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!
Bianca Rodriguez-Cardona, NRESS Ph.D. candidate.
| Student Name | Degree | Advisor | Research Topic | * indicates at candidacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Sophia Burke* saj82@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Ruth Varner | Methane (CH4) Flux Dynamics in Subarctic Peatland Thaw Ponds Using Field and Remote Sensing Techniques | |
| 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 | ||
| Alexandra Evans* ado53@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Kevin Gardner |
Improving Stream Restoration: Developing Methods to Evaluate the Ecological Condition of Streams Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems and Close-Range Remote Sensing Techniques |
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| 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 | |
| Adele Maria Fenwick* mxf1066@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Mark Ducey | Fire History and Stand Age Structure of Red Pine Natural Communities in New England | |
| Benjamin Fraser btc28@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Russell Congalton | Forest Health Modelling and Reference Data Colletion Using Aerial Systems (UAS) and Geospatial Analysis | |
| Kelly Giraud kelly.giraud@unh.edu |
NRES | Thomas Lee | The Fostering of Biological Diversity at Local Scales in Residential Settings | |
| Heather Grybas* hmg10@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Russell Congalton |
UAS and LiDAR Mapping of Forest Edge Habitat in New Hampshire |
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| Allison Herreid ah1208@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | William McDowell | Biogeochemical Dynamics in Freshwater Ecosystems | |
| 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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| Katherine Ineson* kg1036@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Population Dynamics of Bat Species Impacted by White-nose Syndrome in the Northeastern United States | ||
| 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 |
NREN | Shadi Atallah | Separate the Effects of Pesticides of Different Companies and Quantify the Pollinator Behavior using Maching Learning (ML) | |
| 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 | |
| David Moore dbd9@wildcats.unh.edu |
NRES | Heidi Asbjornsen | Syrup Production | |
| EES | Margaret Boettcher | Understanding Earthquake Rupture Processes: Insights from Mid-Ocean Ridge Transform Faults, Submarine Volcanoes, and Deep South African Gold Mines | ||
| Thomas Muratore tjm1076@wildcats.unh.edu |
NREN | 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 | |
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Samuel Palmer |
NRES | Richard Smith | ||
| Clarice Perryman crp1006@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Ruth Varner | Peatland/Wetland Methane Dynamics | |
| Kiley Remiszewski* kaj64@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Julie Bryce |
The Impact of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Mineral Weathering |
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| Mingcheng Ren* mr1129@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Weiwei Mo | Modeling and Simulation of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems | |
| Andrew Robison* alr1020@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | Wilfred Wollheim | Carbon Dynamics in River Networks | |
| Bianca Rodriguez-Cardona* bpq33@wildcats.unh.edu |
EES | William McDowell | Carbon and Nitrogen Coupling in Streams Across Biomes | |
| 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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| 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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| 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 penny.whitman@unh.edu |
NRES | Thomas Safford | Community and Econom ic 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 | |
| Andrew Wiegardt akw1030@wildcats.unh.edu |
NREN | Adrienne Kovach | Investigate Genome-phenome Relationships in the Wild | |
| 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 | |