About the Stanbrook Lab
Our Mission
The Stanbrook Lab investigates how dung beetles (Scarabaeinae) respond to environmental change — from climate shifts and land-use disturbance to habitat gradients across continents. Our work spans species distribution modelling, community ecology, behavior, and ecosystem service valuation, with active fieldwork in the southeastern US, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Dr. Rosie Stanbrook-Buyer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Environmental Science at Bethune-Cookman University, where her research centers on the ecology and conservation of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae). Her work combines species distribution modelling, geometric morphometrics, and field-based experimentation to understand how climate change and landscape disturbance are reshaping insect biodiversity and the ecosystem services it sustains. She is currently expanding this research into bioacoustic monitoring and large-scale biodiversity assessment, with active fieldwork spanning North America and East Africa.