Lab alumni

Jamila Baig PhD Student (Environmental Studies, Science, and Policy with Geography focal department). 2017-2023. Dissertation: Paleotemperature, Vegetation Change, Fire History, and Lake Productivity for the Last 14,500 Years at Gold Lake, Pacific Northwest, USA.
Chantel Saban PhD Student. 2017-2023. Dissertation: Holocene Vegetation, Drought, and Fire Variability in the Northern Great Basin, Oregon.
Monika Ruwaimana PhD Student (Biology). 2018-2023. Dissertation: Tropical Peatlands in West Kalimantan: Formation, Carbon, and Late Pleistocene-Holocene History.
Buzz Nanavati - NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. paleoecology and the nonlinear and interacting relationships between humans, climate, and the environment through time. Now Post-doc at University of Montana.
Natalie Kozlowski MS Student 2019-2021. Thesis: A Comparison of Early Holocene and Late Holocene Vegetation Structure and Fire Frequency in the Puget Lowland.
Lauren Hendricks PhD student 2016-2020. Thesis: Fire in the Rainforest: Fire History and Carbon Pools in Southwestern Borneo's Tropical Rainforest.
Kate Hayes MS Student 2016-2018. Thesis: Fire History and Soil Carbon in Old Growth Coast Redwood Forests across the Late Holocene
Brynn Harrison - Undergraduate thesis student, 2015-2016. Characteristics of sediment dating to MIS 2 and MIS 3 in the Oregon Coast Range.
Christoph Schwörer - Postdoctoral researcher (2014-2016). Treeline dynamics on the Olympic Peninsula, WA.
Geoffrey Johnson - MS Student. 2016. Environmental History of Estuarine Dissolved Oxygen Inferred from Trace-Metal Geochemistry and Organic Matter. Published in Esturaries and Coasts
Wade Martin - Clark Honors College Undergraduate Thesis. 2015. Historic Douglas-Fir Colonization And Land Use Practices At Preservation Sites Near Eugene, OR.
Ariana White MS Student 2012-2014. Thesis: Postglacial vegetation change in the interior temperate rainforest of British Columbia.
Erin Herring PhD Student 2009-2014. Thesis: Late Quaternary and Holocene Paleoecology of Interior Mesic Forests of Northern Idaho
Dave Fisher MS Student 2010-2013. Thesis: Postglacial Transient Dynamics Of Olympic Peninsula Forests: Comparing Predictions And Observations
Aquila Flower PhD Student 2009-2013. Thesis: Western Spruce Budworm, Climate, and Forest Fire Interactions in the Interior Pacific Northwest: A Multi-Century Dendrochronological Analysis Now Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Western Washington University.
Jenn Kusler MS student 2009-2012. Thesis: A 7500-Year Paleolimnological Record of Environmental Change and Salmon Abundance In The Oregon Coast Range.
Ian David Crickmore MS student 2008-2011. Thesis: Interactions Between Forest Insect Activity and Wildfire Severity in the Booth and Bear Complex Fires, Oregon

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 interns and technicians

Rose Nittler - Lab technician 2019-2021
Brynn Harrison - Organic matter records from the full glacial period in the Oregon Coast Range
Thomas Barber - Macrofossil analysis from lakes cores from British Columbia
Bryce Winkelman - Charcoal record of fire history in northern Idaho
Kira Hoffman Visiting PhD student from the University of Victoria - fire and forest structure on Calvert Island, British Columbia (Winter 2015).
Jessica Jones - Laboratory assistant 2014-2015
Mieke Vrijmoet (Bennington College Field Work Term) - Pollen record from a 16-meter long, 14,000 year, lake sediment core from northern Idaho (Winter 2014).
Emma Brenneman - Climate and volcanic tephra influence on sediment organic matter over the past 14,000-years from a levee lake in northern Idaho.
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.
Sam Somerville (dendrochronology) - Currently working for the USGS Western Ecological Research Center Las Vegas Field Station.
Elizabeth Schneider - Tree-ring analysis from samples from eastern Oregon. - Currently a Masters student at the University of Tennessee.