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PhD Student. Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign W411 Turner Hall 1102 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL 61821 United States

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http://samniquekahalsey.weebly.com/

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Brief Biography:

My master’s thesis focused on the management and restoration of the federally threatened Pitcher’s Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri). I determined how the viability of the current Indiana meta-population has responded to the addition of two new populations. I conducted population viability analyses on several C. pitcheri populations spanning Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. I determined growth trajectories, estimated the impacts of weather and the effect of seed sources on the establishment of the only reintroduced population in Illinois.

My current research while pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Illinois U/C involves modeling the Lyme Disease Community combining invasion ecology and community ecology in understanding the major processes/mechanisms by which Ixodes scapularis invades previously uninhabited environments as well as the establishment of the pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi.

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Selected Publications:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11