Student Research
This page tells you about the graduate and undergraduate students working
in my lab.
Interested Graduate Students
My general advice is to gain some prior research experience so that
you feel confident in devoting 2-3 years to a M.S. degree. This can
be attained by getting involved in undergraduate research, working in a
lab, serving as an intern, assisting in field work, or participating in
research programs such as an NSF REU.
If you find yourself interested in joining my lab, then send me an e-mail
with a CV if you have one. Let me know something about yourself,
your academic history, and why you want to conduct research in my lab.
If you have some specific research interests in mind, let me know.
Just to let you know, I expect my students to be active in the lab and
department by attending seminars, participating in discussions, presenting
data at professional meetings, applying for funds by writing grants, writing
manuscripts for publication, and having fun being a productive graduate
student.
Currently, I am not accepting any new graduate students, unless,
you have already contacted me about joining the lab.
Graduate Students
Timothy Worrall (in the bandana)
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Received his B.S. from Middle Tennessee State University
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Thesis Project: Mercury contamination in a population of cottonmouths
in East Texas.
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Plans to finish in 2010
Carrie Casteel
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Received her B.S. from University of Tennessee at Martin
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Thesis Project: Effect of nest emergence timing on whole body performances
of hatchling turtles.
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Plans to finish in 2009
Lacy Danikas
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Received her B.S. from Francis Marion University
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Thesis Project: Latitudinal cline in the thermal physiology of the watersnake
Nerodia
sipedon.
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Plans to finish in 2009
Jerrod Shipman
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Received his B.S. from Bowling Green State University
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Thesis Project: Thermal biology of hibernation in Nerodia sipedon
in Middle Tennessee.
Undergraduate Students
Carly Neilson & Hailey Burton
Ginny Schlitt
Recent Students
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Chad Hanna, graduated 2005, M.S. Thesis - Thermal Consequences
of Nest-Site Selection in the Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia viridans
(Araneae: Oxyopidae), currently an assistant professor of biology at California
University of Pennsylvania.
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Jeff Green, graduated 2005, M.S. Thesis - Thermal Biology
of the Eastern Racer (Coluber constrictor) in Middle Tennessee,
currently a biology instructor at Nashville State Community College.
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Brad Glorioso, graduated 2006, M.S. Thesis - Population Ecology
and Feeding Activity of the Skinkpot Turtle, Sternotherus odoratus
Latreille (Kinosternidae), at Reelfoot Lake, Lake Co., Tennessee., currently
a field biologist in Louisiana.
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Jake Pruett, graduated 2006, B.S. Researched rattlesnake movement
and body temperature via telemetry, recently finished a M.S.at University
of Texas at Tyler and did thesis work on cottonmouth thermal ecology.
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Collin Jaeger, graduated 2008, M.S. Thesis - Spatial Ecology of
the Painted Turtle and Red-eared Slider in Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, currently
a Ph.D. student at Northern Illinois University.
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Diane Massey, graduated 2009, M.S. Thesis - Thermal Effects on Prey
Preference in Common Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getula), currently
a Ph.D. student at Brock University.
If any MTSU biology major is interested in getting some research
experience with reptiles, please contact me. We can consider current
or new projects. I would consider thermal projects on a variety of
organisms.
Last Update: 8/24/09
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