Elena Rhodes Doctorate Student E-Mail: erhodes@ufl.edu

Profile:

     Born and raised in Miami, Elena Marion Rhodes has lived her whole life in Florida. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Biology at New College of Florida in Sarasota in 2003. During her seventh semester, she interned in the Invertebrate Laboratory of Archbold Biological Station in Lake Placid, Florida. While there, she completed a project on backswimmer population ecology, which became her senior thesis project. She has obtained her Masters degree in Integrated Pest Management at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 2005. She investigated predator-prey relationships in an attempt to control twospotted spider mites in strawberry. She will be pursuing her PhD in the Fall of 2006.