College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Forestry

Graduate Student Spotlights

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Erin Budzyn

  Published on March 14, 2025
  Erin Budzyn, PhD Candidate, focuses on the understanding of social acceptance of fire-risk reduction strategies and actions, and human health and wellbeing impacts of forest structural characteristics and species.

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Tara Allohverdi

  Published on March 29, 2024
  Tara, Ph.D candidate, shares how her varying internships during undergrad led to her to a research focus on natural resource economics and the life cycle analysis of forest products.

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Ichchha Thapa

  Published on March 28, 2024
  Ichchha, an international student from Nepal, shares how her passion for forestry led her to pursue a Ph.D. with a research focus on mass timber demand and supply in the lake states.

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight - Mitchell Calvin

  Published on February 5, 2024
  Mitchell Calvin seeks his masters focused in finding genetic variations in American beech trees that contribute to resistance against beech bark disease.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Shivan Gc

  Published on March 10, 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.

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Catherine Henry

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

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  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

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Leo Pham

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

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Clarice Esch

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

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  Forestry Graduate Student Spotlight – Antoinette Shirley

  Published on February 29, 2020
  Graduate Student Antoinette Shirley shares her experience working with wildlife and habitat in the Navajo Nation and her interests in Indigenous forestry.