Entomologist

Beetle

Andy Hicks

Entomologist
Andy has a love of insect life that began as a child in Texas and Maryland and has led to experience in museum collections, research and field work with organizations including the Systematic Entomological Laboratory and Agricultural Research Service of the USDA, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Colorado’s Natural History Museum, and the Colorado Natural Heritage Program as well as numerous publications regarding insect systematics, biogeography & host plant...

Graduate Students

Matt

Matt Bitters

PhD Student
I am interested in the interaction between animals and their parasites with their environment. I am investigating how a host-parasite interaction within the Wog Wog Experiment was initially disrupted by habitat fragmentation and how processes such as niche selection and dispersal influence its re-assembly over time. Further, I am exploring how host and parasite populations feedback on each other to affect overall population health. My research combines lab work, field...
Anna frog

Anna Spiers

PhD Student
Anna’s research interests lie at the intersection of math and ecology. She is fascinated by abstracting patterns observed in nature to hone in on general ecological theories. Anna studies how forest communities respond to habitat fragmentation. Her research focuses on modeling Eucalyptus forest growth dynamics in a fragmented landscape as well as using remote sensing methods to model the mechanisms through which forest canopy structure drives ecosystem function. Anna is...

Postdoctoral Researchers

Julian Resasco

Julian Resasco

Chancellor's Postdoctoral Researcher
Julian is an NSF postdoctoral fellow interested in how habitat fragmentation and connectivity affect community and trophic structure. His current work involves using stable isotopes to determine how fragmentation affects trophic structure and community structure of beetles within the Wog Wog Habitat Fragmentation Experiment. He is also interested in other topics including species invasions, conservation biology, plant-insect interactions, metacommunities, and ants.