Dr. Evan M Rehm
Research Ecologist
[email protected]
US Forest Service
Northern Research Station
In 2003, I completed my B.Sc. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from Penn State and in 2006 I graduate from the State University of New York, ESF, with my M.Sc. in Wildlife Management. I finished my PhD at Florida International University under Dr. Ken Feeley investigating how treelines shift under future climates.
After finishing my PhD in 2015 I was a Post-doctoral Researcher at Colorado State University and part of the Ecology of Bird Loss collaborative research group. I investigated the role of avian seed dispersal in maintaining ecological structure and function in the Northern Mariana Islands.
In May 2017 I joined Carla D'Antonio at University of California Santa Barbara as a Post-doc investigating ecological feedbacks and alternate stable states that may affect regeneration of tropical forest on the Big Island of Hawaii.
In summer 2019 I move to Austin Peay State University in Clarksville TN. My research projects focused on how global change is altering native US forest and grassland ecosystems. In Summer 2023 I moved to the US Forest Service Northern Research Station in Morgantown WV. I will continue these projects in this new position and expand my work on invasive species.
Graduate Students (in no particular order)
Joe Endris
Joe received his BS in Agriculture concentrating in Agri-science with a minor in Biology from Austin Peay State University. He previously worked at the APSU GIS Center on the Wetlands Delineation project conducting plant and soil surveys as part of the project. Joe’s biological interest is in forest dynamics. His research is on the ability of trees to resist the weather alterations from climate change.
Joe received his BS in Agriculture concentrating in Agri-science with a minor in Biology from Austin Peay State University. He previously worked at the APSU GIS Center on the Wetlands Delineation project conducting plant and soil surveys as part of the project. Joe’s biological interest is in forest dynamics. His research is on the ability of trees to resist the weather alterations from climate change.
Gabriella LeFevre
Gabby received her BS in Biology and BA in English from Drake University in 2019. While at Drake she investigated sexual dichromatism and the evolution of plumage complexity in New World Blackbirds. She also spent several seasons as a sea turtle nesting technician at Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, FL and with Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program in Equatorial Guinea. She comes to the Rehm Lab with a thirst for field work and an excitement to contribute to grassland conservation research in the southeast. Her master's thesis will utilize a novel open-top chamber design to investigate the effects of climate change and invasive species on tall-grass prairies.
Gabby received her BS in Biology and BA in English from Drake University in 2019. While at Drake she investigated sexual dichromatism and the evolution of plumage complexity in New World Blackbirds. She also spent several seasons as a sea turtle nesting technician at Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, FL and with Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program in Equatorial Guinea. She comes to the Rehm Lab with a thirst for field work and an excitement to contribute to grassland conservation research in the southeast. Her master's thesis will utilize a novel open-top chamber design to investigate the effects of climate change and invasive species on tall-grass prairies.