Education
 

  Awards
 

  Grants
 

  Theses supervised

   Union College (senior theses):

• Annie Berkowitz: Host Diversity and Lyme Disease Risk: A test of the Dilution Effect Hypothesis
• Rebecca Flynn: The Effects of Soil Characteristics on Lyme Disease Risk

   University at Albany (Masters thesis):

• Cory Drummond

  Professional Service

   National:

• Conservation of Land Mammals Committee, American Society of Mammalogists,
  (Sub-committee chair)
• Animal Care and Use Committee, American Society of Mammalogists

   Reviewer for:

• Conservation Biology
• The Journal of Parasitology
• American Midland Naturalist
• Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Education Grants
• Association for Women in Science Educational Foundation Grants (spring 2003)
• American Midland Naturalist (Fall 2003)

   Institutional:

• Animal Care and Use Committee: 2002-
• Organizing Theme Major Committee: 2003 –
• Biology Club Advisor: 2003 –
• Long Term Planning Committee: 2003
• Committee on Teaching: 2003 -
• TA Liaison Committee, Ecology and Evolution Program Representative. 1998-1999.
• Student Representative to Ecology and Evolution Faculty, 1997-1998
• Co-Organizer, Careers in Ecology Round-table, Spring 1997.

   Community:

• Project Green Horizons, New York City’s Free Conference on Careers in Natural Resources and the Environment for Middle Schools. 1998 through 2001.

  Invited Seminars:

• State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY (December 4, 2003)
• Save the Pine Bush, Albany, NY (March 25, 2003)
• Siena College, Loudonville, NY (February 7, 2003)
• State University of New York at Albany (December 6, 2002)
• Union College, Schenectady, NY (March 4, 2002)
• Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (February 5, 2002)
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY (February 9, 2001)
• Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ (November 1, 2000)
• Greenbrook Sanctuary Annual Meeting, Alpine, NJ (October 5, 2000)
• Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership Winter Lecture Series (Winter 1999)
• Princeton University Disease Ecology Group, Princeton, NJ (Fall 1999)

  Invited Conferences:

• Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve Science Symposium. Rensselaerville, NewYork. Featured speaker. July 2004.
• Health-Environment Alliance Symposium. The Pennsylvania State University, March 2002, Hershey, PA.
• Annual Meeting of the Society for Environmental Journalists. Panelist. January, 2002, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
• Cary Conference IX. May 2001. Understanding Ecosystems: The role of quantitative models in observation, synthesis and prediction. Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY.
• Conservation Medicine in the New York Bioscape: A Research, Education and Policy Agenda. October 2001, Wildlife Trust, Tarrytown, NY.

  Professional Memberships:

• American Society of Mammalogists
• Ecological Society of America
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Sigma Delta Epsilon/ Graduate Women In Science

  Publications:

• LoGiudice, K. R.S. Ostfeld, K.A. Schmidt, and F. Keesing. 2003. The ecology of infectious disease: Effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 100:567-571.
• Ostfeld, R.S. and LoGiudice, K. 2003. Community disassembly, biodiversity loss, and the erosion of an ecosystem service. Ecology. 84:1421-1427.
• LoGiudice, K. 2003. Macroparasite threats to intermediate hosts: The case of the Allegheny woodrat. Conservation Biology. 17:358-266.
• Meiners, S.J. and K. LoGiudice. 2003. Temporal consistency in the spatial pattern of seed predation across a forest-old field edge. Plant Ecology. 168:45-55.
• Cottingham, K.L.; Z.G. Cardon; C.M. D’Antonio; C.L. Dent; S.E.G. Findlay; W.K. Lauenroth; K.M. LoGiudice; R.S. Stelzer, D.L. Strayer. 2003. Increasing modeling savvy: Strategies to advance quantitative modeling skills for professionals within ecology. Pp. 428-436 In: The Role of Models in Ecosystem Science, Cary Conference IX. Canham, C.D., J.J. Cole, W. Lauenroth (eds), Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ.
• LoGiudice, K. and R.S. Ostfeld. 2002. Interactions between mammals and trees: Predation on mammal-dispersed seeds and the effect of ambient food. Oecologia 130:420-425.
• LoGiudice, K. 2001. Latrine foraging strategies of two small mammals: Implications for the transmission of Baylisascaris procyonis. American Midland Naturalist 146:369-378.
• LoGiudice, K. 2000. Baylisascaris procyonis and the decline of the Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister). Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, pp 101.
• LoGiudice, K. 1995. Control of Baylisascaris procyonis in raccoons through the use of anthelmintic baits. Masters thesis, University, New Brunswick, NJ, pp 78.

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