People

Daniel M Griffith, Oregon State University, Research Faculty

Postdoctoral scholars

Rongting (Tina) Xu: website

Collaborations

Grassland Macroecology

• Project PI’s:
  • Dr. Chris Still (Oregon State University),
  • Dr. Brent Helliker (University of Pennsylvania),
  • Dr. Stephanie Pau (Florida State University),
  • Dr. Daniel Griffith (Oregon State University),
  • Dr. Bill Riley (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs)
  • Dr. Jesse Nippert (Kansas State University)
• Project Graduate Students:
  • Ryan “The Elder” Slapikas (Florida State University),
  • Ryan “The Younger” Donnelly (Kansas State University),
  • Adam Abudullahi (University of Pennsylvania)

Lila Leatherman, Oregon State University, PhD student: website

Undergraduates

Helen Deretchin - Wax on, Wax off: The Contribution of Epicuticular Plant Waxes to Leaf Reflectance Spectra of Tallgrass Prairie Grasses. Fieldwork at Konza Prairie, lab work, and AGU presentation.
Kai Tripician - Leaf Epicuticular Waxes and the Functional Ecology of Prairie Grasses. Fieldwork at Konza Prairie, lab work, and AGU presentation.
Nick Bowman - Maritime connectivity and mobility in the southeastern Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean during the Neopalatial Period: A GIS-based approach
Theodore Zarobell (’24 CSS) - Digital Storytelling with the Carceral Connecticut Project
Jonah Yas (’25 BIOL, ENVS) - Food insecurity in Buenos Aires during the Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983) Aidan Trendell (’25 E&ES, CIS) - Mapping deglaciation along the Glacier Express
Iris Jiang (’25 E&ES, COMP) - Digital Storytelling with the Carceral Connecticut Project
Madeline Frew (’24 ENVS, GOVT) - GIS Fellow peer-director
Xingyan Guo (’25 ANTH) - Mapping the needs of the Wesleyan Period Project
Mason Rounds (’25 ENVS, ENGL) - Environmental Justice with the University Network for Human Rights
Anya Le (’25 BIOL, E&ES) - Mapping Fossil Stories in the Joe Webb Peoples Museum
Alessandro Kashap (’25) - Racialized capitalism and control, Carceral Connecticut Project
Linda Lu (’24 ANTH) - Mapping Fossil Stories in the Joe Webb Peoples Museum
Sofie Reitema (’26 ECON, GOVT) - Environmental Justice with the University Network for Human Rights
Kolby Durocher (’25) - God and Guns
Kolby Durocher (’25) - Mapping Gentrification with Census Data
Joaquina Guevara (’23) - Mapping Gentrification with Census Data
Fletcher Levy (’25) - Mapping Fossil Stories in the Joe Webb Peoples Museum
Hannah Steinberg (’24) - Mapping Fossil Stories in the Joe Webb Peoples Museum
Reese Chahal - Mapping the Borderlands: the U.S.-Mexico Border and Digital Storytelling
Caroline Jenkins - Schemers and Redeemers: Capitalism and Christianity in the Early Republic
Kayla Loubriel (’22) - Biome Awareness Disparity in the conservation and ecological literature
Linda Lu - Musical Geographies of Central Asia
Will Wallentine (’23) - Mapping Fire Refugia
Drew Gessel - Mapping the Soil Properties of Oaxaca, Mexico
Rishi Bhagat (’25) - City Diplomacy and Foreign Direct Investment