Anderson Lab

Welcome!

POPULATION AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY IN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

Welcome! I am an assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the Department of Biological Sciences. My research primarily on focuses on population dynamics, community ecology and species interactions, with most projects focused in aquatic ecosystems.

Feel free to email me (thander [at] siue.edu) with questions about working in my lab as an undergraduate or MS student, research projects or for reprints.

Lab News (infrequently updated...)

2022
August: John and Claudette joined the lab as MS students.
May: Pond sampling in the SIUE campus area and in LBL for Jessica's mole salamander project- time to find more tiger salamanders and paedomorphs!
April: Cattle tank season ramps up as Mariah's hydroperiod/predator cue experiment and Tom's smallmouth salamander hatching asynchrony projects are underway
March: Tori completes her Senior capstone project on egg dehydration in smallouth salamanders. Sampling at Cahokia Creek to find the elusive sirens starts up....
February: Audiomoths are deployed to track calling phenology of frogs on the SIUE campus.
January: Simon and Kasey join the lab as URCA students, and Lacie, Trevor and Tori begin working as techs on pond zooplankton dynamics
2021
December: Jessica and Tom completed Year 11 of sampling for mole salamanders at LBL. Kyle also completed his ENSC capstone project on predator cues influencing foraging by mosquitofish.
October: Cattle tank experiment testing how ringed and marbled salamanders are affected by hydroperiod duration is underway!
August: Mariah and Jessica joined the lab as MS students!
April: Angel, Zach, Ethan, and Christian all did a great job presenting their senior capstone projects!
March: Undergraduate projects are underway, including tests of how mosquitofish interact with native aquatic taxa and how rearing temperature influences hatching size in frogs and salamanders. Plus, sampling of ponds on the SIUE campus has begun!
February: Tom gave online seminars for the Living Earth Collaborative/Wash U (archived version is here) and Missouri S&T Biology Department.

January: Several new faces started in the lab! Welcome to Angel, Tori, Kyle, Zach, Ethan and Christian, who are all doing undergrad research and/or senior thesis projects in the lab. More to come on their work!