Students
Calliope Saban, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2022
Title: Discovering ants in the Lost Flora Fen
Ines Riojas, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2022
Title: Discovering ants in the Lost Flora Fen
Maeve Barbera, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2022
Title: A decade of studying ants on islands in the sky
Candi Albarran, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2021
Title: Salty ants: effects of road salt on ant communities
Marina Strong, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2021
Title: Salty ants: effects of road salt on ant communities
David Cohen, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2021
Title: Salty ants: effects of road salt on ant communities
Megan Crapo, Lake Forest Biology Senior Thesis 2020-2021
Title: Tensions in an ant/cactus mutualistic relationship
Josephine Klein, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2019
Title: Urban safe havens: studying effects of natural corridors on ant communities
Mathieu Norcross, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2019
Title: Urban safe havens: studying effects of natural corridors on ant communities
Blakely Drake, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2018-2019
Title: Urban to rural grandients in ant diversity
Marco Servin, Lake Forest Biology Senior Thesis 2018-2019
Title: Urban to rural grandients in ant diversity
Emily Staufer, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2018
Title: Urban to rural grandients in ant diversity
Elise Grossman, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2017
Title: Urban to rural grandients in ant diversity along the Des Plaines River
Olivia Parrott, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2017-2018
Title: Chicago as a natural lab to study urban ecology using ants
Benjamin Wyatt, Lake Forest Biology Senior Project 2017-2019
Title: Ant diversity on green rooftops
Elisabeth Bacon, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2016
Title: Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) invasions in California
Cortney Oates, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2016
Title: Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) invasions in California
Schuyler Kogan, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2015
Title: The Ephermeral Life of Mayapples (Podophyllum peltatum)
Michael Penn, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2015-2017
Title: Arthropod diversity on green rooftops
Amanda Gibbs, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2013
Title: Ant nest density in sedge meadows
Alexis Rosanova, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2013
Title: The relationship between soil moisture and ant diversity in sedge meadows
Jeremy Boeing, Lake Forest Biology Senior Thesis w/ distinction 2012-2015
Title: Ant diversity in the urban mosaic
Gabriel Trujillo, Lake Forest Biology Richter Project 2012
Title: Ant species richness along the urban to rural gradient
Nicole Vachter, Lake Forest Biology Senior Thesis 2012-2013
Title: The effects of savanna restoration on ant communities
Jenifer Yost, Lake Forest Biology Lab Assistant 2012
Title: Ant community composition in savannah environments
Kaya Cuper, Lake Forest Biology Senior Thesis w/ distinction 2011-2014
Title: Ant diversity on urban green rooftops
Emilee Gaulke, Lake Forest Biology Senior Project 2011-2012
Title: Ant community composition in mesic tallgrass prairies
Allison Hamel, Lake Forest Biology Senior Project 2011-2012
Title: The response of ant diversity to tallgrass prairie restoration
Natalia C. Wilkins, Lake Forest Biology Senior Project 2011
Title: The development of a web based pictorial guide for the ants of Illinois
Joshua Davendonis, RMBL intern 2009
Thesis: Protection at a price: ant interactions with pollinators on aspen sunflower (Helianthella quinquenervis)