Hana got her M.S. degree today!

Hana gave her presentation and “passed” with flying colors. Great presentation. Congrats Hana!

Lab party to say goodbye to Wesley

We has a great lab party with food and laughs as we celebrated our two years with Wesley and wished him luck back in Ohio. We’ll miss him!

Lauren, Wesley, Hana, James, Rue doggo, Kelechi (visting from WSU), Kaili, and Melissa

Hana and Wesley graduated!

Both Hana and Wesley attended graduation, given that they’ll be finishing up their M.S. degrees this summer. It was my honor to hood them!

First chapter of James' dissertation has been published!

Congrats James!

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122576

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New lab publication

Colin Mast’s M.S. thesis research was just published in Landscape Ecology

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-024-02041-5

We have a new undergraduate in our lab!

Persephone Brosseau, senior in ENVS, just received a grant from the UO College of Arts and Sciences to conduct undergraduate research in our lab. She’ll be honing her GIS skills and learning how to code in R. Welcome Persephone and Tofu (her kitty).

New lab publication

New paper out in Science of the Total Environment coauthored by Melissa and Hana

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177043

New postdoc position open!

We’re hiring a postdoc for a new project funded by the Joint Fire Sciences to study juniper/pine invasion in the sagebrush steppe. Application is due Tuesday, Oct 29th. Come join our wonderful research group at the University of Oregon!

Apply here: https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/534570/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology-and-landscapes-teel-postdoctoral-scholar

New lab publication

Reese, GC, BR Sturtevant, CC Dymond, KM Quigley, MJ Duveneck, MJ Duveneck, MS Lucash, EJ Gustafson, RM Scheller, MB Russell, and BR Miranda. 2024. Best practices for calibration of forest landscape models using fine-scaled reference information. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Just in. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0085

James is a postdoctoral fellow with the National Parks!

James just received a prestigious fellowship from the National Parks Foundation to work with National Parks in Washington. He’ll remain in our lab at the University of Oregon, but will work closely with NPS and NPF to conserve Northwest forests at risk from emerging threats.

More details here: https://www.nationalparks.org/news-and-updates/updates/npf-supports-six-postdoctoral-fellows-advance-science-research-national-parks