People
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Philip Higuera, Assistant Professor, Lab PI |
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Kelly Derr, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellowkderr@uidaho.eduKelly holds a PhD in Anthropology from Washington State University. As an archaeologist, her research focuses on anthropogenic burning and human-environment-climate interactions, with a focus on identifying human arrival into ecosystems using fossil pollen and charcoal records. Her dissertation explored the use of fire by the precontact Coast Salish in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia as a tool to intensify wild plant production. Kelly received her MA from Colorado State University where she focused on Native American use of high altitude sites in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. |
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Jesse Morris, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellowjlmorris@uidaho.eduJesse holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Utah. His research interests are in examining long-term disturbance history, including fire and insect outbreaks, and understanding how regime shifts are modulated by climate and human activity. As a postdoc in the lab, Jesse is working at part of the WildFIRE PIRE team, investigating the causes and consequences of fire in the Central Plateau of Tasmania, Australia. |
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Graduate Students |
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Paul Dunnette, MS Studentdunnette@uidaho.eduPaul is a MS student interested in forest ecosystem processes, fire ecology, and disturbance history. His research focuses on understanding past relationships among climate, disturbance, vegetation change, and biogeochemistry in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. Prior to graduate school, Paul obtained a BS degree in Environmental Science from Portland State University, and a BS in Journalism from the University of Portland. |
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Kerry Kemp, PhD Studentkkemp@uidaho.eduKerry is a PhD student in the College of Natural Resources and a member of the Northern Rockies IGERT team. Her interests are in the impacts of global climate change on vegetation distributions and disturbances in forested ecosystems. Her research focuses on the interaction between disturbance events (e.g., fire) and long-term species persistence on landscapes. Kerry has a BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
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Adam Young, PhD Studentamyoung@uidaho.eduAdam is a PhD student in the College of Natural Resources, interested in fire ecology, paleoecology, and ecosystem modeling. Before coming to the University of Idaho, Adam worked at the Harvard Forest as an REU, and earned a BS degree in Environmental Science from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY. |
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Undergraduate Students
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Alumni |
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Margaret Ward KeefeMaggie was a lab technician in the Paleoecology and Fire Ecology Lab from 2010-2012 and was insturmental in setting up the lab and keep things running smoothly for its first few years. Maggies has a BA in Biology from Ithaca College, NT, and a MS in Forest Resources from the University of Maine, Orono. |
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Ryan MoranRyan is an undergraduate student in the College of Natural Resources working on a BS degree in Fire Ecology and Management. Ryan worked in the lab from July-December 2011, focusing on fire history and biogeochemical proxies from sediment cores from Rocky Mountain National Park. |
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Donnovan VanSantDonnovan worked in the lab in the spring of 2011 and graduated with a BS in Geography from the Department of Geography in May 2011. Donnovan worked on gathering and organizing modern datasets on tundra fire history and vegetation in Alaska. |
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Justin ZieglerJustin worked in the lab in the spring and early summer of 2011, focusing on fire history and biogeochemical proxies from sediment cores from Rocky Mountain National Park. After graduating from the College of Natural Resources with a BS in Fire Ecology and Management in the spring of 2011, Justin started graduate school at Colorado State University, where he is pursuing a MS degree in fire ecology. |
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