Experiential Learning

Aresty Research Assistant Program - Rosy Tucker: 
Looking at the relationship between flower morphology and the morphologies of bees that visit them.

Rosy Tucker first started working in Dr. Rachael Winfree's lab as a Sophomore in the Aresty Research Assistant program. Her first project involved looking at the relationship between flower morphology and the morphologies of bees that visit them. 

In her senior year, her research focus shifted to exploring landscape level predictors of the presence of rare bee species at a site. In her G.H. Cook Thesis, entitled "The Landscape Ecology of Rare Bees in New Jersey,"  Rosy used a large dataset of over 10,000 bee visits to compare the presence of rare bees in natural and agricultural sites that have varying amounts of natural habitat available in the surrounding landscape.

All photos courtesy of Rosy Tucker.