Graduate Students
Kristin Byrd
Ph.D. Graduate Student 2000-2005. Graduated,
Spring 2005. Restoration ecology, tidal wetlands, remote sensing,
GIS - UC Marine Council Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, and
recipient of the annual Conservation Research Award jointly sponsored by
the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Award and the Elkhorn
Slough Foundation. Graduated Spring 2005 . Currently Research Director in the Research Department of the California Academy of Sciences.
• Dissertation
Title: "Temporal and spatial linkages between watershed
land use and wetland vegetation response in the Elkhorn Slough
watershed, Monterey County, CA."
John Dingman
Forestry Honors Project 2006-2007. Worked on a SPUR project with the VTM data. More Information
Oscar Fernandez-Manso
Visitor, Summer 2007. PhD student from University of Leon-Ponferrada Campus. Forest engineering, remote sensing, OBIA.
Travis Freed
M.A. Graduate Student 2001-2004.
Graduated Fall 2004 (co-chaired with Scott Stephens). GIS, remote sensing,
fire ecology, fire modeling.
Qinghua Guo
Ph.D. Graduate Student from 2001-2005. Graduated Summer 2005 (co-chaired
with John Battles). Landscape ecology, quantitative ecology, remote
sensing, GIS. Currently an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at UC Merced.
• Dissertation
Title: "Development of Geospatial Techniques for Ecological
Analysis -- a Case Study of Sudden Oak Death in California."
Faith Kearns
PhD student and Staff Research Associate 2001-04. Graduated Summer
2003. AAAS Diplomacy Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau
of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
Offices of Oceans Affairs and Marine Conservation 2004-2005. Currently
Academic Coordinator for the CNR Center
for Fire Research and Outreach and the Fire Information Engine.
Desheng Liu
Ph.D. Graduate Student from 2001-2006. Graduated Summer 2006 (co-chaired with
Peng Gong). Remote Sensing, Spatial Statistics, Sudden Oak Death. Desheng is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University (in Geography and Statistics) in the
Fall of 2006.
• Dissertation
Title: "Spatio-temporal Mapping and Modeling of A New
Forest Disease Spread Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Statistics."
Javier Lozano
Visitor, Fall 2005. Ph.D. student from University of Leon, Spain. Interested
in Fire, fire ecology, landscape ecology and GIS/RS.
Karin Tuxen
Ph.D. student. Graduated Spring 2007. Wetland restoration, Landscape ecology, Remote sensing.
• Dissertation
Title: "Multi-scale functional mapping of tidal marsh vegetation
for restoration monitoring."
Matt Wacker
M.A. Graduate Student 2000-2002. Graduated Fall 2002. Landcover change, GIS, vernal pools.
• Dissertation
Title: "Land use vegetation change on El Dorado County,
CA rangelands: implications for rangeland conservation."
Staff
Brent Pedersen
Part-time Programmer/Analyst. 2006. WebGIS programming. Worked on the OakMapper Project.
Casey Cleve
Part-time SRA (shared with the Fire Center), 2006-2007. Remote sensing/GIS/GPS. Projects included Wetlands and Greenhouse Gases in the Delta.
Elsie Windes
Undergrad assistant.
Julian Metcalf
SRA II, 2006-2007. Remote sensing/GIS/GPS. Projects included Wetlands, Sudden
Oak Death and Vegetation Type Mapping.
Mindy Syfert
SRA II. Remote sensing/GIS/GPS. Projects included Pierce
Disease, Sudden Oak Death and Vegetation
Type Mapping.
Lauren
McGee
Intern. Undergraduate Integrative Biology major. Projects included Vegetation
Type Mapping.
Eric
Waller
SRA
II. Now working with Max Moritz.
David
Shaari
SRA II 2002-2005. Remote sensing/GIS/GPS.
Projects included mapping Sudden
Oak Death and Pierce's
Disease,
as well as beetle damage
assessment.
Currently GIS Manager for California State Parks Department.
Henna
Chou
Intern Summer 2002.
Sudden Oak Death. Returned to undergraduate research at Iowa State
University.
Wanxiao
Sun
Post
Doctoral Researcher Fall 2001. Sudden Oak Death. Currently Assistant
Professor in the Geography Department in Southern Illinois University.
