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Current & Recent Graduate Students

Chris Akios: Fragmentation, Corridors and Amphibians of Olympic National Forest (advisor: Lomolino)
Pablo de Arrellano Ramirez (Ph.D., pending) - Systematic conservation planning in central Chile: Sensitivity of reserve selection procedures to surrogate choices, vulnerability indices, and spatial scale (advisor: Leopold)
James Arrigoni (MS) - Monitoring approaches for forest amphibians in Belize (advisor: Gibbs)
Kelci Backus (MS): Regional differences in giant silk moth mortality: the relative role of the invasive biological control agent, Compsilura concinnata. (advisor: Parry)
Maija Benjamins (M.S.): Oviposition preferences of the endangered Lycaeides melissa samuelis in relation to canopy cover (advisor: Leopold)
Kirstin Breisch (MS): Contrasting sampling methodologies for management of Karner blue butterfly (advisor: Parry)
Matt Buff (Ph.D.): The landscape ecology of six rare plants: Relating pattern to process (advisor: Leopold)
Shawn Carter (PhD) - Faunal diversity in relation forest disturbance in the Adirondack Region (advisor: Gibbs)
Joe Cornell: Empirical and modeling studies of land use change and impacts on carbon storage in Central America (advisor: Hall)
Steve Coghlan PhD: Ecology and restoration of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario (advisor: Ringler)
Daniel Crane (MS pending) - Birds, amphibians, and worms in relation to plantation forestry (Advisor: Gibbs)
Matt Distler (Ph.D., pending) - Plant diversity in medium fens (advisor: Leopold)
Dustin Everitt, MS: Spawning requirements of Chinook salmon in the Salmon River, NY (advisor: Ringler)
Jodi Forrester (Ph.D.): Persistence of a remnant maritime holly forest: Short and long-term dynamics of a critically imperiled plant community (advisor: Leopold)
Steve Fuller (Ph.D. pending) : Effects of vegetation management on blue lupine and Karner blue butterfly in eastern New York sand plains (advisor: Leopold)
Danial Gefell, PhD: Ecological assessment of toxic materials in fish communities of the Onondaga Lake watershed (advisor: Ringler)
Lisa Goodell (MS) - Understory plant species diversity patterns in upstate New York forests (advisor: Leopold)
Kevin Godwin (Ph.D.): A hydrogeologic setting model to predict and evaluate fens in New York (advisor: Leopold)
Alison Halpern (Ph.D., pending): Effects of the invasive, floating-leaved aquatic plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, on biodiversity in coastal wetlands of the upper St. Lawrence River (advisor: Leopold)
Adam Harpster: Ecology and Conservation of Temperate Rainforest Bats (advisor: Lomolino)
Nancy Harris: Connections between conservation ecology and predictive modeling of deforestation using GEOMOD (advisor: Hall)
Kay Hajek (Ph.D., pending) - Plant diversity in peatlands (advisor: Leopold)
Hope Hornbeck (Ph.D. pending) - Rarity of native terrestrial orchids relative to mycorrhizal symbionts (advisor: Leopold)
Nancy Karraker (PhD) - Importance of vernal pools to amphibian production (Advisor: Gibbs)
Scott LaPoint: Use and Optimal Design of Highway Underpasses for Adirondack Wildlife (advisor: Lomolino)
Lopes, Lucia, Ph.D. Avian conservation ecology in Matto Grosso Brazil. (advisor: Shields)
Christopher Millard, MS: Survival and growth of reintroduced Atlantic salmon in NY streams (advisor: Ringler)
Richard Morse PhD: Population ecology of dwarf suckers in the Adirondack Mountains, NY (advisor: Ringler)
Karen Murray PhD: Ecology of macroinvertebrate communities of the Hudson River drainage, New York. (advisor: Ringler)
Angelena Ross (MS) - Spruce grouse conservation (Advisor: Gibbs)
Mary P. Sabia, MS: Reproduction and habitat requirements of Chinook salmon in the Salmon River, NY (advisor: Ringler)
Sara Scanga (Ph.D. pending) - Conservation ecology of rare and common Trollius species (advisor: Leopold)
Stephen Reynolds (MS, pending) - Plant diversity in rich fens (advisor: Leopold)
Laura Schmitt: Optimizing sustainability in agro ecology of Island of Negros, Philippines(advisor: Hall)
Kevin Shoemaker (MS) - Conservation of the eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Advisor: Gibbs)
Greg Shriver (PhD) - Conservation of saltmarsh birds along the New England coast (advisor: Gibbs)
Anthony Siniscal, MS: Community ecology of fishes in an oligotrophic urban lake (advisor: Ringler)
David Steen (MS) - Population structure of freshwater turtles in relation to road density (Advisor: Gibbs)
Joel Strong (MS) - Tortoises as seed dispersal agents in the northern Amazon region (co-advised Gibbs and Fragoso)
Kris Whiteleather (MS) - Acid mine drainage and salamander communities in West Virginia (advisor: Gibbs)
Wu Wei: Modeling tropical forest processes (advisor: Hall)
Jordan Wolf (MS) - Forest fragmentation, burying beetles, and decomposition processes (Advisor: Gibbs)