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Environmental Change Research Group | Geography Department

People in the lab
  • Ph.D. Students
    • Aquila Flower Dendrochronology; ecology and history of western spruce budworm; interior PNW mixed conifer forests.
    • Erin Herring Paleoecology of interior mesic forests of northern Idaho.
  • Master's Students
    • Dave Fisher Modeling postglacial vegetation change on the Olympic Peninsula.
    • Ariana White - Postglacial vegetation in the "northern wetbelt" of central British Columbia.
  • Undergraduate technicians:
    • Please contact us for current openings for lab technicians
Affiliated in various ways...
  • Jill Marshall (Geological Sciences PhD student): Erosion rates of the Oregon Coast Range through the Quaternary.
  • Maureece Levin (Anthropology PhD student): Long-term agriculture change in Micronesia.
  • Chantal Saban (OSU Anthropology PhD student): Pollen records from Pre-Clovis archeological sites
Alumni
  • Jenn Kusler MS student 2009-2012. Thesis: "A 7500-Year Paleolimnological Record of Environmental Change and Salmon Abundance In The Oregon Coast Range." Now working for the USGS in Menlo Park.
  • Christina George - UCORE student, summer 2011; post-glacial biogenic silica record from northern Idaho. Christina was the most recent of four total UCORE students hosted in the lab.
  • Ian David Crickmore MS student 2008-2011. Thesis: "Interactions Between Forest Insect Activity and Wildfire Severity in the Booth and Bear Complex Fires, Oregon." Now an Environmental GIS Technician for JL Patterson in Seattle WA.
  • Jaime Dexter-Enriquez (Interdisciplinary Studies M.S. Student): Ethnobotany and paleoecology of Clovis sites in Oregon.
  • Daniele Colombaroli - Post-doc researcher (2007-2008)
    Swiss National Science Foundation
    Project: 2000-years of fire history and climate change in the Siskiyou Mountains
    Currently at the University of Bern.
  • Katie Argo - Undergraduate honors thesis (2007)
    Project: The Relation of Precipitation and Annual Tree-Ring Growth of Douglas-Fir in Stands of Different Ages in the Western Oregon Cascade Range
  • Past technicians:
    • Sam Somerville (dendrochronology)
    • Elizabeth Schneider - Tree-ring analysis from samples from eastern Oregon.