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Post-Doctoral Scholars
Chen-Chia Ku, Ph.D.
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Joseph D. Birch, Ph.D.
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Graduate Students
Casey Snider, Ph.D. Student in Forestry.
Soren Struckman, NSF Fellow, PhD Student in Ecology.

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Lab Alumni

Post-Doctoral Alumni
Michaela Teich Michaela Teich, Dr. sc. ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 2014.

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Graduate Alumni
Kendall Becker Kendall Becker. 2022. Old-Growth Forest Dynamics After Fire and Drought in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Ph.D. Dissertation. Utah State University.

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Sara Germain. 2022. Hidden Mechanisms of Climate Impacts in Western Forests: Integrating Theory and Observation for Climate Adaptation. Ph.D. Dissertation. Utah State University.

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Tucker Furniss. 2021. Big Fires, Big Trees, and Big Plots: Enhancing our Ecological Understanding of Fire with Unprecedented Field Data. Ph.D. Dissertation. Utah State University.

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Jelveh Tamjidi. 2020. The Consequences of Environmental Properties and Tree Spatial Neighborhood on Post-Fire Structure of Forest in Yosemite National Park. Masters Thesis. College of Natural Resources, Utah State University.
Erika Blomdahl. 2018. Interactions between fire severity and forest biota in the central Sierra Nevada: Formation and impact of small-scale fire refugia and the effect of fire on forest structure predictive of fisher (Pekania pennanti) den habitat. Masters Thesis. College of Natural Resources, Utah State University.  

Camille Stephens. 2017. Logan Canyon climbing management plant for the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Logan Ranger District (rare species locations redacted). Master of Natural Resources, Utah State University.

Tucker Furniss. 2016. The Utah Forest Dynamics Plot: Long-term forest monitoring and theoretical ecology in a high-elevation subalpine environment. Masters Thesis. College of Natural Resources, Utah State University.
Kendall Becker. 2014. Effects of low-severity fire on species composition and structure in montane forests of the Sierra Nevada. Masters Thesis. School of Environmental and Forest Science, University of Washington.

Undergraduate Alumni
Bella Wetzler, BS Student in Forest Ecology and Management. Studies in seedling dynamics on moss and wood substrates in the Wind River Forest Dynamics Plot.
Michael Gudmundson. 2018. Armillaria root disease: Predicting root system interactions and inoculated trees from recorded stem mortality. Thesis. Department of Biology, Utah State University.

Matthew Bishop, 2016. Clonal dynamics in aspen in the Utah Forest Dynamics Plot. Subsequently published as, Bishop, M., T. J. Furniss, K. E. Mock, and J. A. Lutz. 2019. Genetic and spatial structuring of Populus tremuloides in a mixed-species forest of southwest Utah, USA. Western North American Naturalist 79(1): 63-71.