Jannike got a position at the Sierra Institute as a Collaborative Forest Management Apprentice.
She will work at the intersection of applied research and capacity-building work to promote resilient forest ecosystems and rural communities.
Our lab is so happy for you!
Teagan just got a summer job to conduct research in interior Alaska with the Buma Lab at the University of Colorado-Denver.
Congrats Teagan!!
https://around.uoregon.edu/content/study-shows-pollen-records-can-measure-ecosystem-health
I’m so excited to announce that we have a new scientist in our lab. Meet Teagan!
Teagan is an undergraduate student of Biochemistry and Spatial Data Science, originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She is an AP Scholar (12 scores of 5/5!!), UO Stamps Scholar (our top undergraduate scholarship at UO!), and UO Presidential Scholar.
Learn more about her here:
Teagan Furbish
Our lab collaborated with DoD, NC State, Harvard Forest, and WalkWest to create videos about Fort Bragg. Each one is about 4 min in length and they are great for kids and adults alike!
DOD Case Study - Video One - Fort Bragg Ecosystem
DOD Case Study - Video Two- Fort Bragg's Red-cockaded Woodpecker
DOD Case Study - Video Three - The Value of Fire on Fort Bragg
DOD Case Study - Video Four - Fort Bragg's Ecosystem Forecast
Peer-reviewed paper here in IJGIS:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13658816.2020.1830997?journalCode=tgis20
News piece here:https://news.psu.edu/story/638750/2020/11/11/research/virtual-reality-forests-could-help-understanding-climate-change
Check out this story map about wildfire and climate change in Interior Alaska- created by my amazing Honor's student at PSU, Jannike Allen. We'll miss having you in our lab.
Our research lab is moving to the University of Oregon on 9.16.2020. Melissa, Shelby and Tom are really excited to join the Geography Department at UO!
An exciting new NSF project is starting in January 2021 to study the role of past forest management and natural disturbances in constraining or promoting future conservation, harvest, and carbon-market activities.
The project will quantify carbon stocks at a high spatial resolution across the Alaskan and Canadian coast, one of the most carbon dense forests in the world. Working with professionals and academics in the United States and Canada, the student will build spatial models from pre-existing data using machine learning methods. They will also quantify spatial patterns of natural and anthropogenic disturbances.
The PhD student at PUS will work closely with a PhD at University of Colorado-Denver to build maps of current carbon stocks and disturbance patterns and then utilize the LANDIS-II landscape model to calibrate and run scenarios for future carbon storage on the landscape under various conservation, climate and management scenarios into the future. This will be the first high resolution carbon mapping and modeling of this globally significant region. Finally, the student will have the opportunity to work closely with a private carbon-accounting firm that specializes in carbon markets and carbon valuation (e.g. selling credits through the California Carbon Exchange) to estimate actual and potential values.
Potential students interested in forest ecology, biogeography, R/python programming, geospatial analysis, and carbon markets are welcome to apply. The project pays $22,000/year +tuition and health benefits and is located at Portland State University.
The successful candidate will join our strong research group led by Drs. Brian Buma (CU), Melissa Lucash (PSU), and Rob Scheller (NC State) and senior personnel Drs. David D’Amore (US Forest Service; Juneau Alaska), Caren Dymond (Senior Research Scientist, BC Gov.), Sari Saunders (Research Head, Coastal Region of BC), Allison Bidlack (Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center), and Brian Kleinhenz (VP of Operations, TerraVerde, AK and WA).
Preferred qualifications:
· M.S. in Ecology, Forestry, Geography or associated fields
· Programming ability in R and/or ArcMap
· Excellent writing skills
· Ability to work closely with remote partners, including frequent phone calls and personal visits.
Please submit a cover letter, CV, and list of three references to Dr. Melissa Lucash by email (lucash@pdx.edu) with the subject line “PhD student application- SE Alaska.”