Principal Investigator
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Meghan Avolio (Click for more info)
Assistant 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 Favorite 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… |
Current Lab Members
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Kelsey Coates
Lab Manager Hometown: Annapolis, MD Education: B.S. in Environmental Science from Duquesne University Areas of Interest: Anthropogenic effects on ecosystem services, ecology, and wetlands. Favorite Books: Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), The Awakening (Kate Chopin) |
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Smriti Pehim Limbu
PhD Candidate Hometown: Dharan/Kathmandu, Nepal Education: M.S. in Soil Science from North Carolina State University; B.S. in Agriculture from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science Areas of Interest: Global change effects on plants and soil, plant-microbe mutualism, plant functional traits, plant-plant interaction, related experimental and data synthesis subjects Favorite Books: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), Blue Mimosa (Parijat) Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-odeMNMAAAAJ&hl=en |
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Eric Yee
PhD Candidate Hometown: Staten Island, New York Education: M.A. in Conservation Biology from Columbia University; B.A. in Environmental Studies from Stony Brook University Areas of Interest: Plant morphological and physiological trait variation, seasonal dynamics of plant communities, genetics and protein variation in plants Favorite Books: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), Redwall (Brian Jacques) Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jYOCtfUAAAAJ&hl=en |
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Amy Vasquez
PhD Student Hometown: Miami, FL Education: M.S. in Environmental Science from California State University – Los Angeles; B.S. in Biopsychology & Environmental Studies from Tufts University Research Interests: Urban Ecology Favorite Books: The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern) |
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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, urban biodiversity, urban wildlife ecology, urban forests, human-animal-environment interface and its effects on human and animal health, evolution and adaptation, native vs. invasive plants Favorite Books: The Twentieth Wife (Indu Sundaresan); The Red Tent (Anita Diamant); Remarkable Creatures (Tracy Chevalier); Mistress of the Art of Death (Ariana Franklin); The Sea Around Us (Rachel Caseon); A La Sombra del Angel (Kathryn Skidmore Blair) |
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Ayla Frost
Undergraduate Hometown: Oakland, California Education: Majoring in public health and minoring in environmental studies Areas of Interest: Urban ecology, environmental justice, sustainable farming, plant medicine, urban planning, environmental health, fostering trust and reliability in the healthcare system Favorite Books: The Overstory (Richard Powers); There, There (Tommy Orange); Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) |
Olivia Arbogast
Undergraduate
Hometown: Eden, Utah
Education: Pursuing B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Interest: ecology education and public health
Favorite Books: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman), Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens), The Forest Unseen
(David George Haskell)
Undergraduate
Hometown: Eden, Utah
Education: Pursuing B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Interest: ecology education and public health
Favorite Books: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman), Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens), The Forest Unseen
(David George Haskell)
Vicki Li
Undergraduate
Hometown: Maryland
Education: Pursuing B.S in Environmental Science and Earth & Planetary Sciences
Areas of interest: individual and community responses to global change
Favorite book: All Quiet on the Western Front.
Undergraduate
Hometown: Maryland
Education: Pursuing B.S in Environmental Science and Earth & Planetary Sciences
Areas of interest: individual and community responses to global change
Favorite book: All Quiet on the Western Front.
Lab Alumni
Jenny Cocciardi
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hometown: Mechanicsburg, PA
Education: PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from James Cook University; BA in Environmental Science from New York University
Areas of Interest: Biodiversity and the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape it, rapid adaptation to climate change, quantitative genetics, population genetics
Favorite Books: The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway), The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson), A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson), 11/22/63 (and really anything else by Stephen King), Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hometown: Mechanicsburg, PA
Education: PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from James Cook University; BA in Environmental Science from New York University
Areas of Interest: Biodiversity and the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape it, rapid adaptation to climate change, quantitative genetics, population genetics
Favorite Books: The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway), The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson), A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson), 11/22/63 (and really anything else by Stephen King), Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Kaitlin Kimmel (Click for more info)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hometown: Reading, PA
Education: PhD from University of Minnesota; MS from Saint Joseph's University; BS from Albright College
Areas of Interest: Causes and consequences of biodiversity change
Favorite Books: The Inheritance Trilogy (NK Jemison), The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah), The Binti Trilogy (Nnedi Okorafor), Recursion (Blake Crouch)
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tC5wfGAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hometown: Reading, PA
Education: PhD from University of Minnesota; MS from Saint Joseph's University; BS from Albright College
Areas of Interest: Causes and consequences of biodiversity change
Favorite Books: The Inheritance Trilogy (NK Jemison), The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah), The Binti Trilogy (Nnedi Okorafor), Recursion (Blake Crouch)
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tC5wfGAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Maddy Scott
Undergraduate
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Education: Double B.A. in Mathematics and Natural Science
Areas of Interest: How humans can learn from and use plants: plant evolution and morphology; biomimicry; ecology, engineering and synthetic biology; phytoremediation
Favorite Books: Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood), To the Bright Edge of the World (Eowyn Ivey), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Martian (Andy Weir), Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Undergraduate
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Education: Double B.A. in Mathematics and Natural Science
Areas of Interest: How humans can learn from and use plants: plant evolution and morphology; biomimicry; ecology, engineering and synthetic biology; phytoremediation
Favorite Books: Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood), To the Bright Edge of the World (Eowyn Ivey), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Martian (Andy Weir), Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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Bay Hanson
Undergraduate Hometown: Yarmouth, Maine Education: B.S. in Environmental Studies from Yale College Areas of Interest: Urban ecology, urban forestry, urban parks and trails, city planning, environmental justice Favorite Books: A Room with a View (E.M. Forster); Beloved (Toni Morrison); Reading the Forested Landscape (Tom Wessels); A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf); Persuasion (Jane Austen) |
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Allie Blanchette
Lab Manager 2018 - 2020 Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland Education: B.S. in Environmental Science from UCLA Areas of Interest: Anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems, urban ecology, community ecology, invasive species, conservation Favorite Book: Galápagos (Kurt Vonnegut) |
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Hannah Ranft
Undergraduate JHU Class of 2020 Hometown: Riverside, Illinois Education: B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology Areas of Interest: Urban ecology, plant taxonomy Favorite Books: Wuthering Heights, The Beet Queen Photo property of Smithsonian Natural History Museum, taken by Lucia Martino |
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Samantha Lemmer
Undergraduate JHU Class of 2019 Hometown: Englewood, New Jersey Education: Double B.S. in Earth & Planetary Science and Sociology Areas of Interest: How the natural and social world interact: sustainability, urban ecology, and systems' response to human/outside interventions and changes Favorite Books: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan), Rules of Civility (Amor Towles), Bel Canto (Ann Patchett), Paying for the Party (Laura Hamilton) |
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Kaley Sten
Undergraduate JHU Class of 2019 Hometown: Seattle, Washington Education: Double B.S. in Earth & Planetary Science and Environmental Science Areas of Interest: Interactions between urbanization and coastal systems, ecosystem services, conservation Favorite Books: The Night Circus, Einstein's Dreams, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Running Man, The Martian, Howl and Other Poems, Bel Canto, Dune, Ready Player One |
