Current Graduate Students

Advisor: Rob Payn
abayeabebe@gmail.com

Research Area: Hydrological analysis and modeling in an Earth System Modeling framework.

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. 

Advisor: Dr. Anish Sapkota

 safal.adhikari@student.montana.edu

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Advisor: Sigler

hezekiahabiola@gmail.com

Research Area:  Role of pesticide leaching in groundwater contamination

Advisor: Geoffrey Poole
byron.amerson@gmail.com

Research Area: A multi-scale evaluation of the rate and magnitude of water exchange between surface flow and the alluvial aquifer in restored and unrestored river channels

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

Advisor: Jane Mangold

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Advisor: Bruce Maxwell
tmbass@montana.edu

Research Area: Considerations of ecological and social interactions in food system development, scale, diversity, management, and vulnerability

Advisor: Fabian Menalled

laura.berriosortiz@student.montana.edu

Research Area: Weed agroecology and management

Advisor: Rob Payn
albobst@hotmail.com 

Research Area: Using Beaver Mimicry Stream Restoration as manipulative experiments to better understand groundwater/surface-water interactions, and transient water storage in floodplains.

Advisors: Tim McDermott & Anne Camper
kbrame3@gmail.com

Research Area: Freshwater quality on the Little Bighorn River involving microbial pathogens, their mode of transport through a freshwater system and their anticipated impacts on water quality due to climate change projections.

Advisor: Jack Brookshire
peterbugoni@gmail.com

Research Area: Renovating Monocultures of Exotic Cool-Season Grass Seedings to Diverse Multifunctional Ecosystems

Advisor: Stephanie Ewing

madisan.chavez@student.montana.edu 

Research Area: Researching abandoned waste disposal sites on the Crow reservation to determine if PFAS leach into the ground water and/or surface water.

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

Advisor: Anna Schweiger

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Advisors: Tim Seipel & Lovreet Shergill

devanshi.desai@student.montana.edu 

Research Area: Weed management with precision herbicide application

Advisor: Scott Powell
mfarina@whrc.org 

Research Area:  Assessing spatial and temporal variability in Arctic-boreal carbon fluxes using satellite and drone remote sensing. 

Advisors: Tony Hartshorn & Bill Kleindl 

eliza.gillilan@student.montana.edu

Research Area: Evaluating the success of beaver mimicry restoration 

Advisor: Adam Sigler

raeya.gordon@montana.edu

Research Area: Quantifying deep percolation and soil water storage on irrigated fields

Advisors: Scott Powell & Paul Nugent

brett.griesbaum@montana.edu

Research Area: My research focuses on Precision Agriculture in irrigation decision support and tracking biomass using remote sensing from both satellite and drone data. I also research potential for precision conservation in Montana cropping systems using satellite data.

Preferred Name: Shira Ikram

Advisors: Tony Hartshorn & Kent McVey

mustabshira.ikram@student.montana.edu 

Research Area: Cover Crops impact on soil and yield biomass in dryland wheat-fallow systems.

Advisors: David Weaver & Perry Miller

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Advisor: Adam Sigler

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Advisor: Perry Miller
samuel.koeshall@student.montana.edu   

Research Area:  Investigating intra-field variability of field pea protein and greain yeild across Montana cropping systems, quantifying N credits and soil fertility following long-term legume and non-legume crop rotations in semi-arid cropping systems, and other Montana cropping systems research related to pulse crop problems. 

Advisor: Stephanie Ewing

carl.krause@student.montana.edu

Research Area: Fate and transport of pesticides and other solutes

Advisor: Tim Covino

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Advisor: Fabian Menalled

emma.kubinski@student.montana.edu

Research Area: Carrots as a Model for Holistically Increasing Sustainability of Vegetable Production.

Advisors: Lisa Rew & Tim Seipel

christian.larson@montana.edu

Research Area: My research focuses on restoring Montana rangelands that have been impacted by plant invasions. This broad goal can be separated into three separate projects that address different threats to Montana rangelands.

Advisor: Fabian Menalled & Mac Burgess

sophia.lattes@student.montana.edu 

Research Area: Integrated weed management for Montana organic vegetable farms.

Advisor: Geoff Poole
hayley.oakland@gmail.com 

Research Area:  Ecosystem engineering by net-spinning caddisflies and associated effects on microbial communities, stream metabolism and nutrient cycling

Advisor: Bob Peterson

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Advisor: Andrew Felton

Kristen.powell@student.montana.edu

Research Area: Seasonal origins of precipitation used by plants across grasslands

Advisor: Paul Nugent

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Advisor: Bob Peterson

jackson.strand@student.montana.edu

Research Area: Biological control of invasive toadflax (Linaria spp.) in Montana and South Dakota, focusing on the ecology and effectiveness of curculionid biocontrol agents (Mecinus and Rhinusa spp.)

Advisor: Stephanie Ewing

tate30@purdue.edu

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Advisor: Lisa Rew

Erin.teichroew@student.montana.edu

Research Area: Evaluating different management treatments for reducing Bromus tectorum cover and reestablishing native grass species

Advisor: Andrew Felton

William.weinberg@student.montana.edu

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Advisors: Stephanie Ewing & Christine Foreman
madie.willis@gmail.com  

Research Area: Microbial analysis of the Taylor Glacier ice core: investigating the presence and possible impacts of englacial microbial activity through time

Advisor: Andrew Felton

rennie.winkelman@student.montana.edu 

Research Area: Ecological responses to bison reintroduction on the Northern Great Plains 

Advisor: Bob Peterson

bob.wyatt@comcast.net

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Advisor: Anna Schweiger

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