{"id":486,"date":"2021-02-19T21:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:54:20","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Noah Niemeyer<\/h2>\n

Master’s Student – Forest Sciences<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787759637913{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]My love for the environment started in the tallgrass prairie in eastern Nebraska where I grew up on a corn and soybean farm. I received my B.S. in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship from CSU in 2026 with a concentration in rangeland management and a minor in environmental policy. I was named a Udall Scholar in the Environment in 2025 and the Outstanding Senior in Rangeland Science in 2026. I worked as an intern for Larimer County where I led two projects: developing a regional plan inventory for the county climate program and providing policy recommendations for improving wildfire resilience in the county land use code. These experiences shaped my interests in land protection and community resilience.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]I am currently pursuing a Master of Forest Sciences with a focus in Natural Resources Policy while working as a Graduate Research Assistant with the Public Lands Policy Group. I previously worked as an undergraduate research assistant with PLPG where I primarily worked on pre-fire planning and landscape-scale restoration. My research interests are in blending ecological and social science to understand the structures that enable environmental protection with the goal of assisting communities and landscapes to transition towards a more sustainable future. My graduate research will integrate two projects. The first is focused on the factors that influence the use of Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) across multiple jurisdictions to improve pre-fire planning. The second will investigate forest assisted migration as a strategy for responding to climate change.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”881″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Cassandre Venumi\u00e8re-Lefebvre
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PhD Student – Wildlife Conservation<\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1695314585239{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]I grew up in France, between Paris and Normandie. I pursued a B.S. in Biology and Evolution at Paris Saclay University.\u00a0Wanting to expose myself to novel ways to do science and think society’s interactions with wildlife, I traveled to Colorado and volunteered for the National Park Service. My work there involved measuring the ecological impacts of the removal of a large predator, wolves. It introduced me to conservation science, and I decided to pursue a master’s degree in Conservation Ecology at Paris Saclay University. During my Master’s, I came back to Colorado and joined CSU’s Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence<\/a> as an intern, where I explored definitions and metrics of[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text]coexistence between humans and carnivores throughout the world. I graduated in 2020 and, by then feeling at home in Colorado, I stayed at CSU to continue my studies as a Ph.D. student.<\/p>\n

My research explores human-carnivore interactions\u00a0through biology, spatial ecology, social science, and policy. With the PLPG, I study policy instruments used to reduce urban conflict between people and American black bears in Colorado. I partner with\u00a0city governments, non-profit organizations, and wildlife management agencies throughout the state and hope to learn from them to identify conflict-reduction strategies that can be used by other communities in Colorado.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”1132″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Tyler Garnier<\/h2>\n

MS Student – Forest Sciences<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]I grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Tourism from the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, with minors in Spanish and Business Administration. Growing up among the woods and rivers of the Northeast, and later moving to Colorado after the 2020 fires, deepened my longstanding interest in history, land stewardship and conservation, wildfire mitigation,\u00a0 climate adaptation, and forest policy. These experiences shaped my passion for advancing conservation, sustainability, science, and justice in natural resource work, challenging colonial conservation legacies while preparing forests and communities for climate change.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

At Colorado State University, I am pursuing a Master of Science in Forest Sciences. I previously worked in the Public Lands Policy Group as an undergraduate research assistant and collaborated with the Colorado State Forest Service to develop monitoring recommendations for the Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation Grant Program. I now serve as a Graduate Research Assistant on a project led by Eliisa Carter, as well as a Program Assistant with the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. I am also completing the Climate Adaptation and Risk Management Certificate to strengthen my expertise in climate resilience and adaptation.<\/p>\n

My research focuses on the relationship between human decision-making and ecological processes in mature and old-growth forests. Through case studies across diverse ecosystems, the project examines these through variations in ecological conditions, Indigenous stewardship, and climate impacts. As I am still in the early stages of my graduate studies, my research is continuing to take shape within this project, with opportunities to refine my focus as I engage more deeply with the work.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””] Noah Niemeyer Master’s Student – Forest Sciences [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787759637913{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]My love for the environment started in the tallgrass prairie in eastern Nebraska where I grew up on a corn and soybean farm. I received my B.S. in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship from CSU in 2026 with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/courtneyschultz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}