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Dean Croshaw - Ph.D. Student -

   I grew up on a farm in Kentucky, constantly surrounded by animals. I was not very excited about science until I attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana where I studied biology under some incredible teachers and fell in love with natural history. At Earlham, I was especially interested in ornithology and herpetology. Then I enrolled in graduate school at the University of Oklahoma not knowing what to study but only that I didn’t want to stop learning about nature just because I had a degree. I ended up coming to SREL for a season to pursue some research ideas I had about marbled salamanders, and it eventually turned into an M.S. in Zoology. I immediately liked it here and returned after finishing my graduate coursework. Now I’m a Ph.D. student at the University of New Orleans and attempting to branch out into molecular ecology. For my dissertation, I am using microsatellite markers to explore questions in behavioral ecology and evolution.