Andrew Wong
Andrew's undergraduate research consisted of two components.  First, he tested the hypothesis the correlations among traits would shift from negative to positive moving from rainy to dry seasons in the field, based on predictions from a former student's laboratory selection analysis.  Selection favoring seasonal shifts in trait correlations could explain why range-edge populations in northern California evolve tolerance for low-salinity stress each winter rainy season, but lose that tolerance over the following dry season.  Second, he studied how interspecific competition might contribute to the northern range limit of the sea slug Alderia willowi, performing selection and survival analyses in the presence versus absence of the related but larger slug, A. modesta. isolation.

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Andrew was a member of our early entry program, and of the Honor's College.  After graduation, he will be studying veterinary medicine at Cornell.