AQUATIC LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY LAB
Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Assistant Director, AgBioResearch
Interim Director, Institute of Water Research
My Lab
Graduate Students
Emily Dean
Doctoral Student
Project: Characterizing the effects of stream fragmentation on freshwater migratory fish species
Contact: deanemi2@msu.edu
Post-doctoral Research Associates
Research Technicians and Support Staff
Robert Homan
GIS Research Scientist
Contact:TBD
Past Lab Members
Graduate students
- Sam Betances MS Student 2016-2020
- Current Position: TBD
- Contact: sthiede4@gmail.com
- Linda Ortiz 2014-2020
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Current position: State Resources Conservationist, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Tennessee
- Contact: ivette.linda@gmail.com
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- Erin Tracy MS Student 2015-2019
- Current position: Research specialist, US Geological Survey Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Arizona
- Contact: etracy1@email.arizona.edu
- Janet Hsiao MS Student 2014 – 2018
- Current position: Ecologist, NOAA
- Contact: jnt.hsiao@gmail.com
- Jacqueline Fenner, MS student 2010 – 2011
- Current position: NEMO Assistant Program Manager, NOAA
- Contact: Jacqui.Fenner@noaa.gov
- Dr. Darren Thornbrugh, PhD Student 2009 – 2014
- Current position: Natural Resources Specialist, US Forest Service Renewable Resources Office
- Contact: dthornbr@gmail.com
- Dr. Ralph Tingley, MS Student 2008 – 2011; PhD Student 2011 – 2017
- Current position: Research Fisheries Biologist, US Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center
- Contact: rtingley@usgs.gov
Post-doctoral research associates
- Dr. William Fetzer, post-doctoral research associate 2013 – 2016
- Jointly advised by Dr. Brian Roth
- Current position: Research Scientist, University of Wyoming
- Contact: wfetzer@uwyo.edu
- Dr. Wesley Daniel, post-doctoral research associate 2012 - 2017
- Current position: Fisheries Scientist, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program
- Contact: wesley.daniel@gmail.com
- Dr. Yin Phan Tsang, post-doctoral research associate 2010 – 2015
- Current position: Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Contact: tsangy@hawaii.edu
- Dr. Damon Kruger, post-doctoral research associate 2010 – 2014
- Dr. Peter Esselman, post-doctoral research associate 2009 – 2010
- Current position: Nearshore Landscape Ecologist, USGS
- Contact: pesselman@usgs.gov
- Dr. Dayong Wu, post-doctoral research associate 2007 – 2008
- Current position: Professor, Hengshui University, China
Visiting Scholars
- Marlene Ublacker, visiting scholar 2017 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria
- Contact: maria.ueblacker@gmail.com
- Dr. Rafaella Schinegger, visiting Research Scientist, Supported by the Austrian Fulbright Scholar Program (2015)
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management Vienna, Austria
- Collaborative project: The influence of human pressures on riverine fish assemblages: lessons learned from cross-continental comparisons between Europe and the U.S.A. (CROSSFISH)
- Wolfgang Obruca, visiting scholar 2013-2014
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria