Dr. Rachel Hovel
Associate Professor
University of Maine-Farmington
rachel.hovel |at| maine.edu
current lab members
Christopher Houdeshell (UMF) Projects: relationships between soil chemistry and lake water chemistry, Atlantic salmon growth and survival
Lab alumni
Bethany Wright (UMF) Projects: Lake ecology across elevational gradients, snowpack monitoring
Josie Charland (UMF) Projects: Lake ecology across elevational gradients, snowpack monitoring
Fern Perkins (UMF) Projects: Dam removal monitoring, zooplankton communities in high-elevation lakes
Hazel McEnany (UMF) Projects: Dam removal monitoring, zooplankton communities in high-elevation lakes
Sadie Gray (UMF) Research Technician and Wilson Undergrad Research Fellow: zooplankton response to climate variables in high-elevation lakes
Kayleigh Brisard (UMF) Projects: Dam removal monitoring, zooplankton communities in high-elevation lakes
Grace DiMarco (UMF) Project: Dam removal monitoring, zooplankton communities in high-elevation lakes
Wheeler Lowell (UMF) Honors thesis: Zooplankton local adaptation and thermal response
Julien Chouinard (UMF) Project: Dam removal monitoring, Atlantic salmon early life history growth rates
Brittney Longmore (UMF) Project: terrestrial resources in mountain pond food webs
Tom Dolman (UMF) Project: macroinvertebrate response to erosion in a coastal Arctic river
Isaiah Wilson-McFarlane (UMF) Project: zooplankton phenology
Thomas Wing (UMF) Project: macroinvertebrates in high elevation lakes (summer); Arctic fish life histories (academic year)
Michael Donnelly (UMF) Project: Otolith preparation for microchemistry analysis
Jamie Normand (UMF) Project: Constructing an open-access MariaDB database for Arctic fish research
Alfred Odong (UMF) Project: size structure of high-elevation zooplankton communities
Grace Andrews (Colby College) Project: zooplankton communities and terrestrial linkages in high elevation Maine lakes
Ben Cloutier (UMF) Project: Arctic fish migration in a changing watershed
Kaylyn Walker (UMF) Project: Broad whitefish scale aging
Jordan Kapiloff (UMF) Project: Broad whitefish scale aging
The AECC lab strives for equity and justice. Students from backgrounds historically excluded from the sciences are particularly encouraged to join our undergraduate research lab.
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