M.S. 2020 (2014 B.S. in Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst MA)

Currently: Inland Ecologist, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Boston MA

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., Rigsby, C.M., Savage, S.K., Houseman, N.L., Marsella, A.S., Oppong-Quaicoe, A., DeBoef, B.L., Orians, C.M., and E.L. Preisser. 2020. Seasonal changes in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) foliar chemistry. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50(6): 557-654.[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]
• 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]
• Kinahan, I. G., Grandstaff, G., Russell, A., Rigsby, C.M., Casagrande, R.A., and E.L. Preisser. 2020. A four-year, seven-state reforestation trial with eastern hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis) resistant to hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae). Forests 11(3): 312. [PDF]