Graduate Students

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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).

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Erin Bell, PhD

bell283@purdue.edu

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Olivia Bigham, M.S.

Principal Investigator – Dr. Ginzel

obigham@purdue.edu

 

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Aishwarya Chandrasekaran, PhD

chandr95@purdue.edu

 

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Kelly French, PhD

french79@purdue.edu

 

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Elias Bowers Gaffney, MS

egaffne@purdue.edu

 

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Scott Gula, PhD

Principal Investigators – Dr. Ginzel and Dr. Couture

sgula@purdue.edu Host-plant interactions of long-horned beetles

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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.

 

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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.

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Ellie Joll, MS

joll@purdue.edu 

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Bowen Li, MS

Principal Investigator – Dr. Shao

li4245@purdue.edu 

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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.

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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.

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Summer Rose Rathfon, MS

Principal Investigator – Dr. Jenkins

srathfo@purdue.edu 

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Thaddeus Swart, MS

Principal Investigator – Dr. Jenkins

tswart@purdue.edu

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Kelsey Nicole Tobin, PhD

Principal Investigator – Dr. Ginzel

tobin6@purdue.edu 

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Wang Xiang, PhD

xiang86@purdue.edu