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 just approaches to science. Students from backgrounds historically excluded from the sciences are particularly encouraged to join our undergraduate research lab.
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