Current Graduate Students
Abaye Abebe
Advisor: Rob Payn
abayeabebe@gmail.com
Research Area: Hydrological analysis and modeling in an Earth System Modeling framework.
Adam Abdur-Rahman
M.S. Land Resources & Environmental Sciences
Advisor: Sophie Von Fromm
Email: adam.abdurrahman@montana.edu
From: Baltimore, Maryland
Research Area: Soil carbon dynamics
Misc: Harvard Forest REU '25 participant. || ESA Mid-Atlantic Conference Poster Presenter '25, '26. || ESA SEEDS Chapter President '24-'26
Gracelyn Abel
M.S. Land Resources & Environmental Sciences
Advisor: Joao Souza
Email: gracelyn.abel@student.montana.edu
From: Kalispell, Montana
Research Area: Studying the effects of planting date, termination timing, species, planting density,
and cereal intercropping on legume cover crop growth and soil nitrogen for Montana
organic vegetable farms.
Publications:Abel, Gracelyn & Ebel, Roland. (2023). A guide to anaerobic digestion for small farms.
Jared Adam
Ph.D. Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Advisor: William Wetzel
jared.adam@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Alpine and subalpine plant physiological tolerance to abiotic (e.g., temperature) and biotic (e.g., insect herbivory) stressors and the role arthropod predators play in the trophic cascade.
Safal Adhikari
Hezekiah Afolabi
Advisor: Adam Sigler
hezekiahabiola@gmail.com
Research Area: Role of pesticide leaching in groundwater contamination
From: Nigeria
Research Area: Solute Transport and Groundwater Quality.
Celia Almodobar
Paden Allsup
Claire Anderson
Advisors: Cathy Zabinski & Jane Mangold
claire.anderson6@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Management approaches for invasive annual grasses and impacts on soil health in Montana rangelands
Laura Berrios-Ortiz
Advisor: Fabian Menalled
laura.berriosortiz@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Weed agroecology and management
Andrew Bobst
Advisor: Rob Payn
Research Area: Using Beaver Mimicry Stream Restoration as manipulative experiments to better understand groundwater/surface-water interactions, and transient water storage in floodplains.
Jarrett Bowman
Peter Bugoni
Advisor: Jack Brookshire
peterbugoni@gmail.com
Research Area: Renovating Monocultures of Exotic Cool-Season Grass Seedings to Diverse Multifunctional Ecosystems
Helton Pereira Camara
Ph.D. Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Advisor: Pinto and Tim Seipel
Laissa Cavallini
Ph.D. ESEC
Advisor: Pinto and Bob Peterson
Shea Crowther
Advisors: Kevin O'Neill & Anthony Slominski
swbcrowther@gmail.com
Research Area: Investigating The Impact of the Interaction of the Neonicotinoid Pesticide Imidacloprid and Temperature on Post-Winter Alfalfa Leafcutting Bees, Megachile rotundata
Davi de Carvalho Fielder
Ph.D. ESEC
Advisor: Pinto and Tim Seipel
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