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Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Leonardo Ziccardi

January 26, 2022

Leonardo Ziccardi, PhD Candidate, studies the functions of tropical forest ecosystems, backed by extensive practice in leaf and whole-plant scale ecology, in order to understand how humans can respond, protect, and mitigate effects of climate change.

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Leonardo Ziccardi

    Published on January 26, 2022
    Leonardo Ziccardi, PhD Candidate, studies the functions of tropical forest ecosystems, backed by extensive practice in leaf and whole-plant scale ecology, in order to understand how humans can respond, protect, and mitigate effects of climate change.

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Georgios Arseniou

    Published on May 5, 2021
    Georgios Arseniou, Ph.D. candidate, focuses on understanding the structure and function of urban forests which provide various socioeconomic and ecological services to human societies.

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Shivan Gc

    Published on March 11, 2021
    Shivan Gc, Ph.D. Candidate, is interested is the economics and decision making processes of natural resource management using economic models and social theories.

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Catherine Henry

    Published on January 26, 2021
    Catherine Henry, PhD Candidate, researches regeneration of northern hardwood forests in Michigan

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Chad Papa

    Published on December 11, 2020
    Ph.D. Candidate, Chad Papa, studies savanna-forest transitions in West Africa and greenhouse gas emissions in the US forestry sector

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Leo Pham

    Published on September 2, 2020
    Leo Pham brings together the fields of ecology and hydrology.

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Clarice Esch

    Published on April 1, 2020
    Clarice Esch, PhD candidate works with soils in both Michigan and Hawai'i.

  • Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Antoinette Shirley

    Published on March 1, 2020
    Graduate Student Antoinette Shirley shares her experience working with wildlife and habitat in the Navajo Nation and her interests in Indigenous forestry.

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