Lab Alumni
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Heath Carey
MS (2009 - 2011)
Thesis Title: The Missoula poplar project: Utilizing poplars to enhance wastewater treatment
Current Position: Co-founder, Freedom Gardens, Missoula, MT
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Megan Keville
MS (2010 - 2012)
Thesis Title: Impacts of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreak on biogeochemical cycling in a high elevation whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulus) ecosystem
Current Position: Director of Operations, Society for Conservation Biology
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Jon Leff
MS (2010 - 2012)
Thesis Title: Experimental litterfall manipulation effects on soil bacterial community structure and soil carbon cycling in a wet tropical forest
Current Position: Director of Data Science, Artisan Biotechnologies
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Adrienne Keller
MS (2010 - 2012)
Thesis Title: Effects of canopy tree species diversity on belowground biogeochemistry in a wet lowland tropical forest
Current Position:
Postdoc, University of Minnesota
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Kali Becher (Pennick)
MS (2011 - 2012)
Thesis Title: Factors influencing the distribution of late-seral woody species along the upper Missouri river in central Montana
Current Position: Missoula County Planning & Services, Missoula, MT
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Sasha Reed
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar (2008 - 2011)
Current Position: Research Scientist, UGSG, Moab, UT
Web: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/sasha-reed
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Dr. Ben Sullivan
Postdoctoral Scholar (2012-2014)
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
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Dr. Sarah Castle
Ph.D. (2010 - 2015)
Dissertation Title: Ecosystem succession in the earliest stages: Linking microbial community structure to ecological function
Current Position: Analyst at Sustainable Conservation (CA)
Web: https://suscon.org/about-us/
Co-founder, The Cairn Project
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Peter Ganzlin
MS (2013 - 2015)
Thesis Title: Decadal scale responses of soil and ecosystem processes to forest restoration in Rocky Mountain conifer forests
Current Position: USDA - ARS, Minneapolis, MN
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Dr. William (Billy) Kolby Smith
Postdoctoral Scholar (2013 - 2014; co-mentored with Dr. Steve Running)
Current Position: Associate Professor, U Arizona
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Dr. Silvia Alvarez-Clare
Postdoctoral Scholar (2012 - 2014)
Current Position: Staff Scientist, The Morton Arboretum (Chicago)
Web: https://mortonarb.org/science/staff/silvia-alvarez-clare/
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Dr. Alison Marklein
Postdoctoral Scholar (2013 - 2015)
Curent Position: Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (DOE)
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Dr. Fiona Soper
Postdoctoral Scholar (2016 - 2018)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, McGill University
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Dr. Megan Nasto
Ph.D. student (2013 - 2018)
Dissertation Title: Nutrient Acquisition Strategies in Tropical Rain Forests: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Interactions Through Plant-Microbial Mutualisms.
Current Position: Research Scientist, Working Lands Conservation (UT)
Web: https://www.workinglandsconservation.org/meet-our-team-banner