Cagney McCauley
2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Biology (BS) major, Baylor
Cagney studied leaf litter breakdown and macroinvertebrate abundance on leaf litter among low nutrient streams lacking wastewater effluent discharges and those that were heavily influenced by wastewater. He coupled a field study across 6 streams with a lab stream microcosm experiment. The litter breakdown results were very similar between the lab and field studies! Cagney is currently a PhD student at the University of North Texas studying Neotropical fish ecology with Dr. David Hoeinghaus.