Current

MS students

I’m looking for one new student who is interested in watershed nutrient cycling to work on modeling effects of best management practices on nitrogen and phosphorus export to streams. Please see the info for Prospective Students in the People tab, above.

Past

MS students

Michelle Bahnick (Fall 2018)

Biologist, Leon Environmental, LLC, Seattle, WA

M.S. Thesis: Evaluation of the Stream Function Assessment Methodology (SFAM) in watersheds of the Puget Sound lowlands

Amanda (Mandie) Carr (Spring 2018)

Wildlife Research Biologist, Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, Boise, ID

M.S. Thesis: Long-term propagule pressure overwhelms early community determination of invader success in a serpentine grassland

Bridger Cohan (Spring 2018)

Field Botanist, US Forest Service

M.S. Thesis: Hydrologic and Nutrient Fluxes in a Small Watershed with Changing Agricultural Practices

Drew Monks (Summer 2016)

Research Associate at the Institute for Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University.

M.S. Thesis: Comparing Soil Datasets with the APEX Model: Calibration and Validation for Hydrology and Crop Yield in Whatcom County, Washington

Melissa Habenicht (Fall 2015)

M.S. Thesis: Trajectories of Functional and Species Change During Plant Community Assembly in a California Serpentine Grassland

Samantha Hamlin (MBA Program, internship advisor Su’10-S’11)

PhD program, Portland State University

Colin Wahl (Spring 2012)

Fisheries biologist, Stillaguamish Tribe

M.S. Thesis: Land use, riparian buffers, and biological stream conditions in the Puget lowlands of Washington

Paper: Wahl, Neils, & Hooper (2013) Impacts of land use at the catchment scale constrain the habitat benefits of stream riparian buffers, Freshwater Biology 58:2310-2324. DOI:10.1111/fwb.12211

Daniel Slakey (graduated F ’10)

Plant ecologist, California Native Plant Society

M.S. Thesis: The relationship between native richness and exotic success depends on the index of exotic success and environmental gradients

Chandra Llewellyn (co-advised, graduated F ’10)

Traveling research technician and instructor for Outward Bound and NOLS

M.S. Thesis: Predicting cyanobacteria blooms in 50 lakes of Northwest Washington

Matt Certo (graduated W ’09)

M.S. Thesis: Spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen, phosphorus, and periphyton in the Cedar River watershed, Washington

Sarah Harper-Smith (graduated S ‘08)

High school biology teacher, Iowa

M.S. Thesis: Modeling relative effects of riparian cover and groundwater inflow on stream temperature in lowland Whatcom County, Washington

Allison Neils (graduated F ‘07)

Biology teacher, Shuksan Middle School, Bellingham, WA

M.S. Thesis: Relationships between land use and biological conditions in lowland streams of western Washington

Paper: Wahl, Neils, & Hooper (2013) Impacts of land use at the catchment scale constrain the habitat benefits of stream riparian buffers, Freshwater Biology 58:2310-2324. DOI:10.1111/fwb.12211

Leslie (Gonzalez) Fuchs (graduated W ’07)

High school biology teacher, New York

M.S. Thesis: Plant species and functional diversity across gradients of resource availability and grazing in a California serpentine grassland

Cara Leverett (graduated S ‘03)

Staff Scientist, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Salem, Arkansas

M.S. Thesis: The effects of reed canarygrass on riparian nutrient dynamics

Leslie Allen (graduated S ‘02)

Environmental consultant, Oakland, CA

M.S. Thesis: Pools and soil fluxes of carbon in marshes of Padilla Bay