Power Lab: Food Web Research
Current Lab Members
Lab Alumni

Ph.D.'s

Jacques C. Finlay
Assistant Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
University of Minnesota 1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
Voice: 651-645-8959
FAX: 612-624-6777
email: jfinlay at tc.umn.edu

<b><font color="#009966">Sarah J. Kupferberg, Sarah J. Kupferberg, Ph.D.
email: sydt at pacbell.net
Jonathan Levine

Jonathan Levine, D'Antonio and Sousa lab graduate, honorary Angelo Alumnus
Assistant Professor
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution and Institute of the Environment
621 Charles E. Young Drive South Box 951606
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606
Office: 1339 Hershey 310-825-9259
fax: 310-825-9663
email: jmlevine at obee.ucla.edu

Camille McNeely, Postdoctoral Associate
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
Deptartment of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
My dissertation research has focused on the role of stonecased herbivorous caddisflies in Northern California headwater streams, including the following questions:

  • Do abundant stone-cased grazers (Glossosoma penitum caddisfly larvae) increase the reliance of a headwater stream community on terrestrial detritus?
  • How does the effectiveness of stone-cased caddisflies in controlling algal growth vary along a longitudinal stream gradient from headwaters to midreaches?
  • Jane Marks
    Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences
    Box 5640 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ
    86011-5640
    tel: 520 523 0918
    fax: 520 523 7500
    email: Jane.Marks at NAU.EDU

    John L. Sabo
    Assistant Professor Department of Biology
    Arizona State University
    PO Box 871501 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1501
    Ph: 480.965.5904
    Fax:480.965.2519
    http://lifesciences.asu.edu/biology/faculty/sabo.htm

    Vance Vredenburg, Graduate Student

    Postdocs

    Sandra Clinton, Adjunct Research Associate in Biology
    University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
    Ph.D. 2001 Ecosystem Analysis,
    College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Current research: The overall goal is to understand linkages between aquatic and terrestrial foodwebs that maintain soil fertility on floodplains. Understanding the magnitude of periphyton accrual on soils during inundation and soil enrichment from bird and bat droppings and the scale over which they influence ecosystem properties is essential for successful floodplain river management and restoration.

    Gilbert Cabana
    Ph.D. Professeur Dept. de Chimie-Biologie,
    Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières,
    Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada G9A 5H7
    tel: 819-376-5011 (poste 3366)
    fax: 819-376-5084
    email: Gilbert_Cabana at uqtr.ca
    Susan Gresens

    Susan Gresens
    Assistant Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences
    Towson University 8000 York Road Towson, MD 21252-0001
    email: sgresens at towson.edu

    Wendy Palen
    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
    Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada website

    My research program is broadly defined by the ecology of aquatic communities, currently ranging from alpine amphibian populations of the Pacific Northwest, to the river and lake food webs that support salmon populations from California to Alaska.

    Michael Parker

    Michael Parker
    Associate Professor Department of Biology
    Southern Oregon University
    1250 Siskiyou Boulevard Ashland OR
    97520 (541) 552-6341 email: parker at sou.edu

    K. Blake Suttle, Graduate Student, B.S. Biology, Yale University 1997

    Please see Blake's website

    email: kbsuttle@berkeley.edu

    John Schade, Assistant Professor
    Biology and Environmental studies, Saint Olaf College, MN website
    All of my research activities are focused on understanding factors that influence nutrient cycling in heterogeneous landscapes. I am particularly interested in the interaction between food webs and the cycling of multiple nutrients. My perspective on research is heavily influenced by ideas emerging from Ecological Stoichiometry theory, emphasizing the importance of the relative availability of nutrients in structuring ecosystems
    email: schade@stolaf.edu

    Jill Welter, Assistant Professor
    Biology, St. Kate's College, MN website
    Effects of stream network structure and terrestrial-aquatic linkages on
    trophic dynamics and biogeochemical cycling in watershed ecosystems. Links between terrestrial food quality, plant-herbivore interactions, and in-stream processes. Effects of precipitation regimes and landscape heterogeneity on nitrogen transport and transformation, and terrestrial-aquatic linkages.
    email: jrwelter@stkate.edu

    J. Timothy Wootton Associate Professor
    Dept. Ecology & Evolution Univ. of Chicago
    1101 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637
    773-702-2773
    FAX 773-702-9740
    email: twootton at uchicago.edu
    http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ecol-evol/faculty/wootton_t.html

    Undergrads

    Justin Bastow

    email: jlbastow at ucdavis.edu

    Sapna Khandwala

    email: sapna at stillwatersci.com

    Joe Sapp, Lab Assistant
    B.A. Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, 2003
    I spend my time here tweaking web pages, learning about GIS, and (if I'm well behaved) venturing out to the field to catch bugs.

    Will Satterthwaite Will Satterthwaite
    email: satterth at darwin.ucsc.edu
    Mary Alice "Bug" Sorensen
    Current graduate student at Department of Entomology University of California, Riverside
    email: mary.sorensen@email.ucr.edu

    Ranjan Muthukrishnan (aka: Mr. Unj)
    Email: mrunjj@gmail.com
    Attends the occasional class at U. Penn. He's also a research tech there. Amature rock rat.

    Dr. Adrian Sun
    email: asun at cobalt.com

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