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)

• Better red than dead: plasticine moths are attacked less under HPS streetlights than LEDs Basic and Applied Ecology 74 (2024), Brett M. Seymoure, Tessa Parrish, Kaley Egan, Malcolm Furr, Danny Irwin, Cassie Brown, Morgan Crump, Jeremy White, Kevin Crooks, Lisa Angeloni.
• Light Pollution: Why we need to turn off the lights Frontiers for Young Minds (2023), Hannah Gurholt, Colleen Miller, Brett M. Seymoure.
• A framework for untangling the consequences of artificial light at night on species interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378 1892 (2023), Brett M. Seymoure, Anthony Dell, Franz Holker, Gregor Kalinkat.
• Male behavior in a swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor) ensures directional iridescent sexual signal is visible to females during courtship Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77 10 (2023), Ron Rutowski, Nikos Lessios, Brett M. Seymoure, Kim Pegram, Andrew Raymundo.

• Exploring behavioral differences of wolf spiders (genus Hogna) using video tracking software). (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Logan M. Horne, Brett M. Seymoure.
• Predation differences between rural and urban sites in the white-lined sphynx moth (Hyles lineata). (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, 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.
• Light pollution is a driver of insect declines (2023), Volume Online, Brett M. Seymoure, Avalon Owens.
• Illuminating the impact of artificial light at night on vocalization patterns in avian cavity nesters (2023), Volume Calgary, Alberta, Alaina Freidrich, Don Miles, Brett M. Seymoure.
• Better red than dead: Moth's survival increases under high pressure sodium illumination (2022), Volume Kansas City (Virtual), Brett M. Seymoure.

• 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