Elsa Youngsteadt
I am an insect ecologist interested in how urbanization and climate change alter insect physiology, behavior, and mutualisms. I am also committed to conveying research results to audiences who can use them through Extension and outreach. Non-science interests include running, cat training, and gardening.
Melina Keighron
I am a PhD student in the Youngsteadt and Petry labs. I am broadly interested in combining fieldwork and modeling approaches to better understand how human-driven environmental change affects native plant populations and plant-pollinator interactions. In my free time I enjoy painting, going on walks, and playing pickleball, frisbee, and board games.
Gwen Kirschke
I am a PhD student studying how floral nectar is distributed in habitat matrices and how its distribution might shift with climate change and pollinator garden plantings. More broadly, I am interested in plant-insect interactions and the ways that they are impacted by human-driven environmental change. I also enjoy hiking, reading, and working on a variety of creative projects.
Laura Taylor
I am a PhD student studying how urbanization and climate change impacts an endemic butterfly species, the Crystal skipper. More broadly, I am interested in the intersection between behavioral, conservation and urban ecology of plant-pollinator interactions. In my free time, I like to hike, thrift, read, and go to concerts.
Lab Alumni
AEC 492 project, research assistant
Lucie Ciccone
2020 - 2022
HON 298 project, research assistant
2020 - 2022
current: PhD program, Cornell University
AEC 492 project, research assistant
2020 - 2022
current: MS program, Montana State University
research assistant
Thomas Reed
2018 - 2019
current: Open Space Assistant Manager, Wake County, NC
AEC 492 project
Sasha Rogalski
2019
CONTACT US
Elsa Youngsteadt
ekyoungs@ncsu.edu
Office: 234 David Clark Labs
Lab: G23 David Clark Labs
Mailing address:
North Carolina State University
Department of Applied Ecology
Campus Box 7617
Raleigh, NC 27695
Shipping Address:
North Carolina State University
Department of Applied Ecology
127 David Clark Labs
100 Eugene Brooks Ave
Raleigh, NC 27607
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