Name

Degree

Year

Advisor

Thesis Title and pdf

Current Employment

Arias, Clara

MS, Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development,

2010

J. Patz

SAGE Honorary Associate, Columbia

Bagley, Justin

PhD, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

2011

A. Desai
J. Foley

Impacts of Land Cover Change: Energy Regulation, Breadbasket Production, and Precipitation

Postdoctoral Scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the department of Plant Biology at the Institute for Genomic Biology

Baumgartner, Jill

PhD

2010

J. Patz

The Effects of Biomass Smoke Exposure on Blood Pressure Among Adult Women and Children in the United States and China

Post Doc at Univ. MN, Institute on the Environment

Cardille, Jeff

MS, PhD Environmental Monitoring

J. Foley

"Characterizing Patterns of Agricultural Land Use in Amazonia by Merging Satellite Imagery and Census Data"

Professeur  Adjoint, University of Montreal

Christenson, Megan

MS, Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development

2009

J. Patz

"Understanding Risk Determinants of Chagas Disease in Peri-Urban Peru"

Peru -- working with a Chagas disease research project, the same group where she did her master's thesis research

Cronin, Keith

MS

2011

C. Barford

"The Carbon Balance of Bioenergy Production in Wisconsin"

Donner, Simon

PhD, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

2002

J. Foley

"The Impact of Climate and Land Use on Nitrate Export By the Missisippi River"

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Canada

Dresser, Christopher

MS, Land Resources

2008

T. Holloway

"A Midwest Regional Inventory of Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicle Emissions"

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Transportation and Air Quality

Gibbs, Holly

PhD, Environment and Resources

2008

J. Foley

"Shifting Pathways of Tropical Land Use and their Implications for Carbon Emissions"

Assistant Professor, UW-Madison SAGE & Geography

Grabow, Maggie

MS

J. Patz

PhD Student, SAGE

Helkowski, Joe

MS, Environmental Monitoring

2004

J. Foley

"Global Patterns of Soil Moisture and Runoff: An Assessment of Water Availability"

Hopp, Marianne

PhD

2003

J. Foley

"Disease Vectors and Climate: Modeling the Potential Effects of Climate Variability on Aedes aegypti, the Dengue Vector"

Howard, Erica

MS, Land Resources, Forest Ecology & Management

2002

J. Foley

"Effects of Logging on Carbon Dynamics of a Jack Pine Forest in Saskatchewan, Canada"

Cornish College of the Arts
Assistant Professor of Science
Seattle, Washington

Husmann, Diana

MS, Environment & Resources, EAP certificate, and Bunn Energy Fellow

G. Nemet

"U.S. Photovoltaic Breakthroughs from 1947 to 1993: their Identfication, Origin, and Commercialization"

Jelinski, Nic

MS, Land Resources

C. Kucharik

"Carbon, Land-Use and Vegetation Change: Assessing a Southern Wisconsin Floodplain"

Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota

Johnston, Matt

PhD, Environment & Resources

2010

T. Holloway

"Environmental Impacts of Large-Scale Biofuels Production and Use"

Kelley, Heather

MS, Environmental Monitoring

C. Kucharik

non-thesis option in Environmental Monitoring

Kirby, Miles

MS

2009

J. Patz

"A Community Environmental Health Assessment in Rural Coastal Ecuador: Conservation and Ecohealth"

CDC/CSTE environmental health fellow at Wisconsin Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health

Leff (Miteva), Billie

MS, Environmental Monitoring

J. Foley

"Mapping And Analysis Of Human-Dominated Ecosystems On A Global Scale: A Look at Croplands and Urban Areas"

Licker, Rachel

PhD

2011

C. Kucharik

"Assessing Global and Regional Crop Yield Patterns: An Integration of Biophysical and Social Drivers"

Research Associate, SAGE

(Littlefield) Voight, Caitlin

MS, Environment & Resources

2009

T. Holloway

"Atmospheric Mercury in the Great Lakes Region: An Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model and Implications for Research and Policy"

Teacher, Virginia Beach Friends School

Liu, Mark

MS, Environment & Resources

2011

M. Ozdogan

"Crop Type Classification Using Satellite Images of Different Resolutions"

Logan, Kelly

MS, Environment & Resources

2010

A. Schneider, C. Kucharik

"Urbanization Impacts at the Urban- Agricultural Interface in Midwestern Cities: An Ecosystem Modeling Approach"

International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Luedke, Matt

MS

2011

T. Holloway

SnowShoe Food, LLC

Mayes, Marc

MS, Environment & Resources

2011

M. Ozdogan, E. Marin-Spiotta,
R. Beattie

"Land Use and Parent Material Effects on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in the Konya Basin, Turkey: Methods and Data for Landscape-Scale Environmental Monitoring

Pursuing a PhD at Brown University, Research Fellow, Dept. of Geological Sciences

Monfreda, Chad

MS, Land Resources

J. Foley

Pursuing a PhD in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO

Morton, Jami

MS, Environment & Resources

2011

T. Holloway

"Evaluating the Role of Mercury Chemistry in the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model"

Dir.of Business to Business Development, SnowShoe Food LLC

Myhre, Mitch

MS

2010

C. Barford

"Farm Net Income Impact of Switchgrass Production and Corn Stover Collection for Heat and Power Generation"

Alliant Energy as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Strategic Planning & Analysis Department

Nicholas, Kim

MS Land Resources

2003

C. Kucharik

"Issues In Evaluating Carbon Sequestration and Attributing Carbon Credits to Grassland Restoration Efforts"

Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies
Sweden

Olejniczak, Nick

MS, Land Resources

2003

J. Foley

"Usability in Science Web Sites: the Atlas of the Biosphere Project"

Olson, Sarah

PhD

2009

J. Patz

"Understanding Regional Patterns of Vector-Borne Infectious Disease in a Changing Environment"

Plachinski, Steve

MS, Environment & Resources

2010

T. Holloway

"The Effects of Climate and Electricity Emissions on Air Quality in the United States"

Roth, Johna

MS, Land Resources, Energy Analysis & Policy Certificate

C. Kucharik

"Carbon Sequestration in Dane County: An Analysis of the Scientific and Economic Feasibility of Grasslands to Offset Power Plant Emissions"

Sacks, Bill

PhD, Environment & Resources

2010

C. Kucharik, J. Foley

"Improving the Representation of Agricultural Management in Land Surface Models"

Software Engineer for the Community Earth System Model, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

Shudy Palmer, Anne

MS, Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development

2009

J. Foley

Communications and Policy Development Specialist at Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Snyder, Peter

PhD, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

2004

J. Foley

"Examining Vegetation and Climate Interactions: A Comparative Study of Different Vegetation Types and their Impacts on Atmospheric Energetics and Dynamics at the Regional and Global Scales"

University of Minnesota

Spak, Scott

PhD, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

2009

T. Holloway

"Characterizing Chemical Transport of Ozone and Fine Particles in the Great Lakes Region"

Assistant Professor in Urban & Regional Planning and Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
Assistant Director of Environmental Science Policy, University of Iowa

Twine, Tracey

PhD, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

2004

J. Foley

"Investigating the Effects of Land Cover Change and Climate Variability on the Land Surface Hydrology of the Mississippi River Basin"

University of Minnesota

Uejio, Chris

PhD, Environment & Resources

2011

J. Patz

"Environmental Influences on Neglected Public Health Problems"

Post Doc at NCAR, Boulder, CO and CDC

Vano, Julie

MS, Land Resources

2005

J. Foley

"Land Surface Hydrology in Northern Wisconsin, USA: Influences of Climatic Variability and Land Cover"

Research in water resources at the University of Washington

West, Paul

PhD, Limnology & Marine Sciences

2010

S.Carpenter, J. Foley

"Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Ecosystem Services"

Chief Collaboration Officer, University of Minnesota

(Woods) Eliff, Heather

MS, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

T. Holloway

Staff Scientist, Environmental Resources Management, Chicago, IL

Zaks, David

MS, Land Resources

2007

J. Foley

MS: "Global Patterns of Ecological Productivity and Tropical Forest Biomass"

Post Doc, UW-Madison

Zaks, David

PhD, Environment & Resources

2010

C. Kucharik

"Reducing Negative Environmental Externalities from Agricultural Production: Methods, Models and Policies"

Post Doc, UW-Madison