Current, Honorary Members, and Lab Alumni
 
Saara DeWalt Saara J. DeWalt
Assistant Professor
saarad@clemson.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Office: 338 Long Hall
Lab: 217 Jordan
Mailing address:

Office Phone: 864.656.1429 Lab Phone: 864.656.2639
Fax: 864.656.0435

Department of Biological Sciences
132 Long Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634

Current
 
Danielle Zoellner Danielle Zoellner Danielle is interested in terrestrial and wetland plant community ecology, the ecology of invasive plant species, and the effect of natural and human disturbances on plant community composition.
Ph.D. Student
dzoelln@clemson.edu
 
 
Carrie Woods Carrie Woods Carrie is interested in the diversity and distribution of tropical canopy epiphytes.
Ph.D. Student
clw@g.clemson.edu
 
Ben Taylor Ben Taylor Ben studies plant-animal interactions and is currently researching how proximity to agriculture affects the role of agoutis in the process of seed dispersal in Dominica.
M.S. Student
bentonneiltaylor@gmail.com
Vince James Vince James

Vince is interested in invasibility of reservoir islands. He studies plant-herbivore interactions and the effect these interactions have on Gelsemium sempervirens and
Lonicera japonica.

Undergraduate Student
vjames@clemson.edu
 
 
Bonnie McGill Donkey Donkey is a rotating position among the DeWalt lab members. The donkey gets to wear a really spiffy hat.
 
 
 

 


Honorary Members
 
Kalan Ickes Kalan Ickes Kalan's research focus is on forest community dynamics on the tropical island of Dominica, specifically addressing how forest diversity and stand structure (1) influence the population dynamics and distribution of two endemic, endangered parrot species and (2) are affected by hurricanes.
Research Assistant Professor
kickes@clemson.edu
 
Adam Martin Adam Martin Adam is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, Canada currently working in Dominica.  His primary research examines age-related changes in light requirements and physiology of tropical tree species.
Ph. D. Student
adam.martin@utoronto.edu
 
 


Lab Alumni
 
Rachel Glenn Rachel Glenn Rachel graduated with departmental and university
honors in May 2009. For her thesis, she studied the distribution and population genetics of Japanese honeysuckle in forest fragments of reservoir islands. She is currently studying bats in the Savannah River Ecological Laboratory.
rglenn@clemson.edu
 
 
 
Isaac Park Isaac Park Isaac finished his M.S. degree in Plant and Environmental Sciences in May 2009. Isaac studied the potential for introduced-range expansion of Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera) in the southeastern United States. He is starting a Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August 2009.
ipark@clemson.edu
 
 
 
Alexis Carr Alexis Carr Alexis is interested in the levels of soil moisture on the reservoir islands.
SPRI Intern
acarr25@gmail.com
 
 
 

 
Updated 14 August 2009.