Research Page,
Dr. Barbara Hayford
UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
The Department of Life Sciences at Wayne State
College requires that students learn research skills be doing their own research
project. I have mentored 14 students through undergraduate research
projects. Past projects included the ecology of Chironomidae from an
ancient lake watershed in Mongolia, to regional biological assessments, and to
analyses of insect infestation in rotting meat for use in
forensics.
Current
undergraduate research projects in my lab include:
- The
mitigating effects of yeast brew on the impact of aluminum on
Chironomidae.
- Differential insect diversity between plots of wet meadow impacted and not impacted by invasive leafy spurge.