Graduate Student Email: desi.hoagland@uga.edu Research Research Areas: Ecology & Global Change Evolutionary Biology Systematics Research Interests: My research interests includes understanding species boundaries between closely related species! Education Education: 2023 Admission to the PhD Program in the Plant Biology Department at the University of Georgia. 2018 M.S. Biology, Western Carolina University. M.S thesis research: Winter is Coming: The Ecological Drivers of Photinus corruscus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Distribution in Western Carolina 2014 B.S. Biology, Western Carolina University