Christina Thomas successfully defended her thesis this July after her first year of Vet School. I know it was a challenge switching gears and getting back into the tick literature after a year of crammer her brain with veterinary medicine. She did a nice job. Congratulations!
Also, her thesis work, with some additional data from Emily Burton, both funded by our DoD SERDP grant with Rick Ostfeld and colleagues, was recently accepted for publication. The citation at present is:
Thomas, C. E., E. S. Burton, and J. L. Brunner. 2019. Environmental drivers of wuesting activity of juvenile black-legged ticks (Acari: Ixodidae): temperature, desiccation risk, and diel cycles. Journal of Medical Entomology (link to abstract: https://academic.oup.com/jme/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jme/tjz126/5542798)