Current graduate students

Ale Aguirre-Bustos

M.S. advisor: Stella Schons

Areas of Interest: Forestry, Natural Resources, Agroforestry Sustainable Business Models, and Environmental Economics

Shane Allen

M.S. advisor: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Forest entomology, forest pathology, biological control, plant-microbe interactions, Plant pest/pathogen diagnostics, mycology

Caroline Avery

M.S. advisor: Ashleigh Kirker

Areas of Interest: Water resources, ecosystem science and management, human dimensions of natural resources

Sonia Banjade

Sonia Sharma Banjade

Ph.D. advisors:
Valerie Thomas and Randy Wynne

Areas of Interest: Remote sensing and GIS, natural resource management, forestry and ecological modeling, quantitative analysis

Gunjan Barua

Ph.D. advisors: Valerie Thomas and David Carter

Areas of Interest: Geospatial data science, LiDAR, remote sensing, AI & machine learning, growth and yield modeling

Emma Busteed

M.S. advisors: Scott Barrett and Jen Gagnon

Area of Interest: Silviculture, implementation of sustainable forestry practices, forest landowner education

Ryan Chewning

M.S. advisor: Michael Berry

Areas of Interest: Forest productivity, sustainable harvesting, and disturbance impacts

Dan Cross

Daniel Cross

Ph.D. advisor: Randy Wynne

Areas of Interest: Geospatial science, remote sensing, uncrewed vehicles, and natural resource management

Haley Deese

Hayes Deese

M.S. advisors: Daniel McLaughlin and Ashleigh Kirker

Areas of Interest: Ecohydrology, stream morphology, restoration ecology, watershed management

Poulomi Dey

Poulomi Dey

Ph.D. advisor: Brian Strahm

Areas of Interest: Soil Biogeochemistry, Soil Carbon pool

Daniel Donahoe

Daniel Donahoe

Ph.D. advisor: Valerie Thomas

Areas of Interest: GIS and remote sensing, landscape ecology, image processing/raster data analysis, terrain and land cover metrics

Margaret Donnan

M.S. advisor: Marc Stern

Area of Interest: Environmental education

David Enemo

Ph.D. advisor: Brian Strahm

Areas of Interest: Soil biogeochemistry, nutrient cycling and management, forest productivity and management, global change Impacts on soils.

Lindsey Finks

Ph.D. advisors: Brian Strahm and Daniel McLaughlin

Areas of Interest: Carbon-water dynamics, ecohydrology, remote sensing, data science

Ethan Frye

M.S. advisor: Carolyn Copenheaver

Areas of Interest: Ecological restoration, forest ecology, sustainability, and biodiversity conservation

Chris Harris

M.S. advisor: Adam Coates

Area of Interest: Wildfire fuel loading

Hope Harvey

Hope Harvey-Marose

Ph.D. advisor: Adam Coates

Area of Interest: Wildfire ecology

Daniel Hong

Daniel S. Hong

Ph.D advisors: David Carter and Brian Strahm

Areas of Interest: Biogeochemistry, nutrient dynamics, and forest ecology

Sarah Juster

Ph.D. advisor: John Munsell

Areas of Interest: Agroforestry; forestry in humanitarian settings; participatory mapping

Morgan Karns

M.S. advisor: Marc Stern

Area of Interest: Environmental education, human dimensions, relationships between social emotional learning and the outdoors

Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Kocz

M.S. advisor: Amy Brunner

Area of Interest: Chestnut genetics

Brenna Kurtz

M.S. advisor: John Seiler

Areas of Interest: Dendrology, ecophysiology, and restoration ecology

Korey Largo

M.S. advisor: John Munsell

Area of Interest: Agroforestry

Caitlin Littlejohn

M.S. advisors: Phil Radke and Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Forest pathology, ecosystem services, climate change, forest health

Daria Maslyukova

Ph.D. advisor: Adam Coates

Areas of Interest: Ecological forest management, fire ecology

Harrison Miles

Ph.D. advisor: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Forest health, invasive species, microbial ecology, human dimensions

Snehai More

Snehal More

Ph.D. advisor: Randy Wynne

Areas of Interest: Remote Sensing, Deep Learning, Forest Plantations, AI and Computer Vision for Earth Observation

John Morgan

Ph.D. advisors: J.P. Gannon and Kevin McGuire

Areas of Interest: Catchment hydrology, non-perennial streams, headwater streams, and how geology and topography control where streams flow

Tam Ogana

Temitope Ogana

Ph.D. advisor: Scott Barrett

Areas of Interest: Forest operations, forest business analysis, timberland investment

William Parrott

M.S. advisor: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Proactive forest health management, forest ecology, forest pests, and NIR spectroscopy

Kalani Perera

Kalani Perera

Ph.D. advisor: Stella Schons

Areas of Interest: Natural resource and environmental economics, timberland investment, forest law and policy

Tommy Phannareth

Ph.D. advisor: Jason Holliday

Areas of Interest: Population Genetics, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning

Ben Protozoan

Benjamin Protzman

Ph.D. advisor: Corey Green

Areas of Interest: Forest modeling, silviculture, data-driven forest management

Ani Rai

Ph.D. advisor: Mike Sorice

Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary resilience, adaptive natural resource management, diverse knowledge integration through multiple stakeholder engagement, collaborative governance, facilitation, participatory methods, science communication

Nitant Rai

Ph.D. advisor: Corey Green

Areas of Interest: Forest biometrics, machine learning, GIS and Remote sensing applications in natural resources, and UAVs

Laura Rossini

M.S. advisor: Stella Schons

Area of Interest: Natural resources economics, environmental and social policy, conservation

Aakriti Sapkota

Ph.D. advisor: Phil Radtke

Areas of Interest: Forest biometrics, small area estimation, remote sensing, geospatial modeling

Anna Sojka

M.S. advisor: Adam Coates

Areas of Interest: Remote sensing, LIDAR, UAV technologies, rest and disease control

Abby Spotswood

M.S. advisors: Brian Strahm and Angela Possinger

Areas of Interest: Soil biogeochemistry, soil organic matter, nutrient cycling

Sujan Subedi

Ph.D. advisor: Corey Green

Areas of Interest: Forest biometrics, forest inventory and modeling, machine learning in forestry, forest resource management

Vinny Varsalona

Ph.D. advisor: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Chestnut restoration, forest pathology, biological control, plant-microbe interactions, population genetics

Caroline Vickery

Ph.D. advisor: Brian Strahm

Areas of Interest: Soils, carbon storage, and nature-based solutions to climate change

Abi McKellips

Abigail Weaver

Ph.D. advisors: Corey Green and David Carter

Areas of Interest: Red spruce restoration, habitat connectivity, landscape scale modeling, and ecological restoration

Katelyn Woolfrey

M.S. advisors: Randy Wynne and Val Thomas

Areas of Interest: LiDAR, remote sensing, and disturbance ecology