Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney.  2024. Thinking with Termites about Fractious Futures for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the United States. Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience 10 (2): 1- 25.  https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v10i1.41952

  • DeFelice, Hannah, and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2024. Understanding Electric Composting Machines as a Potential Household Food Waste Management Strategy. Food-Fueled, 1, e00004. doi:10.57912/25641639.

  • Tlachac, Maddie, Rodhy Vixamar, and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2024. Most Public School Districts in Rochester, NY and Albany, NY Metro Regions Not Currently Composting to Manage Wasted Food. Food-Fueled, 1, e00008. doi:10.57912/25642377.

  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney. 2024. Squished bugs: teaching and learning reflexivity in ecology. Environmental Humanities 16 (1): 211–229. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10943169

  • Aude E. Caizergues, James S. Santangelo, Rob W. Ness, Fabio Angeoletto, Daniel N. Anstett, Julia Anstett, Fernanda Baena-Diaz, Elizabeth J. Carlen, Jaime A. Chaves, Mattheau S. Comerford, Karen Dyson, Mohsen Falahati-Anbaran, Mark D. E. Fellowes, Kathryn A. Hodgins, Glen Ray Hood, Carlos Inigues-Armijos, Nicholas J. Kooyers, Adrian Lazaro-Lobo, Angela T. Moles, Jason Munshi-South, Juraj Paule, Ilga M. Porth, Luis Y. Santiago-Rosario, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Ayko J. M. Tack, Marc T. Johnson. 2024. Does urbanisation lead to parallel demographic shifts across the world in a cosmopolitan plant? Molecular Ecology 33 (7): e17311. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17311

  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2023. Ladybugs: The (Natural) Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend? Enlisting Ladybugs into the War on Insect Pests. Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience 9 (1): 1-11.  https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38252

  • Emily K. Mohl, Andrew C. McCall, Madelyn Wood, Lauren Sherman, Mari Reid, Patricia A. Saunders, Sara E. Scanga, Clara Danielson, M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid, Heather Marella, Danielle E. Garneau, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kendra Cipollini, Jennifer Nesbitt Styrsky, John D. Styrsky, Spencer Rasmussen, Kristine N. Hopfensperger. 2023. Common milkweed seeds exhibit latitudinal clines more consistent with adaptation to growing season length than temperature. Restoration Ecology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13878
  • Michael D. SanClements, Sydne Record, Kevin C. Rose, Alison Donnelly, Steven S. Chong, Katharyn Duffy, Alesia Hallmark, James B. Hefferman, Jianguo Liu, Jessica J. Mitchell, David JP Moore, Kusum Naithani, Catherine M. O'Reilly, Eric R. Sokol, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Samantha R. Weintraub-Leff, and Di Yang. 2022. People, infrastructure, and data: A pathway to an inclusive and diverse ecological network of networks. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4262
  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney. Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the US. Chapter in Children and Media Research and Practice during the Crises of 2020. London: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9781032227511. 196 pages.
  • Rowan Christie#, Kaitlin Stack Whitney#, Julia Perrone, Christine A. Bahlai. 2022. Longer study length, standardized sampling techniques, and broader geographic scope leads to higher likelihood of detecting stable abundance patterns in long term black-legged tick studies. PeerJ 10:e13916   #co-first author
  • Santangelo et al. (287 authors, including Kaitlin Stack Whitney and 5 RIT students). 2022. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375 1275-1281.   https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0989
  • Alyssa Schoenfeldt and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2022. Bumble Bee (Bombus spp.) Abundance in New York Highway Roadsides across Levels of Roadside Mowing and Road Traffic. Northeastern Naturalist. Vol 29 (1) 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1656/045.029.0105 
  • Jessica L. Burnett, Renee Dale, Chung-Yi Hou, Gabriela Palomo-Munoz, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Steve Aulenbach, Robert Sky Bristol, Denis Valle, Tristan Wellman. 2021. Ten Simple Rules for Creating a Scientific Web Application. PLOS Computational Biology.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009574
  • Nagy et al. (~90 authors). 2021. Harnessing the NEON Data Revolution to Advance Open Environmental Science with a Diverse and Data-Capable Community. Ecosphere Vol 12 Issue 12 e03833. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3833
  • Richelle L. Tanner, Neena Grover, Michelle L Anderson, Katherine C Crocker, Shuchismita Dutta, Angela M Horner, Loren E Hough, Talia Y Moore, Gail L Rosen, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Adam P Summers. 2021. Examining cultural structures and functions in biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icab140, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab140
  • Christine A. Bahlai, Easton R. White, Julia D. Perrone, Sarah Cusser, Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2021. The Broken Window: an algorithm for quantifying and characterizing misleading trajectories in ecological processes. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101336

  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney. 2021. Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the US. Journal of Children and Media. DOI: 10.1080/17482798.2020.1858434

  • Lauren Stewart, Bryson Russell, Evan Zelig, Gaurang Patel, Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2020. Wildlife Crossing Design Influences Effectiveness for Small and Large Mammals in Banff National Park. Case Studies in the Environment  4 (1): 1231752. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2020.1231752
  • Kristina Chomiak, David Connell, Devin Cooley, Hannah Saxena, Sydney Van Winkle, Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2020. Rochester's rivers, lake, and waste: teaching local environmental history using water case studies. Water History 12(3) 345-349.  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12685-020-00270-4
  • Evan Morrison, Alexandra Shipman, Shradha Shresthra, Evan Squier, Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2019.  Evaluating The Ocean Cleanup, a Marine Debris Removal Project in the North Pacific Gyre, using SWOT analysis. Case Studies in the Environment.  DOI: 10.1525/cse.2018.001875
  • Samuel C Zipper, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Jillian M Deines, Kevin M Befus, Udit Bhatia, Sam J Albers, Janice Beecher, Christa Brelsford, Margaret Garcia, Tom Gleeson, Frances O'Donnell, David Resnik, Edella Schlager. 2019. Balancing open science and data privacy in the water sciences. Water Resources Research. DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025080
  • Daniel S. Karp, …, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, … (153 authors). 2018. Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences August 14, 115 (33) E7863-E7870.  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1800042115
  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney. 2018. John Anthony Allan’s “Virtual Water”: Natural Resources Management in the Wake of Neoliberalism. Arcadia 11. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. DOI: 10.5282/rcc/8316
  • Simon J Goring#, Kaitlin Stack Whitney#, and Aerin L Jacob. 2018. Accessibility is imperative for inclusion. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16 (2) 63-63.    #co-first author status. DOI: 10.1002/fee.1771
  • Nicole Nelson and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2018. “Becoming a Research Rodent.” Chapter in Living with Animals: Bonds Across Species. Edited by Ilana Gershon. Cornell University Press. DOI: 10.1093/ilar.47.4.283
  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Timothy D. Meehan, Christopher J. Kucharik, Phil Townsend, Claudio Gratton. 2016. Explicit modeling of abiotic and landscape factors reveals precipitation and forests associated with aphid abundance. Ecological Applications DOI: 10.1002/eap.1418.
  • Federica Lacasella, Silvio Marta, Aditya Singh, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Krista Hamilton, Timothy D. Meehan, Christopher J. Kucharik, Phil Townsend, Claudio Gratton. 2016. From pest data to abundance-based risk maps combining eco-physiological knowledge, weather, and habitat variability. Ecological Applications 27: 575-588. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1467 
  • Christopher J. Kucharik, Amelia C. Mork, Timothy D. Meehan, Shawn P. Serbin, Aditya Singh, Philip A. Townsend, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Claudio Gratton. 2016. Evidence for Compensatory Photosynthetic and Yield Response of Soybeans to Aphid Herbivory. Journal of Economic Entomology 109 (3): 1177 – 1187. DOI: 10.1093/jee/tow066
  • Amelia C. Perillo, Christopher J. Kucharik, Timothy D. Meehan, Shawn P. Serbin, Aditya Singh, Philip A. Townsend, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Claudio Gratton. 2015. Use of insect exclusion cages in soybean creates an altered microclimate and differential crop response. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 208: 50–61. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.04.014
  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2015. Manoomin: the taming of wild rice in the Great Lakes region. Arcadia 2015(2): ISSN 2199-3408. DOI: 10.5282/rcc/6830
  • O’Rourke, Megan E., Kaitlin Rienzo-Stack, and Alison G. Power. 2011. A multi-scale, landscape approach to predicting insect populations in agroecosystems. Ecological Applications 21:1782–1791. DOI: 10.1890/10-0241.1

Scholarly, edited work

  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2022. Review of Turn On the Words!: Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access. Harry G. Lang. Disability and Society.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2022.2143762
  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Matthew Joshua Heard, Laurel J. Anderson, Sandra Cooke, Danielle Garneau, Jason Kilgore, Mary Beth Kolozsvary, Karen Kuers, Claire K. Lunch, Timothy S. McCay, Allison T. Parker. Flexible and inclusive ecology projects that harness collaboration and NEON-enabled science to enhance student learning. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. Volume103, Issue2 April 2022. e01963. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1963. 
  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2021. Wild Bee Conservation in North American Roadside Rights of Way. Chapter in Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation. Elsevier, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821139-7.00108-2
  • Alycia Crall, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Wendy Gram, Shobhana Gupta, AJ Lauer, Lea Shanley, Sarah A. Stone, Bonnie Swan, Elizabeth Sudduth, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kamuela Young. 2019 EDSIN Conference ("Bringing Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion in Data Science to the Ecological and Environmental Sciences") Proceedings. doi:10.25334/9C03-1518 
  • Gabriela Serrato Marks, Caroline Solomon, Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2021. Meeting frameworks must be even more inclusive. Invited commentary for Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01437-9
  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney. 2020. Review of Case Studies in Deaf Education: Inquiry, Application, and Resources, eds. Caroline Guardino, et al. American Annals of the Deaf . Volume 165, Number 3.
  • Lauer, A., W. Gram, A. Crall, C. Diaz Eaton, R. Haacker, E. Jack-Scott, A. Pendergrass, and K. Stack Whitney 2020. Scientific meetings for all. Eos Volume 101, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EO138951.
  • Liz Hill Ruder and Kaitlin Stack Whitney. 2019. Inclusion of Individuals with Disabilities in Academy Diversity Initiatives. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Volume 119 Issue 10 p1619-1620.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2019.07.010

White papers

  • Agarwalla, V.; Davis, L.; Duhart Benevides, E.; RECIPES Network. 2024. Guiding Principles and Community Norms. RECIPES doi: 10.57912/25299325

Published Open Educational Resources

Other pre-prints

  • RECIPES Wasted Food work in progress (posters, presentations) on figshare

  • Battlay et al (~50 authors). 2024. Structural variants underlie parallel adaptation following global invasion. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.09.602765. 

  • Gould et al. (~300 authors). 2023. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. EcoEvoRxiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2GG62 

    • see Nature News coverage of this study here

  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Julia Perrone, Christie A. Bahlai. 2022. Open access journals lack image accessibility considerations in author guidelines. MetaArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/zsjqw/

  • Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Briana Burt Stringer. 2021. Evaluation of US state pollinator plans using 3 evidence-based policymaking frameworks. bioRxiv. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.15.447774v4

  • Briana Burt, Kristina Chomiak, Ibrahim Cisse, Aaron Paratore, Kaitlin Stack Whitney. Comparison of potential plant-pollinator network structure for 3 seed mixes (lawn, roadside, and pollinator-planting) in western NY, USA. bioRxiv 2020.10.29.352906; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.29.352906

Published Data sets

Public Scholarship