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Graduate Student Research Topics

Current Students

NameThesisGraduation Year
Claire Anderson The evolution of private lands forest policies in California and Oregon
Catriona Barr Assessing human community recovery after wildfire
Jill Beckmann The effects of severe drought on radial stem growth of Oregon white oak
Lindsay Benjamin-Brittany Assessment of Carbon Storage and Aquifer Recharge in Beaver Meadows of the Sierra Nevada, USA
Jackson Carrasco Post-fire mortality rates and regeneration within second-growth redwood stands
Ernesto Chavez-Velasco Integrating plant traits with site characterizations to support biodiverse California coastal grassland restoration
Zachary Erickson Integrating ways of knowing: utilizing tribal management perspectives to guide modern silviculture methods in cooperative forest management
Kaily Fineran Prescribed fire treatment longevity in legacy hardwood stands of the Klamath Mountains
Judson Fisher Mitigating wildfire hazard in the redwoods: effectiveness and trade-offs of fuels treatments
Kayla Fitzpatrick Water Quality Assessment of the Klamath River
Kelsey Fletterick The Brief Window for Early Post-fire Regeneration.
Trevor Haltermann Evaluation of the CalFire methodology for determining the origin point of a wildfire.
Lonyx Landry Soil sampling for Phytophthora spp.
Joe Nicholas Response of fuels and vegetation to high severity fire in mixed evergreen forests of the Klamath Mountains.
Robert Raibley The effects of post-harvest residue on plantation forest regeneration of redwood and Douglas-fir
Heather Rickard Factors contributing to legacy hardwood mortality following prescribed fire
Andre Sanchez Quantifying summer water budget use by fir and oak trees within overtopped and released forest stands.
Preston Selby Evaluation of thinning on stream thermal conditions in coastal Redwood riparian forests.

Past Students

NameThesisGraduation Year
Zachary Gigone Sediment production from forest roads in areas affected by the August Complex fire in Northern California2022
Brita Goldstein Protecting public trust resources in America's private forests: case studies in the diversity of U.S. state-level forestry policies2022
Sophia Lemmo Drought, tree mortality, and regeneration in Northern California2022
Madeleine Lopez Investigating seed maturation and mortality: a mechanism for post-fire regeneration in non-serotinous conifers2022
Gabriel Roletti Drought responses across diverse conifer species, habitats, and competitive gradients in Northern California2022
Cherilyn Ashmead In-flux: economic and community adaptations of former timber mill-towns in the American West2021
Dana Dysthe The politics of biomass energy in California: how external benefits are used to support an economically marginal sector2021
Gabriel Goff Conifer encroachment and removal in a Northern California oak woodland: Influences on ecosystem physiology and biodiversity2021
Danielle Jones A comparison of the removal of estrogen between different wastewater treatment processes2021
Abigail Jones Post-fire effects in chaparral and oak ecosystems of northern California2021
Katherine Marlin Post-fire regeneration of the serotinous Knobcone pine2021
Hailee Nolte Alone on the range? Rangeland stakeholder perceptions of public lands, community change and maintaining rural livelihoods2021
Wallis Robinson Influences on conifer drought responses in Northern California2021
Erik Arndt "This is home:" pictures, place meaning, and community in the natural-amenity-rich Del Norte County, California2020
Theodora Doyon From screen to summit: an investigation of claims about social media use for outdoor recreation purposes2020
Chris Faubion Sediment production and delivery from timber harvest roads in Humboldt County, California2020
Keath Sakihara Aspen growth response in the presence of inter-annual climate fluctuation and disturbance in the Lake Tahoe Basin2020
Kevin Soland Efficacy of forest restoration across a 40-year chronosequence in Redwood National Park2020
Ariel Weisgrau Intraspecific water exchange via common mycorrhizal networks​2020
Alexis Bernal Mechanisms and spatial patterns of bark beetle-associated mortality following variable density thinning treatments in a sierra mixed-conifer forest2019
Cerena Brewen Multidecadal change in aspen experiencing long-unburned, mixed-severity wildfire, and reburn disturbance regimes2019
Chance Callahan Effects of thinning and prescribed burning on tree resistance to extreme drought in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, California USA2019
Caroline Martorano Long-term effectiveness of fuel treatments in oak and chaparral stands of Northern California2019
Robert Muma Converting coast redwood/ Douglas-fir forests to multiaged management; residual stand damage, growth, and regeneration response2019
Kurt Schneider Understory light, regeneration, and browsing effects in irregular structures created by partial harvesting in coast redwood stands2019
Marisa Formosa Learning from a restoration innovator: Building community capitals and resilience through the restoration economy2018
Laura B. Lalemand Restoration and tree drought resistance in coast redwood-Douglas-fir forests at Redwood National Park, California2018
Sara Matthews Implications of unmanned aircraft systems and sense of place: A case study in the Mono Basin2018
Bret McNamara Post-fire regeneration and fuel succession patterns in Baker cypress (Hesperocyparis bakeri) forests2018
Diedra Rodriguez Persistence of stream restoration with large wood, Redwood National and State Parks, California2018
Walter Kast Finding nondestructive parameters for root-to-shoot ratios in Douglas-fir, grand fir, and redwood saplings in northwest California for biomass and carbon storage estimates2017
Ivan Medel Sedimentation and erosion patterns within anabranching channels in a lowland river restoration project2017
Jodie Pixley All-lands management: Convening communities and their lands around fire management2017
Kirsten Reddy An examination of water consumption during and after severe drought in coastal stands of Douglas-fir in the Pacific northwest2017
Michael Vernon In the face of drought: Do fuel treatments promote resistance to multi-year drought in a mixed-conifer forest of northern California?2017
Alica Jones Seeing the forest for the redwood trees: understanding the social impacts of a protected area on a local community ? a northern California case study. 2016
Jeffrey Paulson Logistics of integrating a biomass conversion technology into a centralized biomass recovery operation supply chain. 2016
Andrew Slack Large sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) vigor and mortality in a fire-excluded forest of the central Sierra Nevada.2016
Chris Valness Performance and morphology in Sequoiadendron genotypes outside of their range2016
Alexander Wick Adaptive management of a riparian zone in the lower Klamath River basin, northern California : the effects of riparian harvest on canopy closure, water temperatures and baseflow2016
Nichole Besyk Predicting phosphorus retention in two Haplohumult forest soils of northern California2015
Joanna Di Di Tommaso “If someone wants my carbon, let them pay”: examining nonindustrial private forest owner (NIPF) interest in selling forest carbon credits under California’s2015
Radeslow Glebocki Fuel loading and moisture dynamics in thinned coast redwood ? Douglas-fir forests in Headwaters Forest Reserve, California2015
Zawisza Grabinski-Parker Reburn severity interactions over 30 years in the Klamath Mountains ecoregion, California, USA2015
Dylan Loudon Analysis of coastal wetland geography and policy in Humboldt Bay: adapting wetland policies for a changing climate. 2015
Celeste Melosh Modeling runoff levels over impervious surfaces in the Lake Tahoe basin using varying data resolution. 2015
Nathan Queener Spatial and temporal variability in baseflow and stream drying in the Mattole River headwaters. 2015
Marissa Schmitz Analyzing access to California’s regulatory forest offset market2015
Madelinn Schriver Stand and tree growth characteristics of Quercus garryana and Quercus kelloggi woodlands in northwestern California2015
Bobby Howe Coast redwood growth response to herbicide treatment of tanoak2014
Christopher Kirk Second log branch analysis of redwood and Douglas-fir2014
Amy Livingston Plant community responses to fire exclusion, species invasions, and restoration in California woodlands and grasslands.2014
Tim Montgomery Modeling work plan logistics for biomass recovery operations using spatial analysis.2014
Hai Vuong Using liDAR to estimate the total aboveground live biomass of redwood stands in South Fork Caspar Creek Watershed, Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Mendocino, California.2014
Lea Bond Using distributed temperature sensing fiber-optics and heat source modeling to characterize a northern California stream’s thermal regime2013
Sara Hanna Long-term, post-fire dynamics of a sagebrush steppe community in northeastern California.2012
Nick Harrison Understanding the effects of soil exposure in fuels treatments that balance fuel reduction and erosion control in the Tahoe basin.2012
Brian Huggett Modeling six years of stream discharge using the distributed hydrology soil vegetation model (DHSVM) in a coastal, timber harvest catchment, Humboldt County, California. 2012
Brandon Namm Root morphology and belowground carbon storage in tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus)2012
Joél Benegar Evaluation of constructed wood jams in a forest, gravelbed stream2011
Matt Cocking The Role of Native Conifer Encroachment and the Return of Fire to California Black Oak Ecosystems in Northern California.2011
Sungnome Madrone Fine sediment sources of coastal watersheds with uplifted marine terraces in Northwest Humboldt County, California.2011
Trever Parker Fluorometry as a bacterial source tracking tool in coastal watersheds, Trinidad, California.2011
Kelley Reid An assessment of gravel bar texture and composition following in-channel mining in the Mad River, California.2011
Chantell Royer Building a foundation for coordinated water quality monitoring in the Klamath River basin. 2011
Eamon Engber Fuelbed heterogeneity, flammability, and restoration of historically fire frequent oak woodlands with fire.2010
Claire Knopf A permeability study on salmonid spawning riffles in the Little River drainage and Canon Creek in Northern Humboldt County, California.2010
Gregg Bousfield Peakflow prediction using an antecedent precipitation index in small forested watersheds of the Northern California Coast Range. 2008
Larry Maurin First-year erosion responses following stream channel crossing fill removal in Redwood National and State Parks, Northwestern California. M.S. Thesis, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California.2008