| 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 |
| Max Benning | MS | Identifying the factors that constrain and facilitate the adoption of agroforestry practices by Minnesota and Wisconsin landowners | Dean Current |
| Kevin Behrens | MS | Assessing mercury in gaseous fluxes and vegetation at the SPRUCE experiment, a whole ecosystem warming by elevated carbon dioxide study in northern Minnesota | Randy Kolka |
| 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 |
| Jeff Disbrow | MS | Identifying and Quantifying Active Retrogressive Thaw Slumps Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Digital Elevation Models | Joe Knight |
| Auste Eigirdas | MS | Climate-adaptive silviculture in urban floodplain forests | Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Holly Francart | MS | Detection and dynamics of Eastern larch beetle in lowland conifer forests in Wisconsin; possible replacement tree species for forests impacted by emerald ash borer | Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Mirae Guenther | MS | Examining how changes in urban tree canopy cover and functional diversity within watersheds in Saint Paul, MN correlate with changes in stormwater concentration-discharge relationships | Diana Karwan |
| Gregory Harris | MS | 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 | MS | 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 |
| Quentin Ikuta | MS | Species distribution modeling for oak regeneration in the southern Appalachians, silviculture, and fire | Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Panmei Jiang | PhD | Carbon dynamics in forests associated with fire in the western United States | Grant Domke |
| 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 |
| Dirk Last | MS | Fostering Climate Action: Enhancing REDD+ in the Lower Mekong Basin via Expandable Earth Observation Systems | Chad Babcock |
| Shanell Lovelace | MS | Human dimensions of conservation science and resource management; connecting human health to resource sustainability | David Fulton |
| 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 |
| William Mekeel | PhD | Precision agriculture applications (such as the effects of pests and disease) on apparent plant reflectance | Joe Knight |
| Gabby Menomin | MS | How tribal environmental knowledge and oral histories can inform forest restoration, ecology, and management planning to support tribal goals | Mike Dockry |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ren Olive | MS | Exploration of a 'farm to fridge' model to mutually benefit small to mid-size farmers and local rural grocery stores | Nicholas Jordan |
| Florencia Pech Cardenas | PhD | Indigenous peoples and the management of their forest, tourism, ethnobiology, and sustainability in the Yucatan Peninsula | Kristen Nelson/Mike Dockry |
| Keith Pelletier | PhD | Developing new classification and assessment methods for object-based image analysis of forests | Joe Knight |
| Rose Picklo | MS | Influence of temperature on the development of eastern larch beetle Dendroctonus simplex | Brian Aukema |
| Kira Pollack | MS | Increasing knowledge of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) planting methods to boost land managers' success | Andrew David/ Marcella Windmuller-Campione |
| Monica Randazzo | MS | Impacts of urban natural resource workforce development and training programs | Mae Davenport |
| Audrey Robeson | PhD | City and country environmental policymaking, climate change and disaster recovery, and community-engaged scholarship | Forrest Fleischman |
| 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 |
| Emma Smoll | MS | Investigating native seedling viability in Mississippi River floodplain forests | Rebecca Montgomery |
| Jessica Tran | PhD | Community-Based Participatory Research and Environmental Justice | 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 |
| Eric Walberg | PhD | Landowner attitudes toward elk in Minnesota: Management acceptability, wildlife stewardship and intolerance, management objective ranking, and risk perceptions | David Fulton |
| Anna Yang | PhD | Evaluating efficacy of oak wilt management and long-term impacts of oak wilt on MN forests | Rebecca Montgomery |
| Elana Zien | PhD | Understanding how environmental policy advocates select advocacy strategies, and how those advocacy strategies work | Forrest Fleischman |
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