Faculty & Staff

Biography

Dr. Kendall received her A.A. in Biology from Pellissippi State Technical Community College in 2007. She earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences (2009) and Ph.D. (2013) in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Dr. Kendall was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kentucky (2013-2014). She was the Merit Program Director (2016-2017) and laboratory coordinator (2014-2017) for the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana prior to arriving at UAH (2017). Dr. Kendall teaches courses for the UAH Department of Biological Sciences and UAH/Huntsville City Schools College Academy. Dr. Kendall's research is focused on formal and informal STEM education, ecology, evolution, and conservation biology.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2013
• B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2009
• A.A., Biology, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, 2007

Recent Publications

• Boyd SH, Niemiller KDK, Dooley KE, Nix J, & Niemiller ML. Using environmental DNA methods to survey for rare groundwater fauna: detection of an endangered endemic cave crayfish in northern Alabama. PloS One.

• Gladsone NS, Carter ET, Niemiller KDK, Hayter LE, & Niemiller ML. A new maximum body size record for the Berry Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus gulolineatus) and genus Gyrinophilu (Caudata, Plethodontidae) with a comment on body size in plethodiontid salamanders. Subterranean Biology, 28.

• Niemiller ML, Porter ML, Keany J, Gilbert H, Fong D, Culver DC, Kendall KD, Davis MS, & Taylor SJ. Development of an environmental DNA assay for the detection and monitoring of the endangered Hay's spring amphipod (Stygobromus hayi) from hypotelminorheic groundwater habitats. Conservation Genetics Resources.