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Graduate Student Directory

Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science

Solange Akimana
PhD student
Email: sa3763@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​​Systematics of crane flies (Diptera): Diversification, historical biogeography, phylogenetic and morphological character reconstructions
Laura Aycock
PhD student
Email: lla32@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
Jacob Brauner
PhD student
Email: jb4356@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Physical volcanology, remote sensing, sedimentology, natural hazards



Lance Butler
PhD student
Email: lb593@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
Marine and aquatic biology, wetland ecology, coastal estuarine ecology, fluvial geomorphology, fish population dynamics and community ecology, sediment dynamics, bivalve physiology, urban ecology, habitat restoration, ecosystem services, aquaculture

Melissa Carpenter
PhD student
Email: mmc435@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
Species interactions; ecology and evolution; symbiosis; antagonistic co-evolution

Lena Champlin
PhD student
Email: lkc45@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Biogeochemistry, coastal estuarine ecology, water quality, land use change, remote sensing
Robert Conrow
PhD student
Email: rtc58@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​​Systematics, phylogenetics, evolution, tipuloidea, chrysididae, post secondary education
Faith Echiejile
PhD student
Email: fe58@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
Climate change effect on freshwater, hydro-geomorphology, stream ecology
Samantha Giancarli
PhD student
Email: smg432@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Biomechanics, comparative vertebrate anatomy, scaling
Grace Goetcheus
PhD student
Email: gag47@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Vertebrate paleontology, Sauropoda, paleopathology, paleohistology, paleoepidemiology, phylogenetic disease bracketing, myologic reconstruction, macroevolution
Emily Griffith
PhD student
Email: evg33@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Sexual selection, sexual dimorphism, phylogenetics, ornithology, plumage coloration
Heather Kostick
PhD student
Email: hlk35@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​​Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, Conservation Biology
Kamila Kuabara
PhD student
Email: kmk455@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Taxonomy, systematics, biodiversity and co-evolution patterns of chewing lice
Sophia Larson
PhD student
Email: skl57@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
Soil carbon and hydro-geological response to climate change. Near-surface geophysics, forest soil, and wetland-carbon dynamics. Environmental responses to forest management activities.
Mat McDonald
PhD student
Email: mtm35@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Amino acid racemization, paleoecology, Jamaican land snails, amino acid geochronology
Jon Merwin
PhD student
Email: jtm378@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Evolution of birds, trait macroevolution, genomics, biogeography, STEM education
Karmi Oxman
PhD student
Email: klo44@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Entomology, social insect societies, behavioral ecology, neurobiology & behavior, pollination biology, citizen science, and informal science education
Andy Payne
PhD student
Email: ap3752@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
Salt marsh ecology, ecohydrology, remote sensing, plant-soil interactions
Lincoln Rehm
PhD student
Email: lfr34@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Symbiosis between giant clams and zooxanthellae
Christine Sealing
PhD student
Email: crs358@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Volcano monitoring, remote sensing (satellite and ground-based), volcano fluid geochemistry, applied geophysics, natural hazards
Brittany Wilburn
PhD student
Email: bpw46@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
​Biogeochemistry, climate change mitigation, habitat restoration, land use change, water quality