Meg Rumplick joins Hudsonia staff

May 2023 - This spring, Meg Rumplick joined Hudsonia as a Technician. A recent graduate of Vassar College, Meg came to us with broad experience in herbarium curation, Geographic Information Systems, management of invasive plants, and field biology—plants, birds, large and small mammals, insect —including a 2022 stint with the School for Field Studies in Tanzania. She recently completed a senior thesis on the Beech Leaf Disease that has been spreading rapidly in New York over the last decade.

This summer, Meg is tracking wood turtles at a research site in Ulster County to see how the turtles are interacting with farm operations. In addition to turtle data management and analysis, and pressing plants for the Herbarium, Meg will be conducting field and lab work on many other biodiversity assessment projects. Welcome, Meg!