Kyle Niezgoda

About Kyle

(updated 6/2015) Kyle hails from a small town just outside of Dover, Delaware. He is a graduate from Emory University in Atlanta, where he double majored in Environmental Science and Mathematics. During his time at Emory, he worked in a lab studying pollination ecology and honey bee declines. Kyle spent two summers doing ecological field research for his advisor at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory near Aspen, Colorado. At the RMBL, Kyle and his lab team experimentally removed a single pollinator species from a field site and then observed how the foraging behaviors of the remaining pollinator species changed. At Emory, he used a subset of data collected from the RMBL to describe structural changes in pollination networks as a result of the removal of a single pollinator species. While Kyle’s main research focus in school was with bees and pollination ecology, his career interests lie in the atmospheric sciences. He began his foray in these endeavors at the  Earth Observatory of Singapore , where he is working on a project studying stable isotope patterns of rainwater with the ultimate goal of improving our ability to predict tropical precipitation patterns. He hopes to one day use his research experience and mathematical knowledge to address important environmental questions facing our planet, such as pollution control and management. Kyle is an avid percussionist of 12 years and a life-long musician. He also enjoys crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay and fishing on a family owned pond, hiking and camping, playing in recreational sports leagues, and rooting for Philadelphia sports teams.