M.S. 2018 (2015 B.S. in Biology with Botany minor, Unity College, NH)

Currently: Lead Field Technician for Two-lined Spittlebug project, University of Hawaii, Mānoa HI

URI-related publications

• Rigsby, C.M., Body, M.J.A., May, A., Oppong, A., Kostka, A., Houseman, N., Savage, S.K., Whitney, E.R., Kinahan, I.G., DeBoef, B., Orians, C.M., Schultz, J.C., Appel, H.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2021. Impact of chronic stylet-feeder infestation on folivore-induced signaling and defenses. Tree Physiology 41(3): 416-427.[PDF]
• Kinahan, I.G., Baranowski, A.K., Whitney, E.R., Savage, S.K., Rigsby, C.M., Shoemaker, E.E., Orians, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2020. Facilitation between invasive herbivores: hemlock woolly adelgid increases gypsy moth preference for and performance on eastern hemlock. Ecological Entomology 45(3): 416-422. [PDF]
• Rigsby, C.M., Kinahan, I.G., May, A., Kostka, A., Houseman, N., Savage, S.K., Whitney, E.R., and E.L. Preisser. 2020. Impact of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) infestation on the jasmonic acid-elicited defenses of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Environmental Entomology 49(5): 1226-1231.[PDF]
• Schaeffer, R.N., Wilson, C.M., Radville, L., Whitney, E.R., Barrett, M., Roitman, S., Miller, E.R., Wolfe, B.E., Thornber, C.S., Orians, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2017. Individual and non-additive effects of exotic sap-feeders on root functional and mycorrhizal traits of a shared conifer host. Functional Ecology 31(11): 2024-2033. [PDF]