Lab Group

Dr. Julia Klein
Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
julia.klein@colostate.edu
Dr. Klein’s CV

Students

Natalie “Bucky” Buchholz Pronouns: she/her/hers BA Anthropology BA Environmental Science
MS Candidate MS Thesis: Increasing Canopy Equity and Resilience in Fort Collins, Colorado
Natalie.S.Buchholz@colostate.edu
Natalie’s CV
Interests: Urban ecology, social justice and equity, climate justice and equity, forestry, human impacts on forests, Asian Elephants, traditional/herbal medicine, teaching.

Dawn Barton
MS. Environmental Studies PhD Candidate, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Human-Environment Interactions Track PhD Thesis: The role of botanic gardens in alpine plant conservation.
Dawn.Barton@colostate.edu
Dawn’s CV
Interests – Protection of mountain ecosystems, plant conservation, alpine plants, botanic gardens, plant ethics, and conservation impact research

Lab Alumni

Dr. Cara Steger
PhD received in 2020. Social-ecological  Models for Knowledge Co-production and Learning in Collaborative Environmental Management
cara.steger@gmail.com
Cara’s CV
Cara’s Website Currently an NSF postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell

 

Dr. Kelly Hopping
PhD, 2015. Casading effects of changing climate and land use on alpine ecosystems and pastoral livelihoods in central Tibetc
kellyhopping@boisestate.edu
Kelly is now a professor at Boise State University. Kelly’s Website

I am interested in how ecosystems are affected by global change, particularly in alpine and grassland regions where people’s close dependence on the landscape creates tightly coupled feedbacks between ecological structure and function, land use, knowledge, and decision making.  For my dissertation research in central Tibet, I am examining the effects of changing climate and natural resource management practices on ecosystem processes and plant species composition, as well as on the livelihoods of local pastoralists.  I am taking an interdisciplinary approach by linking experimental manipulations, satellite imagery, and household interviews in order to better understand how this social-ecological system will respond to change.

Tsechoe Dorji
PhD
Tsechoe’s CV  Tsechoe’s webpage

I focus my work on effects of climate change and human disturbances on alpine plant ecology and rangeland health. I am especially interested in how plant phenology and functional traits respond to changes in temperature, water availability and land use patterns. I am currently working on my PhD project using both a natural climate gradient (elevation gradient) and experimental approaches to understand how alpine plant species from different functional groups respond to warming temperature, early spring snow addition, yak grazing and pika grazing. The experimental part of my PhD project is part of an ongoing research project that is led by Dr. Julia Klein. I am also involved in two state major science and technology support projects and one state natural science fund project led by Professor Wei Xuehong from the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College of Tibet University. I am also principle investigator for a research project called pastoralist cultural and wildlife biodiversity in the Chang Tang Nature Reserve, funded by the ministry of personnel, the People’s Republic of China.

Dr. Kerry Byrne
PhD 2012.
Kerry.Byrne@humboldt.edu
Kerry is a professor at Humboldt State University.
Kerry’s Website

Laura Dev
MS 2012. Timing is important: The seasonality of precipitation can influence how ecosystems respond to grazing”
PhD UC Berkeley.
ldev@ucmerced.edu
Laura’s Website

Bradley Schmidt
Undergraduate Honors Research Assistant

Aaron Berdanier
M.S., 2010 Climatic constraints on high-elevation ANPPaaron.berdanier@duke.eduAaron’s website

Postdoctora Fellows

Dr. Jia Hu
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2009-2010 Ecosystem cabon and water dynamics on the Tibetan Plateaujiahu@ucar.eduJia’s website

Dr. Joseph Bump
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2008-2009 Ecosystem and Herder Vulnerability to Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateaujkbump@mtu.eduJoseph’s website

Visiting Scholars

Dr. Yan Yang
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
at CSU 2015-2016
yyang@imde.ac.cn

Dr. TANG Yanhong
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
at CSU 2008-2009
yhang@nies.go.jp

Research Assistants

Beth Roskilly <span “class=”style2”>Post-baccalaureate researcher, 2011 B.A., University of Montana-Missoula	Tenzin Tarchen Undergraduate researcher, 2011 Tibet Agricultural University
Jennifer Parrish Research Experience for Teachers, 2011 Teacher at Union Colony Preparatory School in Greeley, CO	Helen Chmura Watson Fellow, Post-baccalaureate researcher, 2010-11 B.A., Swarthmore College
Cullen Chapman Undergraduate researcher, 2010-2011 Colorado State University	Lauren Barry Post-baccalaureate researcher, 2010 B.A., Washington University
Paliza Shrestha Post-baccalaureate researcher, 2010 B.A., Mount Holyoke College	Hoi-Fei Mok Post-baccalaureate researcher, 2010 B.A., Wellesley College
Kristina Halliman REU student, 2010 State University of New York, Fredonia	Chelsea Morgan Post-baccalaureate researcher, 2010  B.A., University of Colorado-Boulder
LI Chengding  Undergraduate researcher, 2010 Tibet University, Lhasa	LI Hailin  Undergraduate researcher, 2010 Tibet University, Lhasa
PAN Jianbing M.S. student, 2009-2010 Lanzhou University	WU Qianru M.S. student, 2009 Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christine Byrne REU student, 2009 University of California, Berkeley	Rinzin Undergraduate researcher, 2009 Tibet Agricultural University