New Appointment as Adjunct Professor at CSU!

I was very excited to find out this weekend that my application for adjunct faculty status in the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences at Cleveland State University has been approved! This will allow me to mentor students at CSU as a graduate adviser. Our lab is working collaboratively with CSU researchers to learn more about the insect communities found within vacant urban lands. We are interested in how land-use changes in urban landscapes, such as the incorporation of farming, will influence insects and the beneficial services they provide. We are working with Dr. Michel Walton and his laboratory at CSU on this project. Dr. Walton is the director of the Northeast Ohio Ecosystem Consortium (NEOECO) a multi-institutional partnership focused on urban ecology, landscape design, urban planning, and natural resources management. He also is the principal investigator of a National Science Foundation Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA) planning grant. The goal or Dr. Walton and the NEOECO team is to establish an ULTRA site in the city of Cleveland.