Graduate Students
Kevin Rose is a PhD student. He is interested in developing lake transparency indices to serve as sensitive indicators of how lakes respond to environmental changes. To gather a large data set from a variety of lakes, Kevin has traveled around the world collecting transparency data from locations outside the United States such as New Zealand, Chile, and the Canadian Rockies, as well as regions in the U.S. such as Lake Tahoe, the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains, and the Poconos. He is also involved with GLEON, the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network where he currently serves as chair of the Student Association. For more information, visit GLEON. Kevin is pictured (left) at Amiskwi Lake in the Canadian Rockies.
Andrew Tucker started his graduate work at Miami in the fall of 2005. Andrew's research focuses on the interaction of temperature and ultraviolet radiation as factors that influence the invasion ecology of warm water fish. Currently, he is working on a project in Lake Tahoe CA/NV to assess the role of UV and temperature in controlling the suitability of nearshore habitat for reproduction of invasive warm-water fish. This project builds on the work of previous lab members, including David Huff, who have demonstrated that a UV and temperature gradient can affect larval survival in yellow perch in the Pocono lakes (Huff et al. 2004). Andrew is pictured (left) at Lake Tahoe.
Jeremy Mack joined our lab in the summer of 2009 and is working on UV-zooplankton interactions in some of the more extreme environments in the world such as the Chilean-Bolivian altiplano. He assisted Kevin Rose in leading our lab's first expedition to this region in November of 2008.