Research

Dr. Jana Houser, Assistant Professor of Geography, co-authored an article on “A Mobile Rapid-Scanning X-band Polarimetric (RaXPol) Doppler Radar System” in the July 2013 Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. Her co-authors were Andrew L. Pazmany and James B. Mead of ProSensing Inc. in Amherst, MA, and Howard B. Bluestein […]

Two Biological Sciences undergraduate students presented a paper at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. William Ternes and Celeste Wheeler presented “Microhabitat Use of the Big Levels Salamander: A Microendemic Plethodontid,” co-authored with graduate student Vincent Farallo. The Big Levels […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt waited for it—the simple phrase that would signal one small step for Arabidopsis, one big step for mankind’s knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. “Ready for the science,” said the Kennedy Space Center engineer on July 9. Dr. Darren Luesse handed the engineer a small petri dish […]

Biological Sciences graduate student Taylor Phillips presented a paper on”Seasonal Movements of the Sandstone Falls Population of Lower New River  Walleye” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Her co-author was Dr. Matthew White, Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. […]

Dr. Molly Morris, Professor of Biological Sciences, presented a paper on”Intralocus Tactical Conflict and the Evolution of ‘Reversible’ Alternative Reproductive Tactics” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Abstract: Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) are characterized by consistent and discrete variation […]

Biological Sciences alum Matthew Lattanzio ’14Ph.D.  presented two papers at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Lattanzio earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University in 2014. From Disturbance to Fitness: Selective Consequences […]

  Biological Sciences student Sarah Kitson presented a paper on “Performance of Malaclemys terrapin Hatchlings: Variation in Seasonal ” at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN. Her co-author was Dr. Willem Roosenburg, Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Abstract: […]