The McIntyre Lab
Department of Natural Resources | Cornell University
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    • Adirondack Fisheries Research Program
    • Lake Tanganyika Ecosystem Project
    • Great Lakes connectivity
    • Conservation of Native Stream Gobies in the Hawaiian Archipelago
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    • Etienne Fluet-Chouinard
    • Ellen Hamann
    • Aaron Koning
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    • Austin Milt
    • Allison Moody
    • Robert Mooney
    • John Rodstrom
    • Charles White
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Kara Cromwell
Ph.D. Student (with Bobbi Peckarsky)

Contact
  •   kcromwell@wisc.edu

Education

  • B.S. Biology, 2005, Walla Walla College  
  • M.S. Fishery Resources, 2009, University of Idaho College of Natural Resources

C.V.
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I study biotic interactions in streams, focusing on host-parasite and predator-prey relationships. For my dissertation I am investigating both causes and consequences of nematode parasitism in mayflies. Specifically, I am asking how animal behavior interacts with environmental change to influence where parasite epidemics occur and how parasites affect the food web interactions of their hosts, such as vulnerability to predation. In addition to parasite ecology I am interested in how people perceive the creepy, crawly or  “gross” elements of biodiversity and I try to find creative ways to communicate about nature's unseemly side.
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