GradFest 2012 Awards!

Wow! at the recent 2012 GradFest, Shasta Ferranto won best paper, and Marek Jakubowski won runner-up best paper!
Congrats to our grads!

GradFest 2012 - May 4

ESPM's Graduate Research Symposium is scheduled for May 4 2012 at the East Pauley Ballroom, MLK Jr Student Union. It is shaping up to be an exciting event with 15 students, including Lisa, Shasta, and Marek presenting finishing talks, a networking mixer over lunch, graduate diversity roundtable discussion and keynote address by Annie Leonard. Titles for our grads are:

Lisa Schile – Tidal wetland vegetation in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: modeling species distribution with sea-level rise

Shasta Ferranto – Management without borders? A survey of landowner practices and attitudes towards cross-boundary cooperation

Marek Jakubowski - How I learned to love the forest: the Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project

Agenda and other details here.

Anu Kramer awarded NSF Fellowship

Anu Kramer has been selected to receive a 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. The selection was based on her outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as your potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise, and her uber-cool research proposal: Using aerial LiDAR to inform the evaluation of FIRETEC, a physics-based wildfire model.  Anu is a second year Ph.D. student coadvised by Maggi Kelly and Scott Stephens and am studying forestry, fire ecology, fire modeling, and LiDAR. Congrats to Anu!

Shasta, Ellen, and Anu making waves!

Shasta Ferranto and Ellen Kersten both have won recognition for their outstanding teaching.  Shasta won the Berkeley outstanding GSI award, and Ellen won the ESPM outstanding GSI award.  Congrats to both of them! More great news...Ellen's paper, "Do small food stores provide access to nutritious foods? Comparing database and store visit measures of the community nutrition environment" has been accepted in Preventing Chronic Disease, and has been selected as the 2012 Student Paper Contest Winner! Shasta will be starting a new job this summer as a newly minted Berkeley PhD with the Bureau of Land Management in Washington DC. She will be a Presidential Management Fellow in the Planning and NEPA division.  Anu Kramer has been selected to receive a 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Congrats to all of them.  More lab information here.

Shasta Ferranto is off to DC this summer

Shasta Ferranto will be starting a new job this summer as a newly minted Berkeley PhD with the Bureau of Land Management in Washington DC. She will be a Presidential Management Fellow in the Planning and NEPA division.  Congrats to Shasta!

More information about her new job.