Current Graduate Students
Abaye Abebe
Advisor: Rob Payn
abayeabebe@gmail.com
Research Area: Hydrological analysis and modeling in an Earth System Modeling framework.
Jared Adam
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
Research Area: Role of pesticide leaching in groundwater contamination
Paden Allsup
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
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
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
Laura Berrios-Ortiz
Advisor: Fabian Menalled
laura.berriosortiz@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Weed agroecology and management
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.
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: Jack Brookshire
peterbugoni@gmail.com
Research Area: Renovating Monocultures of Exotic Cool-Season Grass Seedings to Diverse Multifunctional Ecosystems
Madisan Chavez
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.
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
Ceili DeMarais
Devanshi Desai
Advisors: Tim Seipel & Lovreet Shergill
devanshi.desai@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Weed management with precision herbicide application
Elsa Eaves
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.
Cody Garcia
Eliza Gillilan
Advisors: Tony Hartshorn & Bill Kleindl
eliza.gillilan@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Evaluating the success of beaver mimicry restoration
Raeya Gordon
Advisor: Adam Sigler
Research Area: Quantifying deep percolation and soil water storage on irrigated fields
Brett Griesbaum
Advisors: Scott Powell & Paul Nugent
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.
Karolyn Hilquist
Mustabshira Ikram
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.
Dipak Khanal
Nicklas Kiekover
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.
Carl Krause
Advisor: Stephanie Ewing
carl.krause@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Fate and transport of pesticides and other solutes
Lauren Kremer
Emma Kubinski
Advisor: Fabian Menalled
emma.kubinski@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Carrots as a Model for Holistically Increasing Sustainability of Vegetable Production.
Christian Larson
Advisors: Lisa Rew & Tim Seipel
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.
Sophia Lattes
Advisor: Fabian Menalled & Mac Burgess
sophia.lattes@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Integrated weed management for Montana organic vegetable farms.
Amelia Lewis
Halley Mastro
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
Alyssa Piccolomini
Advisor: Bob Peterson
Research Area:
Kristen Powell
Advisor: Andrew Felton
Kristen.powell@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Seasonal origins of precipitation used by plants across grasslands
Pushpa Pandey
Azin Rashed
Ryan Robertson
Jackson Strand
Ph.D. Ecology & Environmental Sciences
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.)
Emma Tate
Ph.D. Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Erin Teichroew
Advisor: Lisa Rew
Erin.teichroew@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Evaluating different management treatments for reducing Bromus tectorum cover and reestablishing native grass species
William Weinberg
Carson Williams
Madelyne Willis
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
Rennie Winkelman
Advisor: Andrew Felton
rennie.winkelman@student.montana.edu
Research Area: Ecological responses to bison reintroduction on the Northern Great Plains
Robert Wyatt
Madelyn Zack