| Student | Degree | Research Topic/Title | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophie Ackerman | MS | Impact of broadcast-applied biochar on seedling growth, drought resilience and vegetative competition response; Understory vegetation response to prescribed burns in mature and old-growth red pine stands | Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Dani Berger | PhD | Climate adaptation in urban floodplain forests; social-ecological systems; community decision-making | Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Michael Carson | PhD | Updating stocking charts and site index curves to a changed climate for forest planning & assessing timber transportation safety | John Zobel |
| Erin Clark | PhD | Ecosystem impacts of emerald ash borer induced tree mortality | Rob Slesak/ Rebecca Montgomery |
| Hailey Draper | PhD | Conservation social science: how we can pursue equitable, pro-environmental outcomes through formal and informal policy mechanisms | Forrest Fleischman |
| Auste Eigirdas | MS | Climate-adaptive silviculture in urban floodplain forests | Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Roy Forsstrom | PhD | Satellite remote sensing to monitor and assess environmental changes in Arctic permafrost regions due to climate change and increased commercial and military development | Chad Babcock |
| Catherine Glenn-Stone | MS | Assessing the physiological responses of trees in floodplain forests impacted by emerald ash borer, Dutch elm disease, and a changing climate to inform future forest management practices | Marcella Windmuller-Campione/ Rebecca Montgomery |
| Gregory Harris | PhD | Investigating the attributes and dynamics of standing dead trees to better understand their role in forest carbon storage and flux | Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Daniel Hernandez | PhD | Methodology for the analysis of rural economies in the global south; understanding ethnic, ancestral or traditional processes in the framework of extractivism and environmental colonialism processes | Karlyn Eckman/Dean Current |
| Aaron Hinz | MS | Hydrology | Chris Lenhart/Diana Karwan |
| Savannah Jenkins | PhD | The intersection of fire and berries for tribes in the Midwest; promotion of Indigenous science | Mike Dockry |
| Anupa Khadka | MS | Integrating remote sensing and forest inventory data to enhance the precision and efficiency of aboveground biomass estimation; developing and evaluating statistical methods for forest carbon estimation | Chad Babcock |
| Hannah Jo King | PhD | Tribal and cultural resources management, food sovereignty, Black ecologies, environmental justice | Mae Davenport |
| Katrina Klett | PhD | Protection and sustainable use of the Asian honeybee in rural mountain communities in China and beyond | Marla Spivak |
| Kara Lamoreux | MS | Exploring methods to remotely detective invasive roundleaf bittersweet (C. orbiculatus) in Minnesota and providing accessible species distribution maps for land managers | Adriana Uscanga |
| Dirk Last | MS | Fostering Climate Action: Enhancing REDD+ in the Lower Mekong Basin via Expandable Earth Observation Systems | Chad Babcock |
| Luiza Lucena | PhD | Assessing the attractiveness of Non-Timber Forest Product attributes to expand market opportunities in the United States: A case study in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala | Dean Current |
| Leslie McInenly | PhD | Decision Support Tools and Stakeholder Considerations for Natural Resource Management: Examples from Minnesota's Deer Management Program | David Fulton |
| Kowsar Mohamed | PhD | Exploring equitable innovative methods for natural resource management by centering Afro-Indigenous knowledge, cultural design, and technology | Mae Davenport |
| Melonee Montano | MS | Identifying impacts on the connections between fire, the land, more-than-humans, and humans, and the benefits of returning to the use of fire as one of the traditional land management practices of the Anishinaabeg, through decolonized research, Indigenous methodologies, and the blending of both Western and Indigenous Science | Mike Dockry |
| Elizabeth Navratil | MS | The impact of disturbance and restoration on peatland vegetation communities in northern Minnesota | Randy Kolka/ Chris Lenhart |
| Joe Nowak | PhD | Improving collaborative science communication between agricultural producers and stakeholders | Mae Davenport |
| Fredrick Lala Odock | PhD | Impact of infrastructural development in Tsavo National Parks (Kenya) on the movement of wildlife | Joseph Bump |
| Bazile Minogiizhigaabo Panek | MS | Indigenous fire stewardship, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge systems | Mike Dockry |
| Keith Pelletier | PhD | Developing new classification and assessment methods for object-based image analysis of forests | Joe Knight |
| Audrey Robeson | PhD | City and country environmental policymaking, climate change and disaster recovery, and community-engaged scholarship | Forrest Fleischman |
| Samuel Ronneberg | MS | How environmentally conscious urban residents manage their lawns and advocate for pollinators | Kristen Nelson |
| Jessica Rootes | PhD | Performing eastern spruce budworm comparison studies using two locations: northern Minnesota and Isle Royale | Brian Aukema |
| Chelsea Semper | MS | Regeneration and management of white spruce-aspen mixedwood stands | John Zobel/Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Terrence Serres | MS | Impacts of fire severity and microtopography on red and white pine seed germination and seedling survival | Lee Frelich/Peter Reich |
| Morgan Smith | MS | Assessment of stream restoration at Vesta Creek, Southeast Minnesota, with the goal of removing legacy sediment and implement climate-adapted shrub plantings to improve water quality and habitat for the benefit of native trout populations and other wildlife | Chris Lenhart |
| Emma Smoll | MS | Investigating native seedling viability in Mississippi River floodplain forests | Rebecca Montgomery |
| Jessica Tran | PhD | Examining Community Engaged Research at the Tar Creek Superfund Site in Ottawa County, Oklahoma | Mae Davenport |
| Paulina Vergara Buitrago | PhD | Sustainable management of the Rabanal Paramo Integrated Management Regional District (Colombia): Connecting the biodiversity and ecosystems services | Dean Current |
| Clara von Dohlen | MS | Climate adaptation policy and how we can build sustainable and resilient communities, and pursue green infrastructure in a way that does not perpetuate and replicate historical systematic oppressions | Forrest Fleischman |
| Jesse Wolk | MS | Dendrochronology of red pine in NW Wisconsin | Ingrid Schneider/Lee Frelich |
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