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Celebration of Student Research Poster
2021
2021
Box Turtle Research
My research journey started in 2021 when I participated in an internship with my ecology professor at Wabash College. We did research on eastern box turtles to test if the individual differences in behavior of the turtles had an effect on their immune response to bacteria. We also noted where we caught individual turtles over time to track their movement as well as began to build a 3D printed turtle to try and invoke behavioral responses in wild turtles. The research from this project eventually led to a published paper and was also presented at our annual celebration of student research.
2022
Invasive Plant Experiment Poster
In 2022, during my senior year at Wabash, I conducted an individual experiment for a project in my Advanced Ecology course. I explored that idea that invasive plants expel a chemical into soil that stunts the growth of native plants around it. The picture is the set up I used to conduct my experiment in the Wabash College greenhouse. I found that the invasive garlic mustard plant had a significant inhibitory effect on the growth in height and mass of native plant species Elysmus and Desmodium, because of allelopathic chemicals, while the native Black Walnut did not.
Tadpole Research
In 2022, during my senior year at Wabash, a group of my classmates and I conducted a study as a project in our Advanced Ecology class. Six students and the professor decided to conduct an experiment that expanded upon a project done by an Advanced Ecology class a few years before us. They tested how tadpoles responded to the presence of a fish predator in a mesocosm experiment and how pesticides may have changed tadpole behavior. We focused more on the pesticide and tested how metolachlor changes tadpole behavior in response to the smell of a fish predator in a lab experiment. We found that the pesticide metolochlor had a significant effect on the behavior of the tadpoles as can be seen in the published article abstract.
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