Meet the member of the Global Forest Dynamics Lab
PI: Dan Johnson
Training the scientists and citizens for the future is an incredibly important job. I enjoy the challenge of helping students and collaborators achieve their learning and research goals. I have had the privilege to work with a great diversity of aspiring scientists from around the world and now I am building my own lab. My broad professional background has served in advising students on career paths and options both within and outside of academia. I look forward to a long career of training aspiring scientists.
Training the scientists and citizens for the future is an incredibly important job. I enjoy the challenge of helping students and collaborators achieve their learning and research goals. I have had the privilege to work with a great diversity of aspiring scientists from around the world and now I am building my own lab. My broad professional background has served in advising students on career paths and options both within and outside of academia. I look forward to a long career of training aspiring scientists.
Post Doctoral Scholars
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Ph.D. Students
Siddarth Machado
I am study the forest dynamics of tropical forests in the Western Ghats region of India. I am interested in understanding what the future might hold for this biodiversity hot-spot. I combine long-term and spatially dispersed forest research plots to analyze tree demography in relation to climatic shifts in the region.
I am study the forest dynamics of tropical forests in the Western Ghats region of India. I am interested in understanding what the future might hold for this biodiversity hot-spot. I combine long-term and spatially dispersed forest research plots to analyze tree demography in relation to climatic shifts in the region.
Luke Magee
My research focuses on mechanisms driving tree regeneration and how these processes influence species replacement and forest community structure. I am curious how species interactions determine assembly following disturbance and how these assemblages vary across space and time. I received a B.S. in Plant Biology and a B.S. in Fish and Wildlife Ecology from Montana State University, and a M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where I studied regeneration in a northern hardwood forest.
My research focuses on mechanisms driving tree regeneration and how these processes influence species replacement and forest community structure. I am curious how species interactions determine assembly following disturbance and how these assemblages vary across space and time. I received a B.S. in Plant Biology and a B.S. in Fish and Wildlife Ecology from Montana State University, and a M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where I studied regeneration in a northern hardwood forest.
Denver Cayetano
I am interested in biodiversity conservation, landscape ecology, and forest dynamics, primarily related to disturbance, regeneration, and carbon dynamics in tropical forest ecosystems. I received my B.Sc. in Natural Resources Management from the University of Belize and recently completed my M.Sc. in Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, specializing in Tropical and International Forestry. My M.Sc. research investigated the effects of landscape structure on multi-taxon diversity in experimental tree islands in an oil-palm landscape. My Ph.D. research will explore methods to enhance carbon sequestration in logged-over forests in Belize.
I am interested in biodiversity conservation, landscape ecology, and forest dynamics, primarily related to disturbance, regeneration, and carbon dynamics in tropical forest ecosystems. I received my B.Sc. in Natural Resources Management from the University of Belize and recently completed my M.Sc. in Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, specializing in Tropical and International Forestry. My M.Sc. research investigated the effects of landscape structure on multi-taxon diversity in experimental tree islands in an oil-palm landscape. My Ph.D. research will explore methods to enhance carbon sequestration in logged-over forests in Belize.
Masters Students
Sejal Patel
Based in the foothill communities of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles, I am pursing the M.S. in Forest Resource and Conservation (FRC) with a concentration in Ecological Restoration. I obtained my BA from University of Michigan and MA from UCLA. I am a working professional with background in agricultural and water asset acquisition, sales, overall asset management, developing corporate social responsibility and sustainability programs, including equitable workforce development programs, and in policy and regulatory frameworks. I have been long inspired by the work of Sebastiao and Leila Salgado’s Instituto Tierra in Brazil, and currently by organizations like Terraformation and find renewal in Biden-Harris Administration’s current policies for climate change. The national plan calls for reducing US GHG emission levels per the Paris Accord Agreements, where emphasis lies in advancing conservation, agriculture and reforestation with the goal to conserve 30% federal lands and ocean by 2030, which is believed to account for a reduction of 20% of overall U.S. GHG emissions. I am excited to enhance my professional experience through the FRC coursework to strengthen forest conservation efforts and reduce the impact of climate change on humanity.
Based in the foothill communities of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles, I am pursing the M.S. in Forest Resource and Conservation (FRC) with a concentration in Ecological Restoration. I obtained my BA from University of Michigan and MA from UCLA. I am a working professional with background in agricultural and water asset acquisition, sales, overall asset management, developing corporate social responsibility and sustainability programs, including equitable workforce development programs, and in policy and regulatory frameworks. I have been long inspired by the work of Sebastiao and Leila Salgado’s Instituto Tierra in Brazil, and currently by organizations like Terraformation and find renewal in Biden-Harris Administration’s current policies for climate change. The national plan calls for reducing US GHG emission levels per the Paris Accord Agreements, where emphasis lies in advancing conservation, agriculture and reforestation with the goal to conserve 30% federal lands and ocean by 2030, which is believed to account for a reduction of 20% of overall U.S. GHG emissions. I am excited to enhance my professional experience through the FRC coursework to strengthen forest conservation efforts and reduce the impact of climate change on humanity.
Not pictured: John Grove and Jordan Mannix-Lachner
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Undergraduate research associates
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Derek Wood MS