Summer Biology Research Summer Biology Research Four Biology department faculty are doing research at Pine Lake or working with materials from the Lake, and several students will have the opportunity to work with them this summer.
Several positions depend on finding requests being approved.
Bob Smith will work on two plant surveys, and collaborative research on pink ladyslippers with Stan Sessions. Stan Sessions will also be working with students pn progects involving salamanders, turtles, newts, orchids, and cytogenetics. Michael Murphy will be out again with several students studying birds, small mammals, and forest structure. Bill Elliott has projects concerning genome size in salamanders at the Lake as well as a continuting decomposition study. The salamanders will be captured, measured, sexed, photographed and released.