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Jennifer Olker
Research Fellow - Center for Water and the Environment
Natural Resources Research Institute
Advisor: Lucinda Johnson
Matriculated: 2008
Email: jolker@d.umn.edu
Project Title
Tadpoles and Multiple Stressors: the impact of pesticides and climate change on developing native amphibians.
Project Description
My proposed graduate work will integrate amphibian health and organismal responses with population and community level responses to land use activities such as pesticide application through developing predictive models of pesticide levels based on land use and physical wetland attributes and controlled experiments in artificial ponds to determine the effects of pesticides on amphibian health and development.
Research Interests
Research interests include wetland ecology and associated communities, especially amphibian ecology; wetland ecosystem and organism responses to local and landscape stressors; impacts of climate change on aquatic habitat and communities.
Background
Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Research Institute from 2004-present.
Education: MS Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2004; BS Biology and Mathematics, minor in Chemistry, Northland College, Ashland WI, 2000