Former Grad Students

Arabas, Karen. Ph.D. 1997. Fire and vegetation dynamics in the eastern serpentine barrens. Currently Associate Professor of Geography, Willamette University

Beaty, Matthew. M.Sc.1998. Spatial and temporal variation in fire regimes and forest dynamics along a montane forest gradient in the southern Cascades, California. M.Sc.

Beaty, Matthew. Ph.D. 2004. Multiscale analysis of fire regimes and forest structure in mixed conifer forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA. Currently post-doctoral research fellow CSIRO Urban Ecosystems

Bekker, Matthew. M.Sc. 1996. Fire History of the Thousand Lakes Wilderness, Lassen National Forest. Currently Assistant Professor of Geography, Brigham Young University.

Dando, William. M.Sc. 1996. Reconstruction of presettlement forests of northeastern Pennsylvania using original land survey records. Geography, Supervisor.

Gill, Lisa 2007 Spatial and temporal variation in fire regimes along a mixed conifer forest gradient in the northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. M.Sc. Currently, Park Ranger, Eldorado Canyon State Park, Boulder, Colorado

Guarin, Alejandro. M.Sc. 2003. The influence of climate and topography on forest dieback in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Currently Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley.

Kluber, Jen. M.Sc. 2000. Twentieth Century Vegetation Change in Chircahua National Monument, Cochise County, Arizona.

Ko, DongWook. M.Sc. 2001. The regeneration status of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada. Currently post-doctoral research fellow, University of Nevada, Reno.

Mares, Christine. M.Sc. 2003. Effects of three fuel treatments on forest fuels and fire effects in a ponderosa pine forest in northeastern, California. Firewise Education Program,University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.

Mills, Helen. M.Sc. 2002. Structural and compositional change in vegetation in Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona, Cochise County Arizona. Currently, Ph.D. candidate Yale School of Forestry.

Nagel, Tom. 2002. Montane chaparral and high severity fire in mixed conifer forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA. M.Sc. Currently, Young Scientist Program, University of Ljubljana, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Ljubljana Slovenia

Norman, Stephen P. Ph.D. 2002. Legacies of anthropogenic and climate change in fire prone pine and mixed conifer forests of northeastern California. Currently, research ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.

Pierce, Andrew 2007 Spatial patterns of regeneration and interspecific competition in mixed aspen-white fir forests in the northern Sierra Nevada, USA. M.Sc. Currently Ph.D. candidate Department of Geography, Penn State.

Sakulich, John. M.Sc. 2004. Fire regimes and forest structure in mixed conifer forests in the Guadalupe Mountains, Texas. Research Assistant, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Tree Ring Research Laboratory.

Schmidt, David. M.Sc. 2005. The influence of stand and landscape-level fuel treatment type and arrangement on simulated fire behavior in mixed conifer forests of northern California. Currently, Fire Ecologist, Nature Conservancy and USDA Forest Service, Region 5 (California).

Scholl, Andrew 2008 Understanding mixed conifer forests in Yosemite National Park: an historical analysis of fire regimes and vegetation dynamics. Ph.D. Currently Assistant Professor of Geography, Wittenberg University

Scholl, Andrew. M.Sc. 1999. The structure and dynamics of old-growth red fir (Abies magnifica A. Murr.)-western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl. Ex D. Don), in the Carson Range, Nevada. Currently Ph.D. candidate, Penn State University.

Solem, Michael. M.Sc. 1995. Fire History of the Caribou Wilderness, Lassen National Forest, California. Currently, Director of Educational Affairs, Association of American Geographers.

Trouet, Valerie post-doctoral research associate on fire-climate interactions in the Mediterranean climate areas of California, Southern Oregon and Western Nevada. (Ph.D. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). Currently, Research Scientist in the Tree Physiology group of the Dendro Sciences Research Unit of the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape WSL.

Wall, Alyss. M.Sc. 1998. Predicting Climate From Tree Ring Data: A Comparison of Linear Regression and Neural Network Methodologies. Geography, Supervisor.