Current Members of the Boone Group:

• Melody Zarria
  Melody began working in August 2018 on a Ph.D. program in which she will explore the ways that glacial retreat in Peru will affect pastoral people and landscapes at high elevations.

• Spencer Burkhart
  Spencer Burkhart is working on a USDA-supported project looking at ways to use optimization methods to design virtual fencing plans for ranchers. He joined a Ph.D. program with the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology in 2023.

• McKenna Short
  McKenna Short is working on two projects for her PhD. One seeks to assess effects of climate change on water quality in the New York City watershed, and how best management practices may improve quality. The second project is simulating the supply chain for selected foods going to New York City.

Past graduates and other members of the Boone Group:

• Allison Kohler, Ph.D (2024)
  Allie worked on our project that is simulating white-tailed deer behavior in Massachusetts and New York. Allie is now with the USDA working with pest species management.

• Mai Awad, Ph.D. (2023)
  Mai Awad worked on a Ph.D. program with Dr. Mark Brown on pollinators, pesticides, and heavy metals. Dr. Brown left the university, and I had the pleasure of advising Ms. Awad in her final year of study and dissertation preparation.

• Arianna Punzalan, M.S. (2020)
  She conducted a GIS analysis on California Condors, studying how likely it is for two separate populations to merge into a single group.

• Sam Gersie, M.S. (2020)
  Sam earned his M.S. degree while simulating the behavior of livestock at the Central Plains Experimental Range. He is now working on spatial analyses for the Bureau of Land Management.

• Miao Zhongqi, M.S. (2016)
  Miao earned his M.S. degree and studied how vegetation responds to grazing, and applying that knowledge to our global rangeland model G-Range. He developed a grazing model that allows primary, secondary, and tertiary relationships to be turned on and off in simulations. He is now in a Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley

• Jared Stabach, Ph.D. (2015)
  Jared was the CSU Ph.D. graduate student conducting wildebeest research under the Gnu Landscapes project. He is now with the Smithsonian Institute.

• Kevin Blecha, M.S. (2014)
  Kevin earned an M.S. degree while he studied mountain lion prey use and its distribution, with support from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. He now works for that organization.

• Ben Wilson, M.S. (2014)
  

  Ben studied desert bighorn sheep in Colorado, with support from the Bureau of Land Management and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

• Gloria Summay, M.S. (2013)
  

  Gloria compared management issues in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania and the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Reserve in Colorado. Gillian Bowser and I advised Gloria, with Gillian her primary mentor.

• Emily Dommermuth, B.S. (2013)
  

  Emily was a Honors Undergraduate Research Scholarship recipient whom I advised.

• Nicholas Bartush, B.S. (2013)
  

  Nick was a Honors Undergraduate Research Scholarship recipient whom I advised.

• Katharine Fielding, B.S. (2013)
  

  Katherine was a Honors Undergraduate Research Scholarship recipient. She wrote an honors thesis on plans for a road through the Serengeti National Park.