Kyle Leathers
Ph.D. candidateView all Lab
I am a Ph.D. student interested in how environmental stressors affect individual species and interactions among them. My previous work includes effects of pharmaceutical and pesticide pollutants on intraguild predation and computational fluid dynamics models that are used to simulate crustacean olfactory search. In the Ruhi Lab, I am investigating the effects of climate change on Sierra Nevada stream ecosystems, using a combination of modeling, observation, and experimental approaches.
Main publications:
Leathers, K., Herbst, D., de Mendoza, G., Doerschlag, G. and Ruhi, A., 2024. Climate change is poised to alter mountain stream ecosystem processes via organismal phenological shifts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(14), p.e2310513121. [media coverage]