Graduate Students and Visiting Scientists

Current Graduate Students

Sarah Malone

Ryan Gross

Past Graduate Students

Molly Rooney (2017) M.S. Thesis: An evaluation of historical fire occurrence, drought, and the El Niño southern oscillation in the greater Cross Timbers region, U.S.A.

Mary Short (2017) M.S. Thesis: Effects of fire and thinning on Kansas oak woodlands.

Connor Crouch (2019) M.S. Thesis: Site preparation for longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites : stand development and ground flora responses 15 years after planting.

Samantha Anderson (2017) M.S. Thesis: Effects of stand density on mitigation and adaptability to climate change in pine and hardwood forests of Missouri.

Lance Vickers (2015) PhD Dissertation: Modeling regeneration and early stand dynamics of Missouri Ozark forests.

Carter Kinkead (2013) MS Thesis: Thinning and burning in oak woodlands.

Joseph Marschall (2013) MS Thesis: Red oak timber product value loss due to fire damage.

Chad King (2013) PhD Dissertation: A multi-century analysis of disturbance dynamics in pine-oak forests of the Missouri Ozark Highlands.

Lyndia Hammer (2012) MS Thesis: Juniper expansion in a prairie-forest transition region.

Adam Bale (2009) MS Thesis: Fire effects and litter accumulation dynamics in a montane longleaf pine ecosystem.

Michael Stambaugh (2008) PhD Dissertation: Fire risk assessment of the western portion of the Central Hardwoods forest region.

Aaron Stevenson (2007) MS Thesis: Effects of prescribed burning in Missouri Ozark upland forests.

Thomas Faust (2006) PhD Dissertation: Woody species and forest structure in northern Missouri riparian forests with different ages and watershed sizes.

Steve Voelker (2004) MS Thesis: Causes of forest decline and consequences for oak-pine stand dynamics in southeastern Missouri.

Michael Stambaugh (2001) MS Thesis: Forest canopy gap dynamics in shortleaf pine forests of the Ozark Highlands.

Sean Jenkins (1997) PhD Dissertation: Spatial demography of trees in an oak savanna and adjacent dry chert woodland in the Missouri Ozarks.

Visiting Scientists

Justin Dee

Haibo Du

Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate student employees play a vital role in all of the work that is done at CTRS. Students assist us in every aspect of our research process, including field work, sample preparation, tree ring measuring, and chronology building. Over the years, many of our undergraduate workers have taken what they learned working in the tree-ring lab and pursued graduate school and careers in dendrochronology. We encourage any undergraduate student interested in working in our lab and getting hands-on experience with dendrochronology to reach out to us at treerings@missouri.edu.

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