College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Major Advisors:

Kendra Cheruvelil and Pat Hanly

Biography:

Kendall Ash is a dual M.S. student in FW and EEB at MSU where she works in the Data Intensive Landscape Limnology (DILL) lab. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2024 with a dual B.S. in EEB and German, and she spent the summer of 2024 as the first resident field technician at the University of Michigan Biological Station. Her previous experiences include studying parasitic relationships in Daphnia in the Duffy lab at UofM as well as conducting a temperature-growth experiment on a species of toxin-producing algae in Iceland. Kendall’s research interests include aquatic and Arctic ecology, climate change, microbiology, and entomology; and she hopes to pursue a PhD related to aquatic and microbial ecology after obtaining her M.S. In the DILL lab, she focuses on how human impacts such as climate change and land use affect the occurrence of harmful algal blooms in lakes across the continental U.S. using techniques such as remote sensing and machine learning. When she’s not in the lab, Kendall loves to go fishing, play and listen to music, create art, and give tours at MSU’s Bug House!