Staff
Managing Director ASCEND--Advancing Spectral biology in Changing ENvironments to understand Diversity
Lab manager and technician: 
Cathleen Lapadat 612-624-6951
Postdoctoral associates/Research Scientists
Accurate detection of oak diseases and drought using hyperspectral and ecophysiological tool |
Macroecology and evolution, community assembly, functional traits | |
Mapping temperate forests and their stresses |
Ecophysiological variation with habitat and climate in global oaks |
Ph.D. students
Spectral detection of plant diversity, plasticity and adaptation to climate |
Forest biodiversity loss, plant ecophysiology, climate change, plant-soil interactions, remote sensing/spectral biology, art-based science communication |
Former Students and Postdocs
Ph.D. 2020 |
PhD 2019, Post Doc 2020 | |
Post Doc 2017-2019 |
PhD 2018, Post Doc 2019 |
Post Doc 2014-2018 |
PhD 2017 |
PhD 2017, Post Doc 2017-19 |
Post Doc 2014-2018 |
Post Doc 2015-2017 |
PhD, 2015 |
Post Doc, 2013-2016 |
Post Doc, 2012-2014 | Post Doc, 2012-2015 |
PhD, 2010; Post Doc, 2010 |
PhD, 2014 |
PhD, 2010 |
PhD, 2013 |
Post Doc, 2005-2006 |
Post Doc, 2004-2006 |
PhD, 2009 |
Jose Ramirez-Valiente 
Former Visiting Scholars
Associate Prof. Wei Wang, Peking University, Soil and microbial ecology
Visiting Ph.D. student
PhD Student Vinicius Marcilio da Silva
Community Assembly, diversity and ecosystem service trade-offs in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.
Visiting Post Doc 2013
Plant ecophysiology
