Past graduate students
Felicia Rein (Ph.D. 1999)
Dissertation: Vegetative buffer strips in a Mediterranean Climate
Current position: Environmental consultant
Grey Hayes (Ph.D. 2002).
Dissertation: Cattle grazing effects on
Current position: Coordinator of Coastal Training Program at the Elkhorn Slough Foundation
Liba Pejchar (Ph.D. 2004).
Dissertation: Ecology of an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper and implications for conservation on private land
Current position: Assistant Professor,
Aaron Gabbe (Ph.D. 2007)
Dissertation: Evolution of dilute nectar in the hummingbird pollinated plant, Ipomopsis aggregata
Current position: Environmental consulting and lecturing.
Current graduate
students
Martha Bonilla (Doctoral student) anticipated completion date August 2008
Dissertation: Recovery of tropical forest in the
Rebecca Cole (Doctoral student) anticipated completion date spring 2009
Dissertation: Seed dispersal and seed fate in
restored tropical forests in southern
Michael Vasey (Doctoral student) entered program fall 2005
Dissertation: Fog influence on vegetation dynamics in maritime chaparral plant communities
Daniella Schweizer (Doctoral student – co-sponsored with Dr. Greg Gilbert) entered program in fall 2006
Dissertation: Effects of microbial communities on
seedling growth in restored forest in
J. Leighton Reid (Doctoral student) entering program fall 2008.
Dissertation: Plant-animal interactions in tropical
forest restoration sites in
Prairie Johnston (Masters student at CSU Chico – co-sponsored with Dr. David Wood) anticipated completion date fall 2008
Thesis: Effect of distance to forest, overstory cover, and understory grass competition on establishment and survival of seven riparian forest understory species
Charles McClain (Masters student at CSU Chico co-sponsored with Dr. David Wood) anticipated completion date fall 2008
Thesis: Understory vegetation dynamics in restored
riparian forest along the