AUBREY LAB - Key Persons
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- Student - Georgia Southern University ( 2013 - 2015 )
Candice has research interests in plant ecology, non-native plant invasion and conservation management. Her MS research evaluated the germination success of Eucalyptus benthamii in southeastern fire-maintained pine forests. Candice is currently working as a biologist with the Florida Forest Service at Lake Wales Ridge Forest where she monitors rare and endangered flora and coordinates land management practices to enhance and protect natural communities.
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- Associate Professor, University of Georgia's
Ellie graduated with a degree in Forestry from The University of the South in 2017. She is interested in disturbance ecology, ecophysiology, and restoration. Her research will focus on the relationship between canopy complexity and physiological function with ecosystem resilience within old-growth longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems.
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate
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- Student - ( 2019 - Current )
Jennifer recently earned an MS in Forestry from Mississippi State University and is currently studying studying mechanistic fire effects. She is also interested in mesophication of eastern upland oak forests, feedbacks between fire and invasive species, and seed predation.
Josh has research interests in plant ecology and physiology. His MS research focused on how disturbance history impacts carbon storage in southeastern pine forests. Josh successfully defended his MS thesis in October 2015.
Mackenzie is a Master's student in the Aubrey lab. Prior to pursuing her graduate degree she worked in the Aubrey lab as a Lab Coordinator for just over two years. Her research is focusing on plant water use and how it is measured with thermal dissipation sap flow sensors. Her other research interests include foliar water uptake, tree physiology, and studying how plants influence ecosystem function.
Marley is interested in soil science, mycology, and sustainable resource production.
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- Student - ( 2019 - Current )
Ream is a recent graduate from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. He received a degree in Natural Resources and the Environment. His interests include forestry, ecology and prescribed fire management. He will be researching energy dose thresholds for tree stem mortality.
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- Student - ( 2016 - Current )
Scott's interests are in tree physiology, forest ecology, and theoretical biology. Scott studies the physiology of stored carbohydrates and their relationship to carbon allocation. His research focuses on how physiological processes give rise to observed seasonal non-structural carbohydrates dynamics. To better describe the role of non-structural carbohydrates in carbon allocation, he is running an experiment to compare the influence of summer and winter drought on non-structural carbohydrates dynamics. He is studying how storage dynamics are modeled from maximization of fitness (using optiomal control/dynamic optimization) and from eco-evolutionary selection (using adaptive dynamics).
Seth is studying how annual and seasonal transpiration varies among tree species and forest types in the southeastern US. His research encompasses very large scales, using long-term United States Geological Survey stream data to examine transpiration differences among large forested watersheds, and small scales, examining plot scale water use for fast growing bioenergy species.
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- Student - ( 2020 - Current )
Suzie is interested in the spatial pattern of longleaf pine needle dispersal and its pyrogenic impacts on longleaf pine regeneration. She worked as a research technician at the Jones Center at Ichauway in Newton, GA, and currently conducts her master's research there.
Tyler's interests include plant physiology, plant taxonomy, and mycology. He has begun working on his MS degree in the Aubrey Lab while maintaining his full-time technical position.