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Nicole Sublette
PhD student
Email: nsublett@fit.edu
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Shifting baselines
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I received my bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Scranton in 2003. My undergraduate research focused on the relationship between physical hand characteristics and performance on gender-specific tasks. The following year I received a Fulbright fellowship to teach English as a second language in South Korea. Upon my return to the States, I taught Integrated Science at Vero Beach High School in Vero Beach, Florida for two and half years. I began my graduate studies in ecology at the Florida Institute of Technology in the spring of 2007. Since then, I have been working with a project to automate pollen identification and analysis. For my research, I plan to focus on mid-elevation lakes in Peru and investigate topics on neutral theory versus niche theory, and the impact of human occupation on surrounding ecosystems. I am also a graduate teaching fellow in Florida Institute of Technology’s InSTEP program, which brings graduate students into a high school science class throughout the entire school year. The program focuses on incorporating more inquiry-based education in the science classroom as well as fostering a working relationship between Brevard County public schools and the Florida Institute of Technology.