R.K. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biography
Kat’s research focuses on using community-based approaches to characterize conservation action. Kat is leading the creation of the database and analysis of biotic changes in Powdermill’s avian, vegetation, and salamander communities. With over 60 years of banding data, point counts, and vegetation surveys, her research will identify community-level shifts in biodiversity in a changing landscape.
PhD Marquette University 2025
BS University of Maryland 2017
Peer Reviewed Publications
Sullivan,K.A., et al. (2025). One if by land, two if by sea: molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae: Phyllodactylus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, in review.
Henry EH, Sullivan KA, et al. (2025). Twenty years (2000-2020) of butterfly monitoring data across the contiguous United States. Scientific Data, in press.
Schargel,W.E., Hernandez-Morales,C.,Daza,J.D., Jowers,M.J., Montes-Correa,A., De Freitas,M.,Sullivan,K.A., Gamble,T, Bauer,A. and Rivas,G.A. (2024). Phylogenetic systematics of the genus Pseudogonatodes (Squamata: Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) with the description of a new species with unique telescoping skull osteology from Venezuela. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024, 202, zlae120. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae120
Pinto BJ, Nielsen SV, Sullivan KA, Behere A, Keating SE, van Schingen-Khan M, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T, Pramuk J, Wilson MA, et al. (2023). It’s a trap?! Escape from an ancient, ancestral sex chromosome system and implication of Foxl2 as the putative primary sex-determining gene in a lizard (Anguimorpha; Shinisauridae). Evolution.:qpad205. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpad205
Sullivan KA, Tucker EM, Dowdy NJ, Allen JM, Barve V, Boone JH, Bush SE, Evenhuis NL, Hastriter M, Light JE, Mayfield-Meyer T, OConnor BM, Poelen JH, Racz GR, Seltmann KC, Zaspel JM (2023) Building a community-based taxonomic resource for digitization of parasites and their hosts. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 7(6):1. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixad023
