Meet Sally Entrekin

Since 2018, Sally Entrekin has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Biology at the University of Central Arkansas and in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

Her current research focus is on how watershed fragmentation, over-consumption of freshwater, and contamination from agriculture, urbanization, and hydraulic fracturing interact to alter community structure and ecosystem functions in streams and wetlands. Freshwater ecosystems support aquatic invertebrate species vulnerable to environmental alterations that sustain food webs. Her research quantifies how macroinvertebrate communities and their functions change in response to human activities to inform whole-ecosystem anthropogenic alterations.

 

A graduate from the University of Notre Dame with a Doctorate in Biology, Sally earned her Master’s degree in Entomology from the University of Georgia, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Georgia Southwestern State University.