Walter Kast, 2017

Thesis:

Finding nondestructive parameters for root-to-shoot ratios in Douglas-fir, grand fir, and redwood saplings in northwest California for biomass and carbon storage estimates

Robert Muma, 2019

Thesis:

Converting coast redwood/ Douglas-fir forests to multiaged management; residual stand damage, growth, and regeneration response

Kurt Schneider, 2019

Thesis:

Understory light, regeneration, and browsing effects in irregular structures created by partial harvesting in coast redwood stands

Sara Matthews, 2018

Thesis:

Implications of unmanned aircraft systems and sense of place: A case study in the Mono Basin

Marisa Formosa, 2018

Thesis:

Learning from a restoration innovator: Building community capitals and resilience through the restoration economy

Jodie Pixley, 2017

Thesis:

All-lands management: Convening communities and their lands around fire management

Joanna Di Di Tommaso, 2015

Thesis:

“If someone wants my carbon, let them pay”: examining nonindustrial private forest owner (NIPF) interest in selling forest carbon credits under California’s

Marissa Schmitz, 2015

Thesis:

Analyzing access to California’s regulatory forest offset market

Madeleine Lopez, 2022

Thesis:

Investigating seed maturation and mortality: a mechanism for post-fire regeneration in non-serotinous conifers

I graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt in 2019, with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, anda minor in Botany. An early interest in natural science provided me with a deep appreciation forplant communities and their ecology, of which led to my involvement in two research labs. Priorto graduate studies, I worked to describe an unknown permineralized plant specimen of theDevonian period, in the Tomescu Paleobotanical Lab. Additionally, I completed multiple firerelated research projects in the Wildland Fire lab. My passion to preserve the integrity of nativeplant life and forest ecosystems fueled me to pursue a higher education. My research interestsrevolve around determining the relative impacts of fire on plant persistence and regeneration. Mycurrent research investigates the potential role of fire in the germination of Lassics lupine(Lupinus constancei), an endangered California native lupine (CNPS rank: 1B.1). In addition, Iwill identify the time required by different woody plant species to reach reproductive maturityand contribute to future generations. Furthermore, I am working to characterize a regenerativemechanism utilized by non-serotinous conifers post-fire, by determining the timing of seedmaturation for five different tree species.

Abigail Jones, 2021

Thesis:

Post-fire effects in chaparral and oak ecosystems of northern California

I graduated from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2014 with a B.S. in Conservation Biology. Since then I have worked for the U.S. Forest  Service, National Park Service and some non-profit conservation based organizations. I have a background mostly in wildland fire, from fire suppression crews to fire-use modules. Most recently I worked at North Cascades National Park as a Fire Effects Monitor. As a crew we studied the effects of different fuels treatments (thinning, broadcast burns, pile burns, wildfires, etc.) on National Park Service lands throughout Washington State. With Dr. Kane I will be studying the fire effects from the Carr Fire on Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.  We will be looking at areas that received different fuel treatments and how the fire burned through those areas.