Graduate Student Spotlights

Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Leonardo Ziccardi

Published January 26, 2022

Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Tara Allohverdi

Published on March 29, 2024
Tara, Ph.D candidate, shares how her varying internships during undergrad led to her to a research focus on natural resource economics and the life cycle analysis of forest products.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Ichchha Thapa

Published on March 28, 2024
Ichchha, an international student from Nepal, shares how her passion for forestry led her to pursue a Ph.D. with a research focus on mass timber demand and supply in the lake states.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Mitchell Calvin

Published on February 5, 2024
Mitchell Calvin seeks his masters focused in finding genetic variations in American beech trees that contribute to resistance against beech bark disease.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Leonardo Ziccardi

Published on January 26, 2022
Leonardo Ziccardi, PhD Candidate, studies the functions of tropical forest ecosystems, backed by extensive practice in leaf and whole-plant scale ecology, in order to understand how humans can respond, protect, and mitigate effects of climate change.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Georgios Arseniou

Published on May 5, 2021
Georgios Arseniou, Ph.D. candidate, focuses on understanding the structure and function of urban forests which provide various socioeconomic and ecological services to human societies.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Shivan Gc

Published on March 10, 2021
Shivan Gc, Ph.D. Candidate, is interested is the economics and decision making processes of natural resource management using economic models and social theories.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Catherine Henry

Published on January 26, 2021
Catherine Henry, PhD Candidate, researches regeneration of northern hardwood forests in Michigan
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Chad Papa

Published on December 11, 2020
Ph.D. Candidate, Chad Papa, studies savanna-forest transitions in West Africa and greenhouse gas emissions in the US forestry sector
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Leo Pham

Published on September 2, 2020
Leo Pham brings together the fields of ecology and hydrology.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Clarice Esch

Published on April 1, 2020
Clarice Esch, PhD candidate works with soils in both Michigan and Hawai'i.
Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Antoinette Shirley

Published on February 29, 2020
Graduate Student Antoinette Shirley shares her experience working with wildlife and habitat in the Navajo Nation and her interests in Indigenous forestry.