Principal Investigator

Jessica Gurevitch
Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1982
Interests: biological invasions, plant demography, research synthesis and meta-analysis
Office: Life Sciences 638
Phone: (631) 632-8567
Email: jessica.gurevitch@stonybrook.edu
Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1982
Interests: biological invasions, plant demography, research synthesis and meta-analysis
Office: Life Sciences 638
Phone: (631) 632-8567
Email: jessica.gurevitch@stonybrook.edu
Graduate Students

Nicole Kinlock
Ph.D. Student
Interests: plant interactions; facilitation; ecological networks; biological invasions
Office: Life Sciences 103
Email: nicole.kinlock@stonybrook.edu
Ph.D. Student
Interests: plant interactions; facilitation; ecological networks; biological invasions
Office: Life Sciences 103
Email: nicole.kinlock@stonybrook.edu

Urmi Poddar
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Plant invasions
Office: Life Sciences 103
Email: urmi.poddar@stonybrook.edu
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Plant invasions
Office: Life Sciences 103
Email: urmi.poddar@stonybrook.edu

Ashley Morris
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Pine Barrens; plant-insect-fungal interactions; range expansion
Office: Life Sciences 103
Email: ashley.morris@stonybrook.edu
Ph.D. Student
Interests: Pine Barrens; plant-insect-fungal interactions; range expansion
Office: Life Sciences 103
Email: ashley.morris@stonybrook.edu

Idamarie Pennolino
M.A. Student
Interests: Undergraduate Ecological Education Development and Pedagogy
Office:
Email: idamarie.pennolino@stonybrook.edu
M.A. Student
Interests: Undergraduate Ecological Education Development and Pedagogy
Office:
Email: idamarie.pennolino@stonybrook.edu

Qinnan Zhu
M.A. Student
Interests: island floras; island ecology
Office:
Email: qinnan.zhu@stonybrook.edu
M.A. Student
Interests: island floras; island ecology
Office:
Email: qinnan.zhu@stonybrook.edu
Former Members
Former Ph.D. Students:
Former Postdoctoral Researchers:
- Janet A Morrison - PhD. 1994; Professor, The College of New Jersey
- Proserpina Gomez-Roxas - Ph.D. 1996; Professor, Mindanao State Univ., Philippines, Trustee, Foundation for the Philippine Environment and Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation
- Paul Teese - Ph.D. 1997; Curator, Bowman’s Hill Preserve, PA
- Daniel (Max) Taub - Ph.D. 1997; Associate Professor, Southwestern University, Texas
- Wei Fang - Ph.D. 2003
- Kerry Brown - Ph.D. 2004; Senior Lecturer, Kingston University, London, UK
- Eliza Woo - Ph.D. 2008
- Rebecca Grella - Ph.D 2012; Secondary School Teacher and Science Research Director, Brentwood High School, Brentwood, NY
- Emily Rollinson - Ph.D. 2016; Assistant Professor, East Stroudsburg University, PA
- Morodoluwa Akin-Fajiye - Ph.D. 2019
Former Postdoctoral Researchers:
- Laura Hyatt - 1998-2002; Ph.D., Univ. Pennsylvania, Associate Dean, Rider University, NJ
- Timothy Howard - 1998-2000; Ph.D., U. Mich.; now Director of Science, NYS Natural Heritage Program
- R. Matthew Landis - 1999-2001; Ph.D., Dartmouth; now Associate in Science Instruction, Middlebury College
- Maria N. Miriti - 1999-2002; Ph.D., Univ. Ill. at Chicago; now Associate Professor, Ohio State University
- Katherine Howe - 2003- 2004; Ph.D., Univ. Washington, now Coordinator, Midwest Invasive Plant Network, The Nature Conserv., Indianapolis, IN
- Elizabeth Leger - 2004-2005, Ph.D., University of California at Davis, now Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
- Ed Lowry - 2009-2012, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, now Assistant Professor, Hampden-Sydney College
- Genoveva Rodriguez-Castaneda, 2012-2013, Ph.D, Tulane University, now Associate Researcher, University of Texas at Austin