People

Lab Members

 

Dr. Peter J. Weisberg
Assistant Professor
Interests: disturbance ecology and vegetation dynamics; plant community succession on heterogeneous landscapes; ungulate-vegetation interactions; invasive plant species; restoration ecology in the context of fire and flow regimes; GIS applications and ecological modeling.

 

Dongwook Ko
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Interests: landscape ecology, landscape simulation modeling, dendrochronology, pinyon-juniper woodland, historical impact on landscape change.

 

Thomas Dilts
Research Scientist/Spatial Analyst
Interests: landscape ecology, spatial modeling, GIS.

 

Susan Mortenson
Graduate Student, PhD.
Dissertation: Non-native Tamarix ramosissima recruitment along the Colorado River: Interactions among flow regimes and geomorphology.

 

Jian Yang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Interests: landscape ecology, ecological modelling, spatial statistics, GIS, wildland fire science, and riparian ecosystem dynamics.

 

Zach Nelson
Graduate Student, PhD.
Interests: ecological modeling, avian and landscape ecology.

 

Blake Meneken Engelhardt
Graduate Student, MS.
Interests: habitat conservation and restoration, conservation biology, riparian and aquatic ecosystems, frogs.

 

Nathan Bristow
Graduate Student, MS.
Interests: landscape level management practices, disturbance attributes and plant succession, plant community distributions and interactions, remote sensing applications.

 

Yuanchao Fan
Graduate Student, MS.
Interests: environmental remote sensing, natural conservation, landscape ecology, and GIS.

 

Scott Dailey
Graduate Student, MS.
Interests: fire ecology, conservation biology, forest ecosystems, and disturbance ecology.

 

 

Sarah Ganschow
Graduate Student, MS.
Interests: ecosystem modeling, biogeochemical cycling, disturbance ecology, plant community dynamics, environmental policy and economics.

 

Stephanie Sunderman
Graduate Student, MS.
Interests: conservation biology, landscape ecology, restoration ecology, plant community interactions, habitat modeling.

Undergraduate Assistants

 

Teresa Olson
Undergraduate Student, B.S., Biology
Interests: conservation biology, evolutionary biology, restoration ecology, modeling historical vegetation dynamics.

 

Julisa Edwards
Undergraduate Student, B.A., Anthropology and Linguistics
Interests: dendrochronology, past environments, mortuary burial, cognitive archaeology, New World Migration Theory, syntax, new world languages, and germanic languages.

 

Todd Granberry
Undergraduate Student, B.S., Biology
Interests: environmental science and policy, dendrochronology, succession in sagebrush communities, GIS.

 

Stephanie Kilburn
Undergraduate student,

Alumni Members


John Bauer, M.S. student (graduated August 2006)
Thesis title: Fire history and stand structure of a central Nevada pinyon-juniper woodland

Lea Condon, M.S. student (graduated December 2007)
Thesis title: A landscape analysis of post-burn succession in a Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodland

Matteo Garbarino (Ph.D. internship, Univ. Turin, Spring 2007)

David Greenwood, M.S. student (graduated December 2006)
Thesis title: Landscape analysis of tree mortality and pinyon- juniper woodland structure in the Great Basin

Emanuele Lingua (Ph.D. internship, Univ. Turin, Spring 2004)

Rekha Pillai, GIS Specialist (2004 - 2006)

Camille Py, (undergraduate research internship, INAPG-Paris, Spring 2005)

 

 
 

University of Nevada, Reno

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