Full Name: Sage Ellis
Pronouns: she/her and they/them (it can be condensed to she/they depending on whatever format the website uses!)
Status: Masters
Research Int: Changes in plant population dynamics in response to climate change and disturbance in an alpine endemic
Email Address: sageellis.unr.edu
Website: Shriver Lab

Full Name: Jillian Schuyler
Pronouns: She/her
Status: MS
Research Int: Climate change effects on ecology and frontline communities, statistical ecology, habitat restoration, and marine conservation.
Email Addresss: Jschuyler@nevada.unr.edu

Full Name: Elise Pletcher (she/her)
Status: PhD Student
Email Address: epletcher@nevada.unr.edu
Bio: Using methods in population and geospatial ecology to study landscape and regional scale shifts in the distribution and abundance of plant species.
Lab Website: Shriver Quantitative Plant Ecology Lab

Full Name: Seren Bagcilar
Pronouns: she/her
Status (Master’s Student/Doctoral Student): PhD Candidate
Bio: Seren studies how management and fire influence carbon cycle dynamics in Sierra Nevada ecosystems.
Email Address: sbagcilar@unr.edu

Full Name: Sean McCain
Pronouns: He/Him
Status: Master’s Student
Bio: Sean studies the factors that influence successful bighorn sheep translocations
Email Address: seanmccain@unr.edu
Lab: Stewart Lab

Full Name: James Golden
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Status: MS
Research Interests/Bio: James obtained his B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Nevada, Reno. He now studies the effects of grazing on Greater sage-grouse population dynamics with a focus on late brood-rearing habitat.
Email Address: jamesgolden@nevada.unr.edu
Lab URL:  Quantitative Ecology Lab

Full Name: Martin Genova
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Status: MS
Research Interests: Interested in how interannual variability in climate and novel seeding strategies influence post-fire plant community trajectories.
Email: genovamartin1@gmail.com
Lab: Shriver Quantitative Plant Ecology Lab

Full Name: Hayley Reid
Pronouns: She/her
Status: MS
Research Interests/Bio: Hayley's research focuses on investigating the constraints affecting the regrowth of singleleaf pinyon pine following fire.
Email Address: hreid@nevada.unr.edu

Full Name: Colton Irons
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Status: MS
Research Interests: Colton graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a B.S in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. He now monitors habitat use by rattlesnakes and their rodent prey in a fire-managed ecosystem in Great Basin National Park.
Email: coltonirons3@gmail.com
Lab: Applied Population Ecology Lab

Full Name: Andrea (Dre) Garcia Jimenez
Pronouns: She/her
Status: PhD
Research Interests/Bio: I am broadly interested in the interactions between hydrological processes, water quality, and how they influence aquatic ecology.
Email Address: agarciajimenez@unr.edu
Lab URL: Blaszczak Watershed and Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology Lab

Full Name: Lindsey Stone
Pronouns: She/her
Status: MS
Research Interests/Bio: I am interested in the abiotic and biotic factors that drive biological soil crust abundance throughout the Great Basin
Email Address: lindseystone@unr.edu

Full Name: Jordan Zabrecky
Pronouns: she/her
Status: PhD
Research Interests/Bio: Broadly, I am interested in the intersection of water quality, ecological & public health, and environmental data science. My dissertation research focuses on understanding the timing of benthic cyanobacteria and cyanotoxin production in rivers of northern California to develop forecasting models.
Email Address: jzabrecky@unr.edu
Lab URL: Blaszczak Watershed and Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology Lab

Full Name: Elena Cox
Pronouns: she/her
Status: PhD
Research Interests/Bio: Elena is interested in how severity, management, and climate change affect ecosystem response to fire. Her research examines soil heating during wildfire and fire effects on soil health and microbial processes.
Email Address: elenacox@unr.edu
Lab URL: Fire and Dryland Ecosystems Lab

Full Name: Cami Lee
Pronouns: she/her
Status: MS
Research Interests/Bio: Cami's research interests are in the impacts of soil nutrients and properties on cheatgrass after wildfires.
Email Address: camilee@unr.edu
Lab URL: Verburg Lab

Full Name: Kevin Salvador Charpentier
Pronouns: he/him
Status: MS
Research Interests/Bio: I'm interested in forest complexity and progressing management strategies that increase persistence potential.
Email Address: kcharpentier@unr.edu
Lab URL: The Bisbing Lab

Full Name: Thedoore Hartsook
Pronouns: he/him
Status: PhD
Research Interests/Bio: Using LiDAR, photogrammetry, and machine learning to develop new techniques for digital forestry.
Email Address: thartsook@unr.edu
Lab URL: Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing Lab

Full Name: Chris Smith
Pronouns: he/him
Status: PhD
Research Interests/Bio: My research in the past has focused mostly on birds, mammals, and plants and has taken me to many countries including Peru, Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand, and Namibia. I am probably overly obsessed with pika, and love backpacking, trail running, birding, tracking, and teaching natural history to people of all ages.
Email Address: chrissmith@unr.edu
Lab URL: Applied Population Ecology Lab

Full Name: Taylor Brown
Pronouns: she/her
Status: PhD
Research Interests/Bio: I am interested in modeling tree demographics at a landscape scale using geospatial data and machine learning techniques.
Email Address: taylorrbrown@unr.edu
Lab URL: Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing Lab

Full Name: Alexis Daniela Rodriguez
Pronouns: she/her
Status: MS
Research Interests/Bio: My interest involves utilizing dendrochronology to study tree growth patterns and forest dynamics in the Tahoe region, focusing on ecoclimatology and its implications on forest health.
Email Address: alexisdrodriguez@unr.edu
Lab URL: Biondi's DendroLab

Full Name: Michelle DesLauriers
Pronouns: she/her
Status: MS
Research Interests/Bio: Studying the drivers and implications of insect defoliator outbreaks on forest health in southeast Alaska.
Email Address: mdeslauriers@unr.edu
Lab URL: The Bisbing Lab