Graduate students
Research Technician
Undergrad students
Lab alumni
Keryn Gedan, Associate Professor of Biology, Biological Sciences. Enjoys peering into the refractometer and answering the questions of the universe.
kgedan@gwu.edu
Juan Ignacio Martinez, you can call him JIM but only after you share a maté.
Riley Leff, PhD student, pulls trees right out of the ground. Oh, was that a tap root, you say? Not today!
Justus Jobe, PhD student. Plays the fiddle-r crab.
Jess Liu, research technician extraordinaire, short in stature, tall in talent.
Maggie Connolly
Aidan Brown
Audrey Casper
Neema Mugofwa
Paul Leoni
Undergraduate students
Abigail Philbrick, knows Brownsville forest like the back of her hand.
Phoebe Shaw, took a break from blazing through thick Phragmites to go cage diving with sharks in South Africa. For real.
Scott Dai, dedicated to excellence, whether in carpool karaoke or measuring plant functional traits.
Lily Anna Segalman, sailed the seven seas before daring to enter the murky marsh waters.
Sarah Noyes, scholar, athlete, artist, scientist
Rachel Asaeda, researching remotely in a pandemic, no biggie
Henry Becker, if you code it, they will come
Sophia Duchin, observe, hypothesize, repeat.
Connor Judd, always down, never a frown.
Emma Bowditch, engineer/botanist extraordinaire
Charlie Hertz, go-getter who started in the lab as a freshman!
Tommy Huebler, battling ducks and geese for the fate of wildrice restoration.
Eulena Banzer, dares to take precise physiological measurements in a field setting.
Phillip Reeves, adopted from UVA with love and a thesis project idea.
Graduate students
Kathryn Norman, MS Rocks the fanny pack like no one else can.
Ezra Jay Kottler, PhD. Majored in Biology and minored in common sense.
Richard Peel, MS. His Insta is wetlandrich, nuf said!
Caitlin DiCara, MS. Puttin’ the DC in DiCara and Dichanthelium
Postdocs
Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Seed biologist and international man of mystery. Now at University of Oviedo.
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Man Qi, Ecology skillz to the millz. Now at Oxford University.
Kimberly Prince. Defies definition by discipline or study system. Don’t even try it.
Research Technicians
Jess MacGregor
Rose Mohammadi, got the science covered, from coast to coast, fresh to salt, and ground to crown. Currently a graduate student at UC Berkeley
Aliya Khan, circled the globe and landed in Santa Cruz, CA to study marsh biogeochemistry.
Kate Tully and students Dani Weissman and Jesse Wyner (UMD) at one of our field sites on the Maryland Eastern Shore.
COLLABORATORS
Kate Tully, University of Maryland
Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, Resources for the Future
Kelley O'Neal, University of Maryland
Jarrod Miller, University of Delaware
Denise Breitburg, SERC
Andrew Altieri, STRI
Clare Aslan, Northern Arizona University
Benjamin Sikes, Kansas University
Chris Hein, VIMS
Matthew Kirwan, VIMS
David Johnson, VIMS
Sergio Fagherazzi, Boston University
Holly Michael, University of Delaware