720-315-6502
Hailey Mount hmount@uwyo.edu
162 N Railroad St, unit B
Laramie, WY, 82072
Education
Ph.D. Ecology 2022 – 2026 (expected)
University of Wyoming, program in ecology, botany department
Dissertation keywords: plant traits, responses, community assembly
Committee: Dr. Daniel Laughlin (advisor), TBD
M.S. Botany 2020 – 2022
University of Wyoming, botany department
Thesis: Evidence for a consistent trade-off between responses to drought and neighbors in grasslands
along a precipitation gradient
Committee: Dr. Daniel Laughlin (advisor), Dr. Lauren Shoemaker, and
Dr. Kevin Wilcox
B.A. Plant Ecology and Environmental Philosophy (Highest Honors) 2016 - 2019
Marlboro College
Thesis: Learning from Plants: exploring ecology and phenomenology
of plant life to inform sustainable environmental relationships
Committee: Dr. Jennifer Ramstetter (advisor), Dr. William Edelglass (advisor),
and Dr. Tom Wessels
Professional Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Wyoming (2020-present)
Primary project: Connecting traits to demographic outcomes and restoration targets
Principal investigator: Dr. Daniel Laughlin
Key skills: plant identification, knowledge and collection of plant traits, management of a project
site and team of graduate students and undergraduate technicians, demographic and cover data
collection annually on tagged individuals
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Wyoming (2020-2022)
Primary project: Evidence for a consistent trade-off between responses to drought and neighbors
in grasslands along a precipitation gradient
Principal investigator: Dr. Daniel Laughlin
Key skills: management of large datasets, demographic data collection and tagging individuals,
data analysis with R programming
Greenhouse and Herbarium Manager & Lab Assistant, Marlboro College (2019-2020)
Supervisor: Dr. Alison Turner
Key skills: plant care and management, managing class experiments in the greenhouse, passing
cells, making agar and bacterial cultures, roto-evaporation, preparation of lab material, teaching
assistant for biology lab classes
Research Assistant, Marlboro College (2019-2020)
Project: Changes in abundance and distribution of woody species in the Northern hardwood
forests
Principal investigator: Dr. Jennifer Ramstetter
Key skills: plant identification, disease identification, ecological modeling, solo field work
Research Fellow (NSF-REU), Eastern Kentucky University (Summer 2019)
Project: Impacts of invasive Ailanthus altissima on woody plant communities in an Old Growth
Forest of Southeastern Kentucky
Principal investigator: Dr. Jennifer Koslow
Key skills: plant identification, digital canopy openness estimates, field work in back country
conditions, professional development
Research Technician, Institute for Tropical Ecology, Bocas del Toro, Panama (Summer 2018)
Project: Macroalgae Diversity and Reef Competition in Bocas del Toro, Panamá
Principal investigator: Dr. Lonnie Kaczmarsky
Key skills: snorkeling, underwater data and specimen collection, algal surveys, algal and coral
identification
Publications
Bulletins, reports, and resources
Wessel, S. A., J.R. Fleri, D.H. Atkins, T.A. Carter, A.E. Stears, H.E. Mount, N.W. Case, S.E.
Albeke, and D.C. Laughlin. 2021. Exploring vegetation virtually with the Global Vegetation
Project. International Association for Vegetation Science Bulletin. DOI - 10.21570/BUL-
202102-5.
B. Bradley, A. Bayer, B. Griffin, S. Joubran, B. Laginhas, L. Munro, S. Talbot, J. Allen, A.
Barker-Plotkin, E. Beaury, C. Brown-Lima, E. Fusco, H. Mount, B. Servais, and T. L. Morelli.
2020. Gardening with climate-smart native plants in the Northeast. Scholarworks at Umass
Amherst. https://doi.org/10.7275/mvej-dr35.
Presentations
Mount, Hailey E. 2023. Linking plant traits to drought vulnerability. University of Wyoming
Biodiversity Institute science cafe, Laramie, Wyoming. February 4, 2023. Oral presentation.
Mount, Hailey E. 2022. Evidence for a consistent trade-off between responses to drought and
neighbors in grasslands along a precipitation gradient. Botanical Society of America conference,
Anchorage, Alaska. July 25, 2022. Poster presentation.
Mount, Hailey E., 2022. Evidence for a consistent trade-off between responses to drought and
neighbors in grasslands along a precipitation gradient. MS Thesis Defense, Department of
Botany, University of Wyoming, April 8, 2022. Oral presentation.
Mount, Hailey E. 2022. Trade-off between responses to drought and neighbors in grassland
communities. Annual Program in Ecology Graduate Symposium, University of Wyoming,
February 25, 2022. Oral presentation.
Mount, Hailey E. 2022. Trade-off between responses to drought and neighbors in grassland
communities. Front Range Student Ecology Symposium, Colorado State University, February
24, 2022. Poster presentation.
Mount, Hailey E. 2019. Learning from Plants: a plan of concentration in ecology and
environmental philosophy. Undergraduate Thesis Defense, Marlboro College, November 20,
2019. Oral presentation.
Mount, Hailey E. 2018. Reimagining the lives of Plants. Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences
Annual Intercollegiate Symposium, Norwich University, April 21, 2018. Oral presentation.
Hailey Mount. 2018. Macroalgae Diversity and Reef Competition in Bocas del Toro, Panamá.
Research report, Marlboro College. October 10, 2018. Oral presentation.
Mount, Hailey E. 2017. The Place of Anthropocentric Internally-Telic Value in Environmental
Ethics. Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Annual Intercollegiate Symposium, Marlboro
College, April 18, 2017. Oral presentation.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wyoming August 2021-Current
General Biology Lab (LIFE 1010-20 & LIFE 1010-25) Fall 2021
Plant Form and Function (BOT3000/ RENW3000) Spring 2022
Writing Tutor, Marlboro College January 2017 – December 2019
Outreach and Education
Communications manager, Global Vegetation Project (2022-current)
Manage social media pages and outreach activities for the platform. Assisting in the
education, outreach, creation of teaching materials for K-12 to use the platform.
Volunteer, Williams Conservatory (2021-current)
Assist with education programs and maintenance of plants and facilities as needed, assist
with outreach and booth management at events in the community.
Collaborator, Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change working group at University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. (2018-2019)
Project: Gardening with climate-smart native plants in the Northeast
Principal investigator: Dr. Toni Lyn Morelli
Contribution: literature review and compilation of information to be included in the final
pamphlet.
Technical Skills and Certifications
Excellent plant ID and field skills
Statistical analyses in R programming
Certification in Teaching and Learning from the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning at
the University of Wyoming (in progress)
Field botany certification from the Rocky Mountain School of Clinical Herbalism (June 2017)
Honors and Grants
Dennis H. Knight Graduate Student Fellowship (2023; $950)
Awarded by the Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming to support research
activities by graduate students studying vegetation ecology that show excellent academic record
and potential for scholarship.
Biodiversity Institute Graduate Student Excellence Grant (2022; $1,000)
Awarded by the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Wyoming to support graduate
student research that addresses how biodiversity is generated, maintained, or restored and
impacts ecosystem services.
H.T. Northen and C.L. Porter Summer Fellowship (2022; $1,000)
Awarded by the Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming to support summer
research by graduate students and recent graduates who need summer funding for further
collaboration with departmental faculty.
Aven Nelson Fellowship in Systematic Botany (2021 and 2022; $700)
Awarded by the Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming to recognize
students studying botany
The Robert E. Engel Award (2019)
Awarded to a Marlboro college student who demonstrates Bob Engels’ passion for the
natural world and his keen powers of observation and inquiry as a natural historian.
Environmental Internship Grant (2019; $1,900)
Grant through Marlboro College to fund my undergraduate thesis research on the
distribution and abundance of beech trees in the Northern Hardwood forests
Environmental Internship Grant (2018, $4,000)
Grant through Marlboro College awarded to fund summer research in Panama where I
attended an intensive coral reef ecology course and conducted a research project.
Geiger Pop-up Award (2017; $1,000)
Grant through Marlboro College awarded to fund a summer course in field botany and
herbalism at the Rocky Mountain Institute for Clinal Herbalism
Affiliations
Botany Club | University of Wyoming | President (Fall 2021-current)
Botanical Society of America | Student member (Fall 2020-current)
Graduate Women in Science | Wyoming Chapter | Charter member (Spring 2023-current)
Selected Coursework
Graduate
Community Ecology (3cr)
Population Ecology (3cr)
Vegetation Ecology (3cr)
Biogeochemistry (3cr)
Soil Fertility and Nutrient Cycling (3cr)
Regression Analysis (3cr)
Ecological Modelling (3cr)
Undergraduate
General Ecology (4cr)
Organic Chemistry (6cr)
Environmental Biology (3cr)
