Presenter - Janet Deardorff

Janet Deardorff is a PhD candidate at Miami University in the Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology program and is in the final year of her PhD studies.  She got her Bachelor of Science at Ohio Northern University in Environmental Science and Field Biology and a masters in Botany at Miami University. During her time at Miami, she has worked under Dave Gorchov and Thomas Crist looking at beaver habitat use at multiple spatial scales in Ohio. Her master’s work on beavers' use of Amur honeysuckle spurred her interest to continue throughout her PhD work to study beavers and the plants they eat. Currently, her research focuses on why beavers are using certain habitats in Ohio, as well as beaver and white-tailed deer herbivory interactions on Amur honeysuckle and native woody species in riparian areas.