Emily Meineke: collections, herbivory and climate change

MeinekeDr. Emily Meineke, a former Ph.D. student of EEB alum Rob Dunn and now a NSF postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, is visiting the BRC to study our vast collection of New England plant specimens deposited in the CONN herbarium. She screens specimens for evidence of herbivory as part of her research focused on changes in incidences of herbivory through time, and hence changing climates (more info on this project).