Alida Gerritsen `09
At St. Lawrence
Major:
Biology
Minor:
Anthropology
Activities:
At St. Lawrence Alida was on the swim team (captain in 2009), played as principal chair in the string orchestra and was a member of both the Beta Beta Beta (Biology) and Anthropology honor societies. She was a Presidential Diversity Scholar, worked in the Biology Department, Fitness Center and as a Music technician and she studied abroad in Australia at James Cook University. After Graduation
Professional Position:
PhD student, University of Oregon Currently, Alida is a PhD student in Evolutionary Genetics in the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oregon. Her current project involves looking at thermal adaptation in natural populations of mosquitoes in response to recent rapid climate change. She is measuring the yearlong fitness of 12 populations gathered from Florida to Newfoundland and raising them in different thermal environments and then comparing those data to the same experiment run 12 years prior to see if 12 years of climate change has affected thermal adaptation. Believe it or not, this is actually the first project of its kind to measure thermal adaptation rather than brief periods of heat stress.
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