Current Ph.D. Students
| Student Name | Degree | Advisor | Dissertation Topic or Title |
| Rosa Affleck | NRES | Kevin Gardner | The Influence of Social and Cultural Environment on Construction Projects for Sustainment of Infrastructure |
| Timothy Algeo | NRES | Michael Palace | An assessment of Pinus spp.-dominated cover types as potential natural barriers to the movement of raccoon (Procyon lotor) variant rabies in the eastern United States. |
| Maria Susana Alvarado-Barrientos* | NRES | Heidi Asbjornsen | Plant water use across a land cover change trajectory of pasture to Pinus patula plantation in the seasonal cloud forest zone of Veracruz, Mexico |
| Sarah Andrews* | EES | Serita Frey | The effects of plant community composition on methane cycling in freshwater wetlands. |
| Lesley Atwood | NRES | Richard Smith | Agroecosystem resilience: Soil Foodweb Dynamics and Ecological Resiliency in Agroecosystems |
| Deana Aulisio | NRES | Kevin Gardner | New Methods of Characterizing Risk in the Social Hotspot Database and Development of a Statistically-Robust Social Hotspot Index for Prioritization of Unit Processes in Social Life Cycle Assessment |
| Kimberly Aviado | EES | Julie Bryce/ Sam Mukasa |
The role of water and volatiles in rift systems such as the East African Rift and the West Antarctic Rift. |
| Heather Ballestero* | NRES | Nancy Kinner | Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Arctic Sea Ice Brine Channels: Protistan Grazing on PAH Degrading Bacteria |
| Amanda Beal | NRES | John Carroll | Natural resource considerations in food production |
| Richard Brereton | NRES | William McDowell | Watershed ecology: linking land use and water quality in streams, rivers, and estuaries |
| Elizabeth Burakowski* | EES | Scott Ollinger | Wintertime Climate Change in the Northeastern United States |
| Martha Carlson* | NRES | Barrett Rock | Assessing the Response of Sugar Maples, Acer saccharum, to climate stress |
| Ryan Cassotto | EES | Margaret Boettcher | Outlet glacier behavior using a ground based portable RADAR interferometer |
| Thomas Cawthern* | EES: Geology |
Joel Johnson | Geochemical Contraints on the Evolution of the Sumatran-Andaman Arc During the Last ~10 Ma |
| Hsien-Wei Chen | NRES | Jennifer Jacobs | Applied statistics, hydrology and remote sensing |
| Jay Clausen* | EES | Kevin Gardner | Modifications to Sample Collection and Processing Procedures for Soil Containing Metal Particulates |
| Andy Colter | NRES | Mark Ducey | Use of the knowledge-based Arc Soil Inference Engine (ArcSIE) with 1m Lidar inventory to establish Ecological Type relationships for landscapes typical of Forests in the Northeast U.S. |
| Peter Conklin | NRES | John Carroll | Sustainability Curriculum for Community Colleges |
| Chelsea Corr* | EES | Jack Dibb | Impacts of aerosol and snow on photochemistry and surface radiation |
| Stephanie Coster* | NRES | Adrienne Kovach / Kimberly Babbitt |
Landscape Genetics of Pond-breeding Amphibians in a Working Forest |
| Dorn Cox | NRES | Robert Eckert | Distributed Energy Economics |
| Amanda Daly | NRES | Stuart Grandy | Soil Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry in Sustainable Agriculture |
| Abigail D'Ambrosia | EES | Will Clyde | The use of stable isotopes in fossil mammal teeth to study paleoclimatological and paleobiological changes across extreme global warming events in the early Eocene. |
| Stephen Eayrs | NRES | Christopher Glass | Improving fishing profitability and sustainable fishing practice: Testing the application of an Environmental Management System in the New England groundfish fishery |
| Alyson Eberhardt* | NRES | David Burdick / Michelle Dionne |
Wetland restoration |
| Rachel Feeney | NRES | Christopher Glass | The New Hampshire commercial fishing industry, particularly the social and economic effects of recent changes in groundfish fisheries regulations. |
| Débora Figueroa-Nieves* | NRES | William McDowell | Impacts of Sewage Effluents on Tropical Streams in Puerto Rico |
| Justin Fisk* | EES | George Hurtt | Modeling and Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Yvette Garner* | NRES | Marian Litvaitis | Mytilid Mussels of the Gulf of Maine: Biomechanics and Morphometrics |
| Danielle Grogan | NRES | Stephen Frolking | Modeling water resources in East Asia in response to changing climate, population, and economics. |
| Danielle Haddad | NRES | Scott Ollinger | Forest ecosystem modeling |
| Ian Honsberger | EES | Jo Laird | Metamorphic petrology |
| James Houle* | NRES | Kevin Gardner | Quantification of the social impact of science based research at the municipal and state level |
| Maria Hunter* | EES | Michael Keller | Lidar Remote Sensing of Amazonian Forest Structure |
| Patricia Jarema* | NRES | John Halstead | Quantifying the role that social capital plays in managing the flow of ecosystem services |
| Mary Jensen | NRES | John Carroll | Systemic effects of reducing food waste, particularly in institutional settings. |
| Cynthia Kallenbach* | NRES | Stuart Grandy | Biogeochemical processing of plant carbon in agricultural soils with an emphasis on the affects of land-use legacies, carbon quality, and microbial communities |
| Eric Kelsey* | EES | Cameron Wake | Reconstruction of Past Alaska-region Climate Using Ice Cores |
| Neil Kessler* | NRES | John Carroll | Experiential environmental education focused on the relationship between people and place |
| Emily Klein* | NRES | Andrew Rosenberg | Understanding long-term change in Gulf of Maine marine ecosystem structure and dynamics |
| Lauren Koenig | NRES | William McDowell | Scaling C and N transformations and fluxes in tropical streams in Puerto Rico |
| Dovev Levine* | NRES | Stacy VanDeveer | The Impact of External Regulatory Environments on Renewable Energy Usage in the Higher Education Sector |
| Matthew Magnusson | NRES | Cameron Wake | Sustainabilty |
| Mashkoor Malik* | EES | Larry Mayer | Multibeam Sonar Data Processing |
| Maria Meano-Prado | EES | Julie Bryce | |
| Eric Morrison | NRES | Serita Frey | The affects of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on soil fungi |
| Nathaniel Morse* | EES | Wil Wollheim / William McDowell |
Quantifying the impact of urbanization on N and P inputs, transformations, removal and fluxes in watersheds draining to the Plum Island Estuary |
| Pamela Moyer | EES | Margaret Boettcher | Earthquake source parameters, rupture processes, and scaling relations at mid-ocean ridge transform faults and microseismicity in deep South African gold mines |
| Laura Nagy* | NRES | Kurk Dorsey | The federal government's administration of an aggressive wild canid predator program in the American West during the Progressive Era |
| Ashley Norton | NRES | Larry Mayer | Development of acoustic methods for discerning and describing eelgrass beds in Great Bay |
| Joseph Orefice | NRES | John Carroll | Silvopasture systems in the northeastern United States |
| Andrew Ouimette | NRES | Erik Hobbie | Understanding the nitrogen nutrition of forest trees: carbon costs, mycorrhizal fungi, and stable isotopes |
| Jonathan Pundsack* | EES | Stephen Frolking | Science Policy Related to Arctic Hydrology |
| Alesia Read* | NRES | Troy Hartley / Tom Safford |
Fisheries Management and Policy |
| Jeffrey Rogers* | EES | Larry Ward | Assessment of salt marsh restoration using modeling and remote sensing |
| Jesse Sadowsky | EES | Serita Frey | Functional response of belowground microbial communities to ecosystem-level disturbance |
| Christopher Saunders | NRES | Kevin Gardner | Capitalistic markets for pollution control |
| Jeffrey Schloss* | NRES | William McDowell | Determinants and Indicators of Lake Productivity: Lessons Learned from a Multi-basin Lake |
| Matthew Smith | NRES | John Aber | Closing nutrient and energy cycles on organic dairy farms through the conversion of farm waste streams into revenue generating products |
| Xiaowen Song | EES | Russell Congalton | GIS education |
| Derek Sowers | NRES | Larry Mayer | Marine habitat mapping in support of improved ecosystem-based management |
| Ryan Stephens | NRES | Rebecca Rowe | The impacts of land-use legacies on small mammal community dynamics in forested landscapes |
| Robert Swarthout* | EES | Barkley Sive | Atmospheric fluxes of trace gases involved in climate feedback cycles |
| Matthew Tarr | NRES | John Litvaitis | UNH Songbirds & Invasive Shrubs Project |
| Claire Treat* | EES | Wil Wollheim / Steve Frolking | Impacts of climate change in northern ecosystems: carbon and nitrogen cycling northern soils and streams |
| Yusi Turell | NRES | Michael Swack | |
| Matthew Vadeboncoeur* | NRES | Erik Hobbie | Mechanisms of Nutrient Limitation and Nutrient Acquisition in Managed and Unmanaged Forest Ecosystems |
| Jessica Veysey* | NRES | Kimberly Babbitt | Efficacy of Wetland Policies in the State of New Hampshire |
| Jennifer Walsh | NRES | Adrienne Kovach | Hybrid zone dynamics between Saltmarsh and Nelson's Sparrows |
| Jennifer Wilhelm | EES | Richard Smith | Quantifying Ecosystem Services within Agricultural Systems |
| Weike Yao | NRES | William McDowell | Nitrogen Budget for Great Bay |
| Shantar Zuidema | EES | J. Matthew Davis | Use of stable isotopes and distributed hydrologic modeling to investigate ground water / surface water interactions in the face of a changing climate. |
* At Candidacy: Student completed all coursework required by his/her committee, completed and orally defended the comprehensive exam and written and publically defended his/her proposal.
