Dan Preston - Assistant Professor

dan.preston@colostate.edu

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. 

Fernando Carvallo - 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 ensures the lab runs smoothly and is an expert in aquatic macroinvertebrate identification. 

Emma Svatos - Masters Student

emma.svatos@colostate.edu

Emma is interested in host-parasite interactions and freshwater ecology. Her research projects are investigating how wildfire affects host-parasite interactions in freshwater streams in Oregon and Colorado. 

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.   

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. 

Maricela Alaniz - Masters Student (co-advised with Will Clements) 

malaniz@colostate.edu

Maricela is interested in disturbance ecology and is excited to start researching wildfire and mining effects on high-elevation stream communities. 

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. 

Sam Radosevich - Masters Student (co-advised with Dana Winkleman)

Sam is starting his MS degree this fall. He is interested in looking at distribution and severity of whirling disease in Colorado River cutthroat trout in the La Barge drainage of the Wyoming range.  

Mia ter-Kuile - Undergraduate Researcher 

mia.ter_kuile-Miller@colostate.edu

Mia has been working on stream macroinvertebrate identification for a variety of projects and will be engaged in stream surveys over the summer. 

Lukas Keller - Undergraduate Researcher

Lukas has been engaged in field and lab work related to stream food webs and wildfire in Colorado. 

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 research associate at Southern Illinois University, where she is working on fish ecology in large rivers.  

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 for 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.