Principal Investigator
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Meghan Avolio (click for more info)
Associate Professor Hometown: Croton-on-Hudson, New York Education: Ph.D. from Yale University; M.S. from Fordham University; B.A. from Barnard College Areas of Interest: Plant community ecology, global change, urban ecology, urban trees, grassland dynamics, adaptation, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, dominant species, plant traits, mycorrhizal fungi Top books: War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy); The Museum of Innocence (Orhan Pamuk), The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dosteovsky); The Thursday Next series (Jasper Fforde); The Outlander series (Diana Gabaldon); The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Salman Rushdie); Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver), Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer), Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi), and on and on and on… Favorite Plant: Andropogon gerardii |
Current Lab Members
Olivia Arbogast
Lab Manager
Hometown: Eden, Utah
Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Interest: native and agricultural ecology, rural health, microbial communities, fungi
Top Books: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman), Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens), The Forest Unseen
(David George Haskell), Life of Pi (Yann Martel), The Shell Seekers (Rosamunde Pilcher), Along Came a Dog (Meindert DeJong), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Favorite Plant: Celosia
Lab Manager
Hometown: Eden, Utah
Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Interest: native and agricultural ecology, rural health, microbial communities, fungi
Top Books: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman), Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens), The Forest Unseen
(David George Haskell), Life of Pi (Yann Martel), The Shell Seekers (Rosamunde Pilcher), Along Came a Dog (Meindert DeJong), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Favorite Plant: Celosia
Gisselle Mejía
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hometown: Washington Heights (Northern Manhattan), New York
Education: Ph.D. from the City University of New York; M.S. from Michigan Technological University; B.A. from Case Western Reserve University
Areas of Interest: urban ecology, social-ecological systems, urban trees, forest ecology, biogeochemistry, trait ecology, conservation science, land-use change, environmental inequities, inclusive mentorship, critical pedagogy.
Top Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey), Ismael (Daniel Quinn), Children of Time series (Adrian Tchaikovsky), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe), Discordant Harmonies (Daniel B. Botkin), Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman), The Accidental Buddhist (Dinty W. Moore)
Favorite Plant: Liriodendron tulipifera
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hometown: Washington Heights (Northern Manhattan), New York
Education: Ph.D. from the City University of New York; M.S. from Michigan Technological University; B.A. from Case Western Reserve University
Areas of Interest: urban ecology, social-ecological systems, urban trees, forest ecology, biogeochemistry, trait ecology, conservation science, land-use change, environmental inequities, inclusive mentorship, critical pedagogy.
Top Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey), Ismael (Daniel Quinn), Children of Time series (Adrian Tchaikovsky), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe), Discordant Harmonies (Daniel B. Botkin), Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman), The Accidental Buddhist (Dinty W. Moore)
Favorite Plant: Liriodendron tulipifera
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Beatriz Shobe
PhD Student Hometown: Baltimore, MD Education: M.S. from University of Maryland, Baltimore County; B.S. from University of Maryland, Baltimore County Research Interests: Urban ecology, genetic diversity of urban trees, artificial and domestic selection, biodiversity of urban forest patches, urban forest patch dynamics Top Books: The Twentieth Wife (Indu Sundaresan), Braiding Sweetgrass (Ribin Wall Kimmerer), Children of Blood and Bone series (Tomi Adeyemi), The Red Tent (Anita Diamant), Domesticated: Evolution in a ManMade World (Richard Francis), The Sea Around Us (Rachel Carson), Chrysalis: Biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (Kim Todd) Favorite Plant: Hamamelis virginiana |
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Samantha Votzke
PhD Student Hometown: Tampa, Florida Education: B.S. from Duke University Areas of interest: Urban ecology, urban trees and soils, plant communities, protists Top books: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard), Outlander series (Diana Gabaldon), The Shining (Stephen King), The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto), A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway), Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey), The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) Favorite Plant: Solanum lycopersicum |
Gemma Watson
Undergraduate
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Education: Environmental Science at JHU
Areas of Interest: plant evolution, plant genetics, through the lens of anthropogenic change and agriculture
Top Books: The Overstory (Richard Powers), Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), Ulysses (James Joyce), House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielwski)
Favorite Plant: Trifolium pratense
Undergraduate
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Education: Environmental Science at JHU
Areas of Interest: plant evolution, plant genetics, through the lens of anthropogenic change and agriculture
Top Books: The Overstory (Richard Powers), Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), Ulysses (James Joyce), House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielwski)
Favorite Plant: Trifolium pratense
Max Carroll
Undergraduate
Hometown: Shaker Heights, OH
Education: B.S. Environmental Science at JHU
Areas of Interest: Adaptation of weeds to road salt, plant adaptation to urban heat island, biodiversity distribution in Baltimore, green infrastructure, sustainable urban design
Top Books: The Midnight Library (Matt Haig), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Sapiens (Noah Yuval Harari), Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (Jeff Kinney)
Favorite Plant: Lamium purpureum
Undergraduate
Hometown: Shaker Heights, OH
Education: B.S. Environmental Science at JHU
Areas of Interest: Adaptation of weeds to road salt, plant adaptation to urban heat island, biodiversity distribution in Baltimore, green infrastructure, sustainable urban design
Top Books: The Midnight Library (Matt Haig), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Sapiens (Noah Yuval Harari), Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (Jeff Kinney)
Favorite Plant: Lamium purpureum
Olivia Bond
Undergraduate
Hometown: Reston, Virginia
Education: Environmental Science at JHU
Areas of Interest: Biodiversity and evolution under anthropogenic changes, trees, birds
Top Books: A Tale for the Time-Being (Ruth Ozeki), State of Wonder (Ann Patchett), The Underneath (Kathi Appelt)
Favorite Plant: Ginkgo biloba
Undergraduate
Hometown: Reston, Virginia
Education: Environmental Science at JHU
Areas of Interest: Biodiversity and evolution under anthropogenic changes, trees, birds
Top Books: A Tale for the Time-Being (Ruth Ozeki), State of Wonder (Ann Patchett), The Underneath (Kathi Appelt)
Favorite Plant: Ginkgo biloba
Lab Alumni
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Graduates Eric Yee PhD Smriti Pehim Limbu PhD Jenny Cocciardi Post-Doctoral Fellow Kaitlin Kimmel Post-Doctoral Fellow Ava Hoffman Post-Doctoral Fellow |
Lab Managers
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Undergraduates Ayla Frost Vicki Li Maddy Scott Bay Hanson Hannah Ranft Samantha Lemmer Kaley Sten |
