CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

Yari Johnson Statistical and Process Modeling of Hydrology of Natural and Restored Wetland Forests






PAST GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

Ashley Steele Analysis of the North Carolina Wetland Assessment Method (NCWAM) Using Quantitative Metrics	Amanda Johnson Headwater Stream Mapping Accuracy in Western North Carolina
Ryan Unks Environmental Controls of Establishment and Early Growth of the Endangered Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae) (Pondberry)	Joseph Sullivan Mowing in Lieu of Burning in Urban Prairie Restoration
Kim Hamlin Durability of Restored Streams	Patrick Chess Recovery of Native Flora Following Removal of Exotic Shrubs
Megan Malone Susceptibility of Restored Streams to Exotic Species Invasion	Kim Schumate Serving the Common Interest in Urban Parks: A Case Study from North Carolina Museum of Art Park
Joelle Laing How Management Strategies Have Affected Atlantic White-Cedar Forest Recovery After Massive Wind Damage in the Great Dismal Swamp	Yari Johnson Restoration of Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Forests in North Carolina's Coastal Plain
Matt O'Driscoll Exotic plant species invasions in an urban historic park	Nell Allen Restoration of Piedmont Prairies
Dave O'Loughlin Success criteria for restored wetlands	Sonia Weeks Factors limiting growth of Astragalus michauxii (Sandhills milk-vetch)
Rebecca Vidra Implications of Exotic Species Invasion for Restoration of Urban Riparian Forests	Duncan Quinn Evaluation of the restoration of a montane stream and bog complex in western North Carolina
Tracy Morris Tree composition along edaphic and hydrologic gradients in nonriverine wet hardwood forests in Eastern North Carolina	Melissa Ruiz A Characterization of Vegetation and Soils along Restored Streams in the North Carolina Piedmont
Julie Gibson Effectiveness of Bioretention Cells in Improving Piedmont Water Quality	Jamie Halperin Forest restoration planning in the West Usambara mountains of Tanzania
Amy Frame Analysis of a Piedmont Longleaf Pine Community in Wake County, North Carolina	Panteleo Munishi Characterizations of montane rainforests of northern Tanzania
Elizabeth Scherrer Using microtopography to restore wetlands in eastern North Carolina	Clay Ware Restoration of Atlantic white-cedar forests by silvicultural manipulation
Julie Fontaine Development of Redoximorphic Features in the Soil of a Created Coastal Plain Small Stream Swamp	John Rapp Soil, groundwater, and floristics of a southeastern U.S. blackwater swamp eight years after clearcutting with helicopter and skidder forwarding
Casey Bianco Generation of optimal transportation corridor paths using GIS weighted distance functions and a cost model based on NC-CREWS (under the direction of Dr. Joseph Roise)	Jane Almon Plant Community Distribution Across Soil, Water, and Nutrient Gradients in a Southern Appalachian Bog: A Pre-Restoration Study
Jens Geratz Forested Wetland Creation: Guidelines for Success Following a Natural Systems Approach	Kevin Gainey Determination of possible wetland mitigation sites using NC-CREWS and an integer linear programming formulation (under the direction of Dr. Joseph Roise)
Kevyn Wightman Improved Nursery Production and Seedling Establishment Techniques for Five Native Tree Species in the Atlantic Lowlands of Costa Rica	Dwight McKinney Effects of Created Microtopography and Hydrologic Regime on Plant Community Development in Forested Wetlands Restored on Agricultural Fields
Kelly Beissel Comparison of Vegetational, Edaphic, and Hydrologic Characteristics of Riverine Forested Wetlands of the North Carolina Coastal Plain	Ellen Stone (Civil Engineering) Quantification of Surface Hydrology Effects for Eastern North Carolina Forested Wetlands (under the direction of H. Rooney Malcom, Civil Engineering)
	Miguel Cifuentes A comparison of light regimes under human-made multi-species tropical ecosystems, and their effects on plant growth
Mary Margaret McKinney Effects of Clearcutting and Selective Harvesting on Hardwood Forest Understories	James Mitchell Analysis of the Urban Forest Dynamics of Cary, North Carolina
Brian Bledsoe Vegetation Along Hydrologic and Edaphic Gradients in a North Carolina Coastal Plain Creek Bottom	Mike Rodriguez Effects of Inoculation of Degraded Soils with Undisturbed Soil on Tree Seedling Growth and Soil Microbial Properties
Tom Lent An Evaluation of Two Regeneration Methods in Restoring the Structure, Composition, and Wildlife Value of a Mature Bottomland Hardwood Forest	Kevin Nunnery Assessment of Sediment Accumulation in Restored Bottomland Hardwood Forest Stands Using Cesium-137 as a Tracer
Shawn Fraver Edge Effects in the Mixed Hardwood Forests of the Roanoke River Basin, North Carolina