Students in my growing lab focus on a diverse array of applied ecology questions catered to their interests. A unifying theme of undergraduate and graduate student theses is a focus on questions that could influence conservation and management actions.

See below for a list of completed undergraduate theses and current graduate students. Lake Superior State's 4+1 Master's program accepts applicants on a rolling basis. Reach out to me if you are interested!

Current graduate students:

Sam Rimatzki. Modeling and field testing remotely sensed variables meant to predict secretive marsh bird occurrence in Great Lakes coastal wetlands

Undergraduate theses:

Abby Aldea. 2026. Effects of climate change on breeding Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in Michigan

Brynn Jannetta. 2026. Bird visitation of manually seeded wild rice populations in Chippewa County in late summer through mid-Autumn

Alaina Kecskes. 2025. Bird communities in old growth forests and earlier successional stages in Northern Michigan

Sam Rimatzki. 2025. Habitat preferences and co-occurrence of secretive marsh birds in coastal wetlands of the Eastern Upper Peninsula, Michigan