Jessie Lanterman Novotny, Ph.D.

Part-time Lecturer and Undergraduate Research Advisor at the Field Station

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Education

Ph.D. Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, the Ohio State University, 2017
B.S. Biology, Hiram College, 2010

Jessie Lanterman Novotny is a northeast Ohio native with a love of nature. After college, she worked seasonally as a botanist at the Cleveland Metroparks, then went on to graduate school at the Ohio State University. Her Ph.D. research focused on the re-establishment of native bees and wildflowers after reclamation of abandoned coal mines in southern Ohio. In addition to pollinator ecology, she is also interested in the health of forests and in wildlife habitat restoration. For the past five years, Jessie has worked part time at Hiram mainly teaching introductory biology lab courses and also advising student research in ecology on the side.

In addition to her various responsibilities, she is also the caretaker of Hiram’s greenhouse on the roof of the Colton Turner Science building on Hiram’s campus.

2025 – Lanterman Novotny J, Hung K-L J, Lybbert A, Kaplan I, Goodell K. Pesticide detection and persistence in pumpkin and bee pollinators through one week after foliar-spray. PLoS ONE 20(4): e0311634.
2025 – Gould E, Fraser S, Parker TH…Lanterman Novotny J…Zitomer RA. Same data, different analysts: Variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology 23, 35(2025).
2023 – Lanterman Novotny J, Lybbert A, Reeher P, Mitchell RJ, Goodell K. Bumble bee banquet: Genus- and species-level flower preferences of Midwestern Bombus. Ecosphere 14(2): e4425
2022 – Lanterman Novotny J, Goodell K. Utility of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes for inferring wild bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) use of adjacent foraging habitats. PloS ONE 17(7): e0271095
2021 – Lanterman Novotny J, Reeher P, Varvaro M, Lybbert A, Smith J, Mitchell RJ, Goodell K. Bumble bee species distributions and habitat associations in the Midwestern USA, a region of declining diversity. Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 865-887
2020 – Lanterman Novotny J, Goodell K. Rapid recovery of plant-pollinator interactions on a chronosequence of grassland-reclaimed mines. Journal of Insect Conservation 24: 977-991
2019 – Lanterman J, Reeher P, Mitchell R, Goodell K. Habitat preference and phenology of nest seeking and foraging spring bumble bee queens in Northeastern North America (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus). The American Midland Naturalist 182: 131-159

Bumble bee banquet: Genus- and species-level floral selection by Midwestern Bombus

Jessie Lanterman Novotny 1,2 | Andrew Lybbert 1,3 | Paige Reeher 4,5 | Randall J. Mitchell 4 | Karen Goodell 1

Short-term persistence of foliar insecticides and fungicides in pumpkin plants and their pollinators

Jessie Lanterman Novotny 1, Keng-Lou James Hung 2, Andrew H. Lybbert 3, Ian Kaplan 4,Karen Goodell 5*

Introductory Biology Labs
Field Botany: Ohio Plant Identification

Research

Research Interests

Effects of local and landscape-scale resources on pollinator foraging, reproduction, genetic diversity, and conservation
Plant-pollinator interactions
Restoration of pollinator floral habitat and nesting resources

Current Research Assistants

Brian Friedt (Class of 2024) worked with me last summer to do research on improving artificial nesting boxes for a group of wild bees that nest in holes in woody plants. He placed nest boxes in three different habitats in a restored area at the Field Station to determine if the additional nest sites boosted the populations of certain bee pollinators there.