Current Graduate Students (Research focus and idiosyncrasies)
Laura Knutsen (MS)
Laura is a trap-happy gal who, after capturing everything from voles to turkeys, is now relying on camera traps to examine patterns of mineral lick use by snowshoe hares. Her methodology and study focus is probably a combination of her photographic memory and a basic craving for salt.
Clint Cooper (MS)
cjcooper5@alaska.edu
Clint is an open-minded ovo-lacto carnivore with a soft spot for large herbivores. He likes to chew his food very carefully. Thus, his research project focuses on the nutritional ecology of bison.
Current Graduate Student Committees:
Jon Martin (Ph.D.), Robin Andrews (Ph.D.), Amelia Beausoleil (M.S.), Chris Barger (Ph.D.), Cody Deane (Ph.D.), Garrett Savory (Ph.D.), Jessica Reichert (Ph.D.), Sara Germain (M.S.), Miles Spathelf (Ph.D.)
Past Graduate Students
Derek Arnold 2023 (Ph.D.) Spatial ecology of lynx in Interior Alaska
Mara Cummings 2023 (M.S.) Ecological responses of the willow leafblotch miner (Micrurapteryx salicifoliella) to vertebrate browsing
Sarah Swanson 2023 (M.S.) Seasonal drivers of amplitude patterns in a population of red-backed voles (Clethrionomys rutilus)
Akashia Martinez 2023 (M.S.) Movement behavior of and activity patterns of female Canada lynx during the denning season
Andrew Bishop 2023 (M.S.) A novel method for analyzing territorial behavior of lynx based on telemetry data
Matt Kynoch 2023 (M.S.) Seasonal changes in the movement rates and activity patterns of Canada lynx
Tom Glass 2022 (Ph.D.) Snow as a structural habitat for wolverines in a changing arctic
Matt Cameron 2022 (Ph.D.) Drivers and mechanisms of migration in an arctic caribou herd
Jiake Zhou 2020 (Ph.D.) Climate Change, Moose, and Subsistence Harvest in Arctic Alaska
Claire Montgomerie 2020 (M.S.) Nutritional biomarkers and fecal cortisol concentrations in a northern population of snowshoe hares
Justin Burrows 2019 (M.S.) Interactions between moose and feltleaf willow on interior Alaska floodplains
Madison McConnell 2019 (M.S.) Dietary controls over reproductive ecology of great horned owls
Justin Olnes 2018 (Ph.D.) Effects of snowshoe hare herbivory on the demography of white spruce
Dana Nossov Brown 2016 (Ph.D.) Climate-induced changes to fire-permafrost interactions in the Alaskan boreal forest
Aditi Shenoy 2016 (Ph.D.) Role of fire severity in controlling patterns of stand dominance following wildfire in boreal forests
Casey Brown 2016 (Ph.D.) Socio-ecological drivers of resource selection and habitat use of moose in Interior Alaska
Chas Jones 2014 (Ph.D.) Controls over ice dynamics on the Tanana river
Suzanne Worker 2013 (M.S.) Causes and consequences of geophagy in snowshoe hares
Dashiell Feierabend 2013 (M.S.) Controls over survival and activity pattern in snowshoe hares
Cameron Carroll 2013 (M.S.) Modeling effects of winter severity and fire on moose populations
Neil Lehner 2012 (M.S.) Winter movements and diets of arctic foxes on Alaska's North Slope
Greg Finstad 2008 (Ph.D) Range ecology of reindeer on the Seward Peninsula
Rachel Lord 2008 (M.S.) Variable fire severity in Alaska's boreal forst: implications for forage production and moose foraging patterns
Amy Angell 2007 (M.S.) Interactions of moose herbivory and white spruce regeneration on the Tanana River floodplain
Andrew Borner 2006 (M.S.) Plant phenology and seasonal nitrogen availability in arctic snowbed communities
Nancy Werdin 2006 (M.S.) Soil amino acid composition across a boreal forest successional sequence
Kumi Rattenbury 2006 (M.S.) Interactions of climate and caribou incursion on management of reindeer in Western Alaska
Merben Cebrian 2005 (M.S) Effects of simulated climate change on phenology and chemistry of reindeer forage plants in western Alaska
Nicholas Lisuzzo 2005 (M.S.) Physical controls over nitrogen supply in early successional riparian ecosystems along the Tanana River, Alaska
Lem Butler 2003 (M.S.) The role of mammalian herbivores in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain, interior Alaska