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Dr. Lauren Schmitt Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies [email protected] I use community and ecosystem ecology methods to answer questions about plants, insects, their interactions and ecosystem processes. |
Are you interested in joining the lab?
Students can earn credit through ENVS 385 and BIO 385 research courses or join for the summer through Kenyon Summer Science, Sustainability Scholars and Kenyon Farm Fellows program. Reach out to Prof. Schmitt ([email protected]) for more information!
Students can earn credit through ENVS 385 and BIO 385 research courses or join for the summer through Kenyon Summer Science, Sustainability Scholars and Kenyon Farm Fellows program. Reach out to Prof. Schmitt ([email protected]) for more information!
Undergraduate researchers
Noah Dean '26
Noah is investigating the impacts of neighboring land use and edge effects on insect community dynamics in central Ohio apple orchards. He joined the lab as a Sustainability Scholar in the summer of 2025.
Harrison Solomon '26
Harrison joined the lab in 2024. As a Kenyon Farm Fellow in 2024 and Summer Science Scholar in 2025, Harrison has combined field work and laboratory feeding and preference trials to understand the interactions between insect predators (green lacewing larvae) and pests (cabbage loopers).
Catelin Bromfield '26
Catelin joined the lab in 2025 to work on the green burial project, focusing on insect community changes across seasons and sites.
Noah Dean '26
Noah is investigating the impacts of neighboring land use and edge effects on insect community dynamics in central Ohio apple orchards. He joined the lab as a Sustainability Scholar in the summer of 2025.
Harrison Solomon '26
Harrison joined the lab in 2024. As a Kenyon Farm Fellow in 2024 and Summer Science Scholar in 2025, Harrison has combined field work and laboratory feeding and preference trials to understand the interactions between insect predators (green lacewing larvae) and pests (cabbage loopers).
Catelin Bromfield '26
Catelin joined the lab in 2025 to work on the green burial project, focusing on insect community changes across seasons and sites.
Lab alumni
Grant Gerhardt '25
Grant was an Environmental Studies and French major. He worked in the lab as a Sustainability Scholar in the summer of 2024. Grant worked at the Kokosing Nature Preserve, Brown Family Environmental Center and Quarry Chapel cemetery to investigate successional processes in an green cemetery.
Megan Lydon '25
Megan was a Biology major. She carried out research on soil arthropods in 2024.
Grant Gerhardt '25
Grant was an Environmental Studies and French major. He worked in the lab as a Sustainability Scholar in the summer of 2024. Grant worked at the Kokosing Nature Preserve, Brown Family Environmental Center and Quarry Chapel cemetery to investigate successional processes in an green cemetery.
Megan Lydon '25
Megan was a Biology major. She carried out research on soil arthropods in 2024.