Faculty Profile
Kimberly Schulz
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Biology
456 Illick Hall
ESF/NYS Parks Watercraft Inspection Steward Program
Current Graduate Advisees
David Andrews
daandrew@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Schulz
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Graduate Research Topic
My research is focused on invasive freshwater mussels in Skaneateles Lake, NY. I am working towards automated counting methods using underwater photography, with the count data being used to support a water quality modeling effort that is part of the development of a NYSDEC Nine-Element Plan for Skaneaateles Lake and its watershed. I hope to shed light on the important impacts of invasive mussels with respect to water quality and development of HAB's.
Samia Cushing
stcushin@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Schulz
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Graduate Research Topic
My research focuses on the invasive northern snakehead (Channa argus) fish and the impacts it may have on the foodweb in the Bashakill Wildlife Management Area. I am conducting stable isotope analysis to determine the current foodweb structure.
Bobbetta Davis
bodavis@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Schulz
- Area of Study: EFB Conservation Biology
Graduate Research Topic
I am studying winter zooplankton assemblages in the Finger Lakes of New York.
Erin Ebert
etebert@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Schulz
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Carrick Palmer
ctpalmer@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Ringler and Schulz
- Area of Study: EFB Ecology
Graduate Research Topic
I'm interested in examining the effects of the invasive macroalga Nitellopsis obtusa (starry stonewort) on the epiphytic community of New York lakes. This aquatic invasive species has recently been spreading in New York and across the Great Lakes Region in the US and Canada. It often forms dense monocultures by outcompeting and displacing native macrophyte species. Previous research has primarily focused on the distribution of starry stonewort, but little has explored its potential ecological impacts.