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Current members

Dr. Alan Taylor, Lab Director

Rick Carr, Research Assistant

Lisa Gill, M.S. Student

Andrew Pierce, M.S. Student

Andrew Scholl, Ph.D. Candidate

Valerie Trouet, Post-doc

 

Past members

David Schmidt (M.S. 2005) The Influence of Stand-and-Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Type and Arrangement on Simulated Fire Behavior in Mixed-Conifer Forests of Northern California

Matt Beatty (Ph.D., 2004) Multiscale Analysis of Fire Regimes and Forest Structure in Mixed Conifer Forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA

John Sakulich (M.S., 2004) Fire Regimes and Forest Dynamics of Mixed Conifer Forests in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas

Christine Mares (M.S., 2003) Effects of Three Fuel Treatments on Forest Fuels and Fire Effects in a Ponderosa Pine Forest in Northeastern California

Alejandro Guarín (M.S., 2003) The Influence of Climate and Topography on Forest Dieback in Mixed Conifer Forests, Yosemite National Park, California, U.S.A.

Mills, Helen (M.S., 2002) Structural and Compositional Change in Vegetation of Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise County, Arizona

Nagel, Tom (M.S., 2002) Montane Chaparral and High-Severity Fire in Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA

Norman, Steve (Ph.D, 2002) Legacies of Anthropogenic and Climate Change in Fire Prone Pine and Mixed Conifer Forests of Northeastern California

Ko, Dong Wook (M.S., 2001) The Regeneration Status of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Neveda

Kluber, Jennifer (M.S., 2000) Twentieth Century Vegetation Change in Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise County, Arizona

Andrew Scholl (M.S., 1999) The Structure and Dynamics of an Old-Growth Red Fir (Abies magnifica A. Murr.) - Western White Pine (Pinus Monticola Dougl. Ex D. Don) Forest in the Carson Range, Nevada, USA

Beaty, Matt (M.S., 1998) Spatial & Temporal Variation in Fire Regimes and Forest Dynamics Along a Montane Forest Gradient in the Southern Cascades, California

Wall, Alys (M.S. 1998) Predicting Climate From Tree Ring Data: A Comparison of Linear Regression and Neural Network Methodologies

Arabas, Karen (Ph.D., 1997) The Effects of Fire and Anthropoyenz Distrubance on the Structure, Dynamics and Diversity of Oak and Pine-Dominated Forests in the Serpentine Barrens of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Bekker, Matt (M.S. 1996) Fire History of the Thousand Lakes Wilderness, Lassen National Forest, California, U.S.A.

Dando, William (M.S. 1996) Reconstruction of Presettlement Forests of Northeastern Pennsylvania Using Original Land Survey

Solem, Mike (M.S. 1995) Fire History of the Caribou Wilderness Lassen National Forest, California, U.S.A.

 

and of course... Boomer, the Lab Mascot