People
People
Dr. Dave Lytle
2002-present Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Oregon State University
2001-2002 D.H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona
2000 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Chicago
1999 PhD, Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
1992 BSc, University of Michigan, Resource Ecology & Management
Current lab members:
PhD Students:
Angelika Kurthen - population modeling of aquatic insects in dynamic environments
Jared Freedman - eDNA of Grand Canyon aquatic invertebrates
Jesse Fritz - ecology of intermittent stream ecosystems
Isaac Schuman - eDNA of Grand Canyon fish parasites and pathogens
Alexis Griffin - humans and salmon across riverscapes
MSc Students:
Aaron Klarenbach - aquatic invertebrate diversity in Verde River tributaries, Arizona
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Past lab members:
Visiting Scholars:
Dr. Leon Barmuta - Sabbatical 2017 from U. Tasmania
Dr. Morgan Hannaford - Sabbatical 2007-2008 from Shasta College
Postdocs:
Dr. Jonathan Tonkin - 2016-2018
Dr. Dong Gun Kim - 2014-2015
Dr. Tiffany Schriever - 2012-2015
Dr. Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles - 2012-2013
Dr. Ivan Phillipsen - 2011-2013
Dr. Debra Finn - 2006-2008
PhD Students:
Dr. Erin Abernethy - 2022
Dr. Haley Ohms - 2017
Dr. Kate Boersma - 2013
Dr. Michael Bogan - 2012
Dr. Laura McMullen - 2011
Dr. Asako Yamamuro - 2009
MSc Students:
Justin Hockett - 2023
Christi Kruse - 2021
Dave DuBose- 2019
Arlo Pelegrin - 2006
Michael Bogan - 2005
Cathleen Dora - 2004
Lab Managers:
Richard van Driesche - 2015-2018
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