I investigated the effects of fire on the arthropod associates of small mammals in long-leaf pine ecosystems as a graduate student at Georgia Southern University. Todd N. Nims' thesis    I am currently investigating the ticks of the Florida black bear in Florida and Georgia. Dr. Durden and I are collaborating on some additional aspects of this project with Michael Yabsley and Mason Savage at UGA.    Nims and Durden poster (GES 2007)

I was fortunate enough to have a first class advisor and committee for my Master of Science. My advisor was Dr. C. Ray Chandler, a vertebrate ecologist and well known ornithologist. My committee was made up of Dr. Oscar J. Pung, a parasitologist specializing in endoparasites, and Dr. Lance A. Durden, a parasitologist specializing in ectoparasites.

Part of the information from my thesis has been published in Comparative Parasitology (January 2008)(click HERE for reprint). This article is mostly concerned with ectoparasites of oldfield mice. Dr. Pung is preparing a manuscript detailing the endoparasites of oldfield mice. He used the mice from my thesis to complete this study.

I published an article about new hosts and new state records for a phoretic fur mite in 2004. You can read the article here.

I contributed some data from my thesis to another publication , also in 2004.

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