Danielle Parsons

Danielle joined the Carstens Lab at The Ohio State University in the Fall of 2018 after completing her Bachelor's degree at the University of New Mexico where she worked at the Museum of Southwestern Biology under Dr. Joe Cook. Her dissertation project aims to identify large-scale patterns of cryptic diversity in mammals and investigate the evolutionary and ecological processes responsible for generating and maintaining this diversity through examination of North American water shrews, a species complex of small cryptic mammals.