MEET OUR IGC FELLOWS

The Interfaces of Global Change IGEP provides PhD students with a unique intellectual focus and training. Each IGC Fellow gains depth in their specific scientific area of expertise (e.g. biology or engineering), while simultaneously gaining breadth in the multifaceted realm of global change and the science-policy interface.

The IGC Graduate Student Association exists to benefit the IGC community as a whole through student contributions to infrastructural, educational, and social investments and activities.

Prashasti Agarwal

Ph.D. Student

School of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, plant-microbe-soil interactions

Advisor: Drs. Brian Badgley and Jacob Barney

Nicholas Bone

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Trait adaptation, phylogenetic comparative methods, and macroevolutionary dynamics

Advisor: Dr. Josef Uyeda

Kristen Bretz

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Stream ecology, the effects of climate change on aquatic biogeochemistry

Advisor: Dr. Erin Hotchkiss

Sara Cathey

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Community ecology; stream ecology; restoration ecology

Advisor: Dr. Bryan Brown

Ariel Heminger

Ph.D. Student

School of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests: Plant-insect-microbe interactions, chemical ecology, genomics, micro biome, climate change

Advisor: Dr. David Haak

Korin Jones

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Microbial ecology

Advisor: Dr. Lisa Belden

Sam Lane

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, ecophysiology

Advisor: Dr. Kendra Sewall

Zach Martin

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation

Research Interests: Stream habitat management, landscape ecology, reproductive biology of fishes, watershed modeling, spatial modeling

Advisor: Dr. Paul Angermeier

Noah McNeill

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Ornithology, animal behavior, ecology, conservation biology, anthropogenic land use

Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Walters

David Millican

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Avian ecology and conservation, natural and sexual selection, game theory, and breeding ecology

Advisor: Dr. Jeff Walters

Chloe Moore

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Population and community ecology, biogeography, landscape genetics/genomics, traits-based approaches, conservation biology

Advisor: Dr. Meryl Mims

Amir Mortazavigazar

Ph.D. Student

Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences

Research Interests: Public Health, Environmental Health and Policy Making, Decarbonization, Renewable Energy Systems, Artificial Intelligence

Advisor: Dr. Ryan Calder

Joshua Mouser

Ph.D. Student

Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation

Research Interests: Stream ecology, landscape ecology, land-use change

Advisor: Dr. Paul Angermeier

Leah Novak

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Impacts of habitat loss and climate change on avian species; the application of science to conservation, management, and public policy

Advisor: Dr. Jeff Walters

Caleb O’Brien

Ph.D. Student

Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

Research Interests: Human dimensions of natural resources, climate change adaptation, science communication

Advisor: Dr. Marc Stern

Rebecca O’Brien

Ph.D. Student

Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation

Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, wildlife biology, science communication, landowner relations, sensory ecology

Advisor: Dr. William Hopkins and Dr. Ashley Dayer

Stephen Plont

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Stream ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles in the face of environmental change

Advisor: Dr. Erin Hotchkiss

Joshua Rady

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

Research Interests: Ecological and eco-climate modeling, forest ecology and dynamics, systems ecology, decision analysis, land use change

Advisor: Dr. Quinn Thomas

Sergio Sabat-Bonilla

Ph.D. Student

Department of Entomology

Questions of Interests:

• How do aquatic macroinvertebrates respond to anthropogenic / environmental stressors?
• Can functional traits better predict which macroinvertebrates will be selected along gradients of environmental change?

Advisor: Dr. Sally Entrekin

Meredith Semel

Ph.D. Student

Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Behavioral endocrinology, lemur responses to habitat loss, novel technology to remotely track wildlife, educational outreach, Madagascar conservation

Advisor: Dr. Ignacio Moore

Hye-jeong Seo

Ph.D. Candidate

School of Public and International Affairs

Research Interests: Environmental risk communication, environmental planning and policy, collaborative planning and decision-making, public participation, public dispute resolution

Advisor: Dr. Todd Schenk

Brenen M. Wynd

Ph.D. Student

Department of Geosciences

Research Interests: Paleoecology, functional morphology, phylogenetics, conservation paleobiology, mass extinctions

Advisor: Dr. Sterling Nesbitt