The Coastal Plant and Ecotone Ecology Lab at Old Dominion University aims to understand properties and processes of the natural world, particularly at range limits, ecotones, and across habitat transitions. Research interests include wetland, coastal, and marine ecosystems, plant ecology, ecotones, plant-soil interactions, and blue carbon from individual to landscape scales. Current projects include salt marsh macroecology, blue carbon spatial ecology in salt marshes, mangrove freeze and wind tolerance, living shorelines, the coastal plant growing economy, carbon dynamics across the coastal seascape, and herpetofauna at the northern limit of longleaf pine.
​Recent News:
-Katelyn, Emma, and Blake present their work at CERF 2025 in Richmond, Virginia
-Kathryn Bourlier starts as a PhD Student after a storied undergraduate tenure
-Kathryn is awarded the Dept. of Biological Sciences Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
​-Cate is awarded the Dept. of Biological Sciences Outstanding MS Thesis