The Marsico Lab

I am proud to be leading research development, compliance, and technology transfer at A-State and the premier research institute on campus, the Arkansas Bioscience Institute.  Working with faculty, staff, and students to promote making important discoveries and innovating new products and technologies is tremendously rewarding.

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Within the Marsico Lab, my research focuses on biogeography, biodiversity conservation, community ecology, natural history, and species invasions. I currently research risk associated with hitchhiking plant propagules at US shipping ports, invasion of herbivorous insect pests, plant diversity patterns in fragmented landscapes of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, and plant diversity patterns in the Neotropics.  My research emphasizes making and using natural history collections to answer questions in ecology and evolution.  I have been a faculty member at Arkansas State University for over 14 years, where I have taught Collections Curation and Research Design,  Dendrology, Global Change Biology, Plant Systematics, and Wetland Plant Ecology.  At A-State, I curate the herbarium.