Liebgold Lab People
 
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Karsin Bachran
2021-present (with Dr. Tami Ransom ENVR)
Thesis proposal: Evaluation of the conditions affecting survival and movements in the endangered Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata) using mark-recapture and radio telemetry
 
Amanda Rocker
2019-2021 (with Dr. Tami Ransom ENVR)
Thesis: Snack-sized turtles? Investigating size class distributions and predation of the endangered Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata)
Currently: Hoofstock Keeper at Tanganyika Wildlife Park
 
 
 
Hannah Small
2018-2019
Thesis: Population size estimation and the effects of habitat on state-endangered Eastern Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) in MD and DE
Currently: Land Steward at Delaware Wild Lands Inc.
 
 
Eaqan Chaudhry
2017-2019 (with Dr. Tami Ransom ENVR)
Thesis: Community ecology of endangered Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata) and other turtle species
Currently: PhD student at SUNY ESF
 
 
 
Stephanie Lamb
2015-2017 (with Dr. Tami Ransom ENVR)
Thesis: Population size, habitat preferences, and genetic diversity of endangered Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata)
 
 
Alexa Grant
2014-2016
Thesis title: Differential survival and movements of two color morphs of Plethodon cinereus
Grant AH**, TS Ransom, and EB Liebgold. 2018. Differential survival and the effects of avian predation on a color polymorphic species, the red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Journal of Herpetology 52:127-135.
Grant AH** and EB Liebgold. 2017. Color-biased dispersal inferred by fine-scale genetic spatial autocorrelation in a color polymorphic salamander. Journal of Heredity 108:588–593
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SU UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
 
Eastern Screech Owl color polymorphism and telemetry tracking movements of Spotted turtles
2022: Rebecca Pritt, Julia Mohr, Lydia Bradshaw, Ashley Adams, Carl Brown ,Lauren Fortescue, Jeromy Green, Sophia Lundeen, Amaya Remmel, Lillian Fooks, Nolan Pinkney
2021-2022: George Carney, Alice Oshringboye
2021: Aaliyah Beam, Journie Drew-Hargrow, Megan Quesnel, Matt Addicks, Michael Shaffner, Allison Sokola, Travis Zimmerman, Greg Leasure, Emily Bilhuber, Olivia Snowden
2020: Payton Hughes, Sean Philips, Kaylie Seabrease, Isaiah Williams
 
Factors affecting detectability and mark-recapture population estimation of turtle species
2019: Maggie Kinsella, Cheyenne Woppman, Amanda Rocker, Matthew Houlihan
2018: Karsin Bachran, Jessica Bitondo, Amanda Ellen, Michael Bowman, Ashley Gray, Derik Rodgers
2016/2017: Danielle Ortmann, Kelly Morsey, Paige Manuel, Sam Utt, Nicole Schiffler, Ian Harrison
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Myra Dickey (currently PhD student at Texas A&M)
2017-2018
Henson Summer Research Program; Potential sex-biased dispersal in endangered Spotted Turtles
Manuscript in revision
 
 
 
 
Madeline Joyner, Michael Burchett, Shane Johnson, Taylor Walter, Abigail Myers, Megan Jezek, Aimee Dixon & Zoya Shoukat
2013-2017
Genetics of ground-nesting warblers
Manuscript in preparation
 
 
 
Ravyn Saunders/Neville (currently SUNY ESF PhD student), Taylor Naiman Young, Jacob O’Neil, Ryan Tant, Dylan Ferris, Melissa Carson, Jared Novia, Teddy Dunning, Jared Lausen (currently medical student at E. VA Medical School) 2013-2015 (with Dr. Tami Ransom)
Habitat & nest success in ground-nesting warblers
Neville RA*, Boyd M**, Liebgold EB, and TS Ransom. 2020. Ground-nesting warblers on the eastern shore of Maryland: declining poplation trends and the effects of forest composition and structure. Acta Ornithologica 54:201-213
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joshua Biddle
2014-2015
Honors Thesis: Biddle JR*, AH Grant** and EB Liebgold. 2017. Factors affecting the growth of Eastern Red-backed Salamanders, Plethodon cinereus. Herpetologica 73:89-93
 
 
 
 
 
Sarina Mossa, Sarah Marcus, Daneya Boyd, Tolani Akindele
2014-2015
Genetic diversity in red-backed
salamanders in Maryland
 
 
 
 
 
Eric Kalin, Anne Gatch, Ben Fleming, Jared Lausen, Matt Mignosa, Sabrina Aronis, Andrew Spicer, Colt Hancock, Michelle Schreiber, Madelyn Pettinati, & Maggie Chaney
2012-2014
Mark-recapture and color polymorphism in red-backed salamanders (see Alexa Grant publications)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Christian Kramer & Gina Dolezar
2012-2013
Genetic heterozygosity and growth in juvenile red-backed salamanders
 
Liebgold EB, CF Kramer*, TC Roomian*, GM Dolezar*, and PR Cabe. 2018. Heterzygosity-behavior and heterozygosity-fitness correlations in a salamander with limited dispersal. Population Ecology 60:251-260.