Research: Habitat and land-use land-cover relationships with native bee biodiversity and guild structure on the Texas Southern High Plains.
Amede Rubio, M.S. Ph.D. Graduate Student
Research: Studies of giant reed grass, Arundo donax, in the lower Rio Grande valley: Allelopathy and restoration involving native plants and pollinators
Mikale Kubik M.S. Graduate Student
Research: An entomology-focused school garden integrating citizen science programs
Survey of native bees and other pollinators across public parks in Lubbock, TX
Christopher Jewett M.S. Graduate Student
Research: Effects of different seeding methods on wildflower seed mix growth on the Southern High Plains
Exposure and toxicity of neonicotinoids to common native bees in an agriculturally dominant region
Bianca Rendon M.S. Graduate Student
Research: Comparison of growth and pollinator attractiveness of different commercial wildflower seed mixes
Alicia Patridge M.S. Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Cynthia McKenney)
Research: Comparison of native bee richness and abundance across differently managed lawn types on the Southern High Plains
Undergraduate Students
Nathanial Flannery (Undergraduate Honors Student - University of Arkansas), with D. Leasure, University of Georgia
Research: Modelling the distribution of the endemic predaceous diving beetle, Heterosternuta sulphuria across watersheds on the Ozark Plateau
Wilber Usedo Zamorano University - Student Intern
Research: An annotated checklist and catalogue of the native bee species occurring on the Southern High Plains
Rohan Brown Student Worker
Roberto Gomez Zamorano University - Student Intern
Research: Habitat associations of a Jerusalem cricket, Stenopelmatus monahanensis, from the Monahans dune system in Texas, USA
Erick Barkowsky Student Worker
Erick Barkowsky (center) and the 2015 FFA Entomology CDE Area and Texas state first place team from Klondike ISD, Lamesa, TX.