Students currently enrolled in the NRESS Ph.D. program number 57, making NRESS one of the largest Ph.D. programs at UNH. Students are in varying stages of their doctoral studies, from first year to late candidacy, and the degree path (NRES or EES) is also noted below for each student. Some student listings are linked to profile pages, which include a description of the research, awards, presentations and publications, and other related links. Meet and explore NRESS students and their research!
Natalie Lounsbury, NRESS Ph.D. candidate.
| Student Name | Degree | Advisor | Research Topic | * indicates at candidacy |
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| Breanne Aflague bha1003@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Jeffrey Garnas | The Effect of EAB Density and Tree Stress on Parasitism Rates of the Biocontrol Wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi | |
| Isaac Ativor ina1002@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Richard Smith | Strategies for Cropping System Diversification and the Effects of Crop Diversity on Agroecosystem Services and Pest Population Dynamics | |
| Melissa Bauer* mle1003@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Adrienne Kovach |
Spatially Explicit Genetic Capture-Recapture Density Estimation and Population Modeling to Guide New England Cottontail Restoration |
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| Amanda Beal* aec84@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | John Carroll | Natural Resource Considerations in Food Production | |
| Lauren Breza* lb1064@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Stuart Grandy | Plant-Microbe-Soil Interactions and How These Interactions Mediate Nitrogen Cycling in Sustainable Agricultural Systems | |
| Emma Burkett emb1104@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Julie Bryce/Michael Palace | Geochemical and Remote Sensing Reconstructions of Timescales for Magma Assembly in the Aleutian Volcanic Arc and Satellite Remote Sensing of Volcanic Ash with Ground-truthed Ash Detection Modeling in the Aleutians | |
| Andrew Butler arv39@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Rem Moll |
Influence of Urbanization on Furbearer Abundance, Distribution, and Community Ecology |
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| Ryan Chase rtc1004@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | J. Matthew Davis | ||
| Jonathan Clark jdc1068@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Adrienne Kovach |
Parallel Evolution of Tidal Marsh Sparrows |
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| Melissa Clark mmc1031@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Michael Palace | Model Landscape Permeability | |
| Amanda Daly* abq34@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Stuart Grandy | Soil Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry in Sustainable Agriculture | |
| Natallia Leuchanka Diessner* nhe4@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Advancing Sustainability Science: A Focus on Dammed Social-Ecological Landscapes in New England | ||
| Maria Florencia Fahenstock* mff7@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Julie Bryce/Ruth Varner | Impacts of Climate Change on Mercury Cycling in Wetland and Arctic Ecosystems | |
| Jennifer Felt jmd362@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Semra Aytur | Ocean and Coastal Policy Development and Implementation | |
| Benjamin Fraser* btc28@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Russell Congalton | Forest Health Modelling and Reference Data Colletion Using Aerial Systems (UAS) and Geospatial Analysis | |
| Heather Grybas* hmg10@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Russell Congalton |
UAS and LiDAR Mapping of Forest Edge Habitat in New Hampshire |
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| NRES | Scott Ollinger |
Remote Sensing and Modeling of Temperate Forested Ecosystems |
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| Allison Herreid* ah1208@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | William McDowell | Biogeochemical Dynamics in Freshwater Ecosystems | |
| Kirsten Howard kbh1027@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Cameron Wake | Sea-level Rise Displacement in Small, Tourist-dependent Coastal Beach Towns in the Northeast United States | |
| Jingyan Huang jh1456@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Weiwei Mo | ||
| Christopher Hunt* chunt@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Joseph E. Salisbury |
Transfers of Carbon and Alkalinity from Terrestrial and Estuarine Sources to the Coastal Ocean |
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| Caroline Kanaskie crk1025@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Jeffrey Garnas | Community Ecology in the Expanding Range of Southern Pine Beetle | |
| Natalie Kashi* nnk2000@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Erik Hobbie | Peatland Ecology; Wetland Ecosystem Ecology; Nutrient Cycling | |
| Dylan Kelly drd35@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Meghan Howey | Historical Landscape Reconstruction Using Archaeological, Ecological and Geospatial Methods to Model the Impacts of Early 17th Century Lumber Mills on the Ecosystem of the Great Bay Estuary Through Time | |
| Jawad Khan mk1241@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | John Halstead/ Shadi Atallah | Separate the Effects of Pesticides of Different Companies and Quantify the Pollinator Behavior using Maching Learning (ML) | |
| Stephan Koenigsberger snk1019@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Stuart Grandy | Looking Into How Variation in the Surface Characteristics of Metal Oxide Minerals Impacts the Fate of Microbially Processed Organic Matter | |
| Emily Kyker-Snowman* ek2002@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Stuart Grandy | Modeling Soil Microbial Carbon Use Dynamics on Local and Global Scales | |
| Natalie Lounsbury* nl1004@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Richard Smith | Investigating the Practical, Agroecological, and Socio-economic Aspects of Using Tarps to Facilitate No-till Vegetable Production with High-residue Cover Crops | |
| Jeffrey Malloy* jtq57@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Catherine Ashcraft |
The Role of Social Justice and Equity in Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Implementation |
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| Tamara Marcus* tsm1004@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Ruth Varner | Measuring Methane Emissions from Permafrost Thaw in Northern Sweden and the Himalaya | |
| Emily Mello emh334@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Cameron Wake/Dovev Levine | Sub-federal Climate Action with a Focus on Regional Networks and Municipalities | |
| David Moore* dbd9@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Heidi Asbjornsen | Syrup Production | |
| NRES | Wilfred Wollheim/ Scott Ollinger | Large-scale Patterns of Watershed-level Carbon and Nitrogen Biogeochemistry | ||
| Thomas Muratore tjm1076@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Serita Frey | Global Change Ecology of Plant and Microbial Systems | |
| Jennifer Ort jcort@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Meghan Howey | Continue Work on Bull Brook Sites in Tandem with Investigating Local and Regional Late Pleistocene Environments | |
|
Samuel Palmer |
NRES | Richard Smith | ||
| Clarice Perryman* crp1006@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Ruth Varner | Peatland/Wetland Methane Dynamics | |
| Mingcheng Ren* mr1129@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Weiwei Mo | Modeling and Simulation of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems | |
| Michael Routhier* michaelr@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Gregg Moore | Ecological Research , the Use of GSS technologies, and a Link to Education and Outreach | |
| Sean Schaefer srs1085@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Jessica Ernakovich |
Microbial Ecology in Arctic Ecosystems with an Emphasis on Gene Expression to Predict Functional Community Changes as Result of a Changing Climate |
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| Lisa Scott lns1000@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | John Gunn |
Private Landowner Roles in Shaping Northern New England's Forest Resilience |
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| Meaghan Shaw mes1109@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | William McDowell | Fate and Transport of Dissolved Metals in Pristine and Anthropogenically-influenced River Systems | |
| Michael Simmons* mjx28@unh.edu |
EES | Thomas Lee | Factors and Interactions Associated with Decline of Red Pine Forests in New England | |
| Jess Steketee jksteketee@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Rebecca Rowe |
Population Ecology of Arctic Rodents |
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| Nathan Thorp* nrt2001@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Erik Hobbie | Fungal Ecology, Mycorrhizal Symbiosis, Nutrient Acquisition, Stable Isotopes | |
| Yusi Turell* ywm3@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Michael Swack |
Social Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Change |
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| Chika Ugwuodo cju1004@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Paula Mouser | Microbial Ecosystem Dynamics in Engineered Energy Systems, With Focus on Fracking Wells | |
| Nicholas Warren ndf5@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Richard Smith | The Relationship Between Community Functioning and the Associated Ecosystem Processes | |
| Emily Whalen* edw1002@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Serita Frey | Global Change Effects on Soil Microbial Communities and Carbon Storage | |
| Penelope Whitman penelope.whitman@unh.edu |
NRES | Thomas Safford | Community and Economic Development | |
| Christopher Whitney* ctw1@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Wilfred Wollheim | The Role of Beaver Ponds and Fluvial Wetlands in Aquatic Nitrogen Removal from Headwaters to River Network-scale | |
| Sarah Widlansky* sjw2008@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | William Clyde | Understanding Climatic and Biotic Interactions in Terrestrial Systems During Ancient Warm Periods | |
| Catherine (C.J.) Wong cjw1086@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Rebecca Rowe |
Population Ecology of Flying Squirrels in Forest Fragments Including a Citizen Science Approach |
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| Michal Zahorik* mz6@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Catherine Ashcraft | Resilient Communities: The Role of Land-Use Planning and Conservation in Flood Risk Management | |
| Samuel Zuckerman sz1061@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Heidi Asbjornsen | Tree Physiological Responses to Drought | |
| Shantar Zuidema* smh78@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | J. Matthew Davis | Use of Stable Isotopes and Distributed Hydrologic Modeling to Investigate Ground Water/Surface Water Interactions in the Face of a Changing Climate | |