The following graduate students are pursuing a degree in Forestry or Wildlife Ecology or are advised by a Forest & Wildlfie Ecology faculty member. For information about the graduate student representatives please visit the their webpage.
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| Patricia Alexandre, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2010 |
| Advisor: | Volker Radeloff |
| Committee: | David Mladenoff, Murray Clayton, Harvey Jacobs, Susan Stewart |
| Interest Area: | Fires and housing in the Wildland-Urban Interface |
| Matthias Baumann, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | Mutlu Ozdogan |
| Committee: | Volker Radeloff, Stith (Tom) Gower, Murray Clayton, Chengquan Huang |
| Interest Area: | Remote Sensing, Land-Use/Land-Cover Change, Spatial Statistics |
| Heidi Bissell, email, website | |
| Program: | Zoology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2007 |
| Advisor: | William Karasov |
| Committee: | Jess Reed, Joanna Lambert, Warren Porter, Jim Bennett |
| Interest Area: | Zoo and captive wildlife nutrition; nutritional ecology; nutritional physiology |
| Jon Breschak, email | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2008 |
| Advisor: | Mark Rickenbach |
| Committee: | Adena Rissman, Robert Ray, Kenneth Genskow, Donald Moynihan |
| Interest Area: | Interaction between social network structure, natural resource management, and institutions as explanatory variables in ecosystem degradation through cross scale and cross level processes |
| Alexander Brito, email | |
| Program: | Forestry MS |
| Start Term: | Spring 2013 |
| Advisor: | Philip Townsend |
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| Collin Buntrock, email | |
| Program: | Forestry MS |
| Start Term: | Summer 2012 |
| Advisor: | Scott Bowe |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Forest management, wood products, sustainable forestry |
| James Burnham, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | Anna Pidgeon |
| Committee: | William Karasov, Volker Radeloff, Murray Clayton, M. Jake Vander Zanden, Jeb Barzen |
| Interest Area: | Avian ecology, endangered species conservation, wetland ecosystem function, remote sensing, spatial analysis and Chinese language and history |
| Dunbar Carpenter, email | |
| Program: | Forestry MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | David Mladenoff |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Forest, ecosystem, and landscape ecology |
| Sarah Carter, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2010 |
| Advisor: | Volker Radeloff and Anna Pidgeon |
| Committee: | Murray Clayton, David Mladenoff, Adena Rissman |
| Interest Area: | Improving the effectiveness of conservation planning by learning from past conservation efforts, using better remote sensing data, and furthering scenarios-based approaches to addressing future threats from climate and land use change |
| Tawnya Cary, email, cv/resume | |
| Program: | Zoology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | William Karasov |
| Committee: | Warren Porter, Ralph Albrecht, Jenny Gumperz, Warren Heideman |
| Interest Area: | Accessing the impacts of environmental contaminants on amphibian immune function, how potential immuno-suppression may result in decreased pathogen resistant leading to infection in the native northern leopard frog |
| Joshua Courlas, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Robert (Scott) Lutz |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Avian ecology, particularly habitat selection and distribution of species |
| Zachary DeQuattro, email | |
| Program: | Zoology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2008 |
| Advisor: | William Karasov |
| Committee: | Terence Barry, Warren Porter, Richard Peterson, Emily Stanely |
| Interest Area: | Ecotoxicology |
| Elena Doucet-Beer, email, website | |
| Program: | Zoology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2008 |
| Advisor: | William Karasov and M. Zachariah Peery |
| Committee: | Anna Pidgeon, Jonathan Pauli, Anthony Ives |
| Interest Area: | Impacts of urbanization and other landscape-level changes on the behavior and physiology of wildlife at both the individual and population level |
| James Doyle, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Timothy Van Deelen |
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| Delgerjargal (Degi) Dugarjav, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2008 |
| Advisor: | Stith (Tom) Gower |
| Committee: | Craig Lorimer, Eric Kruger, Glen Stanosz, Richard Hall |
| Interest Area: | Tree biomass, allometric equations to estimate tree biomass and volume, process-based ecosystem models, carbon mitigation capacity of boreal forests, post-fire succession and regeneration in the Scotch Pine forests |
| Michael Eggen, email | |
| Program: | Geography PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Mutlu Ozdogan |
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| Lara Fondow, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2004 |
| Advisor: | Stanley Temple, Scott Craven |
| Committee: | David Drake, John Harrington |
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| Tera Galante, email | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Summer 2010 |
| Advisor: | David Mladenoff |
| Committee: | Eric kruger, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Katherine McMahon, James Bockheim, Jodi Forrester |
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| Matthew Garcia, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Mutlu Ozdogan |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Hydrology, atmospheric science, meteorology, forest ecology, climate change, boreal forests, mountainous regions, numerical modeling |
| Ellen Geisler, email | |
| Program: | Forestry MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Adena Rissman |
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| Jessica Gorzo, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Spring 2012 |
| Advisor: | Anna Pidgeon |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Ornithology, landscape ecology, conservation biology |
| Huan Gu, email | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | Philip Townsend |
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| Interest Area: | Forest ecosystem changes by using remote sensing analysis tool, model correlations between changes and ecological factors |
| Corey Halpin, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | Craig Lorimer |
| Committee: | David Mladenoff, Stith (Tom) Gower, Monica Turner |
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| Christopher Hamilton, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Spring 2010 |
| Advisor: | Volker Radeloff |
| Committee: | Anna Pidgeon, Adena Rissman, Murray Clayton, |
| Interest Area: | Land use change, housing growth, and future landscape conditions around the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuges |
| Max Henschell, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Anna Pidgeon |
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| Natalie Hunt, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry and Environment & Resources PhD |
| Start Term: | Spring 2009 |
| Advisor: | Stith (Tom) Gower |
| Committee: | Mutlu Ozdogan, Stephen Ventura, Christopher Kucharik, Bradford Barham |
| Interest Area: | Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics of bioenergy cropping systems |
| Rocio Jara, email | |
| Program: | Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development MS |
| Start Term: | Summer 2011 |
| Advisor: | Michael Samuel |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Large carnivore conservation; human-wildlife conflict |
| Katie Jenkins, email | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Glen Stanosz |
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| Christopher Johnson, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | David Mladenoff |
| Committee: | Jodi Forrester, Volker Radeloff, Philip Townsend, Randall Jackson |
| Interest Area: | Ecological impacts of forest bioenergy plantations and land-use change; peatland ecology |
| Yanghui Kang, email | |
| Program: | Environment & Resources MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Mutlu Ozdogan |
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| Keefe Keeley, email | |
| Program: | Agroecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Mark Rickenbach & Stephen Ventura |
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| Tess Killpack, email, website | |
| Program: | Zoology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2008 |
| Advisor: | William Karasov |
| Committee: | Mark Berres, Mark Cook, Jenny Gumperz, Erik Hofmeister |
| Interest Area: | Immune capacity development and factors that influence the strength of immune response in growing altricial birds |
| Rebecca Kirby, email, website | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Jonathan Pauli |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Effects of human-induced environmental changes on wildlife habitat use and behavior; conservation biology; human-wildlife conflict; black bear foraging ecology and aging techniques |
| Christopher Latimer, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Benjamin Zuckerberg |
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| Bethany Laursen, email, website, cv/resume | |
| Program: | Environment & Resources MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Mark Rickenbach |
| Committee: | Randall Jackson, Gary Green |
| Interest Area: | Complexity and systems thinking; epistemology of interdisciplinarity; social networks; environmental history; collaboration; cooperative extension; landscape governance; Vernon County, W |
| Andrew Lerch, email | |
| Program: | Forestry and Entomology MS |
| Start Term: | Spring 2008 |
| Advisor: | Philip Townsend |
| Committee: | Kenneth Raffa |
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| Christina Locke, email, website, cv/resume | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | Adena Rissman |
| Committee: | Mark Rickenbach, Claudio Gratton, Harvey Jacobs, Eunice Padley |
| Interest Area: | Natural resource policy, land-use planning, landscape ecology, GIS, applied social science |
| Andrew L'Roe, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Adena Rissman |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Forest Conservation, Certification, Industrial and Investor-owned Forestland in the Great Lakes, Climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| Philip Manlick, email, website | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Jonathan Pauli |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Population dynamics and community structure, ecology and management of mammals, integration of behavioral ecology, conservation genetics, and spatial modeling to acquire a greater understanding of community ecology and the responses of wildlife to anthrop |
| Diane Mayerfeld, email | |
| Program: | Environment & Resources PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Mark Rickenbach |
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| Jorge Mendoza, email, website | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Jonathan Pauli & M. Zachariah Peery |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Population biology; behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology in birds and mammals of the tropics; developing effective conservation strategies |
| Wynn Moss, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Spring 2013 |
| Advisor: | Jonathan Pauli |
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| Catalina Munteanu, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Spring 2012 |
| Advisor: | Volker Radeloff |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Land use and land cover change, Eastern Europe |
| Lindsey Myers, email | |
| Program: | Forestry MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Glen Stanosz |
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| Andrew Norton, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2010 |
| Advisor: | Timothy Van Deelen |
| Committee: | David Drake, Michael Samuel, Eric Kruger, Christopher Jacques |
| Interest Area: | Game species population ecology and management |
| Paula Perrig, email, cv/resume | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Jonathan Pauli |
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| Ian Plummer, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Michael Samuel |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Environmental transmission of chronic wasting disease in south central Wisconsin |
| John Pokallus, email, website | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Jonathan Pauli |
| Committee: | John Orrock, M (Zach) Peery |
| Interest Area: | Impacts of climate change and increased predation on porcupine dynamics in Wisconsin |
| Carlos Ramirez Reyes, email, website | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2010 |
| Advisor: | Volker Radeloff |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Remote sensing, landscape ecology |
| Brendan Reid, email, website | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Spring 2010 |
| Advisor: | M. Zachariah Peery |
| Committee: | Timothy Van Deelen, Anna Pidgeon, Donald Waller, Fred Janzen |
| Interest Area: | Conservation genetics, bioinformatics, habitat connectivity and demography of Blanding's Turtle in Wisconsin |
| Eric Ross, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Benjamin Zuckerberg |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Avian Migration Phenology and other areas of Avian Ecology, GIS, Remote Sensing, and Citizen Science |
| Autumn Sabo, email, cv/resume | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2010 |
| Advisor: | Eric Kruger |
| Committee: | David Mladenoff, Donald Waller |
| Interest Area: | Forest resilience and recovery, rare plant conservation, climate change, invasive species, restoration dissertation focus: how white-tailed deer affect understory plant communities |
| Paul Schilke, email | |
| Program: | Forestry MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Anna Pidgeon |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Avian and plant ecology and conservation |
| Carolyn Schmitz, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Spring 2010 |
| Advisor: | Christine Ribic |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | factors influencing grassland bird nesting success; bioenergy |
| Aditya Singh, email | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2008 |
| Advisor: | Philip Townsend |
| Committee: | Eric Kruger, Mutlu Ozdogan, Emily Stanley, Steven Loheide |
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| Renata Solan, email | |
| Program: | Environment & Resources PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Nancy Langston & Eve Emshwiller |
| Committee: | |
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| Jennifer Stenglein, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD and Biometry MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | Timothy Van Deelen |
| Committee: | David Mladenoff, Michael Samuel, David Drake, Adrian Wydeven, Dennis Heisey |
| Interest Area: | Survival analysis for Wisconsin gray wolves |
| Ricka Stoelting, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Spring 2010 |
| Advisor: | M. Zachariah Peery |
| Committee: | Timothy Van Deelen, Anna Pidgeon, Janet Silbernagel, Ralph Gutierrez |
| Interest Area: | Population viability analysis; impacts of study design on assessing status of wildlife populations |
| Sean Sultaire, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Benjamin Zuckerberg & Jonathan Pauli |
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| Naparat Suttidate, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Volker Radeloff |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Human-wildlife conflict and species conservation |
| Ryan Sword, email | |
| Program: | Forestry MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | Philip Townsend |
| Committee: | |
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| Ying-Tang (Cherry) Tsai, email | |
| Program: | Molecular & Environmental Toxicology PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2011 |
| Advisor: | William Karasov |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Ecotoxicology |
| Ana Venegas, email | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Anna Pidgeon |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Wildlife management and conservation Ornithology |
| Camille Warbington, email, cv/resume | |
| Program: | Wildlife Ecology MS |
| Start Term: | Fall 2010 |
| Advisor: | Timothy Van Deelen |
| Committee: | Jonathan Pauli, John Orrock |
| Interest Area: | White-tailed deer fawn survival; predator-prey relationships and interactions; environmental and maternal effects on neonate survival |
| Chloe Wardropper, email | |
| Program: | Forestry PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2012 |
| Advisor: | Adena Rissman |
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| Yang Yang, email | |
| Program: | Environment & Resources PhD |
| Start Term: | Fall 2009 |
| Advisor: | Mutlu Ozdogan |
| Committee: | |
| Interest Area: | Land cover and land use change |
| Rebecca Zug, email | |
| Program: | Environment & Resources PhD |
| Start Term: | Spring 2010 |
| Advisor: | Timothy Van Deelen & David Drake |
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Last updated: April 22, 2013
