Dr. Seymoure is interested in how animals interact with their visual environment and how light pollution disrupts natural behaviors, physiology, and ecosystem services in arthropods and their predators.

• Importance of natural light cycles for arthropod species interactions, Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in St. Louis (2022)
• Ecological impacts of light pollution, Colorado State University and National Park Service (2019)
• Ph D in Biology, Arizona State University (2016)
• BS in Biology, Alma College (2009)

• Current evidence in support of insect-friendly lighting practices Current Opinions in Insect Science (2024), Avalon Owens, Michael Pocock, Brett M. Seymoure.
• Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies Animal Behaviour (2024), Elly Grant, Brett M. Seymoure, Andres Lopez-Sepulcre, Yusan Yang, Swanne Gordon.
• Background matching is independent of body temperature in the Western diamond-backed rattlesnake Journal of Zoology 323 3 (2024), Oceane Da Cunha, Corentin Fournier, Logan M. Horne, Brett M. Seymoure, Jerry D. Johnson.
• Variation in terrestrial arthropod communities across seasons and differently planted infiltration basins. The Canadian Entomologist 156 13 (2024), Shayan Farhang, Dan Duffy, Brett M. Seymoure.
• You can’t see me: Background matching is independent of temperature in the Western diamond-backed rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox). Journal of Zoology (2024), Oceane Da Cunha, Coco Fournier, L. Miles Horne, Brett M. Seymoure, Jerry Johnson.

• The issues of artificial lighting and its impact on nature (2024), Volume El Paso, TX, Brett M. Seymoure, Stephen Hummel.
• Predation differences between rural and urban sites in the white-lined sphynx moth (Hyles lineata). (2024), Volume Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Brett M. Seymoure, Logan M. Horne, Kajaya Pollard, Braulio Sanchez, Ashlee Portz, Jackson Savage, Colby Smith, Spencer Duffendack, Elise Cotty, Oliver Neria, Alex Moore, Elizabeth Field, Sol Saenz-Arreola, Andrea Olivas, Oceane Da Cunha.
• Attempting to untangle the effects of skyglow on arthropod behavior and vision. (2024), Volume Altmunster, Austria, Brett M. Seymoure, John F. Deitsch, L. M. Horne.
• Predation differences between rural and urban sites in the white-lined sphynx moth (Hyles lineata). (2024), Volume London, ON, CAN, Brett M. Seymoure, Logan M. Horne, Kajaya Pollard, Braulio Sanchez, Ashlee Portz, Jackson Savage, Colby Smith, Spencer Duffendack, Elise Cotty, Oliver Neria, Alex Moore, Elizabeth Field, Sol Saenz-Arreola, Andrea Olivas, Oceane Da Cunha.
• The dark side of light: Consequences of disrupting natural light for the behavioral ecology of arthropods. (2024), Volume Wilmot, Ohio, Brett M. Seymoure.

• Fight, flight or fright: The effect of light pollution on arthropod mesopredator foraging
• REU Site: Summer program in Chihuahuan Desert Biodiversity
• Improving classroom comprehension and equity using verbal exams and assessments
• Are arthropods influenced by the interaction of light pollution and the lunar cycle?
• How light levels affect the circadian rhythms of a nocturnal pollination system
• Untangling Personality, Vision, and Foraging