Graduate Student Research Topics
Current Students
Imil Ferrara
Thesis: A Political Ecology of Northwest California Land Communities
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Leanne Lynch
Thesis: Access to Recreational Open Space in Patterson, CA: A Geospatial Analysis Utilizing Geographic Information Systems
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Lori Biondini
Thesis: Fisheries Management in Hoopa
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Dawn Albrecht
Thesis: From Vulnerability to Resilience - Emergency Planning for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Humboldt County, California
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Rebecca Cashero
Thesis: Resilience, Place, and Collaborative Organization: A Political Ecology of Distributed Woody Biomass Energy Development in Rural California Communities
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Kagat McQuillan
Thesis: Yurok Food Resources from the Redwood Experimental Forest (REF) with an emphasis on Vaccinium parvifolium
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Jordan Adair
Thesis: A comparison of Unmanned Aerial Systems and traditional Remove Sensing Methods to Monitor Vegetation Responses to Dam Releases into Rush Creek on Mono
Advisor: Jim Graham, Ph.D.
Melissa Kobetsky
Thesis: Analysis of Sediment Deposition and Erosion Dynamics in Response to Channel Reconstruction in Salt River
Advisor: Jim Graham, Ph.D.
Ethan Luckens
Thesis: Calculating the Channel Forming Flow of Hall Creek, Humboldt County, California with Flow Modeling Software and LiDAR data
Advisor: Jim Graham, Ph.D.
Aaron Taveras
Thesis: Evaluating the performance and preference for 2D and 3D maps for tsunami evacuation
Advisor: Jim Graham, Ph.D.
Portia Saucedo
Thesis: Habitat Suitability Modeling for Canary Rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) along the Northern California Coast
Advisor: Jim Graham, Ph.D.
Melissa Kimble
Thesis: Mapping Uncertainty for Habitat Suitability Models of North American Tree Species
Advisor: Jim Graham, Ph.D.
Jasmine Shen
Thesis: Pulse flow releases and inundation of marginal habitat: responses of drift and benthic macroinvertebrate forage concentration downstream of Lewiston Dam on the Trinity River, CA
Advisor: Alison O’Dowd, Ph.D.
Jessica Coming
Thesis: Salmonid occupation and benthic macroinvertebrate communities of Klamath River tributaries downstream of Iron Gate Dam prior to dam removal
Advisor: Alison O’Dowd, Ph.D.
Graduated
2020
Katrina Nystrom
Thesis: Quantifying Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenous tridentus) ammocoete habitat availability and risk associated with the summer hydrograph recession limb in Coastal Northern California
Advisor: Alison O’Dowd, Ph.D.
2019
2018
Lara Jansen
Thesis: Ecological implications of dam flow diversions on the Upper Eel River
Advisor: Alison O’Dowd, Ph.D.
Monique Silva Crossman
Thesis: Effects of manual and mechanical Ammophila arenaria removal techniques on coastal dune plant communities and morphology
Advisor: Alison O’Dowd, Ph.D.
2017
Emily Cooper
Thesis: An estimation of potential salmonid habitat capacity in the upper mainstem Eel River, California
Advisor: Alison O’Dowd, Ph.D.
2016
Claudia Voigt
Thesis: Measuring Recreation Use Impacts on Old-Growth Redwoods
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
2015
Rebekah Rafferty
Thesis: Rancher Adaptations to Wolf Depredation in Western Montana
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Jessica Blackwell
Thesis: Does personal information and communication technology in the wilderness lead to more risk-taking in wilderness?
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
2014
Dawn Walker
Thesis: Feeding our Families: A Process of Reconnecting with Food, the Earth, and Each Other
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Daniel White
Thesis: Recreational Visitor Use of the Headwaters Forest Reserve
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
Kelsey McDonald
Thesis: Tidal Seed Dispersal Potential of Spartina densiflora in Humboldt Bay (Humboldt County, California)
Advisor: Alison O’Dowd, Ph.D.
2013
Rebekah Dickens
Thesis: Ecological and social considerations in tropical forest conservation: a case study in Ecuador
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
2012
Alyssa Hosbach
Thesis: Managing land for resilience: a comparative analysis of conservation planning and holistic management
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Michelle Fuller
Thesis: Herding Cats: Grassroots and centralized organizing in the case of California's Fire safe Councils
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
2011
Mark Douglas
Thesis: Yosemite Wilderness Visitor Travel Patterns -- Implications for Trailhead Permit Quotas
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
Nicolas Ramirez
Thesis: Modeling Ecotoxicological Stressors Using GIS
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
2010
Kristen Pope
Thesis: Visitor Perceptions of Wilderness Rescue
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
Dan Shyrock
Thesis: Ecological Conditions and Monitoring Standards for Meadows in the John Muir and Ansel Adams Wilderness Areas, CA.
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
2009
Lenya Quinn Davidson
Thesis: Prescribed fire: Influences on community support and Management activities in Northern California
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Cybelle Immitt
Thesis: The potential of community action plans to promote economic revitalization through rural county planning
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Abbey Stockwell
Thesis: Analysis of barriers to low impact development in the North Coast Redwood Region, California
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Brian R. Davenhall
Thesis: Spatial Interpolation: A simulated analysis of the effects of sampling strategy on interpolation method
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
2008
Lisa Spadoni
Thesis: The effectiveness of land use planning on the preservation of open space in five rural, high amenity communities in the Rocky Mountains
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Max Korten
Thesis: Developing Quantitative Indicators and Standards for Solitude on the Lost Coast Trail
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
Whelan Gilkerson
Thesis: A spatial model of eelgrass (Zostera marina) habitat in Humboldt Bay, California
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
2007
Ben Letton
Thesis: Hazardous fuel mapping and thematic accuracy assessment in the wildland urban interface
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
John Letton
Thesis: Community Based Hazardous Fuel Mapping and Accuracy Assessment
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Zach Jarrett
Thesis: Expectancy-Disconfirmation Theory and Recreation Visitor Satisfaction
Advisor: Steven R. Martin, Ph.D.
2006
Chaeli Judd
Thesis: Mapping Aquatic Vegetation: Using Bathymetric & Hyperspectral Imagery to Classify Submerged Eelgrass in Humboldt Bay, California
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
Jennifer Taylor
Thesis: Effectiveness of Hands-On Learning in a Children's Interpretive Program
Advisor: Carolyn J. Ward, Ph.D.
2005
Brook R. Edwards
Thesis: Historical assessment of the ecological condition and channel dynamics of the lower Mokelumne River : 1910-2001
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
Matthew Perry
Thesis: Design and Evaluation of a Web Mapping Service for the Klamath River Basin
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
2004
Jolie Lonner
Thesis: Determining the Sustainable Harvest of Oregon Grape (Berberis nervosa)
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Patty Clifford
Thesis: Integrating logistic regression and GIS to predict the distribution of Petasites frigidus in the Klamath Mountain subregion, C
Advisor: Yvonne Everett, Ph.D.
Jeff Marsolais
Thesis: Visitor Perceptions of Management Actions Across the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
2003
William D. Ritts
Thesis: A quantitative risk assessment of Port Orford cedar root disease in the Smith River National Recreation Area.
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP
2000
Michael D. Hass
Thesis: A Klamath River fisheries restoration webGIS
Advisor: Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP