People | Albright Lab for Conservation Biogeography

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People of LCB, past and present

People with interests as diverse as avian ecology, electrical engineering, meteorology, and social sciences have worked with the lab. I can advise students in Geography M.S. and PhD. program and in the interdisciplinary Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology M.S. and PhD. programs at UNR.

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PI and Lab Director

Portrait of Tom Albright

Associate Professor

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Current Grad Students

Zinat Ara

PhD. student 2023- Interests: disasters, climate change, land cover change mapping, data analysis using GIS, remote sensing, & statistics

Oyinbarakemi Ndiomu

PhD student 2023- Interests: remote sensing, urban heat dynamics, GIS, ecosystem & wildlife conservation

Michelle Werdann

M.S. student, 2024- Interests: Climate change and human impacts, Landscape cover, Cartography

Alumnae/Alumni

Postdocs

Denis Mutiibwa, PhD.

Postdoc: 2013-2015 Interests: Remote sensing, machine learning, cloud computing Currently: Foreign Agricultural Service/USDA, Washington, DC

Eric Waller, PhD.

Postdoc: 2015-2016 Interests: remote sensing, vegetation, thermography Currently: USGS Menlo Park

Grad Students

Lauren Phillips

Geography PhD, 2018-2023 Interests: conservation biology, coupled human- natural systems, remote sensing, ecological modeling, citizen science, teaching

Wade Plafcan

M.S. EECB student 2021-2022. Interests: plant ecology, human dimensions, policy, desert/mountain systems, long term monitoring, remote sensing

Rosangela Carreon, M.S.

M.S. 2018-2020 Interests: hydrology, climate change, remote sensing, GIS, teaching

David Simeral

PhD. student: 2011- 2017 Interests: Cartography, climate change and variability in mountainous regions, field meteorology and instrumentation, GIS, and snow science Currently: Desert Research Institute

Devin Jacobs, M.S.

M.S., 2015-2017 Interests: wildlife, spatial analysis, remote sensing, GIS

Nicole Shaw, M.S.

M.S., 2013-2016 Interests: Spatial analysis, remote sensing, landscape ecology, climate change, fire ecology Currently: Tahoe Resource Conservation District

Matthew Bromley, M.S.

M.S. student, 2013-2015 Interests: Remote sensing, spatial analysis, GIS, agricultural water use, and climate change Currently: Desert Research Institute

Giancarlo Sadoti, PhD.

PhD. student: 2011-2015 Interests: landscape ecology, animal ecology Currently: UNR Geography

Andrew Vitale, M.S.

M.S. student 2012-2015 Interests: Climate, weather, remote sensing, GIS, landscape ecology, surface energy balance, data mining, big data Currently: New York DOT

Undergraduates

Avery Sigarroa, B.S.

Nevada Undergraduate Research Awardee, 2022-2023

Barrie Chileen, B.A.

NSF/REU student: 2016 Interests: Fire-vegetation interactions, alpine environments, ArcGIS, plant ID, R and data collection Currently: M.A. student, Geography, Kansas State University

Sonia Heckler, B.S.

Undergraduate Researcher, 2015 Interests: climate, agriculture, applied science, outreach Currently: UNR Geography Master's student

Joy Jackson, B.S.

NSF/REU student, 2015 Interests: quantitative & qualitative methods, geospatial and policy analysis, applications for climate change adaptation, resiliency planning Currently: World Resources Institute

NSF/REU student: 2014 Interests: Geography, fresh water resources, GIS, snow hydrology, ecology, marine biology Currently: Ger Community Mapping Center

Sarah (Hardage) Mundy, B.S.

Technician: 2011-2013 Interests: Electrical engineering, programming Currently: Hughes Network Systems