PhD GRADUATES
Amelia Meier, Ph.D '21

Chase Nuñez, Ph.D '19
Cooper Rosin, Ph.D '17

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Sally Koerner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UNC-Greensboro
Chris Beirne, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia
Beth Stein, Ph.D., DigitalGlobe
Vincent Medjibe, Ph.D., Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux
Zewei Miao, Ph.D., Data Analyst, Monsanto

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MASTERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
 

• Israel Golden ‘22 | Quantifying Land Cover Change to Inform Carbon Offset Projects in Madagascar

• Claudia Meca van der Berg MEM ‘21 | Analyzing landscape connectivity for Felidae in Oaxaca given current and potential community land use trends

• Annika Socha, Ben Newman, Jack Alcorn Katie Krejsa, B MEM ’21 | Informing REDD+ Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) Project Development in the SAVA Region, Madagascar

• Hannah Royal, MEM ’20 | Management of an imperiled reptile on a barrier island: Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)

• Kelly Joyner, MEM ’20 | Management of an imperiled reptile on a barrier island: Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)

• Rupinder Bakshi, MEM ’20 | Investigating human-carnivore conflict dynamics and compensation payment processes in a landscape of coexistence

• Kaitlin Saxton, MEM ’20 | Comparison of methods for surveying white-tailed deer in the Duke Forest

• Seokmin Kim, MEM '19 | Can Movement Speed Predict Habitat Preference? Assessing the Influence of Topography, Village Proximity, and Land Cover on Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) Movement and Preferences in Gabon.

• Sky Bischoff-Mattson, MEM '19 | Habitat preference and use by the Cougar (Puma concolor) 

• Ying Wei Jong, MEM '19 | Carbon stocks in northeastern Gabon and policy implications for rubber tree concessions

• James MacCarthy, MEM '18 | Effects of Hunting and Human Disturbance on Wildlife near Villages in Northeastern Gabon

• Emily Mills, MEM '17 | Forest Elephant Movements and Habitat Use in a Tropical Forest-Savanna Mosaic in Gabon

• Alexis Kovach, MEM '17 | Effects of National Development and Conservation Strategies on Rural Livelihoods Around Makokou, Gabon

• Nina Hamilton, MEM '17 | Local community values and perceptions of natural resource management in northeast Gabon

• Sarah Moore, MEM '16 | Planning for Palm Oil:  Are We Saving Wildlife by Saving Carbon?

• Trisha Gopalakrishna, MEM '16 | Constituents and drivers of composition, diversity, and structure of a Congolese forest 

• Emily Blanchard, MEM '15 | The Effects of Hunting on a Forest Animal Community in Gabon

• Ian Markham, MEM '15 | Of Mice and Men in Gabon: Changes in Rodent Communities Associated with Logging and Hunting

• Mark Burton, MEM '14 | Assessing aboveground carbon stocks and forest structure metrics in the Mouila Oil Palm Concession Lot 2, Gabon

• Arianne Messerman, MEM '14 | Use of nestboxes by the Hellbender salamander in western North Carolina

• Ben Carlson, MEM '13 | Gabon's overlooked carbon: A tropical forest study of coarse woody debris