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Michael Bernard
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Joseph Bishop
PhD, Ecology
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Kristin Black
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Audrey Broucek
MFR, Forest Resources/Law
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Kristin Brubaker
PhD, Forest Resources
Kristin is currently working with Dr. Wayne Myers and has an interest in watershed stewardship and spatial analysis.
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Philip Brumbaugh
MFR, Forest Resources
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Steve Bukowski; PhD, Forest Resources
Steve is a doctoral candidate in Forest Products Business and Management, also pursuing a Minor in Management and Organization from the Smeal School of Business. Currently he is investigating the adoption of voluntary environmental certification among firms in the U.S. secondary forest products industry, with a particular focus on the role of executives in the decision to adopt, or not adopt, such certification. He is examining how executives' career experiences and psychological dispositions influence their perceptions and actions relative to voluntary environmental certification.
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Eric Burkhart
PhD, Forest Resources
Eric is an ethnobotanist, horticulturalist and agroforester. His interests and work are centered on people and plant relationships-including the utilization, cultural role(s), and husbandry of plants by people. He has been investigating American ginseng occurrence and husbandry in Pennsylvania since 2002 in an effort to help inform management and policy decision-making. He is a native of the Ohio River Valley region of Pennsylvania. |
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Chien-Chih Chen
PhD, Horticulture |
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Sonja Christensen
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
Sonja is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Wildlife Science with Dr. Duane Diefenbach at the Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Her research focuses on habitat use, movements, and population dynamics of white-tailed deer and sika deer on Assateague Island National Seashore. Sonja’s primary research interest is large mammal population ecology. |
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Tara Claghorn
MS, Forest Resources |
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Robert Cushman
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries |
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Kelly Dietrick
MS, Forest Resources
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Andy Filipczak
PhD, Forest Resources
Andy is currently working on forest taxation and private foreland valuation with Drs. Marc McDill and Mike Jacobson.
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Brooks Fost
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Jonathan Freedman
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
Jonathan is studying fish ecology in the Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela Rivers of Pennsylvania. Specifically, he is interested in the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on fish populations and communities, and in phenotyipc plasticity of darters from different habitats.
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Ben Gamble
MS, Forest Resources |
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Brad Gething
PhD, Material Science and Engineering |
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Carrie Gilbert
MS, Forest Resources |
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Curtis Gill
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries |
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Satinder Gill
MS, Industrial Engineering |
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Howard Goldstein
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries |
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Laurie Goodrich
PhD, Ecology |
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Kate Gordon
MS, Forest Resources
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Christopher Grant
PhD, Forest Resources
Christopher and his wife reside in State College with their 100 pound kid (yellow lab) who keeps them entertained with a variety of outdoor activities. He is currently working on a project looking at Hg (mercury) in Pennsylvania streams with Dr. DeWalle and Dr. Boyer
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Josh Gruver
PhD, Forest Resources
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Barun Gupta
MS, Forest Resources
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Dan Heggenstaller
MS, Forest Resources
Dan completed his undergraduate degree here in forest hydrology and is now working on a master's degree in silviculture, under Eric Zenner. His thesis is an investigation of height growth dynamics of oaks and their competitors in northern and central Pennsylvania during the first few decades of stand development.
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Jeanne Hickey
PhD, Forest Resources
Jeanne is currently working on her PhD with Dr. Eric Zenner in Forest Science. She is studying the breeding habitat characteristics of the cerulean warbler in the Allegheny National Forest region. She has interests in forest management/wildlife interaction, silviculture, forest structure, GIS, spatial analysis, and wetland management/wildlife interaction.
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Brianna Hutchison
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
Brianna is a student of Dr. Paola Ferreri and is pursuing an M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science. Her thesis involves investigating fish and benthic macroinvertebrate response to the removal of small dams in two Pennsylvania streams. Other topics that interest her include habitat and native species restoration, aquatic ecology, watershed planning, sustainability, conservation of natural resources, and environmental education.
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Wilson Jere
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
Wilson, a lecturer in fish genetics in the Bunda College of Agriculture at the University of Malawi, is currently working on his PhD with Dr. Jay Stauffer. His research will focus on the systematics and biology of a Lake Malawi molluscivorous fish Trematocranus placodon.
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Sarah Johnson
PhD, Ecology
Sarah is currently in her first year as a PhD candidate in SFR, working with Dr. Marc Abrams in Forest Ecology and Dendroecology.
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David Jones
MS, Environmental Pollution Control
David is employed as full-time staff in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering under Dr. Bruce Logan and is also a part-time MS student in the Environmental Pollution Control (EPC) program. His research interests are forest health, water quality and land management. Other concerns related to his research are renewable energy and sustainable agriculture.
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Shibu Kar
PhD, Forest Resources
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Betsy Kerlin
MS, Forest Resources |
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Lee Kline
PhD, Forest Resources |
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Justin Kozak
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries |
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Aubrey Lashaway
MFR, Wildlife and Fisheries
Aubrey, originally from northwest Ohio, received her B.S. degree from the University of Michigan in Environmental Science. She is currently doing her graduate work in Lake Erie studying planktonic diatoms and how they appear to settle and dominate the benthos of this Great Lake.
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David Lieb
PhD, Ecology
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Ben Lorson
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
Ben is in his first year of graduate work under Dr. Jay R. Stauffer, Jr. He will be conducting his Master's Thesis research during the summer of 2008, dealing with updating the distribution of Allegheny River Fishes.
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Mary Lundeba
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries |
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Phillip Manning
MS, Forest Resources
Philip received his BS in Wildlife Science here at PSU. His personal interests are hunting, fishing and hiking, while his academic interests include forest management, biometrics and wildlife habitat management. In the future he would like to become an integral part of natural resources management in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Doris Mason
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Dan McGraw
PhD, Forest Resources
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Krunal Mehta
MS, Industrial Engineering
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Alex Metcalf
PhD, Forest Resources
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Andrew Norton
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
Andrew graduated with a Wildlife Science B.S. from the University of Minnesota. Currently, he is working with Dr. Duane Diefenbach towards a M.S. in Wildlife Science. His research is focused on white-tailed deer population modeling in Pennsylvania.
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Sarah Pabian
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
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John Pletcher
MS, Forest Resources
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Keith Price; PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
Keith’s research deals with phosphorus uptake by attached algae (periphyton) in lotic waters. He proposes to use radiotracers (33P) to perform a series of ex situ experiments comparing seasonal uptake rates of aquatic benthic algae originating from two distinct trophic levels, to provide an approximation of P-limitation of algal productivity, e.g. slower phosphate uptake may indicate saturated internal phosphorus pools and/or sufficient phosphorus supply to the algae from the water column.
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Ruth Protpakorn
PhD, Forest Resources
Ruth is a graduate student in wood product business and management major. Her research interests are in sustainable enterprises, strategic management, environmental business, and green building.
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Chris Ross
MS, Ecology
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Thomas Ruffing
MS, Forest Resources
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David Ryan
MFR, Forest Resources
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John Ryder
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Ben Sands
MS, Forest Resources
Ben is currently working with Dr. Marc Abrams in forest ecology. His research project is entitled, "Assessing the impact of historical fire regimes and prescribed burning on forest composition and structure, regeneration, and fuel loading on the Menominee Reservation." He spent the last two summers on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin cutting basal cross sections to examine fire history, collecting vegetation data, working with SCA crews, and sampling some of Wisconsin's finest brews.
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Jeanette Schnars
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Anushree Sengupta
PhD, I. Bios
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Collin Shephard
MS, Ecology
Working with Kim Steiner and Marc McDill, Collin's research will integrate ecology with economics to evaluate natural resource management on public lands. She is from upstate New York where she attended the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry in Syracuse. Other interests include lumberjack sports, traveling, photography, and spending time with family.
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Kelly Sitch
MS, Forest Resources
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John Stank
MS, Forest Resources
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Glenn Stauffer
MS, Ecology
For his M.S. thesis Glenn is investigating nest survival, nest site selection, and site fidelity of grassland sparrows on reclaimed surface mines. More broadly, his research interests include resource
selection by wildlife and estimation of vital rates in wildlife populations.
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Tim Stecko
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Rebecca Stewart
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
Rebecca is an MS student working with Rich Yahner. She's looking at habitat use by rose-breasted grosbeaks in the PA Game Commission's Grouse Habitat Management Area (GHMA) at the Scotia Barrens. She is also TA'ing Mammalogy and working with the wastewater committee monitoring wildlife at wastewater spraying fields to create a walking nature trail there.
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Jenna Stites,
MS, Forest Resources
Jenna is a student in Wood Products Business with research interests in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Change Management, Strategic Human Resources, Corporate Social Responsibility/Performance, and Alternative Energies. Her master's thesis is entitled "The Effect of Employee Perceptions of Corporate Social Performance on Employee Outcomes". She has previously worked on US Department of Commerce grants studying change and innovation in small- and medium-sized manufacturers, and co-authored a book chapter entitled "SME Choice of Export Market and Entry Mode: Theory and Research". In addition, she recently co-authored a Human Resources Best Practices Manual for the Hardwood Industry.
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Grant Stokke
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
Grant works with Dr. Margaret Brittingham to study urban crow roosts through radio telemetry and regular monitoring of roosts in southeast PA, and also conducts habitat analyses of roosts across the state. The broad objective of his research is to gain a better understanding of crow roosting behavior
to help identify effective ways to manage problematic roosts and minimize crow-human conflicts.
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Victor Valdebenito
MS, Forest Resources
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Vivek Verma; PhD
Vivek is a graduate student working in Dr. Jeffrey Catchmark and Dr. Nicole Brown's lab. He has worked on lithography approaches to pattern molecular proteins and role of casein in supporting surface bound kinesin. Currently he is working on synthesis and characterization of cellulose based nanocomposites. His research interests lies in synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials/ nanocomposites.
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Wendy Vreeland
MS, Wildlife and Fisheries
Wendy is currently working with the PA Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit to obtain her Master's degree. She has been working with the Unit doing research for 3 years before starting classes. Her thesis will involve population modelling of data collected from PA black bears for over 30+ years. Originally from Long Island, NY she is glad to be living in the middle of rural PA.
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Vijay Wadhwa
PhD, Industrial Engineering/Forest Resources |
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Rebekah Wagner
PhD, Ecology
Currently, Rebekah is working on a project that utilizes ecophysiology and seedling allometry to examine competition and potential for species migration under predicted climate changes in PA forests. |
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Bret Wallingford
PhD, Wildlife and Fisheries
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Andy Wilson
PhD, Ecology
Andy Wilson is in the final year of a PhD program in Ecology. His research investigates the effects of farmland conservation programs on populations of grassland birds in Pennsylvania. His general research interests are in the fields of Landscape Ecology, Ornithology and Conservation Biology.
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Michael Wolf
MS, Forest Resources
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Brian Wolyniak
PhD, Forest Resources
Brian's research interests include urban and community forestry and green infrastructure planning. His current research focuses on variation in municipal tree and landscape ordinances impact the structure and extent of the urban forest within different communities.
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Yufan Zeng
PhD, Forest Resources
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