Current graduate students

Ale Aguirre-Bustos

M.S. advisor: Stella Schons

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

Lauren Ahlstrom

M.S. advisor: Adam Coates

Areas of Interest: Fire ecology, hazardous fuels management, wildlife habitat management, wildlife ecology, LiDAR, remote sensing

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

Emma Busteed

M.S. advisors: Scott Barrett and Jen Gagnon

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

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

Catherine Dell'Olio

M.S. advisors: Hannes De Deurwaerder

Areas of Interest: Invasion ecology and forest ecology

Poulomi Dey

Poulomi Dey

Ph.D. advisor: Brian Strahm

Areas of Interest: Soil Biogeochemistry, Soil Carbon pool

Aoran Diao

Ph.D. advisor: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Forest Health, Plant Pathology, Invasive Species Management, and Biological Control

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

Jonathan Edwards

M.S. advisor: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Terrestrial Laser Scanning, the Forest Vegetation Simulator, Forest Carbon, Fire Ecology, and Forests Pests and Diseases

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.

Jack Feinstein

M.S. advisor: Adam Coates

Areas of Interest: Appalachian fire ecology and forest modeling

Lindsey Finks

Ph.D. advisors: Brian Strahm and Daniel McLaughlin

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

Reid Flessa

M.S. advisor: Shane Furze

Areas of Interest: Silviculture, Forest Soils, Forest Productivity, Digital Soil Mapping, GIS, and Remote Sensing

Kelsey Genovese

M,S. advisors: Kevin McGuirs

Areas of Interest: Soil biogeochemistry, carbon & nutrient transport and transformations, hydropedology

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

Morgan Karns

M.S. advisor: Marc Stern

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

Amanda King

Ph.D. advisor: Adam Coates

Area of Interest: Fire ecology, wildlife habitat management, bat biology

Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Kocz

M.S. advisor: Amy Brunner

Area of Interest: Chestnut genetics

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

Julia-Rose McLaughlin

M.S. advisor: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Tree pathology, forest and ecosystem ecology, chemical and biological control, forest preservation and restoration, plant genetics and evolution, and plant and tree systemics

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

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

Will Prokopik

M.S. advisor: Kevin McGuire

Areas of Interest: Hillslope and groundwater hydrology, geospatial data science, hydrologic modeling

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

Danielle Simmons

M.S. advisors: Carrie Fearer

Areas of Interest: Forest ecology, Forest health and management, wildland fire ecology, agroforestry

Megan Stevenson

M.S. advisor: Adam Coates

Areas of Interest: Wildfire ecology and restoration ecology

Sujan Subedi

Ph.D. advisor: Corey Green

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

Alex Thorpe

M.S. advisor: John Munsell

Areas of Interest: Agroforestry, improving wildlife habitat, riparian buffer implementation, biodiversity conservation, landowner education, silviculture, water quality