Past Graduate Students

• Laura Knutsen 2024 (M.S.) Controls over visitation rates to mineral licks by snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) in northern Alaska

• 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.) The snowshoe hare filter to spruce establishment in boreal Alaska

• 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