Undergraduate Students
Colleen VonEhr
- B. S. Biology, University of North Texas
I spent my early childhood frolicking in my forested backyard in New England. I climbed plenty of trees and terrified my babysitters by giving them boxes full of live caterpillars. During the warmer months, I was playing in the woods more often than anything else. Sadly, when I was almost ten, my family was relocated to the well-manicured lawns of north Texas, which had no forest to play in. While I began to spend a lot more time indoors, my love for nature remained.
When I entered UNT for my Bachelors, I had a vague idea that I might want to focus my studies on Ecology. After taking Stream Ecology on a whim, the idea was confirmed. I haven’t established what I would like to research specifically for my Master’s thesis; however, I do know that I would like to take a very holistic approach to my studies. Rather than getting particularly enamored with a certain organism, I want my research to focus more on how communities, specifically benthic macroinvertebrate communities, work as a whole in relation to their ecosystem, and use the information gathered to develop more comprehensive conservation and restoration programs.
