principal investigator
Elizabeth K. Peterson, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Department of Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
2200 Bonforte Boulevard
Pueblo, CO 81001-4901
Office: Life Sciences 223
Office Phone: 719-549-2762
Email: elizabeth.peterson@csupueblo.edu or elizabethkpeterson@gmail.com
Dr. Elizabeth Peterson is currently a postdoctoral researcher for the Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement at Colorado State University-Pueblo; as a postdoctoral researcher, she runs her own independent research program supporting a team of graduate and undergraduate researchers. She received her PhD in Biological Sciences (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program) at the State University of New York-Albany in 2016. She is an integrative ecologist and conservation biologist with interdisciplinary training in both research and teaching. She has worked with a diversity of organisms (Chickadees, Old World monkeys, New World monkeys, chimpanzees, Drosophila, and prairie dogs) both stateside and abroad prioritizing similar questions that are answered by utilizing an integrative approach in the field and laboratory. Her research broadly explores how anthropogenic stressors impact behavioral responses and adaptive life history strategies important for fitness at the individual and population level to develop methods to improve species conservation.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Department of Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
2200 Bonforte Boulevard
Pueblo, CO 81001-4901
Office: Life Sciences 223
Office Phone: 719-549-2762
Email: elizabeth.peterson@csupueblo.edu or elizabethkpeterson@gmail.com
Dr. Elizabeth Peterson is currently a postdoctoral researcher for the Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement at Colorado State University-Pueblo; as a postdoctoral researcher, she runs her own independent research program supporting a team of graduate and undergraduate researchers. She received her PhD in Biological Sciences (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program) at the State University of New York-Albany in 2016. She is an integrative ecologist and conservation biologist with interdisciplinary training in both research and teaching. She has worked with a diversity of organisms (Chickadees, Old World monkeys, New World monkeys, chimpanzees, Drosophila, and prairie dogs) both stateside and abroad prioritizing similar questions that are answered by utilizing an integrative approach in the field and laboratory. Her research broadly explores how anthropogenic stressors impact behavioral responses and adaptive life history strategies important for fitness at the individual and population level to develop methods to improve species conservation.
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GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS
Sara Colby
M.S. Student in Biology
B.S. Biology 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
M.S. Student in Biology
B.S. Biology 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Adam Liao
M.S. Student in Biology
B.S. Wildlife & Natural Resources 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
M.S. Student in Biology
B.S. Wildlife & Natural Resources 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
undergraduate student researchers
Chris Ahmay
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Brittany Bohn
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Biology
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Biology
Stephanie Dudley
B.S. Student in Biology and Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Emeritus Fellow, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Biology and Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Emeritus Fellow, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Keshon Jackson
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Courtney Knieriem
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Brianna Montoya
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Biology
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Noah Robison
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Izabella Sheppard
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Intern, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
Klow Si
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Fellow, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
B.S. Student in Wildlife & Natural Resources
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Research Fellow, Communities to Build Active STEM Engagement
lab alumni
Cody Back
B.S. Wildlife and Natural Resources 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Internship with Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Allaura Bryant-Watkins
B.S. Biology 2021, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Kyle Espinoza
B.S. Biology 2021, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Tyler Harvey
Current: Transferred to University of Nevada Las Vegas
Kevin Healey
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Gravimetric Laboratory Technician, Chester LabNet
Hugh Long
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Orthopedic Technologist and Medical Assistant, Hanson Orthopedic Clinic
Oloyede Oluwatobi
B.S. Biology 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Rachel Ruiz
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Working as an EMT
Sean Kyle Staples
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Junior Environmental Scientist, Pacific Western Technologies
Samantha Ulrich
B.S. Biology 2021, Colorado State University-Pueblo
B.S. Wildlife and Natural Resources 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Internship with Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Allaura Bryant-Watkins
B.S. Biology 2021, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Kyle Espinoza
B.S. Biology 2021, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Tyler Harvey
Current: Transferred to University of Nevada Las Vegas
Kevin Healey
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Gravimetric Laboratory Technician, Chester LabNet
Hugh Long
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Orthopedic Technologist and Medical Assistant, Hanson Orthopedic Clinic
Oloyede Oluwatobi
B.S. Biology 2020, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Rachel Ruiz
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Working as an EMT
Sean Kyle Staples
B.S. Biology 2018, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Current: Junior Environmental Scientist, Pacific Western Technologies
Samantha Ulrich
B.S. Biology 2021, Colorado State University-Pueblo