Current Graduate Students
Abaye Abebe
Advisor: Rob Payn
abayeabebe@gmail.com
Research Area: Hydrological analysis and modeling in an Earth System Modeling framework.
Byron Amerson
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
Sydney Atencio
Advisors: Perry Miller & Mary Burrows
sydney.atencio@student.montana.edu
sydatencio@yahoo.com
Research Area: Characterizing the plant pathogen Fusarium causing disease in lentils, and how it affects soil quality.
Thomas "Tommy" Bass
Advisor: Bruce Maxwell
tmbass@montana.edu
Research Area: Considerations of ecological and social interactions in food system development, scale, diversity, management, and vulnerability
Kaleb Baber
Advisor: Clain Jones
kaleb.baber@student.montana.edu
Research Area:
Andrew Bobst
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.
John Bowley
Advisor: Bob Peterson
johnlawrencebowley@gmail.com
Keenan Brame
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.
Peter Bugoni
Advisor: Jane Mangold
peterbugoni@gmail.com
Research Area: Renovating Monocultures of Exotic Cool-Season Grass Seedings to Diverse Multifunctional Ecosystems
Laissa Cavallini dos Santos
Advisors: David Weaver & Bob Peterson
l.cavallinidossantos@montana.edu
Research Area: Suitability for nectar access in Montana crop and wildland flowering species and the contribution to longevity and ovarian dynamics of braconid parasitoids that specialize on the wheat stem sawfly.
Dan Chichinsky
Shea Crowther
Advisors: Kevin O'Neill & Anthony Slominski
swbcrowther@gmail.com
Research Area:
Bryce Currey
Advisor: Jack Brookshire
brycecurrey93@gmail.com
Research Area: Investigating the effects of fire on soil properties and vegetation dynamics in the Missouri River Breaks and Musselshell areas of central Montana.
Het Desai
Matt Deyoe
Advisors: Tony Hartshorn & Bill Kleindl
Matt.deyoe@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Determining benthic invertebrate tropic structure on a superfund restoration site using stable isotopes.
Hannah Duff
Advisor: Bruce Maxwell
hannahduff8@gmail.com
Research Area: The effects of habitat heterogeneity on crop yield and biodiversity in small grain production systems in the Northern Great Plains. Her work uses profit mapping to identify low-producing areas that can be taken out of production to save producers time and money and create wildlife habitat in agricultural landscapes. Quantifying the economic and ecological effects of midfield islets (refugia) will determine if they provide benefits such as enhanced biodiversity, ecosystem services and farm productivity in our agroecosystems.
Lochlin Ermatinger
Mary Farina
Advisor: Scott Powell
mfarina@whrc.org
Research Area: Assessing spatial and temporal variability in Arctic-boreal carbon fluxes using satellite and drone remote sensing.
Zachariah Fighter
Advisors: Jane Mangold & Scott Powell
zachfighter@gmail.com
Research Area:
S. Katie Fogg
Advisor: Geoffrey Poole
s.katie.fogg@gmail.com
Research Area: Simulating hyporheic influences on stream channel temperature
Simon Fordyce
Advisors: Clain Jones & Pat Carr
simon.fordyce@montana.edu
Research Area: Predicting overwinter nitrate-N changes at the subfield scale in leaching-susceptible, agricultural soils.
Madison Foster
Advisor: Rob Payn
madisonjfoster@gmail.com
Research Area:
Willa Fouts
Advisor: Cathy Zabinski
willa.fouts@gmail.com
Research Area:
Justin Gay
Advisor: Jack Brookshire
justin.gay802@gmail.com
Research Area: Impacts of Climate Change on Biogeochemical Pathways in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Molly Haviland
Advisor: Tony Hartshorn
molly.lscl@gmail.com
Research Area: Exploring soil biogeochemical effects of compost applications in organic dry-land spring wheat production where livestock integration is implemented.
Paul Hegedus
Advisors: Bruce Maxwell & Stephanie Ewing
paulhegedus@montana.edu
Research Area: Data-intensive agricutlure approaches for optimizing variable rate nitrogen fetilizer based on maximized net-returns and minimized nitrogen fertilizer loss and aims to increase fertilizer use efficiency in conventional small grain dryland agroecosystems.
Kara Hettinger
Advisors: Perry Miller & Tim Seipel
karahettinger11@gmail.com
Research Area:
Skye Keeshin
Samuel Koeshall
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.
Emma Kubinski
R. Sasha Loewen
Advisor: Bruce Maxwell
sashaloewen@gmail.com
Research Area: The use of on farm precision experimentation (OFPE) to improve management practices in organic grain farming.
Katerina Lozano
Advisor: Robert Peterson & Dan Tyers
lozanokaterina6204@gmail.com
Research Area: Determining food resources available for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) at moth aggregation sites.
Ian McRyhew
Advisor: Jane Mangold
Research Area: Grassland restoration and pollinator conservation on Tribal lands degraded by annual invasive grasses.
Jordan Meyer-Morey
Advisor: Lisa Rew
jordan.morey@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Invasive plant management in Yellowstone National Park.
Caitlin Mitchell
Advisor: Stephanie Ewing
caitlin.mitchell@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Investigating the biogeochemical cycle of nutrients through cultivated soils and groundwater-stream systems.
Elizabeth Mohr
Advisor: Geoffrey Poole
elizabethjmohr@gmail.com
Research Area: Simulation and experimental investigation of biogeochemical cycling in flowing water ecosystems.
Colter Mumford
Advisor: Lisa Rew
colter.mumford@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Quantifying the efficacy of management methods to control Bromus tectorum in the Centennial Valley of Southwest Montana
Winifred Nichols
Advisor: Bill Inskeep
winifred.nichols@student.montana.edu
Research Area: TBA
Hayley Oakland
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
Elizabeth Reiva
Evelyn (Sale) Rhodes
Lilly Sencenbaugh
Advisor: Lisa Rew
lilly.sencenbaugh@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Effectiveness of traditional and novel management control strategies of Ventenata dubia and Bromus tectorum
Amanda Shine
Advisors: Scott Powell & Jessica Torrion
amanda.shine@montana.edu
Research Area: Nutrient management and irrigation strategies to optimize resilience, productivity, and profitability in Montana's forage production systems
Meryl Storb
Advisor: Rob Payn
meryl.storb@gmail.com
Research Area: Watershed hydrology stream ecosystem interaction.
Jackson Strand
M.S. Entomology
Advisors: David Weaver & Tracy Sterling
Research Area: Understanding the importance of Smooth Brome in promoting a Braconid parasitoid that targets the Wheat Stem Sawfly.
Henry Stowell
M.S. Land Resources & Environmental Sciences
Morgan Suddreth
M.S. Land Resources & Environmental Sciences
Latrice Tatsey
Advisor: Tony Hartshorn
latrice.tatsey@yahoo.com
Research Area: Bison effects on soil health
Erin Teichroew
Advisor: Lisa Rew
eteichroew15@gmail.com
Research Area:
Madelyne Willis
Advisors: Tracy Sterling & Christine Foreman
madie.willis@gmail.com
Research Area:
Kendall Wojcik
Advisor: Stephanie Ewing
kendall.wojcik@gmail.com
Research Area: How agricultural management interacts with dynamic plant communities to affect soil carbon cycling in semiarid landscapes.
David Wood
Advisor: Scott Powell & Paul Stoy
wood.dja@gmail.com
Research Area: Temporal and geographic trends in ecosystem condition from multiscale assessments of Eastern Montana grasslands and shrub steppe