Members

Current Graduate Students

Forest and Wildland Sciences Program, Natural Resources  

Jenni Hedin (2025 - present, co-advisor Lucy Kerhoulas)

Emma Knepp (2024 - present) 

Sebastian Evans (2024 - present, co-advisor Lucy Kerhoulas)

Annie Allen (2024 - present, co-advisor Lucy Kerhoulas)

CJ Copper (2023 - present; co-advisor Lucy Kerhoulas)

David Dorval (2023 - present; co-advisor Lucy Kerhoulas)

Alumni

Graduate Students and Research Associates

Julia Cavalli (MS 2025) 

MS Thesis: An evaluation of fuel model accuracy and multi-scale mitigation strategies in the wildland-urban interface of southern Humboldt County

Co-advisor: Stacy Drury

Zoe Ziegler (MS 2025) 

MS Thesis: Patterns of tree damage and fuels around powerlines in Northern California

Co-advisor: Lucy Kerhoulas

Sophia Lemmo (MS 2022)

MS Thesis: Drought, tree mortality and regeneration in Northern California

Co-advisor: Lucy Kerhoulas

Gabriel Rolletti (MS 2022)

MS Thesis: Tree-growth responses to drought, competition and habitat in diverse conifer species in Northern California

Co-advisor: Lucy Kerhoulas

 Wallis Robinson (MS 2021)

MS Thesis: Influences on conifer drought responses in Northern California 

Co-advisor: Lucy Kerhoulas

Zach Wenderott (MS 2021)

MS Thesis: Effects of prescribed fire on drought resistance and recovery in a mixed-conifer forests of Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Co-advisor: Phil van Mantgem, USGS

Jill Beckmann (MS 2019, BA Geography 2010)

MS Thesis: Competition, climate, and drought effects on tree growth in an encroached oak woodland in Northern California

Micah Wright, Research Associate (2017-2018)

Laura Lalemand (MS 2018)

MS Thesis: Restoration and tree drought resistance in coast redwood-Douglas-fir forests at Redwood National Park, California

 Co-advisor: Phil van Mantgem, USGS

 Michael Vernon (MS 2017)

MS Thesis: In the face of drought: do fuel treatments promote drought resistance in forests in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area?

Co-advisor: Phil van Mantgem, USGS

 Radek Glebocki (MS 2015)

MS Thesis: Fuel loading and moisture dynamics in thinned coast redwood-Douglas fir forests in Headwaters Forest Reserve, California

Co-advisors: J. Morgan Varner III, Jeff Kane

 Zawisza Grabinski-Parker (MS 2015)  

MS Thesis: Reburn severity interactions over 30 years in the Klamath Mountain Ecoregion, California

 Madelinn Schriver (MS 2015)

MS Thesis: Stand and tree growth characteristics of Quercus Garryana and Quercus Kelloggi woodlands in Northwestern California
 

Undergraduate Research Assistants (list not up to date)

• Kris Anderson
• Alysia Ballinger
• Rebecca Batzel (photographed)
• Courtney Brown
• John Grimes
• Tracy Gatumu
• Alicia Iverson
• Kelly Muth
• Crystal Nuenschwander
• Richard Olsen
• Allisons Potts
• Madelinn Schriver
• Andrew Smith
• Daniel Snow
• Emelie Traub
• Russell Walls
• Sheamus Vaughn
• Olivia Zotter
• Sarah Aguiar
• Asher Budnik
• Ian Conway
• Elizabeth Hinojosa
• Suzanne Melendez
• Diana Orozco
• Brigitte Price
• Colleen Smith
• Perris Alfonzo
• Maeve Flynn
• Ashley Shannon
• Rosalio Gonzalez
• Jeremy Dustin
• Sara Bandali