Undergraduates

Current undergraduate researchers

For Winter 2025, I will not be accepting new undergrads to work in my lab due to professional leave for research. I may have space in Spring 2025, so contact me if you might be interested. Please see information for Prospective Students, in the link above.

Melanie Roy (grad. W ’19):
Alyssa Peter (l) and Melanie Roy (r) with their 2018 Scholars’ Week poster on nutrient fluxes in lowland streams of Whatcom County.

Cohan, B., K. Jorgenson, A. Peter, L. Rabins, M. Roy, and D.U. Hooper (2018) Hydrologic and nutrient fluxes in a small watershed with changing agricultural practices. The Ecological Society of America 103rd Annual Meeting. Aug. 2018, New Orleans, LA.

Peter, A., M. Roy, and D. Hooper. 2018. Locate and mitigate the state of nitrate: Assessing potential sources of nutrients in tributaries to the Nooksack River, Scholars’ Week Poster, Western Washington University.

Nathan Williams (grad. Sp’19)
Rowan Day (grad. Sp. ’19)
Rowan Day with her hand-drawn poster illustrating the Adair et al. (2018) paper in Ecology Letters integrating biodiversity with ecosystem ecology. Scholars’ Week 2018.

 Past undergraduate researchers

Alyssa Peter (grad. F ’18)

Cohan, B., K. Jorgenson, A. Peter, L. Rabins, M. Roy, and D.U. Hooper (2018) Hydrologic and nutrient fluxes in a small watershed with changing agricultural practices. The Ecological Society of America 103rd Annual Meeting. Aug. 2018, New Orleans, LA.

Peter, A., M. Roy, and D. Hooper. 2018. Locate and mitigate the state of nitrate: Assessing potential sources of nutrients in tributaries to the Nooksack River, Scholars’ Week Poster, May 2018, Western Washington University.

Bre Mills (Grad. S ’18)
Bre Mills at WWU’s 2018 graduation, with a rare sighting of Hooper in formal academic ceremonial attire.

Doris Duke Conservation Scholar, UC Santa Cruz

Bre mapping coral reef structural complexity in the Sandin Lab, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, as part of her DDCSP internship.
Karen Jorgenson, Lucas Rabins (grad. S ’17)
Karen Jorgenson prepping samples and reagents to measure nutrients on the SmartChem 200 autoanalyzer. Spring 2017.
Lucas Rabins measuring stream flow in Kamm Creek, Whatcom County. Spring 2017.

Cohan, B., K. Jorgenson, A. Peter, L. Rabins, M. Roy, and D.U. Hooper (2018) Hydrologic and nutrient fluxes in a small watershed with changing agricultural practices. The Ecological Society of America 103rd Annual Meeting. Aug. 2018, New Orleans, LA.

Jorgenson, K., L. Rabins, and D.U. Hooper (2017) Calibration of the Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender model for use in western Washington. Scholars Week Poster,  May 2017, WWU.

Tim Anderson (’12-‘16)

Lovato Niles, C. and MacKay, H. 2013. Fourmile Creek Buffer Planting Project Summary Report. FHB Consulting Services Inc., Bellingham, WA. www.fhb3.com.

Erin Aldag (‘12-‘13)
Kelsey Taylor (‘11-‘12)
Lenora O’Toole (‘10-’11)
Veronica Bibikova (’08-‘09)
Min Jung Kwon (Summer ’08)
Anton Clifford (F ’07, S ’08)
Grad student Danny Slakey and undergrad research assistant Anton Clifford assessing plant species invasions in California serpentine grasslands, Spring 2008. photo by Cait Hutnik.
Holly Faulstich (S ’08)
Holly Abercrombie (S ’07)
Christy Miller (F ’07)
Scott Teas (Summer ’06 – Spring ‘07)
LeChi Huynh (Summer ‘05)
Jody Beh (graduated 6/05)
Rebecca Meredith (graduated 6/05)
Theresa Black, Matt Seifert, Nick Marlatt (S ’04)
Lisa Marko, Sean McGrorey (F ’03)
Rich Gwozdz (graduated 6/03)
Tucker Jones (Squalicum High School student, S ’03)
Erica Davis (S ’03)
Kelsie Mullin (F ’02, W ‘03)
Kara Davis (W, S ’02)
Jesse Burns (graduated 6/01)
Dominic Chiarelli (graduated 6/01)
Crystal Elliot (graduated 6/01)
Mikki Seagren (F ’01)
James Mason (S ’01)
Jeffrey Ninneman (graduated 12/00)
Colleen Mohl (1998-99)
Cynthia Benton (graduated 6/94, Stanford University)