Chieppa's primary project is a USDA NIFA funded investigation of how local adaptation of Panicum virgatum (switchgrass) affects physiological temperature acclimation using a reciprocal transplant experiment across three sites (Texas, Missouri, and Michigan).

Ciaramitaro provides administrative and technical support for the Peresin Lab in the Forest Products Development Center.

Gilbert assists in all levels of forest management of the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center, including the management of its 5,350 acres, the center's GIS system, and the facilitation of activities and instruction for user groups.

Harder is applying genomic, phenotypic, and remote sensing data to investigate the relative influences of genetics and the environment on individual fitness in a wild population of kangaroo rats.

Isik collects, synthesizes, and analyzes environmental, meteorological, soil, and water data to test new modules of the Wetland Water Quality model (WetQual) beside maintaining the development of the WetQual.

Klingbeil studies how environmental changes (energy availability, land use, and climate) influence biodiversity of North American birds to develop predictive models that can inform conservation decisions.

Kush performs research related to forest stand dynamics, fire ecology, and restoration ecology; teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in these subject areas; and is an affiliate faculty with the Office of University Writing.

Madere is assisting with assessing wild pig impacts on water and soil quality, as well as performing disease sampling and testing.

Gomez-Maldonado is assisting in coordinating research about interactions between bio-based polymers and water emerging contaminants and food allergens using surface sensitive techniques; as well as in the production and characterization of cellulose-based aero and hydrogels.

Musah's research is related to downed timber for CLT manufacturing, NIR for wood properties, OSB, MDF, particle board manufacturing and testing for durability, and use of MDI and soya combination in composite manufacturing.

Newbolt manages research operations at the Deer Research Laboratory facility in Camp Hill, Ala., and assists graduate students with current projects. His primary research interests include ungulate reproductive ecology and wildlife census methods.

Payne plans and conducts field research and disseminates information related to herbicide use, weed control and other production issues in bareroot and container nurseries for the Southern Forest Nursery Management Cooperative.

Ramirez provides research and ecological monitoring support to the Natural Resources Management Branch at Fort Benning to ensure the sustainable management and restoration of military training lands.

Stokes develops research protocols, conducts field research and disseminates research results on water and carbon relations, environmental and silvicultural influences on physiological response, and physiological mechanisms controlling productivity in forest trees.

Yang studies the mechanisms of spread and distribution patterns of Chinese tallow invasion within the native forest ecosystems in the coastal area of the Southeastern United States and the oak decline and restoration evaluation and modeling in the hardwood forests of the Central United States.

Yao develops hydrological, and water quality components of terrestrial ecosystem model and disseminates research results on climatic and anthropogenic influences on the physical and biogeochemical processes within the inland water ecosystem and the associate greenhouse gas emissions at a continental level.