Contact

Email: ngalle@nd.edu

 

Education

B.S. Biology with minor in Mathematics, Sam Houston State University, 2023.

 

Research

My research primarily focuses on the generation of novel mechanistic species distribution models (SDMs), to better project range shifts of species of economic and health concern in relation to climate change. My current work primarily deals with snail intermediate hosts of trematode parasites, and with pests and pathogens of agricultural concern. In my previous research I used correlative SDMs to predict distributional shifts of crop pests of concern to USDA-APHIS. 

 

Publications

Galle N.A., Hankins K.R., Bucheli S.R., Williams J.K., & C.P. Randle. 2024. Ecological niche modeling for the prediction of suitable environments for Chrysodeixis chalcites (Noctuidae) in the contiguous United States. Biological Invasions, 26: 3301-3313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03376-5 

 

Leadership

Webmaster, Biology Graduate Student Organization, 2024-2025

Seminar Coordinator, EEE-Biofrass, 2024

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Awards

Outstanding Undergraduate Biology Student Research Award, Sam Houston State University, 2023

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First Place Presentation - Terrestrial Ecology & Management, Texas Academy of Sciences, 2023

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Best Oral-Media Presentation, Sam Houston State University, 2022