Molly Barrett, MS

Principal Investigator – Dr. Saunders

barret82@purdue.edu

Molly joins Purdue’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources from Northern Arizona where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in forestry with a minor in biology. Molly’s research is focused on regeneration response of oaks to prescribed fire and gap-based harvesting in the Central Hardwood Forest Region (CHFR).

Elias Bowers Gaffney, M.S.

Principal Investigator – Dr. Saunders

egaffne@purdue.edu

Sayon Ghosh, PhD

Principal Investigator – Dr. Saunders

ghosh68@purdue.edu

Bradley Graham – PhD

Principal Investigator – Dr. Jenkins

graham40@purdue.edu

The primary objectives of Brad’s dissertation research are to quantify the carbon storage capacity of Central Hardwood Region forests by assessing remaining old-growth stands across the region and to investigate long-term changes in carbon storage reservoirs through repeated measurements.

Scott Gula, MS

Principal Investigators -Dr. Ginzel and Dr. Couture

sgula@purdue.edu

Host-plant interactions of long-horned beetles.

Yunmei Huang, PhD

Principal Investigator -Dr. Fei

Yunmei is interested in digitial forestry research. Her current work focuses on the use of AI in species recognition and biometrics extraction.

huan1643@purdue.edu

Brianne Innusa, M.S.

Principal Investigator – Dr. Jacobs

binnusa@purdue.edu

Caleb Kell, MS

Principal Investigator – Dr. Jacobs

ckell@purdue.edu

Farm Technician/Graduate Research Assistant

Bowen Li, MS

Principal Investigator – Dr. Shao

li4245@purdue.edu

Alison Ochs, MS

Principle Investigator  – Dr. Saunders

ochs3@purdue.edu

She studies the short and long term effects of timber management on terrestrial salamanders. In particular, she focuses on the effects of prescribed fire, the different effects of clearcuts, shelterwood harvest, and uneven age management, and how far into surrounding forest such effects reach.

Brande (Bee) Overbey, PhD

Principal Investigator – Dr. Jacobs

overbey@purdue.edu

Bee’s research focuses on the role that birds play in forest restoration through seed dispersal, scatter hoarding, germination and pollination, and how to maximize the impact of these behaviors through our forest management strategies.

Minjee (Sylvia) Park, PhD

Principal Investigators – Dr. Couture and Dr. Jacobs

sylvia.park.1@purdue.edu

Minjee’s research is characterizing abiotic and biotic tree stress using hyperspectral information.

Sarah Rademacher, MS

Principal Investigator – Dr. Jenkins

srademac@purdue.edu

Sarah’s research will be studying the effects of overstory manipulation and the reintroduction of fire on oak regeneration within an oak-hickory woodland. Mesophication due to lack of fire on the landscape is encouraging shade tolerant species to thrive and oak regeneration to decline. This project assists in the understanding of how these land management techniques could benefit oak restoration in oak woodlands.

Summer Rathfon, MS

Principal Investigators – Dr. Jenkins and Dr. Woeste

srathfo@purdue.edu

Summer is a new graduate student this fall!

Kelsey Tobin, PhD

Principle Investigator – Dr. Ginzel

tobin6@purdue.edu

Cameron Wingren, MS

Principle Investigators – Dr. Fei and Dr. Hupy

cwingren@purdue.edu

Cameron’s research interests center on the use of UAS to detect and monitor forest disturbance.

Recep (Rich) Yildiz, MS

Principle Investigator – Dr. Meilan and Dr. Woeste

ryildiz@purdue.edu

I am from Turkey and graduated from Karadeniz Technical University-Forest Engineering Department as a forest engineer, in Turkey, in 2012 . I will be studying on forest tree breeding and quantitative genetics.