Gifty Anane-Taabeah
Professor
Current Position: Gifty defended her PhD dissertation in September, 2018. Dr. Anane-Taabeah is working as a Lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
VT Advisor: Dr. Emmanuel Frimpong, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Corinne “Cordie” Diggins
Post Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Dr. Cordie Diggins began a post doctoral appointment in August 2016 with the USGS Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. She has been studying the federally endangered spruce-fir moss spider, as well as continuing work on the federally endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel.
VT Advisor: Dr. W. Mark Ford, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Jonathan Doubek
Assistant Professor
Current Position: Jonathan defended his Ph.D dissertation in May 2018. As of summer 2019, he joins the Lake Superior State University School of Natural Resources and Environment as an Assistant Professor of Fisheries and Aquatic Ecology.
VT Advisor: Dr. Cayelan Carey, Department of Biological Sciences
Heather Governor
Risk Assessor, EnSafe, Inc.
Current Position: Heather defended her Ph.D dissertation in December 2017. She is currently a Risk Assessor with EnSafe, Inc.
VT Advisors: Dr. Leigh-Anne Krometis and Dr. Cully Hession, Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Cathy Jachowski
Assistant Professor
Current Position: In August 2016, Dr. Cathy Jachowski joined the faculty in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation at Clemson University. Freshwater Conservation Ecology Lab at Clemson University.
VT Advisor: Dr. William Hopkins, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Daniel Medina
Post Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Daniel defended his Ph.D dissertation in July 2018. Daniel is headed to the Amphibian Natural History Laboratory of the University of Campinas, where he will be working as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. Luis Felipe Toledo.
VT Advisors: Dr. Lisa Belden, Department of Biological Sciences
Tony Timpano
Post Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Tony defended his Ph.D dissertation in August 2017. He is currently a post-doctoral associate at the Virginia Water Resources Research Center.
VT Advisors: Dr. Stephen Schoenholtz, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Carl Zipper, Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
Laura Schoenle
Post Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Laura defended her Ph.D dissertation in May of 2017 and started a post-doctoral position in August ’17. She is based at Hamilton College and co-supervised by Dr. Cynthia Downs and Dr. Lynn (Marty) Martin (University of South Florida). Their NSF-funded project investigates how immune function scales with body size in mammals.
VT Advisor: Dr. Ignacio Moore, Department of Biological Sciences
Carl Wepking
Executive Director, Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative at Colorado State University
Current Position: Carl defended his Ph.D dissertation in August of 2018. He is headed off to Colorado State University where he will assume the role of Executive Director of the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative within the School of Environmental Sustainability.
VT Advisor: Dr. Michael Strickland, Department of Biological Sciences
