Graduate Students
Molly Barret, 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).
Erin Bell, PhD
Scott Gula, PhD
Principal Investigators – Dr. Ginzel and Dr. Couture
sgula@purdue.edu Host-plant interactions of long-horned beetles
Yunmei Huang, PhD
Principal Investigator – Dr. Fei
huan1643@purdue.edu Yunmei is interested in digital forestry research. Her current work focuses on the use of AI in species recognition and biometrics extraction.
Brianne Innusa, MS
Principal Investigator – Dr. Jacobs
binnusa@purdue.edu Brianne is studying maritime forest restoration in southern Georgia. She is mainly concerned with how to grow southern live oak in a restoration setting, and how these oaks are competing for resources with loblolly pine.
Ellie Joll, MS
Alison Ochs, MS
Principal Investigator – Dr. Saunders
ochs3@purdue.edu Alison 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, uneven age management, and how far into surrounding forest such effects could reach.
Minjee (Sylvia) Park, PhD
Principal Investigators – Dr. Couture and Dr. Jacobs
park1200@purdue.edu Sylvia’s research is characterizing abiotic and biotic tree stress using hyperspectral information.
