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Postdoctoral Researchers
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Graduate Students
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Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Former Lab Members
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Lisa Patrick (visiting PhD student, 2007; post-doc joint with Texas Tech, spring-summer 2008; now a post-doc in Brian Enquist's lab at the University of Arizona)
Research associates/assistants:
Undergraduates assistants:
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Jacob Arvizu (undergraduate research assistant and intern, summer 2007-spring 2008)
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Corbin Haugen (undergraduate research assistant, spring 2008-fall 2008)
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Cassie Hurley (undergraduate research assistant, spring 2007)
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Patrick Juancorena (undergraduate research assistant, fall 2007-spring 2008)
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Jessica Strickert (undergraduate research assistant, fall 2007)
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Nikalous Tolman (undergraduate research assistant, fall 2008-spring 2009)
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| Brief Profiles of Current Lab Members |
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Kiona Ogle. I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Botany (75%) and Statistics (25%). My research and teaching employs an integrative approach that merges mathematics, statistics, and ecology, with the aim of understanding and predicting how plants, plant communities, and ecosystems are (or will be) affected by environmental perturbations such as those associated with climate change. For more information, see my CV or contact me by email at 'kogle [AT] uwyo [DOT] edu'
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Jessie Cable. Jessie is an NSf Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow, and she is currently living in Fairbanks, AK. Jessie's primary host institution is the University of Alaska, Anchorage (sponsor = Jeff Welker), and her seconday host institute is the University of Wyoming (sponsor = Kiona Ogle). She is interested in the interaction between climate variability and ecosystem function, and her PhD research focused on the effects of altered precipitation patterns on belowground carbon and water fluxes in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. Jessie's fellowship research is exploring how climate-mediated biogeochemical shifts affect the link between plant and soil communities in artic systems. For more information, you can contact Jessie by email at 'jcable [AT] iarc [DOT] uaf [DOT] edu'
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Karla Sartor. Karla is a part-time research associate in the Ogle Lab; she is developing and compiling a database of physiological and structural traits for 300+ tree species that occur in the U.S. She is mining the literature for the data and building a relational database. Karla received an M.S. in Land Resources & Environment Sciences from Montana State University in 2005; she studied belowground competition and response to defoliation of Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed). Karla also works part-time in Dr. Missy Holbrook's and Dr. Anne Pringle's labs at Harvard University. For more information, you can contact her by email at 'ksartor [AT] gmail [DOT] com]
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Kimberly Garvie. Kimberly is finishing her Masters in Botany and is living in Logan, UT while putting the final touches on her thesis. Kimberly evaluating trade-offs between labile carbon storage and morphological traits of six different Rocky Mountain conifers that differ greatly in their leaf life spans. Kimberly also received an M.S. in Economics from the University of Wyoming in 2006. For more information, you can contact her by email at 'kgarvie [AT] uwyo [DOT] edu'
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Rich Lucas. Rich is a postdoctoral research associate in the Ogle Lab. Rich's scientific interests are focused on understanding how anthropogenic influences and global climate change effect communities and ecosystem processes involved with nitrogen and carbon cycling and storage. He takes a quantitative approach, combining theory and modeling with field research to gain a mechanistic understanding of the processes that regulate plant, community, and ecosystem dynamics. In the Ogle lab, Rich is working on the project related to " Carbon and water dynamics in deserts of the Southwest." For more information, you can see Rich's CV or contact him via email at 'rlucas3 [AT] uwyo [DOT] edu'
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Colin Tucker. Colin is a PhD student in the Program in Ecology (PiE) and the Department of Botany, advised by Kiona Ogle. Through his dissertation research, Colin is exploring how vegetation and climate interact to control wintertime soil biological processes. In particular, he is focusing on the effect of snowpack and vegetation on winter microbial carbon cycling and early growing season root-microbe interactions. More broadly, Colin is interested in applying both quantitative and field methods to address questions of how regional and global change influence community and ecosystem processes. For more information, you can visit Colin's web page.
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Sharmila Pathikonda. Sharmila's broad research interests are focused on exploring the consequences of biotic and abiotic stressors on the physiology, ecology and evolution of plants. Climate change threatens plant communities worldwide, and how plants respond to this will to a large extent determine the persistence of global ecosystems. During her doctoral research, Sharmila studied the combined impacts of salinity, invasive species and disturbance on a wetland plant species. In the Ogle lab, she is implementing hierarchical Bayesian methods to tease out the evolutionary and ecological impacts/constraints on the evolution and diversity of plant traits. For more information, you can visit Sharmila's web page.
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Mike Fell. Mike is a PhD student in the Program in Ecology and the Department of Botany, and is a member of the Ogle Lab. In the Ogle Lab, Mike will be working on compiling data from the literature for 300+ tree species that occur in the U.S. In the past, Mike worked on prairie restoration and plant competition at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He also worked with endangered fish on the lower Colorado River at Marsh & Associates. Mike's scientific interests include trying to better understand how plant communities function and develop over time and how to quantify these processes. For more information, you can contact Mike via email at 'mfell [AT] uwyo [DOT] edu'.
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