Graduate Students and Post-docs

Dr. Tom Crowther

Visiting Scholar (2016). Now an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich.   Details...

Dr. Nate Haan

PhD (2013-2017). Dissertation: “Ecological interactions between Euphydryas editha larvae and their host plants”. Now a post-doc at UW.

Mary-Margaret Greene

MEH (2015-2017). Project: “Designing and implementing an education plan for the SER-UW Native Plant Nursery”.

Allison Rossman

MS (2014-2017). Thesis: “Responses of dry forest understory diversity to thinning intensity and burning: the importance of time, space, and analytical approach”.

Kelly Broadlick

MEH (2015-2016). Project: “Determining the dormancy and germination requirements of two upland prairie sedges, Carex inops ssp. inops and Carex tumulicola”. Now a Grower at Fourth Corner Nurseries.

Anna Carragee

MEH (2015-2016). Project: “SER-UW native plant nursery: forging the missing link between plant materials and student restoration projects”.

Dr. Natalie Jones (née Schmidt)

PhD (2011-2016).  Dissertation: “Parasitic plants and community composition: how Castilleja levisecta affects, and is affected by, its community”.  Now a Water Program Specialist at Tacoma Water.

Dr. John Vincent

Post-doc (2015-2016). Now a Data Analyst III at Concur.

Kathryn Hill

MSc (2013-2015). Thesis: “Prescribed fire in grassland butterfly habitat: targeting weather and fuel conditions to reduce risk to larvae and enhance post-burn habitat heterogeneity”.  Now a Prairie Restoration Specialist at the Center for Natural Lands Management.

Dr. Yongming Lin

Visiting Scientist (2014-2015).  Now an Associate Professor in the College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.

Dr. Xuehua Li

Visiting Scientist (2015).  Now a Research Associate at the Institute for Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Rachel Mitchell

Post-doc (2013-2014) and PhD student (2007-2013). Dissertation: “The extent, drivers, and consequences of intraspecific variation in plant functional traits”. Now an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University.

Dr. Eric Delvin

PhD (2008-2013). Dissertation: “Restoring abandoned agricultural lands in Puget Lowland prairies: a new approach”. Now the Emerald Edge Director for The Nature Conservancy.

Ellen Sherck

MEH (2012-2013). Project: “Fire histories of Turn Point and Kellett Bluff, San Juan Islands, Washington”. Now a Natural Resources Planner at the San Juan Islands Conservation District.

Dr. Laura Six

PhD (2008-2012).  Dissertation: “Consequences of agroforestry management on understory vegetation and soils in Uruguay”. Now a Plant Ecologist at Weyerhaeuser.

Eva Dettweiler-Robinson

MSc (2008-2011).  Thesis: “Multiple fires and landscape factors affect vegetation composition over time and interact to affect biological soil crust cover”.  Now a post-doc at the University of New Mexico.

Maria Petrova

MSc (2008-2011).  Thesis: “Improving ponderosa pine growth predictions in the Southwest”.  Now a Data Analyst with Travel Audience.

Dr. G. Matt Davies

Post-doc (2008-2010).  Now an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University.  Details...

Dr. Ryan Haugo

PhD (2007-2010), and post-doc (2010-2011).  Dissertation: “Causes and consequences of conifer invasion into Pacific Northwest grasslands”.  Now a Senior Forest Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy.  Details...

Laura Blume Colasurdo

PhD (2009-2010 (did not finish)); MSc (2007-2009).  Thesis: “Garry oak restoration in central Washington: planting technique evaluation and preliminary target identification through stand characterization”.  Now a Teacher at Hillside Student Community School.

Undergraduate Students & Technicians

Mary Bond

Hourly field technician (2014, 2015, 2017).

Bri Castilleja

Hourly field technician (2017).

Allie Denzler

Hourly field technician (2017).

Henry Whitenack

Hourly field technician (2017).

Claire Tortorelli

Hourly field technician (2017).

Patrick Kuo

Undergraduate student (2017). Capstone: “Effects of different media type on Achillea millefolium growth”.

Annatasia Autio

Undergraduate student (2017). Capstone: “Quantifying effects of heat from fire on germination of prairie species”.

Courtney Matzke

Undergraduate student (2016-2017). Senior Research Project: “Effects of parasitism and drought on Achillea millefolium”.

Allison Erskine

Undergraduate student (2017). Capstone: “Effects of mycorrhizal inoculation and fertilizer on Eriophyllum lanatum”.

Cáelan Sky

Undergraduate lab assistant (2015-2016) and hourly technician (2016).

Will Mooreston

Undergraduate lab assistant (2014-2016). Senior project: “Establishment and survival of prairie and oak savanna plants in the Duwamish Hill Preserve”.

Leslie Hirata

Undergraduate lab assistant (2016).  Senior project: “Relating growing degree days to golden paintbrush (Castilleja levisecta) growth and flowering phenology”.

Raona Mecka

Undergraduate lab assistant (2014-2016). Senior project: “Comparing the effects of parasitism by Castilleja levisecta and competition by host species”.

Justin Yim

Hourly technician (2016).

KelliAnne Ricks

Hourly technician (2016).

Sarah Erskine

Hourly field technician (2014, 2015).

Mollee Mullins

Hourly field technician (2015).

Ben Saari

Undergraduate lab assistant (2014-2015).

Liesl Strand

Undergraduate lab assistant (2014-2015).

Dapinder Jourha

Undergraduate lab assistant (2014-2015).

Samantha Rich

Hourly technician (2014).

Del Brummet

Undergraduate lab assistant (2012-2014).

Zoe Loutos

Undergraduate lab assistant (2013).

Korena Mafune

Undergraduate lab assistant (2011-2013). Senior project: “Identifying an unknown inoculum of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: efforts to better understand the role of AMF in prairie restoration”. Now a graduate student at UW.

Amanda Beaty

Undergraduate lab assistant (2011-2012).

Amy Plunkett

Undergraduate lab assistant (2011-2012).

Jessica DaBell

Undergraduate lab assistant (2011).  Senior project: “Seed germination and viability of four Puget Sound prairie species varies with the length of storage”.

Megan Morey

Undergraduate lab assistant (2011).  Senior project : “Effects of light and temperature regimes on germination and viability of native WA prairie species”.

Cat Adams

Field assistant (2010-2011).

Scott Batiuk

Undergraduate field assistant (2009-2010).  Senior project: “Analysis of the relationship between age and diameter at breast height of Garry oak (Quercus garryana) in Washington state”.

Conor O’Malley

Undergraduate field assistant (2009).  Senior project: “Using stem analysis to evaluate seedling dynamics in Quercus garryana”.

Joanne Pontrello

Undergraduate field assistant (2009).

Cheryl Brammer

Undergraduate lab assistant.

Brandon Neuhaus

Undergraduate lab assistant.