Graduate Student Committees

Current UA-Fayetteville Graduate Student Committees
Matthew Butler.  MS in wildlife under Dr. Phil Tappe.  Matt is working on the habitat selection of red cockaded woodpeckers in SE Arkansas.

Carolyn Lewis.  PhD in systematics and ecology under Dr. Jim Whitfield. Carolyn is studying parasitic hymenoptera trapped at the Pitman Island bottomland hardwood study site and other harvested sites in the Ouachita National Forest.

Michele Renschin.  MS in forest ecology under Dr. Lynne Thompson.  She is working a litter decomposition project for Dr. Hal Leichty that includes an insect component.

Valerie Sawyer, MS in forest ecology under Dr. Hal Liechty.  She is studying nutrient cycling on uneven-age treatments of mixed shortleaf-hardwood stands on the Ouachita National Forest.

Sherah VanLaerhoven.  PhD in forest entomology under Dr. Fred Stephen. Sherah is studying the ecology of parasites attacking Dendroctonus bark beetles.

Hui Zhang.  MS in forest ecology under Dr. Yanfei Guo.  She is working on the influence of light on tree seedlings.

Minhua Zhang,  MS in forest ecology under Dr. Yanfei Guo.  He is studying snags and downed wood in the RR. Reynolds Research Area on the Crossett Experimental Forest.