Contact Information

Office: SCA 322
Mailbox: SCA 110
Phone: (813) 974-4694
Email: korotasz@mail.usf.edu

B.S. Aquatic and Marine Biology, Stetson University, 2017

Research

I am generally interested in disease ecology and ecotoxicology. Specifically, I am interested in how agrochemical pollution (i.e. herbicides, pesticides, fertilizer runoff etc.) impacts amphibian survival and susceptibility to disease.

Publications

Leaphart, J.C., A.M. Korotasz, A.L. Bryan, and J.C. Beasley. Submitted. Influence of ontogenetic shift in foraging strategy and diet on radiocesium burdens in bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) and cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorous). 

Fulghum, C.M., E. DiBona, J.C. Leaphart, A.M. Korotasz, J. Beasley, and A.L. Bryan. Submitted. Radiocesium (¹³⁷Cs) accumulation by fish within a legacy reactor cooling canal system on the Savannah River Site.

Korotasz, A. M. and A. L. Bryan. 2018. Accumulation of ¹³⁷Cs in carnivorous aquatic macrophytes (Utricularia spp.) on the Savannah River Site. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 75:273-277.  

*Presenting author

Korotasz, A.M., & Lind, C. M. (Poster) The effects of prey species and prey elevation on caudal luring in neonate pigmy rattlesnakes (Sitrurus miliarius). Biology of Snakes, July 2017.  

*Korotasz, A.M., C.M. Lind, & T.M. Farrell. April 2017. (Poster) The effect of prey elevation on caudal luring in neonate pigmy rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius). Stetson University Showcase Symposium April 2017.

Leaphart, J.C., A.M. Korotasz, A.L. Bryan, & J.C. Beasley. (Talk) Environmental fate of radiocesium in an aquatic and semi-aquatic food web on the Savannah River Site. SETAC North America 37^th Annual Meeting, November 2016.  

*Korotasz, A. M./span>, Leaphart, J. C., and Bryan, A. L. (Poster) Comparison of ¹³⁷Cs accumulation in larval and adult Ranid species on the Savannah River Site. 12^th Annual University of South Carolina Upstate Research Symposium, April 2016.     

*Korotasz, A. M., Leaphart, J. C., and Bryan, A. L. (Poster) Comparison of ¹³⁷Cs accumulation in larval and adult Ranid species on the Savannah River Site. USC Summer Research Symposium, July 2015.  

*Korotasz, A. M., Leaphart, J. C., and Bryan, A. L. (Talk) Comparison of ¹³⁷Cs accumulation in larval and adult Ranid species on the Savannah River Site. Savannah River Ecology Lab Undergraduate Student Symposium, July 2015.