My research interests focus on insect ecology. The work is conducted with Messiah students as cooperative research projects. The results are typically presented by the students at professional meetings and, where appropriate, are published with the students as co-authors in scientific journals.
Recent work includes Ongoing studies involving heterotrophic succession in animals.
A current project is examining the competition between maggots and dung beetles with regard to the rate of decomposition. The insects of the State Line Serpentine Barrens in Pennsylvania. A paper on the grasshoppers of the serpentine barrens was presented as a joint paper with on of my senior students in April 1999 at the Pennsylvania Academy of science meetings. A biological inventory of the fauna of Eden Conservancy, Belize, Central America. This work was begun in January 1999 with a team of five Messiah students who joined me in Belize.