Graduates, Past People of the Wessman Research Group


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Graduates and Past Group Members

Ph.D. Students	Where are they now?
Cristina Rumbaitis-del Rio Ph.D., 2004 "Compound disturbance in a managed landscape: ecological effects of catastrophic blowdown, salvage-logging, and wildfire in a subalpine forest" (see science project summary and news feature)	Fellow, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Nancy Golubiewski Ph.D, 2003 "Carbon in conurbations: Afforestation and carbon storage as consequences of urban sprawl in Colorado's Front Range"	Research Ecologist, New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics
Andrew Hudak Ph.D., 1999 "The effect of woody plant encroachment on savanna carbon sequestration"	Research Forester, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID.
Lee Vierling Ph.D., 1999 "Interactions between light and tropical rain forest canopies and their implications for photosynthesis and isoprene emission"	Assistant Professor, University of Idaho
Margaret Shippert Ph.D., 1997 "Spatial variability in methane emission from arctic tundra and its relationship to environmental variables"	Technical Scientist, Research Systems, Inc., Boulder, CO
Gregory Asner Ph.D., 1997 "Structural and biophysical attributes of complex (savanna) ecosystems: large-scale measurement and implications for biogeochemistry"	Faculty Scientist, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Stanford, CA
Research Associates and Visiting Scientists
C. Ann Bateson, 1993 - 2004 Associate Scientist III. Mathematician, remote sensing analysis and modeling.
Laurie Chisholm, 2004 Visiting Scientist	Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
R. Flint Hughes, 1999-2000 Visiting Fellow. Carbon pools in woody encroached grassland systems	Ecosystem Ecologist, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Pacific Southwest Research Station
Masters Students
Seth Zunker, BA/MA, 2000 "Nutrient constrainst on mesquite nitrogen fixation in Northern Texas"
Garth Harwood, MBS, 1995 "Restoration of small watersheds by natural beaver activity: A suitability study and field assessment method"
Robert Kennedy, 1994 "Monitoring vegetation from space: The effects of spatial scale and heterogeneity"
Elizabeth Nel, 1992 The use of remote sensing in the detection of old-growth spruce-fir forests in the Rocky Mountains (co-advised with Dr. Tom Veblen, Geography)