As a freshwater ecologist, I study the life history of benthic macroinvertebrates. The life history characteristics (e.g., life cycle timing, feeding, reproductive strategies, etc.) of freshwater invertebrates are closely linked with habitat. Using natural history museum collections and field-studies of caddisflies, I work to characterize life history variation on very small spatial scales. I’m especially interested in how the timing of life cycle stages can vary between populations I also test models of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure using life history traits in spatially...
