Wyatt Mosiman

Echinacea Project 2025

I’m the outgoing lead research assistant on the Echinacea Project. I started as an REU student in 2021, stuck around to work in the lab, came back for summers in the intern role, and got a master’s degree out of the arrangement, to boot! This June marks four years for me with Team Echinacea, and it was four years well spent. I’ll be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area later this summer, and will dearly miss the summer crew, the field work, and the prairie. But I’m looking forward to seeing everyone the first week and wishing you a fantastic summer! Don’t be a stranger, now.

Pronouns: she/her

Research Interests

My thesis focused on the heritability of fire-stimulated flowering in Echinacea, which I think is pretty neat. I enjoyed using our awesome experimental plots to look into how parent and offspring plants might be behaving similarly (or not!) in response to burns. And of course, fire itself is an amazingly cool experimental treatment. How lucky I’ve been to work with it. In general, I’m interested in population dynamics, cue-based/synchronized reproduction (masting, and more?), and fire ecology.

Statement

I’m from Chanhassen, MN, but I’ve spent the last 6 school years in Chicagoland. I feel lucky to have spent my summers up in Minnesota, as I love the prairie and the lakes and the people. I love to cook, I love to fish, and I love to fish and then cook the catch! I’d highly recommend this to current and future team members. Team Echinacea has canoes!