Graduate Programs

Pedro Alcantara, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

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Angela Allred, email

Program:

Forestry MS

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Eric Kruger

Committee:

Interest Area:

Christine Anhalt, email

Program:

Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development MS

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Timothy Van Deelen

Committee:

Interest Area:

large mammal conservation and human-wildlife conflict

Travis Bartnick, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Timothy Van Deelen

Committee:

David Mladenoff, Monica Turner

Interest Area:

Large carnivore predation ecology and interspecific carnivore relationships

Matthias Baumann, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Mutlu Ozdogan

Committee:

Interest Area:

Landuse cover change and its detection using remote sensing data; explaining land use change using statistical modeling approaches, especially post-socialist land use change

Richard Bergman, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2004

Advisor:

Scott Bowe

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Heidi Bissell, email

Program:

Zoology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

William Karasov

Committee:

Interest Area:

Jodi Brandt, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

Committee:

Philip Townsend, Anna Pidgeon, Mutlu Ozdogan, A-Xing Zhu

Interest Area:

Jon Breschak, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Mark Rickenbach

Committee:

Interest Area:

James Burnham, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Anna Pidgeon

Committee:

Interest Area:

Waterbird community ecology and conservation, freshwater ecosystems, cranes, Chinese language and history

Julia Burton, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2004

Advisor:

David Mladenoff

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Van Butsic, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Spring 2008

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

Committee:

Anna Pidgeon, Harvey Jacobs, William Provencher, David Lewis

Interest Area:

Intersections between human actions, environmental policy and conservation outcomes

Marc Chipault

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Robert (Scott) Lutz

Committee:

Interest Area:

Influences of landscape composition and land-owner (public vs. private) on wild turkey survival and reproduction in north-central Kansas

Tawnya Coyle, email

Program:

Zoology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

William Karasov

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Kelly Crosset, email

Program:

Forestry MS

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Mark Rickenbach

Committee:

Interest Area:

Patrick Culbert, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

Committee:

Anna Pidgeon, Philip Townsend, Murray Clayton, Claudio Gratton

Interest Area:

Biodiversity modeling, remote sensing

Zachary DeQuattro, email

Program:

Zoology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

William Karasov

Committee:

Interest Area:

Michael Dockry, email , website

Program:

Forestry PhD and Certificate in Culture, History & Environment

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Nancy Langston

Committee:

Ray Guries, Lisa Naughton, Ned Blackhawk, Peter Bloch

Interest Area:

Indigenous community forest management in Wisconsin and Bolivia, interaction among environmental history, culture and perceptions of sustainable forest management

Elena Doucet-Beer, email

Program:

Zoology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

William Karasov

Committee:

Interest Area:

Maxim Dubinin, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

Committee:

Interest Area:

Delgerjargal Dugarjav, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Stith (Tom) Gower

Committee:

Interest Area:

Eric Erdmann, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Christine Ribic

Committee:

Interest Area:

Robert Fahey, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Craig Lorimer

Committee:

David Mladenoff, Philip Townsend, Glen Stanosz, James Bockheim

Interest Area:

Forest stand dynamics, historical ecology, forest restoration

Lara Fondow, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2004

Advisor:

Stanley Temple, Scott Craven

Committee:

David Drake, John Harrington

Interest Area:

Jane Foster, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Summer 2005

Advisor:

David Mladenoff

Committee:

Interest Area:

Ruby Fowlds, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Spring 2008

Advisor:

Robert (Scott) Lutz

Committee:

Craig Lorimer, Robert Bleiweiss, Karl Martin

Interest Area:

Wildlife ecology and conservation including habitat use, effects of fragmentation, disease and urban impacts on wildlife populations; threatened and endangered species conservation; habitat use by Golden-winged and Blue-winged warblers in central Wisconsi

Steven Grodsky, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

David Drake

Committee:

Timothy Van Deelen, Mark Berres

Interest Area:

Bird and bat mortality at wind farms in southeastern Wisconsin, identifying the cause of death in bats killed by wind turbines, investigating barotraum and estimating the number of animals killed at the wind farm per year; reproductive behavior of breedin

Huan Gu, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Philip Townsend

Committee:

Interest Area:

Forest ecosystem changes by using remote sensing analysis tool, model correlations between changes and ecological factors

Corey Halpin, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Craig Lorimer

Committee:

Interest Area:

Steven Hubbard, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2001

Advisor:

Scott Bowe

Committee:

Interest Area:

Natalie Hunt, email, website

Program:

Forestry and Environment & Resources PhD

Start Term:

Spring 2009

Advisor:

Stith (Tom) Gower

Committee:

Mutlu Ozdogan, Stephen Ventura, Christopher Kucharik

Interest Area:

Biophysical modeling, remote sensing, life cycle analysis of biofuel feedstock crops, agriculture and energy policy

Bernard Isaacson, email

Program:

Forestry MS

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Philip Townsend

Committee:

Interest Area:

Tess Killpack, email

Program:

Zoology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

William Karasov

Committee:

Interest Area:

Andrew Lerch, email

Program:

Forestry and Entomology MS

Start Term:

Spring 2008

Advisor:

Philip Townsend

Committee:

Kenneth Raffa

Interest Area:

Adrian Lesak, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2004

Advisor:

Anna Pidgeon

Committee:

Interest Area:

Jian-Nan Liu, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

William Karasov

Committee:

Interest Area:

Mark Liu, email

Program:

Environment & Resources MS

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Mutlu Ozdogan

Committee:

Interest Area:

Using remote sensing images to determine land use and land change in the Middle East

Christina Locke, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Adena Rissman

Committee:

Interest Area:

Jeffrey Lorch, email

Program:

Molecular & Environmental Toxicology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

William Karasov

Committee:

Interest Area:

White-nose syndrome in bats

Karl Malcolm, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

Timothy Van Deelen

Committee:

Interest Area:

Samuel Meier, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Spring 2008

Advisor:

William Karasov

Committee:

David Drake, Mark Cook

Interest Area:

Test for normal development of gastrointestinal structure and immune function in endangered Attwater's prairie chickens

Jordan Muss, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2004

Advisor:

David Mladenoff

Committee:

Interest Area:

Caitlynn Nemec, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

David Drake

Committee:

Mark Rickenbach, Robert (Bill) Provencher

Interest Area:

Creation of landowner survey for the central grassland region of Wisconsin to identify landowners willing to sell land or participate in a conservation program to create more habitat for the state threatened greater prairie chicken

Scott Peckham, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Stith (Tom) Gower

Committee:

Interest Area:

Christopher Pollentier, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Robert (Scott) Lutz

Committee:

Interest Area:

Erinn Powell, email

Program:

Forestry MS

Start Term:

Fall 2006

Advisor:

Kenneth Raffa

Committee:

Monica Turner, Philip Townsend, Daniel Young

Interest Area:

Forest entomology

Alexander Prishchepov, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2005

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

Committee:

Philip Townsend, Mutlu Ozdogan, Amy Burnicki, David Lewis

Interest Area:

Alvin Rentsch, email

Program:

Cartography & Geographic Information Systems MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Mutlu Ozdogan

Committee:

Interest Area:

Stacie Robinson, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Michael Samuel

Committee:

Interest Area:

Alexia Sabor, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Spring 2002

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

Committee:

Interest Area:

Sarah Schliemann, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

James Bockheim

Committee:

Teresa Balser, David Mladenoff, Craig Lorimer, Philip Townsend

Interest Area:

Effect of natural disturbance (windthrow) on biogeochemistry in hardwood and hemlock dominated forests in the Great Lakes region; influence of disturbance size and recovery time on carbon and nitrogen cycling in vegetation and soil

Samuel Schultz, email

Program:

Forestry MS

Start Term:

Fall 2002

Advisor:

Raymond Guries

Committee:

Interest Area:

Shawn Serbin, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2004

Advisor:

Philip Townsend

Committee:

Eric Kruger, Christopher Kucharik, Mutlu Ozdogan, Stith (Tom) Gower, Ankur Desai

Interest Area:

Land-surface remote sensing, models and extensive field data for monitoring and modeling the impacts of disturbance on forest biochemical cycling

Aditya Singh, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

Philip Townsend

Committee:

Interest Area:

Amy Sloane, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Spring 2000

Advisor:

Robert Ray

Committee:

Interest Area:

Stephanie Steinhoff, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Fall 2007

Advisor:

Timothy Van Deelen

Committee:

Craig Lorimer, Monica Turner, Karl Martin

Interest Area:

Forest dynamics and conservation and the effects of anthropogenic alterations on sciurid populations

Jennifer Stenglein, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Timothy Van Deelen

Committee:

Interest Area:

Daniel Storm, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology PhD

Start Term:

Spring 2006

Advisor:

Michael Samuel

Committee:

Volker Radeloff, Monica Turner, Timothy Van Deelen, David Drake

Interest Area:

Kevin Tita, email

Program:

Forestry MS

Start Term:

Spring 2008

Advisor:

Eric Kruger

Committee:

Interest Area:

Michael Watt, email

Program:

Wildlife Ecology MS

Start Term:

Summer 2008

Advisor:

David Drake

Committee:

Interest Area:

Kelly Wendland, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Volker Radeloff

Committee:

Mutlu Ozdogan, David Lewis

Interest Area:

Natural resource economics and policy, biodiversity conservation

Steffenie Widows, email

Program:

Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development MS

Start Term:

Fall 2008

Advisor:

David Drake

Committee:

Stanley Temple

Interest Area:

Conservation biology, sustainable development, biodiversity, wildlife ecology, human-wildlife issues, protected area management

Eric Wood, email

Program:

Forestry PhD

Start Term:

Spring 2007

Advisor:

Anna Pidgeon

Committee:

Volker Radeloff, Christine Ribic, Claudio Gratton, Randall Jackson

Interest Area:

Yang Yang, email

Program:

Environment & Resources PhD

Start Term:

Fall 2009

Advisor:

Mutlu Ozdogan

Committee:

Interest Area:

Land cover and land use change