B.A., Biology, Hiram College, 1998
M.S., Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004

Awards:

2003 Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interest:

Global change and its impact on plant and animal communities, systematics and conservation biology.

Current Research:

I will be working as a laboratory technician for Bryan Stuart, Harold Voris and Robert Inger under support of a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I will be sequencing mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from frogs sampled from the Lower Mekong Ecoregion (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand) to investigate relationships among populations and to identify cryptic species.

Oral and Poster Presentations:

Kline, K.A. and BassiriRad, H., 2003. Maternal CO2 affects seed nitrogen and seedling growth but not uptake and assimilation in wheat. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia.

Kline, K.A., 2003. Effects of CO2 on seed size, quality, germination, and subsequent seedling physiology. Departmental Seminar in Ecology and Evolution, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Kline, K.A. and BassiriRad, H., 2002. Interspecific variation in CO2 effects on seed quality, germination rate, and early seedling physiology. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona.