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Matthew Adams, MS student

Bear-habitat relationship models for NY black bears

Maryland

2010 cohort

Advisor: Fuller

Alex Alexiades, PhD student

Population dynamics and impacts of stocked, non-native salmonids in NY streams

Tennessee

2011 cohort

Advisor: Fisher

Michelle Baumflek, PhD student

Incorporating biocultural diversity into Northern Forest resource management

New York

2009 cohort

Advisor: Kassam

Bob Beazley, MS student

Ecotourism in Nepal, Bhutan, and China

Canada

2008 cohort

Advisor: Lassoie

Jake Blessing, MS student

Life history strategies in milkweed leaf beetles

Michigan

2011 cohort

Advisor: Dickinson

Daniel Bogan, PhD student

New York suburban coyote study: Coyote ecology and behavior

New York

Website

Advisor: Curtis

Kim Bothi, PhD student

Perceptions of collaboration, water resource management, and development in West Africa

Canada

Advisor: Lassoie

Lilly Briggs, PhD student

Engaging youth in environmental education and citizen science

Canada

2010 cohort

Advisor: Krasny

James Burtis, MS student

Factors affecting the spread of Lyme disease through New York State and biological invasion

New York

2011 cohort

Advisor: Yavitt

Eduardo Carrillo-Rubio, PhD student

Community dynamics: linking species richness and accumulation to community forest governance capacity in La Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico

Mexico

Website

Advisor: Lassoie

Jillian Cohen, PhD student

The ecological impacts of invasive plant management

Maryland

Website

Advisor: Blossey

Ashley Dayer, PhD student

Human dimensions of bird and habitat conservation in early successional forests

New York

Website

2009 cohort

Advisor: Stedman/Allred

Robin DeBruyne, PhD student

Percid-cormorant interactions on Oneida Lake, New York

Michigan

Advisor: Rudstam

Jesse Delia, MS student

Participatory research with youth involved in urban agriculture

Ontario

2009 cohort

Advisor: Krasny

Annise Dobson, MS student

Plant invasions in forest ecosystems

Ontario

2010 cohort

Advisor: Blossey

Florian Eichiner, PhD student

Plant invasions in the USA: studies on the European grass Phragmites australis

Germany

Advisor: Bedford

Laura Eierman, PhD student

Modeling connectivity of the eastern oyster using landscape genetics

Maryland

Advisor: Hare

Nighthawk Evensen, PhD student

Analysis of risk perceptions related to environmental hazards, with a focus on development in the Marcellus Shale

New York

Advisor: Decker

Michael Farrell, PhD student

The future of the maple sugar industry in North America based on ecologic, socio-economic, and public policy factors

New York

Advisor: Chabot

Willie Fetzer, PhD student

Mechanisms of gizzard shad, Dorosoma cepedianum, over-winter survival in Oneida Lake, NY

Wisconsin

Website

Advisor: Rudstam

Jim Goetz, PhD student

Ecology and Conservation of the Golden Swallow, Tachycineta euchrysea

New York

2009 cohort

Advisor: Dickinson/Winkler

Mohd. Zafri Hassan, PhD student

Fish phylogeography based on climate variation and habitat degradation

Malaysia

2008 cohort

Advisor: Bain

Darragh Hare, PhD student

interdisciplinary discourse and collaboration; applied ethics; pluralism; philosophy of science; public understanding of science

Scotland

Website

2011 cohort

Advisor: Blossey/Kassam

Melanie Hayn, MS student

Nitrogen import and export in a shallow estuary on Cape Cod

Connecticut

Website

Advisor: Howarth

Amy Hetherington, MS student

Linking climate change, lake ecosystem health, and better watershed management in New York state

New York

2009 cohort

Advisor: Schneider

Stefanie Hufnagl-Eichiner, PhD student

Linkages between social and natural processes: nitrogen leakage from agriculture in the Mississippi River Basin

Germany

Advisor: Wolf

Micah Ingalls, MS student

Community-based natural resource management and social-ecological resilience

2009 cohort

Advisor: Stedman

Jeffrey Jacquet, PhD student

Environmental and community sociology, energy development, and social impact assessment

Wisconsin & Wyoming

Website

2009 cohort

Advisor: Stedman

Alex Kudryavtsev, PhD student

Sense of place in urban environmental education

Russia

Website

Advisor: Krasny

Murodbek Laldjebaev, PhD student

Study of the water policy and energy nexus in Central Asia

Tajikistan

Advisor: Bain/Kassam

Eunju Lee, PhD student

Environmental education in multicultural communities

South Korea

Advisor: Krasny

Chuan Liao, MS student

Community-based natural resources management

China

2010 cohort

Advisor: Kassam

Kendra Liddicoat, PhD student

Assessing the learning outcomes of residential environmental education programs

New York

Advisor: Krasny

Yue Li, PhD student

Envrionmental Education

China

2011 cohort

Advisor: Krasny

Whitney Lonsdale, MS student

Community-based management of water resources in the Himalayan region

Montana

2010 cohort

Advisor: Lassoie

Laura Martin, PhD student

environmental management; plant community ecology; contemporary evolution; history of science; U.S. environmental history

Rhode Island

Advisor: Blossey

Christine Moskell, PhD student

The creation of a participatory community engagement model for urban forestry in New York City

Massachusetts

2009 cohort

Advisor: Allred

Christopher Nadeau, MS student

community and population dynamics, biogeography, and the viability of wildlife populations under climate change

Ontario

2011 cohort

Advisor: Fuller

Nirav Patel, PhD student

Effects of community perception and decision-making on the adoption of biomass based bioenergy systems

India

Advisor: Stedman

Scott Perez, PhD student

Wetlands and collaborative management in multi-cultural areas

Advisor: Lassoie

Christian Perry, PhD student

Assessing black bass population dynamics in relation to fish assemblage structure and environmental characteristics in New York lakes.

Colorado

2011 cohort

Advisor: Fisher

Andrew Roe, MS student

Parcelization patterns, causes, consequences, and current strategies in the Hudson River watershed

North Carolina

2009 cohort

Advisor: Allred

T.J. Ross, MS student

The effects of turbidity and thermally varying inputs on local trout populations

Oklahoma

2009 cohort

Advisor: Fisher

Alisa Royem, PhD student

Phosphorus and e. coli transportation through macropores after manure application: Implications for Best Manure Management Practices

Colorado

2009 cohort

Advisor: Walter

Morgan Ruelle, PhD student

Farmer conservation of plant diversity for food and medicine in the Ethiopian highlands

Vermont

2008 cohort

Advisor: Kassam

Santi Saypanya, PhD student

Conservation Education and Outreach Program Development and Evaluation

Laos

2011 cohort

Advisor: Krasny and Stedman

Taza Schaming, PhD student

The impact of Whitebark Pine mortality on the avian community and Clark's Nutcracker demography and habitat use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

New York

Advisor: Dickinson

Akira Shintani, MPS student

Natural resource management and biodiversity conservation in eastern and southern Africa

Japan

2010 cohort

Advisor: Lassoie

Jennifer Shirk, PhD student

Motivations and factors influencing scientists participation in Citizen Science endeavors

Pennsylvania

Advisor: Krasny

Sam Simkin, PhD student

Wetland plant response to sulfate-mediated phosphate mobilization and sulfide toxicity

New York

Website

Advisor: Bedford

Paul Simonin, PhD student

Effects of nonnative species on fish population dynamics in lakes

New York

2009 cohort

Advisor: Rudstam

Claire Stouthamer, PhD student

Larval fish shallow water habitat dynamics in the Hudson River

California

2009 cohort

Advisor: Bain

Cat Sun, MS student

Estimating population abundance and genetic relatedness of New York state black bears

Delaware

2010 cohort

Advisor: Fuller/Hare

Phuntsho Thinley, PhD student

Connectivity of biological corridors in Bhutan

Bhutan

Advisor: Lassoie

Heather Wieczorek Hudenko, PhD student

Human-wildlife tolerance project: Understanding human-wildlife habituation in National Parks

Advisor: Decker

Wang Pu, MS student

Resource Economics and International Conservation

China

2009 cohort

Advisor: Lassoie

Maya Weltman-Fahs, PhD student

Impacts of water extraction for Marcellus Shale development on stream habitat and species

Ithaca, New York

2011 Cohort

Advisor: Fisher

Nick Wilson, MS student

Indigenous knowledge of water and climate change in the Yukon River Basin

Alberta

2009 cohort

Advisor: Kassam