Alumni
PhD
Colin Beier: PhD, Biological Sciences, 2007
Webpage: http://www.esf.edu/aec/beier/default.htm
Dissertation title: “Regional Climate, Federal Land Management, and the Social-Ecological Resilience of Southeastern Alaska”. Click here to download.
Current position: Research Ecologist, Faculty of Forest and Natural Resources Management and Adirondack Ecological Center, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF)
Todd Brinkman: PhD, Biology, 2009
Dissertation title: “Sitka Black-Tailed Deer Hunting Systems”. Click here to download.
Current position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Institue of Arctic Biology, UAF.
Matthew Druckenmiller: PhD, Geophysics, 2011
Dissertation title: “Alaska Shorefast Ice: Interfacing Geophysics with Local Sea Ice Knowledge and Use" Click here to download.
Nancy Fresco: PhD, Biological Sciences, 2006
Webpage: www.snap.uaf.edu
Dissertation title: “Carbon Sequestration in Alaska 's Boreal Forest: Planning for Resilience in a Changing Landscape”. Click here to download.
Current position: PhD post doctoral researcher / Network Coordinator, Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Science University of Alaska Fairbanks
Stacey Fritz, Phd Anthropology, 2010
safritz@alaska.edu
Dissertation title: “DEW Line Passage: Tracing the Legacies of Arctic Militarization"
Anna Godduhn: PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2011
Dissertation title: The Northway Wild Food and Health Project: Confronting the legacy of Toxic Waste Along the Alcan". Click here to download.
Amanda Kolker: PhD, Geology, 2008
Dissertation title: “Geologic Setting of the Central Alaska Hot Springs Belt: Implications for Geothermal Resource Capacity and Sustainable Energy Production”. Click here to download.
Meagan Boltwood Krupa: PhD, Biological Sciences, 2009
Jordan Lewis: PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, 2010
Thesis title: "Successful Aging Through the Eyes of Alaska Natives. The Health and Wellbeing of Alaska Native Elders In Bristol Bay, AK ” Click here to download.
Current position: Assistant Professor, College of Rural and Community Development
Philip Loring, PhD, Anthropology, 2010
Thesis title: “Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder”
Climate, Health, and Food Security in Alaska. Click here to download.
Karen Mager: PhD, Biological Sciences, 2012
Dissertation title: Population Structure and Hybridization of Alaskan Caribou and Reindeer: Integrating Genetics and Local Knowledge". Click here to download.
Dawn Magness: PhD, Biological Sciences, 2009
Thesis title: “Management and Climate Change in the National Wildlife Refuge System: The Interaction of Policy, Belief Systems, and Knowledge”. Click here to download.
Alison Meadow: PhD, Anthropology, 2009
Thesis title: "Evaluating and Designing Urban Food Systems: The Role of Local Initiatives". Click here to download.
Currently finishing an M.S. in Urban Planning at the University of Arizona.
Chanda Meek: PhD, Natural Resources and Sustainability, 2009
Dissertation title: “Comparing Marine Mammal Co-Management Regimes In Alaska: Three Aspects Of Institutional Performance". Click here to download.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Politcal Science, UAF.
Dissertation title: “Seasons Out of Balance: Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Sustainable Adaptation in Interior Alaska". Click here to download.
Current position: Post doctoral fellow at Integrated Science Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak: PhD, Anthropology, 2007
Dissertation title: “How the Devils Went Deaf : Ethnomycology, Cuisine, and Perception of Landscape in the Russian North”. Click here to download.
Current position: Post doctoral researcher, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
James Powell, PhD Natural Resources and Sustainability, 2012
Dissertation title: Conditions for Effective Use of Community Sustainability Indicators and Adaptive Learning . Click here to download.
Martin Robards: PhD, Biological Sciences, 2008
Dissertation title: “Perspectives on the Dynamic Human-Walrus Relationship”. Click here to download.
Jennifer Schmidt: PhD, Biological Sciences, 2007
Dissertation title: “Ecological and Social Influences on Population Dynamics and Genetics of Moose in Alaska ”. Click here to download.
Current position: Post Doctoral Fellow with EPSCoR Program at University of Alaska Fairbank, studying wildlife as part of northern social-ecological systems.
Laura Henry-Stone: PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008
Dissertation title: “Cultivating Sustainability through Participatory Action Research: Place-based Education and Community Food Systems in Interior Alaska”. Click here to download.
Current position: Term Assistant Professor in the Education Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks .
MASTERS
Stacia Backensto: Masters, Biology, 2009
Alina Cushing: MS, Natural Resources Management, 2009
Thesis title: “The Potential of Lodgepole Pine in Alaska ”. Click here to download.
Current position: Research assistant with Institute of Arctic Biology studying community based ecological monitoring.
Dael Devenport: MS Anthropology, 2011
Thesis title: “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe: An Exploration of How People Make Consumption Choices in Fairbanks, Alaska ”
La'ona de Wilde: MS, Bio, 2008
Thesis title: "Human Impacts to Fire Regime in Interior Alaska"
Current position: Now doing Biological Sciences PhD with RAP at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Jean Marie Guzzetti: MS, Natural Resources Management, 2007
jmguzzetti@efficiencymainetrust.com
Thesis title: “Factors Contributing to the Participation of Organizations in a Voluntary Environmental Program: The Case of Green Star, Anchorage , Alaska ”. Click here to download.
Current position: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Coordinator, State of Maine Public Utilities Commission .
Philip Loring: MA Anthroplogy, 2007
Thesis title: “Coming Out of the Foodshed : Change and Innovation in Rural Alaskan Food Systems”. Click here to download.
Current position: Now doing an Anthropology PhD with RAP, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jill Maynard: Masters, Natural Resources Management, 2010
Thesis title: “Factors Influencing Renewable Energy Development in Rural Alaska Communities”. Click here to download
Marcy Okada: Masters, Natural Resources Management, 2010
Thesis title: "The Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches for Measuring Traditional Food Sharing in Communities on the North Slope of Alaska." Click here to download.
Josephine- Mary Osafu Sam: Masters Natural Resources Management, 2011.
Thesis title: "How Does Improved Access to Clean Water Impact Rural Communities? An Evaluation of the Impacts of Clean Water in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of Ghana." Click here to download.
Elisabeth Robins Padilla : Masters, Wildlife Biology and Conservation, 2010
Thesis title: "Caribou leadership: A study of Traditional Knowledge, Animal Behavior, and Policy" Click here to download.
Kumi Rattenbury: M.S. Biology, 2006
Thesis title: "Reindeer Herding, Weather and Enviornmental Change on the Seward Pennisula, Alaska." Click here to download.
Current position: Ecologist with the Arctic Network Inventory and Monitoring Program of the National Park Service in Fairbanks .
Melissa Robinson: MS, Wildlife Biology, 2005
Thesis title: "Linking Local Knowledge and Fisheries Science: The Case with Humpback Whitefish (Coregonus pidschian) in The upper Tanana drainage of Alaska". Click here to download.
Current position: Wildlife Outreach Educator at the Ogden Nature Center, Ogden, Utah.
Colin Shanley: MS, Biology, 2008
Thesis title: " Balancing the Conservation of Wildlife Habitat with Road Access for Subsistence Hunting in Yakutat, Alaska". Click here to download.
Current position: Conservation Planner / GIS Analyst, The Nature Conservancy, Alaska Coastal Forests Program, Juneau, Alaska.
Kathleen McGlone West: Masters, Biology, 2009
Thesis title: “Lessons from the River: Identifying Factors that Influence Comprehension of Genetics Research in a Yup’ik Eskimo Community” Click here to download.
Stephen Winslow: MS, Natural Resources Management, 2008
Thesis title: “Tree Growth History, Climate Sensitivity, and Growth Potential of Black and White Spruce Along the Middle Kuskokwim River, Alaska”. Click here to download.
Current position: Supervisory Natural Resources Manager with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Email: uaf-rap@alaska.edu Phone: 907-474-7987 PO Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000
