Rachel Allee

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: alleer@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic:
Advisor: Deb Donovan
Link to advisor's webpage:Donovan Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Gwen Bury

Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: buryg@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic : I study the thermal requirements and sensitivities of a frog endemic to the pacific northwest, the coastal tail frog, Ascaphus truei.
Advisor: Dr. Roger Anderson
Undergrad institution and degree: Southern Oregon University, 2002.
Year started WWU: 2006

Office:
Office phone:
Email: certom@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic :
Advisor: Dr. Peter Kiffney
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU: 2003

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: chomicl@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: I am observing developmental affects on larval crabs by manipulating the algal diets of their heterotrophic prey, including toxic algae.
Advisor: Dr. Steve Sulkin
Adivisor's webpage: Sulkin Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Florida Institute of Tecnology; Marine Biology
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 437
Office phone:
Email: craigj5@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: I am studying a reverse genetic approach to elucidating the function of members of a proton pump gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Young
Advisor’s webpage: Young Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: University of Washington, B.S. Geological Sciences 1996
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: duggerp@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Community ecology and plant/herbivore/pollinator interactions.
Advisor: Roger Anderson
Link to advisor's webpage: Roger Anderson
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007 (grad study)

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: guerrac2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Gisele Muller-Parker
Link to advisor's webpage:Muller-Parker Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: hamlins@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Ben Miner
Link to advisor's webpage:Miner Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: hardees@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic:"Home range size and intra-annual variation of harbor seal (Phoca vitulina
richardsi) abundance and haul-out site distribution in northern Washington and southern British Columbia." - I am looking at where harbor seals haul-out of the water during different times of the year and how far they travel from their main haul-out.
Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Acevedo
Advisor’s webpage: Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Bachelors degree in Biology and Environmental Studies from Whitman College in Walla Walla.
Year started WWU: 2006

Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: harpers2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic : "Relative influence of riparian cover and groundwater inflow on stream temperature in lowland Whatcom County, Washington" - I'm looking at stream temperatures in 500m reaches of 10 streams around the county, as well as evaluating the performance of the SSTEMP model with regards to those reaches.

Advisor:Dr. David Hooper
Advisor’s webpage:Hooper Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Seattle Pacific University & Audubon Expedition Institute (Lesley College); B.S. Ecological Studies - B.A. in Biology
Year started WWU: 2005

Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: jacobsa9@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: A Comparison of reptile and avian diversity and abundance in burned and unburned high elevation shrub-steppe habitat.
Advisor: Dr. Roger Anderson
Undergrad institution and degree: College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse NY – B.S. Environmental and Forest Biology, 2004
Year started WWU: 2007

Office: BI 334
Office phone:
Email: johns451@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic : Are birds contributing to the spread of Spartina by carrying Spartina seeds to a new location.
Advisor: Anu Singh-Cundy
Undergrad institution and degree: Washington State University, B.S. - Zoology
Year started WWU: 2005

Mike Levine

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: levinem3@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Gisele Muller-Parker
Link to advisor's webpage:Muller-Parker Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Office:
Office phone:
Email: lucash@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic : I'm working with the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and the Woodland Park Zoo on a Head Start/Reintroduction program of the Western Pond Turtle, Clemmys marmorata, - a native but endangered species in Washington.  Specifically, my research involves examining the microhabitat characteristics and hatching success of western pond turtle nest sites in hopes of identifying what kind of terrestrial habitat is necessary for successful nests.
Advisor: Dr. Roger Anderson
Undergrad institution and degree: University of Puget Sound, B.S. Natural Sciences - Animal Behavior emphasis
Year started WWU: 2003

Office: BI 348
Office phone:
E-mail: luxak@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: For my thesis, I'm describing harbor seal diet in two shallow, estuarine habitats in northern Puget Sound: Padilla Bay and Drayton Harbor. I'm currently working on scat sample processing and prey identification.
Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez
Link to advisor’s webpage: Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Southampton College of Long Island
University; B.S. Marine Science – Marine Vertebrate Biology concentration
Year started WWU: 2004

Sasha Mcfarland

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: mcfarla3@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Alejandro Acevedo
Link to advisor's webpage:Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 339
Office phone:
Email: neilsa@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic : Assessing the benthic macroinvertebrate composition in low-land streams in Whatcom County, WA by comparing reaches restored for salmon habitat with unrestored reaches.
Advisor: Dr. David Hooper
Link to advisor’s webpage:Hooper Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU: 2004

Sean Powers

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: powerss6@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Roger Anderson
Link to advisor's webpage:
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 254
Office phone: 650-3928
Email: Mark.Price@wwu.edu
Thesis topic:
Advisor: Craig Moyer
Link to advisor's webpage:Moyer Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Appalachian State University, B.S. Biology
Year started WWU:2007 (grad study)

Allen Rassa

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: rassaa@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Craig Moyer
Link to advisor's webpage:Moyer Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7464
Email: reulank@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Harbor Seal Foraging Ecology in the Inland Waters of Washington and Canada: Implications for Marine Protected Areas
Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez
Link to advisor’s webpage: Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Willamette University, B.A. in Biology
Year started WWU:2006

Office: 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: riddlem2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: The DM Gene Family in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia
vitripennis: An analysis of gene structure and expression

Advisor: Dr. Carol Trent
Link to advisor’s webpage: Trent Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Western Washington University/ Spanish
Year started WWU: A long time ago

Office: 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: robins25@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Effects of Wave Force and Temperature on the Energetics of a Local Abalone
Advisor: Dr. Deborah Donovan
Link to advisor’s webpage: Donovan Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: B.A. Marine Science, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 2005.
Year started WWU:2006

Tonya Santoro

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: santort@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Carol Trent
Link to advisor's webpage:Trent Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Sarah Schuster Howard

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: schusts2@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) ecology and foraging behavior in the San Juan Islands, WA
Advisor: Alejandro Acevedo
Link to advisor's webpage:Acevedo Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Colorado College 2000 Year started WWU:2007
Year started WWU:2007

Zachary Siegrist

Office: BI 416
Office phone: 650-2116
Email: siegriz@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: Temperature and salinity tolerances of the invasive purple varnish clam Nuttallia obscurata, the native littleneck clam Protothaca staminea and the commercially-important Manila clam, Venerupis philippinarum
Advisor: Deborah Donovan
Link to advisor's webpage: Donovan Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S. in Biology and French
Year started WWU:2007

Daniel Slakey

Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7464
Email: slakeyD@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic
Advisor: Dave Hooper
Link to advisor's webpage:Hooper Lab
Undergrad institution and degree:
Year started WWU:2007

Office: BI 231
Office phone: 650-7464
Email: twomeym@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic:Protein tracking in Petunia pistils
Advisor: Dr. Anu Singh-Cundy
Link to advisor's webpage:
Undergrad institution and degree:WWU- Biology
Year started WWU:2006 (grad)

Office: BI 235
Office phone: 650-7344
Email: wendlib@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: 'A phylogeographic analysis of selected rare Campanula from Western North America'.
The study will look at the relationship of a small number of primarily cordilleran Campanulas based on molecular and morphological information relative to their geographic and topographic distribution(s). This approach has the ability to illuminate cryptic diversity, refugial areas, routes of dissemination, factors promoting speciation, and even time of divergence.
Advisor: Dr. Eric DeChaine
Link to advisor’s webpage:
Undergrad institution and degree:B.S. Biology, Plant Science Emphasis, 1984

Year started WWU: 2003

Office: BI 205
Office phone: 650-7465
Email: winansa@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic: "Effects of hypoxia on feeding rates of the major
gelatinous predators in Puget Sound" I will be looking at how low dissolved oxygen affects feeding rates of jellyfish and ctenophores on their copepod prey.
Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Purcell
Link to advisor’s webpage: Purcell Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: Occidental College, B.A. in Biology,
emphasis on Marine Biology
Year started WWU: 2006

Office:BI 447
Office phone:
Email: zackr@cc.wwu.edu
Thesis topic :My thesis will examine the evolution of reproductive barriers between the beetles Chrysochus auratus and C. cobaltinus. The study will focus on cuticular hydrocarbon pheromones important for mate recognition. I will examine cuticular hydrocarbons of C. auratus and C. cobaltinus females across a broad geographic range to test the hypothesis that reinforcing selection has led to divergence within the hybrid zone.
I will also use microsatellite analysis to study how differences in cuticular hydrocarbon composition relate to genetic differences between populations.
Advisor: Dr. Merrill Peterson
Link to advisor’s webpage: Peterson Lab
Undergrad institution and degree: B.S. from The Evergreen State College
Year started WWU: 2005