Doctorate
2020
Meredith Martin
Research topic: Stand dynamics of montane pine-oak forest in the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca and implications for timber and firewood management
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale School of the Environment, The Forest School
Peter Umunay
Research topic: Assessing forest dynamics, biomass accumulation and emissions from human-induced deforestation and forest degradation in a tropical forest
Current position: Africa Regional Coordinator for Forest and Climate Change at UNEP
2016
Marlyse Duguid
Research topic: Diversity and composition of forest understories in relation to forest management
Current position: Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment, The Forest School
Tom James
Research topic: Stand dynamics and demographics of mixed larch-spruce of boreal Mongolia
Current position: Hama Hama Company, Lilliwaup, Washington
2015
Jeff Stoike
Research topic: The political ecology of reforestation in Bahia, Brasil
Current position: Affiliated Scholar at The Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Elaine Hooper
Research topic: Regeneration diversity and composition of Amazonian forests and effects of fragmentation
Current position: Affiliated Scholar at The Urban Institute, Washington, DC
2009
Brent Frey
Research tppic: Comparative cohort dynamics of forest understories in oak and mixed dipterocarp forests
Current position: Assistant Prof., College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State
Daniel Piotto
Research topic: Successional dynamics of second growth forests in the Atlantic rain forest region, Brazil
Current position: Ecology professor at Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Brazil
Uromi Goodale
Research topic:
Current position: Associate Professor Guangxi University, Nanning, China
2007
David Ellum
Research topic: Understanding mechanisms in pattern and process of regeneration that can better define concepts about redundancy and resiliency of southern New England forests, USA
Current position: Chair, Environmental Studies Department, Professor of Sustainable Forestry, Warren Wilson College
helen mills-poulos
Research topic: Climate, fire, and vegetation dynamics of the Chihuahuan desert borderlands.
Current position: Assistant professor, Wesleyan University
2005
Richard Karty
Research topic: Floristic pattern across and urban rural gradient of southern New England
Current position: Environmental Scientist at GZA GeoEnvironmental
2004
Heather Peckham
Research topic: The ecology of forest regeneration on abandoned pasture lands of seasonal dry tropical forest, Panama
Current position: Associate Prof., James Madison University, VA
2003
Bronson Griscom
Research topic: Bamboo control of forest dynamics in the Peruvian Amazon
Current position: Director of Forest Carbon Science, The Nature Conservancy
2002
Jefferson Hall
Reserach topic: Is the distribution of sympatric Entandrophragma species in Central Africa the result of differences in competitive ability across soil moisture and fertility gradients? A study linking seedling performance, physiology and landscape scale edaphic variability
Current position: Dir. Applied Ecology, Smithsonian Tropical Resources Institute, Panama
2001
James Grogan
Research topic: Investigations on the demography and regeneration ecology of bigleaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) in south Para, Brazil
Current position: Greenhouse Manager, Mount Holyoke Garden
1999
Heidi Asbjornsen
Research topic: The ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation in a human-dominated high-elevation oak-pine forest in Oaxaca, Mexico
Current position: Assoc. Prof., University of New Hampshire
Rajesh Thadani
Research topic: Human disturbance, changing microclimate and the regeneration of banj oak (Quercus leucotrichophora A. Camus) in the forests of the central Himalaya
Current position: Exec. Dir., Centre for Ecology Development and Research, India
1998
Peter Palmioto
Research topic: The role of specialization in nutrient-use efficiency as a mechanism driving species diversity in a tropical rainforest
Current position: Dir. Conservation Biology, Antioch University New England, NH
Masters
2020
Gabriela Morales-Nieves, MF 2020
Current position:
Shrabya Timsina, MF 2020
Current position:
Zhi Li, MFS 2020
Current position:
2019
Caroline Tasirin , MFS class of 2019
Current position: Lecturer, University of Sam Ratulangi, North Suluwesi, Indonesia
Laura Ostrowsky, MFS class of 2019
Current position: Woodlands Manager and Science Teacher at Proctor Academy
David Woodbury, MFS class of 2019
Current position: Doctoral student – Yale University, CT
Ki’ila Salas, MF class of 2019
Current position: Research assistant at Yale Myers Forest
2018
Jessica Wikle, MFS class of 2017
Current position: Doctoral student, University of Vermont
2017
Danica Doroski, MFS class of 2017
Current position: Doctoral student, Yale University
Juliana Hanle, MEM class of 2017
Current position: Post-graduate fellow, Yale University, CT
Aaron Lefland, MFS class of 2017
Current position: Post-graduate fellow, Yale University, CT
Irene Montes, MFS class of 2017
Current position: Project Manager en 12Tree Finance
2016
Camille Delavaux, MESc class of 2016
Current position: Doctoral student, University of Kansas, KS
Kyra Prats, MFS class of 2016
Current position: Doctoral student, Yale University
2015
Hale Morrell, MFS class of 2015
Current position: Naturalist, National Park Service, ME
Jaeeun Sohng, MFS class of 2015
Current position: Ph.D. Student, Soil and Biogeochemistry, UC Davis
Molly Roske, MFS class of 2015
Current position: Executive Director at Fundación Cordillera Tropical
2014
Matthew Bare, MF class of 2014
Current position: Manager, Supply Chain M&E at Rainforest Alliance
Klaus Geiger, MF class of 2014
Current position: Forestry Associate at NEPCon
2013
Erin Raboin, MF class of 2013
Current position: Research botanist, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO
2012
Nathan Ruthenberg, MF class of 2012
Current position: Forest Biometrician at Silviaterra, Maine
Tina Schneider, MF class of 2012
Current position: Manager, Forest Legality Initiative, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Kayanna Warren, MFS class of 2012
Current position: Ecologist, State & Private Forestry Forest Health Protection Monitoring, Pacific Southwest Region at U.S. Forest Service
Meredith Martin, MFS class of 2012
Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University
Blake Troxel, MF class of 2012
Current position: Forest Manager at Presidio Trust
2010
M. Duguid - Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist, Yale University
E. Jack-Scott - Extension Coordinator, Boulder, CO
K. Covey - PhD. 2016, Yale University
F. Eaton - Carbon Certification Forester, SCS, San Francisco, CA
T. Ilany - Research Fellow, Institute of Ecology, Edinbugh
R. Koirala - Natural Resource Assistant, World Bank Fellow
2009
J. Orefice - Director School Forests, Yale University
B. Milakowsky - WWF Forester, Vladivostok, Russia
C. Tomimura - Rainforest Alliance, Bali, Indonesia
T. James - PhD. 2015, Yale University
2007
A. Macalady - Ph.D. 2013 Univ. Arizona; Scientist AAAS
2006
D. Braden - Biology Teacher, High School, MA
L. Yocom - PhD candidate Northern Arizona Univ.
2004
M. Aikens - PhD candidate, Univ. Virginia
F. Rockwell - Ph.D 2012 Harvard Univ.; Research Associate, Harvard Univ.
V. Medjibe - Ph.D. 2011, Univ. Florida; Post doctoral Scientist, Duke Univ.,
2003
M. Francis - Research Fellow, CIFOR, Brazil
2001
S. Quazi - PhD. 2010, Univ. Hawaii; Prof. International University, Bangladesh
M. Fladeland - Research Scientist, NASA, Los Angeles, CA
U. Goodale - Ph.D. 2009, Yale University; Assoc. Prof. Forestry, Univ. Guangxi
2000
C. Kuebler - Program manager, American Forests Foundation
C. Young - Carbon Certification Forester, SCS, San Francisco, CA
1999
B. Hammond - Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy
1998
L. Camara-Cabrales - Ph.D. U. Massachusetts; Prof. Univ. Merida, Yucatan
P. Barreto - Research Forester and Ass. Dir., IMAZON, Brazil
1997
A. Evans - PhD 2006 Yale University; Chief Scientist, The Forest Guild, NM).
T. Shibayama - Environmental Consultant, JICA, Tokyo
W. Stanley - Research Forester, Nature Conservancy
1996
R. Cherry - Manager, Levi’s Inc, Singapore
A. Leighton - Ph.D. 2004, Univ. Massachusetts; Assoc. Prof, Flat Head Community College, MT
L. Raleigh - Ecologist, Trustees of Reservations, MA
1995
C. Flores - PhD candidate, Yale University; Director Manu National Park, Peru
M. McGroddy - Ph.D. 2003, Berkeley; Assoc. Prof., Univ. W. Virginia
L. Olander - Ph.D. 2002, Stanford University; Assist. Dir. Duke Environment Inst
A. Troy - Ph.D. 2002, UC Berkeley; Assoc. Prof. Univ. Colorado, CO
1994
P. Baker - PhD 1999, University of Washington; Assoc. Prof. U. of Melbourne, Australia
C. Carron - PhD 1999, Cornell University; Assoc. Prof. Clark Univ., MA
A. Cohen - PhD candidate, University of Washington; deceased
R. Thadani - PhD 1999, Yale University; Director CEDAR, India
1992
J. Hall - Phd. 2002, Yale University; Staff Scientist, Smithsonian
M. Ducey - Ph.D. 1996, Yale University; Prof., UNH
Undergraduates
2021
Chau Pham
Co-advised by Dr. Ashton and Dr. Liza Comita, she conducted her senior thesis on the relationship between diversity and biomass in a mixed dipterocarp forest of Sri Lanka. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, where she does research on the tropical dry forests of Vietnam - her home country.
2020
Caroline Borden
2019
Romy Carpenter
As an undergrad at Yale, I studied Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. My research took place in a chronosequence of irregular shelterwood harvests in Yale-Myers Forest where soil analyses provided a timeline for soil nutrients replenishing under the partial canopies of the shelterwoods.