People in the lab

Principal Investigator:

  

David Chalcraft

chalcraftd@ecu.edu

 

Dave is interested in understanding factors that control the intensity of interactions among species, processes that control the trophic structure and biodiversity of aquatic and terrestrial communities, and the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and population and community dynamics.

 
   
Graduate Students:  

 

Natalie Amoroso

NAA0813@ecu.edu

 MS student.  Natalie is examing how the phenology of dragonfly colonization affects the biodiversity of aquatic insects that are present in ponds.
 

Leah Connell

PMC0425@ecu.edu

 MS student.  Leah is comparing the relative effects of a native and non-native crayfish on the growth and survival of larval frogs.
 

Jon Davenport

JMD1125@ecu.edu

 Doctoral student.  Jon is examing mechanisms that allow predators (larval Aeschnid dragonflies and larval marbled salamanders) to coexist.
 

Robby Deans

RAD1009@ecu.edu

 MS student.  Robby has just joined the lab and is in the process of developing a thesis project.
 

Jason Hernandez

PJH0401@ecu.edu

 MS student.  Jason is examining mechanisms through which overwintered tadpoles influence the growth and survival of tadpoles that are oviposited into ponds during the spring.
 

Lauren McCarthy

LCM0306@ecu.edu

 Doctoral student.  Lauren is a new student in the lab and is in the process of developing her dissertation project.
 

Chuck Williams

CAW1125@ecu.edu

 MS student.  Chuck is a new student in the lab and is attempting to evaluate the impact of turtles on spatial variation in the invertebrate biodiversity within fishless ponds.
   
Undergraduate students:  
  2009 Field crew  
  2008 Field crew  (Left to right) Matthew Prentice, Brooks Lowe, and Freddie Herrera
   
Visiting Scientists:  
     
   
Alumni:  
Tracy Rogers MS (2007).  The influence of hydroperiod on competitive interactionsamong larval anurans.