fish size spectrum as a function of prior invertebrate densities. This is going to be a great project!
Past Members
Lindsey Hendrick
Lindsey used Maximum Entropy species distribution models to predict climate-driven shifts in fish habitat within West Virginia rivers. She used these models to identify species that may suffer increasing exposure to mountaintop removal mining. Her thesis was published in the Northeastern Naturalist. Lindsey is now working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Taylor Woods
Taylor is an ace macroecologist and programmer who studied the effects of biotic and abiotic influences on the Mid-Atlantic distribution of the American Eel. She also has crazy skills in data visualization. Her thesis was published in Ecography. Taylor is now working on a PhD in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Xingli Giam lab) at the University of Tennessee.
Andrew Kirk
Andrew studied seasonal changes in the size spectrum for benthic macroinvertebrates and fishes in West Virginia streams. This work helped set the stage for much of the subsequent size spectra research in the McGarvey lab. His thesis was published in Hydrobiologia. Andrew is now doing stream assessment work with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.