Graduate students
Research Technician
Undergrad students
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!
Aidan Brown, BS-MS student, from the rowing machine to machine learning, a total operator
Coming soon….
Sandy Emery, what’s a sto-mata with you?
Juan Pablo Gaztambide, got game in grass
André Bochat, you’ll find him in the greenhouse when he’s not out on the river
Jacob Heredia, I da ho what research he’ll cook up next
Ellyn Kinkel, most likely to be recruited by LI-COR
Sehrin Hossain, wood never looked so good
Caroline Tone, did the split-root experiment that they said couldn’t be done
LAB ALUMNI
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! future doctor
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
Rheya Sward, she don’t want no shrubs
Maggie Connolly, da (pressure) bomb
Audrey Casper, analytick (without the Lyme disease)
Stine Omdahl Petersen, knows how to talk to dolphins…well, at least where to find them
Neema Mugofwa, celebrates the Biomass new year, all year long
Paul Leoni, taking his comms skills to the Hill
Reshad Nawal, #1 Phragmites hater
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. Now at the University of the Pacific.
Richard Peel, MS. His Insta is wetlandrich, nuf said!
Caitlin DiCara, MS. Puttin’ the DC in DiCara and Dichanthelium
Justus Jobe, PhD. Plays the fiddle-r crab. Now a postdoc at VIMS in the Kirwan lab.
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, with a smile powered by music, friends, and science. Currently in Colorado working in health tech.
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.
Jess Liu, research technician extraordinaire, short in stature, tall in talent.
Jane Callaghan, a real Jane Do-It-All, now brewing up something new in Seattle
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
Pinki Mondal, University of Delaware
Jarrod Miller, University of Delaware
Denise Breitburg, SERC
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
Yo Chin, University of Delaware
Delphis Levia, University of Delaware
Elizabeth Boyer, Penn State University