Principal Investigator

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Ryan W. McEwan, PhD

Professor & Graduate Program Director

Department of Biology
The University of Dayton
300 College Park, Dayton, OH  45469-2320

Office phone: 1.937.229.2558
Email:  ryan.mcewan@udayton.edu

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Graduate Students

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Lindsey Dewey, (M.S.) – PhD Student

Lindsey completed her BS in Biology at Murray State University in 2020 and her MS in Biology at Southeast Missouri State University in 2023. Her MS focused on how beaver recolonization influenced aquatic insect emergence. As a PhD student Lindsey is now interested in researching secondary succession in post-agriculture fields and how birds affect the dispersal of invasive woody species into natural habitats. 

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Undergraduate Project Leaders

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Madelyn Moore

Madelyn is an Honors Student and undergraduate project leader in the McEwan Lab. Her research focuses on understanding the factors needed to facilitated tree seedling establishment during ecological restoration. She is the inaugural Ginny’s Garden fellow here at the University of Dayton, and her work will engage the Ginny’s Garden Greenhouse.

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Megan Stoneburner

Megan is a project leader in the McEwan lab whose focus in how the flowering and fruit phenology of Callery Pear trees in the Miami Valley of Ohio.

Megan’s CV- LINK