Current Undergraduate Research Students:
Ally Melrose: Bird Community Responses to 25 years of Eastern Hemlock decline in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Nicole Mooradian: Bird Community Responses to 25 years of Eastern Hemlock decline in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Former undergraduate research students:
Daniel Wascoe: Fatal bird collisions on campus: a follow-up survey and final report.
- Poster Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Spring 2024.
Aaron Goldfarb: Testing I3E software to distinguish between individual Eastern Newts.
- Oral Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2023.
- Research paper published in UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research, Fall 2023
Abigail (Rose) Ruegg: Insect diversity, abundance, and phenology at Beaver Lake, N. Asheville, NC. (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
- Oral Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Spring 2022.
- Research paper published in UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research, Spring 2022
- Co-author on Ecology paper, Dunn et al. 2023.
Andrea Carver: Lights Out! Asheville (McCullough Fellow, 2022).
- Oral Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2022.
- Research paper published in UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research, Fall 2022
Paulina Jones: Fatal bird collisions on campus: a systematic survey of UNCA buildings to determine hotspots, which species are affected, and what time of year has the most collisions. (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021)
- Oral presentation at Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meeting, Spring 2021.
- Oral Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2021.
- Research paper published in UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research, Fall 2021
Hudson, Blake: Description of the urban Chimney Swift roost network in Asheville, NC, USA.
- Virtual presentation at UNCA ENVR undergraduate research symposium
- Paper accepted in UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research
Brewer-Jensen, Torin: Dynamics of roost entry behavior at an urban Chimney Swift roost
- Virtual presentation at UNCA ENVR undergraduate research symposium
- Paper accepted in UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research
Butler, Zuria: McCullough Fellow: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Biological Artifact Collection Management
- Oral presentation at NCEE, 2020
- Oral presentation, UNCA Fall Symposium
- Paper published in The Journal of Undergraduate Research
Bryan Dadson: Using wildlife camera traps to understand the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns on animal behavior
- Virtual presentation at UNCA ENVR undergraduate research symposium
- Paper accepted in UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research
Zachary Lappie: Can isotopes help distinguish between local and non-local breeding Tree Swallows?
- Poster presentation at Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meeting, April 2019, Memphis, TN
- Undergraduate Research Symposium presentation, Fall 2019
- Paper published in The Journal of Undergraduate Research
Kelley Coleman, McCullough Fellow: Avian diversity and abundance along urban greenways.
- Undergraduate Research Symposium presentation, Fall 2018
- Poster presentation at Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meeting, April 2019, Memphis, TN
- Paper published in The Journal of Undergraduate Research
Kristin Anderson: Elevational changes in bird communities in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- Poster presentation at Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meeting, April 2019, Memphis, TN
- Undergraduate Research Symposium presentation, Fall 2019
- Paper published in The Journal of Undergraduate Research
Douglas Black: Avian community changes in formerly Eastern hemlock-dominated stands of eastern Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Noah Poulos, SAMI recipient: Quantifying phthalate exposure to birds along an urban-to-rural gradient via GCMS analysis of feather material.
- Oral Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2017.
Chris Simmons: Bird responses to fire in Southern Appalachian forests. Summer 2017.
Hannah Wood: Initiation of a nest-box program for Brown-headed Nuthatches in Western North Carolina.
- Oral Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Spring 2017.
Savannah Clark: Comparing point counts to line transects to survey high-elevation spruce-fir forests of the Southern Appalachians.
- Oral Presentation at Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2016.
Casey J. Ambrose, University Research Scholar: Feeding Ecology Helps Predict Patterns in Avian Winter Range Shifts.
- Oral Presentation at NCUR, Spring 2016
- Submitted to NCUR Journal of Undergraduate Research.