Cavender-Bares Lab People

Staff

Managing Director ASCEND--Advancing Spectral biology in Changing ENvironments to understand Diversity:

Brett Fredericksen

Lab and data manager: Juan Ramírez Lerma

Lab technicians: Allison Scott

Lab phone: 612-624-6951

Postdoctoral associates/Research Scientists

 

 Antonio Guzmán Quesada

Mapping temperate forests and their stresses 

Mariana Hernandez Leal

Steven Augustine

 

 

Vinicius Marcilio da Silva

Functional biology and remote sensing of tree diversity in the urban landscape

Brett Fredericksen

Using spectral biology to link genes to function

 

Ph.D. students

 

 

Lucy Schroeder

climate adaptation of trees, plasticity, spectral biology

 

Maria Park

forest diversity, soil processes, ecophysiology, remote sensing, art-based science communication

Laura Ostrowsky

Adaptive differentiation in physiology and function among tree populations; forest ecology 

Sally Donovan

linking above and belowground function in urban forests

Former Students and Postdocs

 

 

Gerard Sapes

Post Doc 2018-2021
Accurate detection of oak wilt

 

 

Clarissa Fontes

Post Doc 2018-2021
Ecophysiological variation with habitat
and climate in global oaks
 

Jesus Pinto-Ledezma

 

Shan Kothari

Ph.D. 2020

 

 

Jen Teshera-Levye

PhD 2019, Post Doc 2020

 

 

 

Josep Padulles

Post Doc 2017-2019

 

 

Laura Williams

 

 

Jose Eduardo Meireles

Post Doc 2014-2018

 

Jake Grossman

PhD 2017

 

Beth Fallon

PhD 2017
Post Doc 2017-2019

 

Anna Schweiger

Post Doc 2014-2018

 

 

Nick Deacon

Post Doc 2015-2017

 

Alyson Center 

PhD, 2015

Matthew Kaproth

Post Doc, 2013-2016

 

Will Pearse

 

Will Pearse 

Post Doc, 2012-2014

 

  Jose Ramírez-Valiente 

Post Doc, 2012-2015

 

 

Jessica Savage

PhD, 2010; Post Doc, 2010

 

 

 Xiaojing Wei

PhD, 2014

 

 

 Paul Gugger

PhD, 2010

 

 

Gina Quiram

PhD, 2013

 

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 Antonio Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Post Doc, 2005-2006

 

 

 Jeffrey Klemens

Post Doc, 2004-2006

 

 

Nick Deacon 

PhD, 2009


Former Visiting Scholars

 

Associate Prof. Wei Wang, Peking University, Soil and microbial ecology

 

Prof. Wei Wang

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 PhD 2013 

 

Mariana Alvarez Anorve

Plant ecophysiology

 

Mariana Anorve