Jian Yang, Ph.D.
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor
Interests: landscape ecology, ecological modelling, spatial statistics, GIS, wildland fire science, and riparian ecosystem dynamics

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

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

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

Miles Becker
Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Interests: avian reproductive strategies, urban ecology, and ecosystem services

Meredith Gosejohan
Graduate Student, MS
Interests: plant community dynamics, restoration ecology, conservation biology, and plant ecophysiology

Jane Van Gunst
Graduate Student, MS
Interests: forest ecology, landscape ecology, disturbance ecology

Students

Yuanchao Fan, M.S. student (graduated August 2011)
Thesis title: Tree crown mortality associated with roads in the Lake Tahoe Basin: a remote sensing approach.
Currently working for the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia

Nathan Bristow, M.S. student (graduated August 2010)
Thesis title: Long term vegetation response in the Great Basin: Forty years of succession following prescribed fire and chaining.
Currently working for Otis Bay Ecological Consultants in Reno, Nevada

Susan Mortenson Ph.D. (graduated December 2009)
Disseration title: Plant community invasibility in riparian landscapes: role of disturbance, geomorphology, and life history traits.
Currently working for Otis Bay Ecological Consultants in Reno, Nevada

Blake Meneken Engelhardt, M.S. student (graduated December 2009)
Thesis title: Geomorphic controls on Great Basin riparian vegetation at the watershed and process zone scales
Currently working for the U.S Forest Service, Lake Tahoe

Stephanie Sundermann, M.S. student (graduated December 2009)
Thesis title: Fire patterns and post-fire vegetation response in a Mojave Desert spring ecosystem
Currently working for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Watershed Monitoring Section in Tallahassee, Florida

Lea Condon, M.S. student (graduated December 2007)
Thesis title: Landscape analysis of post-burn succession in a Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodland
Currently a PhD student at Oregon State University

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

John Bauer, M.S. student (graduated August 2006)
Thesis title: Fire history and stand structure of a central Nevada pinyon-juniper woodland
Currently working for the Wetlands Conservancy in Portland, Oregon

Researchers and Visiting Scientists

Jotham Ziffer-Berger, (visiting Post Doctoral Research Fellow)

Alya Shandra, (visiting researcher from the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute )

Dongwook Ko, Post Doctoral Research Fellow (finished December 2008)
Currently a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland

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

Rekha Pillai, GIS Specialist (2004 - 2006)

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

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

Lab Employees

Todd Granberry
Teresa Olson
Liz Toomey
Ben Hatchett, now a graduate student in Atmospheric Sciences