Graduate student directory

Cohort '21

Sara (Sally) Donovan

  • UMN Email address: sdonovan@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sarah Hobbie and Jeannine Cavender-Bares
  • Research Interests: Soil carbon and nitrogen, remote sensing of plant diversity and function
  • Study System: Urban forests
  • Degree Held: B.A., Carleton College, 2016; M.S., Yale University, 2021
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

Rachael Kaspar

  • UMN Email address: kaspa021@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Trevor Wardill
  • Research Interests: Neuroecology; marine ecosystem resilience, data science
  • Study System: Cephalopods (Hummingbird Bobtail Squid, Euprymna berryi)
  • Degree Held: B.A., University of Colorado Boulder, 2016
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

Katie Krueger

  • UMN Email address: krueg989@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Mark Bee and Marlene Zuk
  • Research Interests: Animal communication; animal behavior; mate choice
  • Study System: Frogs and crickets
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Wisconsin - La Crosse; M.S., Full Sail University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

Abigail Meyer

  • UMN Email address: meye2099@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Daniel Stanton
  • Research Interests: Ecology and evolution of persistent mutualisms
  • Study System: The lichen symbiosis
  • Degree Held: B.A., University of Minnesota, 2017
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

David Munkvold

  • UMN Email address: munkv002@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
  • Research Interests: Arthropod behavior, neurobiology, information processing and movement dynamics
  • Study System(s): Diptera and Odonata; primarily predatory arthropods
  • Degree Held: B.S., Macalester College, 2017
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

Kavy Pathirana

  • UMN Email address: pathi010@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sharon Jansa
  • Research Interests: Evolution and diversification of mammals
  • Study System: Small mammals
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2020
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

Chau Pham

  • UMN Email address: pham0326@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Jennifer Powers
  • Research Interests: Tropical dry forest ecology; transitions between savannas, dry forests, and moist forests; response of forests to disturbance
  • Study System: Tropical dry forests
  • Degree Held: B.S., Yale University, 2021
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

Chris Wojan

  • UMN Email address: wojan002@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Meggan Craft
  • Research Interests: Infectious disease ecology; animal behavior
  • Study System: Mammals
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, 2012; M.S., New Mexico State University, 2014
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2021

Cohort '20

Anya Auerbach

  • UMN Email address: auerb027@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sushma Reddy
  • Research Interests: Macroevolution, diversification processes, biogeography
  • Study System: modern birds
  • Degree Held: B.S. University of Chicago, 2019
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Ave Bisesi

  • UMN Email address: bises004@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Will Harcombe
  • Research Interests: Coevolutionary dynamics, bacteria-phage interactions, evolution of mutualisms
  • Study System: Microbial communities
  • Degree Held: B.A, Oberlin College, 2017
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Mariana Cardenas

  • UMN Email address: carde196@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Daniel Stanton
  • Research Interests: Lichenized fungi ecology
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: BSc, Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia); MSc, Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela) 
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Charlotte Devitz

  • UMN Email address: devit051@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Emilie Snell-Rood
  • Research Interests: Animal personality, urban ecology, behavioral syndromes
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.S., Millersville University of Pennsylvania; M.S., University of Michigan 
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Hanan Farah

  • UMN Email address: farah147@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Forest Isbell
  • Research Interests: Disturbance ecology and biodiversity recovery in American Grasslands. Plant/mycorrhizae interactions.
  • Study System: Grasslands
  • Degree Held: B.S Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation Biology
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Alyssa Gooding

  • UMN Email address: goodi037@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): George Heimpel
  • Research Interests: Invasion ecology, parasite/parasitoid-host interactions, conservation of tropical  environments; biological control
  • Study System: Parasitic fly: Philornis downsi; Parasitoid wasp: Trichopria sp.
  • Degree Held: B.S. SUNY University at Buffalo, 2020
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Lili Hagg

  • UMN Email address: lhagg@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Marlene Zuk
  • Research Interests: Behavior
  • Study System: Crickets
  • Degree Held: BA
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Maria Kalambokidis

  • UMN Email address: kalam012@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Michael Travisano
  • Research Interests: Life in the universe, origins of life, evolutionary biology, microbial experimental evolution
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2018
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Nishia Nieves

  • UMN Email address: nieve041@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Peter Reich
  • Research Interests: forest ecology,  plant ecophysiology, global change
  • Study System: NA
  • Degree Held: B.A.,  Princeton University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Maria Park

  • UMN Email address: park2447@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Jeannine Cavender-Bares
  • Research Interests: Plant ecophysiology, biodiversity, conservation biology, human-nature interactions, art-based science communication
  • Study System: Trees
  • Degree Held: B.A., Harvard University, 2019
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

James Peyla

  • UMN Email address: peyla010@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Trevor Wardill
  • Research Interests: Biology of Cephalopod Mollusks; Invertebrate Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, Anatomy, Physiology, and Behavior of Marine Organisms
  • Study System: Cephalopods
  • Degree Held: B.S. in Marine Biology, College of Charleston, 2018
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Aarcha Thadi

  • UMN Email address: thadi003@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Marlene Zuk
  • Research Interests: Sexual selection, evolution, how behavioral interactions and life-history traits feedback on each other
  • Study System: Crickets (insects in general)
  • Degree Held: BS-MS, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, 2020
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Martha Torstenson

  • UMN Email address: torst017@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Allison Shaw
  • Research Interests: Ecological Theory, migration
  • Study System: NA
  • Degree Held: B.A., Carleton College, 2018
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2020

Cohort '19

Maggie Anderson

  • UMN Email address: and04570@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Forest Isbell
  • Research Interests: Prairie community ecology, global change, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, landscape restoration
  • Study System: Tallgrass prairie
  • Degree Held: B.A., Lawrence University, 2019
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Lang DeLancey

  • UMN Email address: ldelance@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sarah Hobbie and Peter Kennedy
  • Research Interests: Ecosystem Ecology, Mycology, Forest Ecology, Global Change Ecology
  • Study System: Temperate Forest, Boreal Forest, Temperate Grasslands
  • Degree Held: B.S, B.A, University of Michigan
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Dongmin (“Dennis”) Kim

  • UMN Email address: kimx3725@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Allison Shaw and John Fieberg
  • Research Interests: Statistical Ecology, Theoretical Ecology, Causes and Consequences of Animal Movement Variation
  • Study System: NA
  • Degree Held: B.A., University of Minnesota, Morris
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Simone Maddox

  • UMN Email address: maddo048@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Keith Barker
  • Research Interests: Heritable factors underlying urban tolerance; Why do some species thrive in cities (and others avoid them entirely)?
  • Study System: Urban Birds
  • Degree Held: B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, 2019
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Geoff Miller

  • UMN Email address: mill8849@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): James Forester
  • Research Interests: Movement and interspecific interactions of carnivores in urban landscapes.
  • Study System: Coyotes and foxes in the Twin Cities Metro Area.
  • Degree Held: B.A., Ecology, Goshen College
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Zheng Oong (“OZ”)

  • UMN Email address: oong0001@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sushma Reddy
  • Research Interests: Avian systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography
  • Study System: Tropical Asian avifauna
  • Degree Held: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2018
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Eduardo Perez Pazos

  • UMN Email address: perez844@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Peter Kennedy
  • Research Interests: Fungal ecology. Life-history traits and trade-offs. Ecophysiology of mycorrhizal fungi
  • Study System: Ectomycorrhizal fungi
  • Degree Held: M.S
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Emma Roback

  • UMN Email address: robac028@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Suzanne McGaugh and Ken Kozak
  • Research Interests: Genetic and evolutionary underpinnings of complex traits, relationships between phenotypic plasticity and environmental change, science communication
  • Study System: Cavefish and salamanders
  • Degree Held: B.A,. Grinnell College 2019
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2019

Cohort '18

Lauren Agnew

  • UMN Email address: agne0050@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Emilie Snell-Rood
  • Research Interests: Pollinator ecology and conservation
  • Study System: Bees
  • Degree Held: B.S.
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Abby Guthmann

  • UMN Email address: guthm025@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Craig Packer
  • Research Interests: Trophic interactions, animal behavior, impacts of anthropogenic presence on African vertebrates
  • Study System: Maasai-Mara ecosystem in Kenya, community conservancies where livestock and wildlife exist in shared space
  • Degree Held: BA Lawrence University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Brie Ilarde

  • UMN Email address: ilard001@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sharon Jansa
  • Research Interests: Mammal systematics, morphological evolution, biogeography
  • Study System: Rodents
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Washington, 2016
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Sean Keogh

  • UMN Email address: keogh026@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Andrew Simons
  • Research Interests: Evolution of morphological diversity and biomechanics
  • Study System: Freshwater mussels
  • Degree Held: B.S., M.S., University of Minnesota
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Molly Kuhs

  • UMN Email address: kuhsx003@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Linda Kinkel
  • Research Interests: Ecology of microorganisms/microbiomes, microbial interactions, microbial signaling
  • Study System: Soil microbes - mostly antibiotic-producing bacteria Streptomycetes
  • Degree Held: B.A. - Washington University in St. Louis, 2017
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Lata Kalra

  • UMN Email address: kalra023@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Mark Bee
  • Research Interests: Animal communication, mate choice, receiver psychology
  • Study System: Frogs
  • Degree Held: BS-MS
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Janine Mistrick

  • UMN Email address: mistr033@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Meggan Craft
  • Research Interests: Impacts of social networks and environmental heterogeneity on wildlife disease transmission
  • Study System: Bank voles, Puumala hantavirus; Lammi Biological Station, Finland
  • Degree Held: B.S. The Pennsylvania State University, 2016
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Taryn Mueller

  • UMN Email address: muellert@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): David Moeller
  • Research Interests: Community ecology, ecology & evolution of plant-microbial interactions
  • Study System: Fungal endophytes, endemic forbes
  • Degree Held: B.A. in Biology (Biodiversity, Ecology & Conservation)
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Naven Narayanan Venkatanarayanan

  • UMN Email address: venka210@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Allison Shaw
  • Research Interests: Modelling of species interactions, range expansion and invasion, eco-evolutionary dynamics, ecological theory
  • Study System: N/A
  • Degree Held: BS-MS, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Siddhant Pusdekar

  • UMN Email address: pusde001@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
  • Research Interests: Neuroethology, Visual Neuroscience, Sensory ecology, Cognition
  • Study System: Flies
  • Degree Held: MSc. Neuroscience King's College London
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Joe Rabaey

  • UMN Email address: rabae005@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Jim Cotner
  • Research Interests: Biogeochemistry, aquatic greenhouse gas production, ecology of aquatic systems
  • Study System: Lakes and ponds
  • Degree Held: B.A., Saint John's University (Minnesota), 2017
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Tyler Seidel

  • UMN Email address: seide101@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Jacques Finlay
  • Research Interests: ecology, land-water interactions, global change
  • Study System: urban ponds
  • Degree Held: B.S. Biology-Conservation & Biodiversity
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Leno Smith

  • UMN Email address: smi00671@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Will Harcombe
  • Research Interests: 
  • Study System: Virus
  • Degree Held: 
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Megan Wilcots

  • UMN Email address: wilcots@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Elizabeth Borer
  • Research Interests: Global change, ecosystem ecology, nutrient deposition, herbivory
  • Study System: Nutrient Network and long term herbivory/fertilization experiments
  • Degree Held: B.A., Columbia University, 2018
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Max Zaret

  • UMN Email address: zaret007@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Eric Seabloom and Linda Kinkel
  • Research Interests: Herbivore, pathogen, and resource controls on plant productivity and community structure
  • Study System: Grasslands
  • Degree Held: B.A Indiana University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Rodrigo Zorrilla González

  • UMN Email address: zorri004@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Mike Travisano
  • Research Interests: Microbial evolution
  • Study System: NA
  • Degree Held: BS in Marine biology & Genetics
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2018

Cohort '17

Jessica Burkhart

  • UMN Email address: burkh135@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s):  Craig Packer
  • Research Interests:  Comparative study of neural mechanisms underlying social and other behaviors in lion and large cats 
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.S., Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Arizona
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Shanta Hejmadi

  • UMN Email address: hejma002@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s):  Keith Barker
  • Research Interests:  Evolutionary biology, phylogeny, biogeography, diversification and community assembly
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A. Lawrence University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Elihuruma Wilson Kimaro

  • UMN Email address: kimar001@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Mike Wilson
  • Research Interests:  Human-chimpanzee interactions re: use of medicinal plants and feeding behavior in relation to the value of those plants
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held:  B.S., Wildlife Management, Sokoine University of Ag;  M.S., Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management Nelson Mandela African Institution
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Mounica Kota 

  • UMN Email address: kotax023@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Marlene Zuk
  • Research Interests:  Interface between behavior and conservation; sexual selection, ornamentation, and conditions inducing role reversal in birds and insects
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A., Oglethorpe University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Rachel Pain

  • UMN Email address: repain@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Jessica Hellmann
  • Research Interests:  Biodiversity and adaptation in changing landscapes, particularly with respect to climate change 
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A., Biology, St. Olaf College
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Tom Radomski

  • UMN Email address: radom017@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s):  Ken Kozak
  • Research Interests:  Biogeography and community assembly
  • Study System: Salamanders 
  • Degree Held: B.S., Missouri State University; M.S., Ohio University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Kia Seehafer

  • UMN Email address: seeha014@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): David Stephens
  • Research Interests: Evolution of social behavior, social structures, communication, and decision-making in vertebrates 
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A., B.S., California State University, Sacramento
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Alexander Shephard

  • UMN Email address: sheph095@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Emilie Snell-Rood
  • Research Interests: Life-history evolution, behavior, phenotypic plasticity, adaptationism 
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.S., McMaster University; M.S., McMaster University
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Amy Waananen

  • UMN Email address: waana001@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Diane Larson & Dan Cariveau
  • Research Interests:  Consequences of habitat fragmentation, esp. for pollination dynamics; plant population evolution and ecology; landscape connectivity
  • Study System: Tallgrass prairie
  • Degree Held:  B.A., St. Olaf College
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2017

Cohort '16

Saumya Gupta

  • UMN Email address: gupta333@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Mark Bee 
  • Research Interests: The evolution and mechanisms of animal communication and the relationship between the processing of signals in the nervous system to the changes in the behavior of animals.
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held:  B.S., M.S., Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Mohali, India, 2016
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Sarah Hammarlund

  • UMN Email address: hamma111@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): William Harcombe
  • Research Interests:  The ecology and evolution of microbial mutualisms
  • Study System: Communities of bacteria 
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Washington, 2012 
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Anthony Massaro

  • UMN Email address: massa060@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Michael Wilson
  • Research Interests:  Dynamics of cooperation and competition; how variation in cooperative behaviors affects tness 
  • Study System: Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); Gombe National Park, Tanzania
  • Degree Held: B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College, 2016
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Erin Mittag

  • UMN Email address: mitta062@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sarah Hobbie, Jacques Finlay
  • Research Interests: Land use and water quality interactions, urban ecology, biogeochemical processes, and science communication
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A., St. Olaf College, 2012
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Amanda Muehlbauer

  • UMN Email address: muehl038@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Ran Blekhman
  • Research Interests: How host genetics interact with the microbiome and how these interactions influence human evolution.
  • Study System: Primate Gut Microbiomes 
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Minnesota, 2013 
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Naomi Rushing

  • UMN Email address: rushi013@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Ruth Shaw
  • Research Interests: The consequences of translocating plant populations during prairie restoration efforts and the scale of local adaptation of native prairie plant species. 
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A., Grinnell College, 2002
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Craig See

  • UMN Email address: crsee@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s):  Sarah Hobbie and Peter Kennedy
  • Research Interests: The direct and indirect controls of mycorrhizal fungi over forest carbon and nitrogen cycling, and what they mean for sequestration.
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A., Hamline University, 2009; M.S., SUNY College of Environmental Science, 2013
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Samuel Weaver

  • UMN Email address: weave271@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s):  Kenneth Kozak and Suzanne McGaugh
  • Research Interests: Genetic basis of phenotypic adaptation, hybridization and differential gene introgression across species boundaries.
  • Study System: Cavesh 
  • Degree Held: B.A., St. Olaf College, 2016 
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Amod Zambre

  • UMN Email address: zambr043@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Emilie Snell-Rood 
  • Research Interests:  Evolution of sexual signals.
  • Study System:  Butteries and lizards
  • Degree Held: BSc, University of Pune, 2010; MSc, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 2013
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2016

Cohort '15

George Furey

  • UMN Email address: furey034@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): David Tilman
  • Research Interests:  Biodiversity management in human-dominated landscapes, ecosystem services
  • Study System:  Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
  • Degree Held: B.A., Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011; M.S., University of British Columbia, 2014
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2015

Alexander Harkness

  • UMN Email address: harkn042@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Emma Goldberg
  • Research Interests: Population genetics
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.S., University of Washington, 2012
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2015

Rachel Olzer

  • UMN Email address: olzer001@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Marlene Zuk
  • Research Interests: How novel traits are maintained and the role of behavior in evolution
  • Study System:  Pacic eld cricket (Teleogryllus oceanicus)
  • Degree Held: B.S., Arizona State University-Tempe, 2014
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2015

Melissa Pastore

  • UMN Email address: mpastore@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Sarah Hobbie and Peter Reich 
  • Research Interests:  Ecosystem ecology and global change
  • Study System: Tall grass prairie, BioCON at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve 
  • Degree Held:  B.A., Pennsylvania State University-Univ Park, 2013; M.S., Villanova University, 2015
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2015

Evelyn Strombom

  • UMN Email address: strom522@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Steve Polasky
  • Research Interests:  Marine fisheries for global sustainability
  • Study System: 
  • Degree Held: B.A., Swarthmore College, 2012
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2015

Pu Wang

  • UMN Email address: wang5922@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Michael Travisano
  • Research Interests: Microbial experimental evolution of multicellularity
  • Study System: Yeast, Ciliate
  • Degree Held:  B.S., Ocean University, 2012; M.S., Ocean University, 2015
  • Year of Entry into Program: 201

Cohort '14

John Cossette

  • UMN Email address: cosse009@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Mike Travisano
  • Research Interests: Sociality and cooperation, the evolution of multicellularity, and the relationship between individual behavior and group-level tness
  • Study System: Soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
  • Degree Held: B.A., Carleton College, 2011
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2014

Monica Watson

  • UMN Email address: watso541@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Georgiana May
  • Research Interests:  Evolution of Virulence in Multihost systems
  • Study System:  Fungi, plant, insect
  • Degree Held: B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 2013 
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2014

Sarah Winikoff

  • UMN Email address: wini0019@umn.edu
  • Advisor(s): Jacques Finlay
  • Research Interests: Ecosystem Ecology, Aquatic Ecology, Nutrient Remediation, Management-Based Science 
  • Study System: Geographically Isolated Wetlands, Prairie Pothole Wetlands, Flow-Through Wetlands
  • Degree Held: B.A., University of Minnesota-Morris, 2010;  M.S., University of Notre Dame, 2014
  • Year of Entry into Program: 2014