Integrating wildlife conservation into sustainable forest stewardship
Photo by Tristan Spinski
Jared D. Wolfe
jdwolfe *at* mtu.edu
Assistant Professor
College of Forest Resources & Environmental Science
Michigan Technological University
Research Associate
Wildlife Department
Humboldt State University
Research Associate
Klamath Bird Observatory
Education
PhD, Louisiana State University, 2014
MSc, Humboldt State University, 2010
BSc, Humboldt State University, 2006
Lab Members
Tiff DeGroote, PhD student
(co-advised with Dr. Kristin Brzeski)
Research: Biodiversity assessments and conservation in central African Protected Areas.
Maria "Lulu" Ferrer, MSc student
(co-advised with Dr. Kristin Brzeski & Dr. David Flaspohler)
Research: Dynamics of avian malaria in northern Michigan.
Samuel Lopes Oliveira, PhD student
(co-advised with Dr. David Flaspohler)
Research: Assessing migrant bird communities in Mexican oil palm plantations, and determining the efficacy of using carbon offsets to conserve migrant birds on their tropical wintering grounds.
PhD student, Sam Oliveira, introduces his research focused on assessing the value of forest fragments for Wood Thrush across the Caribbean Slope of Costa Rica -- an area dominated by pineapple farming.
Lab Alumni
Seth Finkel, MSc student
(co-advised with Dr. David Flaspohler)
Research: Response of Ruffed Grouse to dissimilar forestry management practices.
Breanna Gusick, MSc student, alumnus
Research: Effects of different silviculture treatments on small mammal diversity in northern hardwoods.
MSc student, Bre Gusick, discussing her trapping techniques used to assess small mammal communities across different silviculture prescriptions
Tony Lammers, MSc student, alumnus
Research: Winter range expansion of songbird communities in North America.
Tori Engler, Undergraduate student, alumnus
Research: Assessing Eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) survival and physiological condition across different silviculture prescriptions in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Andrew Wiegardt, MSc student (Humboldt State University) alumnus
Research: Epigenetic action of forest-dwelling birds along a disturbance gradient in Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa.
Read Andrew's thesis here.
Collaborators
