Visiting Graduate Student

Julia earned her BSc degree majoring in biology and minoring in anthropology from SUNY Geneseo. While at Geneseo, she was involved in two undergraduate research projects where she studied the ecology and behavior of ant mimicking spiders along with studying the effects of traffic noise on green frog vocalization patterns. For her MSc degree in biology at Western Kentucky University, Julia worked with SLEP to understand behavioral variation among adult elephants in Minneriya National Park.

Currently, Julia is working towards her PhD in biology at North Carolina State University in Dr. Bruce Schulte’s lab. Her thesis, in collaboration with SLEP, will focus on correlating behavioral and genetic traits among Asian elephants in Sri Lanka.