Xingyue Zhang 

Xingyue (Amy) is a Master's student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences in the College of Environment at the University of Washington. She is studying forest soils in response to forest stand management in the Pacific Northwest. Her research interests focus on the interactions between soil nutrients and tree growth, as well as how the interlinkages are affected by management practices. Her primary project studies the responses of forest stands to external nitrogen input, investigating how the soil factors would influence the impacts of fertilizations on different stands.

Maya Kahn-Abrams 

Maya is a Master's student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences in the College of Environment at the University of Washington. She is studying the preservation and physiology of an endangered plant, Eriogonium codium, and is co-advised by Dr. Jon Bakker (UW-SEFS). More info coming soon!

Jalene Weatherholt 

Jalene was a Master's student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences in the College of Environment at the University of Washington. Her research interests encompass the connection between soils, wildfire disturbance, and forest management.  She spent two field seasons studying post-fire ecology throughout the Pacific Northwest. The first involved LIDAR ground-truthing and the second assessing post-fire conditions above and below-ground in Washington, Montana, and Oregon. Jalene is fascinated by the impacts of fire on soil conditions. 

She successfully defended her thesis in June 2021 and is currently working for the USFS in Arizona.

Lizzy Stone 

Lizzy was a Master's student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences in the College of Environment at the University of Washington, studying forest soils in the Pacific Northwest. Her primary project explored greenhouse gas cycling in the soils of old growth riparian forests in the Hoh Rainforest. She measured greenhouse gas flux in soils that from from decomposing leaf litter and epiphytes in the canopy of old growth trees. With the Johnson Lab, she investigated the long term impacts of forest thinning on soil carbon, nitrogen, and other chemical characteristics. After earning her Master’s, she hopes to use her soil science background to work with the public in sustainable forest and farm-land management. Lizzy currently works for the Parks department on a PNW island.