Daniel F. Petticord

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Dissertation: The phytoremediation and conservation of phosphorus.
Advisor: Dr. Jed P. Sparks

A.B. (cum laude), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Minor: Environmental Science
Thesis: The diet and movement of the Kenyan leopard tortoise.
Mentors: Dr. Robert Pringle, Dr. Andy Dobson, Dr. Bridgett VonHoldt, Dr. Daniel Rubenstein, Dr. Simon Levin

Postdoctoral Associate, MESS Lab

Advisor: Dr. Jane Lucas

ForEverglades Research Enhancement Fellow

Visiting Scholar

Stable Isotope Research Technician

Short-Term Research Fellow / Tropical Forest Research Intern

GC-FID Research Technician

Genetics Research Technician

Drone Research Technician

USDA New Investigator Grant — From Manure to Market ($294,000)

Cary Institute Science Innovation Fund ($62,859)

Cornell Atkinson Graduate Research Grant ($7,000)

ForEverglades Research Enhancement Grant ($30,000)

Orenstein, Susan Lynch, Betty Miller Francis, Graduate Research, Mellon, Sigma Xi, Cary Bentley Holden Awards

Combined: $11,763

Cornell Mellon, Sigma Xi, and Graduate Student Research Awards

Combined: $2,500

Archbold Biological Station Visiting Scholar Award ($2,000)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ($159,000)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Internship Award ($10,500)

Fulbright Fellowship ($45,000)

Awarded, declined

Curtis W. McGraw Class of 1919 Scholarship ($58,970)

Becky Colvin Memorial Award ($17,500); ESA SEEDs Leadership Award ($1,000)

Princeton Environmental Institute Smith and Newton Scholar ($7,500); Thesis Award ($2,500); CST Award ($250)

Prize for Most Outstanding Field-Based Undergraduate Thesis, Princeton University

Elected to Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society

"Does a cross-domain 'rule of life' predict how soil communities respond to independent and interacting stressors?"

"Compound stress drives cross-kingdom convergence on conservative life-history strategies"

"Ground penetrating radar uncovers buried 'islands of fertility'..."

"Farms need fertilizer, forests don't."

"Plat du Jour — Eating in the Modern Era"

"Grass species influences phosphorus losses..."

"Phytoremediation of legacy soil phosphorus"

Lecturer: Fundamentals of Ecosystem Ecology

Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies

Instructor of Record: Topics in Biogeochemistry (BIOEE 7600)

Graduate seminar course on biogeochemistry

Instructor of Record: What's for Dinner (BIOEE 1640)

Undergraduate course on food systems, sustainability, and nutrition

Co-Instructor: Graduate Field Course (BIOEE 6602)

Co-Instructor: Quantitative Ecology (BIOEE 4940)

TA: Advanced Ecology (BIOEE 3610)

Lab TA, multiple semesters

TA: Introduction to Evolution & Diversity (BIOEE 1781)

Gen-Chang Hsu

Mentee co-author. Research on carnivorous plant ecology, resulting in publication in Oikos.

Charlotte Tysall (Cornell '26)

Field assistant for phosphorus research, FL. Founded Cornell ESA SEEDs chapter.

Ginny Halterman (Cornell '23)

Advised on honors thesis and NSF GRFP. Currently M.S. student, U. of Delaware.

Daniela Rodriguez-Chavez (Cornell '22)

Advised on honors thesis and NSF GRFP. Currently Ph.D. candidate and NSF GRFP Fellow, UC Berkeley.

Writing and Data Consultant, HighEdit Consulting

Ad-hoc grant reviewer, Cornell College of Arts and Life Sciences

Treasurer, Cornell EEB Graduate Student Association

President, Cornell EEB Graduate Student Association

Founder and President, Princeton ESA SEEDs Chapter