Bowman Lab Group- current and former students, postdocs

 
Current graduate students

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Courtney Meier, B.A. Pomona 1998, chemistry; working towards a PhD; thesis topic: feedbacks between plant secondary chemicals and soil microbial communities

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Lab Beast


Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, B.A. UC Berkeley 2003, Integrative Biology; research interest:  identification of integrated hotspots of nutrient cycling at a landscape level
working towards a PhD

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Kallin Tea, B.S. Stanford 2004, Biology;
working towards a PhD

Kallin


Undergraduate students


Mike Sekor, REU program, Vassar College; ecophylogenetics of alpine plant communities


Research Assistant
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John Murgel, BA, University of Colorado, 2005

on top of Mount Albion, establishing GLORIA plots


Former Postdoc


 
 
 
 
 

Katie Suding, PhD, University of Michigan 1999; Research interests: interplay between plant competition, community structure, and soil processes currently Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine. 
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Katie

Former Research Assistant


 Heather


Heather Bechtold, B.A. University of  Colorado; currently PhD student at Idaho State University.
Former Graduate Students


 
 
 

Terry Theodose, PhD 1995; currently Associate Professor, University of  Southern Maine
 

Terry


 

 Ed Grote

Ed Grote, M.A. 1995; Environmental controls on symbiotic  N2-fixation;  currently working for the National Park Service, Moab, UT


 

Heidi Steltzer, PhD. 1999; Plant control over N cycling in alpine moist meadows; currently a Research Scientist at Colorado State University

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Amy Miller, PhD. 2001; Plant use of different forms of N as a potential means of alleviating competition; currently working as an Ecologist for the National Park Service, Inventory and Monitoring Program, Southwest Alaska Network

 
 

Julia Larson M.A.2003; Variability in microbial resource limitations associated with plant species in alpine moist meadows, currently teaching high school science, Berkeley CA

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Tara Forbis, PhD. 2002; Seedling establishment and life history strategies of alpine plants; currently research coordinator, Nature Conservancy, Ely Nevada

Lee Turner, PhD. 2002; Influence of climate change on alpine plant phenology and reproductive output

Mary Damm, MBS 2002; Patterns of vascular plant diversity in the alpine; currently a graduate student at the University of Indiana



Former undergraduate Students 


Colin Tucker , honors student; thesis project- The influence of plant litter on microbial activity in alpine soils; currently PhD student, University of Alaska
 

Sara Desplaines,  honors student- thesis project- Plant diversity influences on N sequestration in the alpine
Sara

Meg Mobley
Meg Mobley, REU student (Duke University), currently PhD student, Duke University

Colin

Michelle Huyser,  REU student (Calvin College)- project- Interaction of plant species effects versus physical environmental controls on N cycling


Fronny
Fronny Plume, REU program, University of Colorado, currently PhD student, Cornell

Eileen Thorsos, REU program, Swarthmore, currently PhD student, Duke University

Meredith Albright, REU program, Colorado College, currently PhD student, University of Colorado

Julitza Nieves, REU program, University of Puerto Rico