Dan Preston - Assistant Professor (at right of image)
Dan is interested in aquatic ecology, food webs, host-parasite interactions, and invasive species. He received his PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder and completed a postdoc at Oregon State University.
Cole Carbone - Lab Manager
cole.carbone@colostate.edu
Cole completed a degree in Ecosystem Science at Colorado State University and has experience working in Colorado and Oregon on various fish conservation and stream restoration research projects.
Travis Gilmore - Lab Manager
travis.gilmore@colostate.edu
Travis received his undergraduate degree from Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at CSU. He has experience working in fish ecology, conservation, stream ecology, and molecular biology. Travis and Cole help ensure everything runs smoothly in the lab.
Jordan Trujillo - Masters Student
jordan.trujillo@colostate.edu
Jordan is interested in whirling disease risk within reclaimed cutthroat habitat as well as macroinvertebrate communities in the headwaters of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in southern Colorado.
Maricela Alaniz - PhD Student (co-advised with Will Clements)
malaniz@colostate.edu
Maricela is interested in freshwater and disturbance ecology. She is researching wildfire and mining effects on stream macroinvertebrate communities within the Rocky Mountains.
Kim Kuber - Masters Student
kimberly.kuber@colostate.edu
Kim is an aquatic biologist with the Wisconsin DNR. She is currently working on our project understanding how New Zealand mud snails affect trout streams in the driftless area of southern Wisconsin.
Kim Nichter - Masters Student
kim.nichter@colostate.edu
Kim is interested in beaver-based restoration and how it can be used as a tool to mitigate burned areas and degraded wetlands. Her research studies biotic and geomorphologic effects of low-tech process-based restoration on streams in the Cameron Peak burn scar.
Alyssa Graziano - Masters Student
alyssa.graziano@colostate.edu
Alyssa's research is examining how geomorphic confinement of rivers affects stream ecosystem responses to wildfire. She is quantifying biogeochemical and ecological responses within the Cameron Peak fire scar in Colorado.
Sam Radosevich - Masters Student (co-advised with Dana Winkleman)
sam.radosevich@colostate.edu
Sam is working on a project to determine the distribution and severity of whirling disease in Colorado River cutthroat trout in the La Barge drainage of the Wyoming Range in Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Mia ter-Kuile Miller (middle back row) - Undergraduate Researcher
Mia has been working with the lab for a few years on stream ecology projects related to wildfire, nonnative species, whirling disease, and stream insect ecology.
Annie Hyatt (left), Isabella Butzer (center), Rose McVaney (right) - Undergraduate Researchers
Annie, Iz, and Rosie have been conducting stream ecology surveys, as well as assisting in aquatic macroinvertebrate sample processing in the laboratory.
Recent Lab Alumni
Fernando Carvallo - Former Lab Manager
fernando.carvallo@colostate.edu
Fernando completed an MS degree at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, where he worked on stream invertebrate community ecology. He is an expert in aquatic macroinvertebrate identification.
Current Position: Fern is now an inland fisheries biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Emma Svatos - Former Masters Student
emma.svatos@colostate.edu
Thesis: Effects of wildfire on host-parasite interactions in freshwater streams
Current Position: Emma is working on estuarine ecology projects with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Masschusetts.
Daniel Trovillion - Former Masters Student
daniel.trovillion@gmail.com
Thesis: Habitat complexity, connectivity, and introduced fish drive pond community structure along an urban to rural gradient
Current Position: Daniel is a biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, where he works on salmonid conservation and river restoration.
Erin Crone - Former Masters Student
erincrone98@gmail.com
Thesis: Effects of invasive species on herpetofauna and pond communities in urban environments
Current Position: Erin is a PhD student at Virgina Tech University where she is working on climate change and amphibian conservation.
Landon Falke - Former Masters Student
landonfalke@gmail.com
Thesis: Environmental and host-related drivers of heterogeneity in trematode parasites at two distinct spatial scales in streams
Current Position: Landon is working with NOAA as a fisheries biologist, focusing on Atlantic Salmon ecology and conservation.
Erin Sauer - Former Postdoc
erinsauer10@gmail.com
Erin worked on urban ecology of freshwater ponds and has expertise in disease ecology and community ecology. She received her PhD from the University of South Florida.
Current Position: Erin is a postdoc at the University of Arkansas where she works on disease ecology and ecophysiology in birds.
Ana Miller-ter Kuile- Former Visiting Scientist
ana.miller-ter-kuile@nau.edu
Ana was a visiting lab member while finishing her PhD at UC-Santa Barbara. She works on community ecology and food webs in a variety of systems.
Current Position: Ana is a postdoc at Northern Arizona University and the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Flagstaff, AZ.
Recent Undergraduate Honors Thesis Students
Kelley Sinning - Upstream to downstream changes in aquatic invertebrates through fire-disturbed abandoned beaver dams
Julia Webb - Nematode, mayfly, trout interactions in Colorado streams with differing disturbance from wildfire
Stacia McKinney - Trematodes in aquatic mollusc intermediate hosts above and below wastewater treatment plants of Front Range drainages
Lab Creatures
Vern - Lab Cat
Vern does cat stuff.
Rogue - Lab Dog
Rogue works on coarse woody debris. She loves the water.
Mack - Lab Dog
Mack destroys furniture and does not like the water (but is very cute).
Gracie - Lab Cat
Gracie's interests are catching and processing emergent insects and trout, and sleeping.
Henry - Lab Puppy
Henry's research interests focus on soil ecology, specifically on the intricate relationship between excavation and entomophagy (bug-eating behavior). Their research dives deep into the interplay of dirt, mud, and insects, with particular emphasis on paws-on fieldwork.