Graduate Students

Bilal Aslam
PhD Student
Remote sensing, Geospatial analysis and mapping, Machine learning, Time Series Analysis, Spatial Statistics
Cameron Bodine
PhD Student
River ecology, fisheries, remote sensing, spatial ecology, machine learning
Abraham Cadmus
PhD Student
Forest tree ecophysiology, community genetics, ecohydrology, plant hydraulics, conservation and restoration.
Jennifer Diehl
PhD Student
Remote sensing, ecological modeling, conservation biology, forest ecology
Alicia Formanack
PhD Student
Dendroecology, Bayesian modeling, natural climate solutions, forest carbon
Kat Fowler
PhD Student
Hydrology and water resources; data integration and harmonization; ecological modeling; climate change
Iván González - Garzón
PhD Student
Ecohydrology, remote sensing, land use change, spatial and quantitative ecology
Xin Huang
PhD Student
Tree growth, bayesian statistics, ecological modeling, software engineering, high-performance computing
Jenna Keany
PhD Student
Biodiversity loss, animal-plant interactions, remote sensing, ecosystem ecology, climate change
Blase LaSala
PhD Student
Hazardous environment documentation, geoinformatics, data interface and visualization, high performance computing
Scooter Nowak
PhD Student
Data manipulation and analysis, software tool development, aquatic entomology, aquatic ecology
Anna Odell
PhD Student
Macrosystems ecology, vegetation response to climate and land-use change, satellite remote sensing
Kathleen Orndahl
PhD Student
Arctic vegetation ecology, climate change impacts on arctic ecosystems, UAV operations, satellite remote sensing
Emily Palmquist
PhD Student
Dryland plant ecology, riparian plant ecology, rare plants, plant genetics, Grand Canyon, river regulation
Jeralyn Poe
PhD Student
Carbon cycling, land-atmosphere interactions, geospatial analysis, Arctic vulnerability
Tomos Prys-Jones
PhD Student
Animals transport of microbes and pathogens, impact of animal extinctions on emergent infectious disease
Colin Quinn
PhD Student
Biogeography, Remote Sensing, Environmental response to climate and human impact, landscape archaeology
Emma Reich
PhD Student
Plant ecophysiology, stable isotope analysis, evapotranspiration partitioning, flux tower measurements
Melissa Rose
PhD Student
Remote sensing, ecological modeling, conservation biology, consequences of biodiversity change
Vova Saruta
PhD Student
Bayesian statistics, emulators, process based models, terrestrial ecosystems, carbon cycle
Shelby Sundquist
PhD Student
Ecological modeling, climate change, and arctic and boreal vegetation
Julia Tatum
PhD Student
Forest ecology, soil moisture dynamics, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, ecological modeling, machine learning
Aaron Teets
PhD Student
Forest carbon dynamics, phenology, woody biomass increment, non-structural carbohydrates, eddy-covariance
Sam Watson
PhD Student
Climate change; forest ecology; phenology; land-atmosphere interactions; data synthesis and statistical modeling
Natasha Wesely
PhD Student
Landscape ecology, fire ecology, abiotic drivers of ecosystem heterogeneity, spatial modeling, remote sensing
Ethan Yackulic
PhD Student
Paleoecology, lake sediments, hyperspectral imaging, water quality, Holocene climate