Sandra De Urioste-Stone – Former Postdoctoral Associates, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate Students
Current Graduate Students:
- Molly Bogner (MS). Assessing interpretive messaging for visitor management at Acadia National Park.
- Kit Carpenter (MS). Impact of climate change on American marten and implications for management. NRT one health and the environment trainee. (Co-advised by Dr. Danielle Levesque)
- Holland Haverkamp. Socio-ecological dynamics of wind energy. NRT conservation science trainee. (Co-advised by Dr. Brian Olsen)
- Monica Miles (MS). Parasite infections in Maine moose and sociocultural implications. NRT one health and the environment trainee. (Co-advised by Dr. Pauline Kamath)
- Keyana Pardilla (MS). Tribal approaches to indigenous lifeways. NRT one health and the environment trainee. (Co-advised by Dr. Jessica Jansujwicz)
- Megan Schierer (PhD). Socio-ecological factors of mosquito distribution. NRT one health and the environment trainee. (Co-advised by Dr. Allison Gardner)
- Alaina Woods (PhD). Moose disease ecology and risk perception. NRT one health and the environment trainee. (Co-advised by Dr. Pauline Kamath)
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Former Postdoctoral Associates:
- Dr. Anup K C (2023-2024). Current: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas.
- Dr. Sarah Jackson (2022). Current: Teaching Assistant Professor, Kansas State University.
- Dr. Julio Rodríguez (2023-2024). Current: Postdoctoral Associate at Oxford.
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Former Graduate Students:
- Elizabeth Pellecer Rivera (PhD). Understanding the relationship between tourism and mosquito-borne disease transmission. Currently works as a consultant in Guatemala.
- MacKenzie Conant (MS). Risk-perceptions of tick-borne disease in Western Maine. NRT
- conservation science trainee.
- Gab Venne (MS). Barriers and motivation to the outdoors in Maine. NRT conservation science trainee.
- Lucy Martin (MS). COVID-19 and its impacts on protected areas in Maine. NRT conservation science trainee. Currently works as Program Officer with the Maine Commission for Community Service.
- Alyssa Soucy (PhD). Shifting baseline syndrome among Maine conservationists and
- recreationists: Implications for education, planning, and spatial tools. NRT conservation science trainee. Currently an ORISE fellow at the USDA Northeast Climate Hub.
- Valeria Briones (MS). Forest phenology and resource management in Maine (Completed August 2021). NRT conservation science trainee. Currently works at Woodwell Climate Research Center.
- Asha DiMatteo-LePape (MS). Socio-ecological perspectives of moose management in Maine (Completed August 2021). NRT conservation science trainee. Currently with AmeriCorps.
- Sarah Rappaport (MS). Risk perceptions of tick-borne diseases in Maine: Surveying outdoor enthusiasts (Completed August 2021). Currently works at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Human Dimensions American Conservation Experience.
- Lydia Horne (PhD). Climate change risk and adaptation in coastal tourism destinations in Maine (Completed December 2020). NRT conservation science trainee. Currently works as postdoctoral associate at the University of Maine.
- Sandesh Shrestha (MS). Livelihoods and adaptation strategies to global changes in rural Nepal (Completed August 2019). Works as Geospatial Research Associate at Kentucky State University.
- James Elliott (MS). A socio-ecological approach to wildlife disease risk: The health of Maine moose (Completed May 2019). Currently works as process development scientist for New England Biolabs.
- Brooke Hafford MacDonald (MS). Lead exposure in Maine’s Common Loons (Completed December 2018). Currently works at Acadia National Park.
- Andrew Morgan (MS). Public perceptions of metallic mineral mining in Maine (Completed December 2017). Currently works as land steward and program director for Pound Ridge Land Conservancy.
- Emily Wilkins (MS). Economic impacts of weather and climate to Maine’s tourism industry (Completed May 2016). Currently works as a research social scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Jessica Fefer (MS). Visitor impact management frameworks (Completed August 2015). Dr. Fefer is an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University in the Horticulture and Natural Resource Department.
- Matthew Scaccia (MS). Maine residents’ attitudes toward sustainable tourism development (Completed August 2015). Currently works as an easement steward for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.
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Former Undergraduate Students:
- Erin Ciampa—Parks, Recreation, and Tourism major (Honors)
- Molly Bogner—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- Nathaniel Burke—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- MacKenzie Conant—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- Ashley Cooper—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (Honors)
- Asha DiMatteo-LePape—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (Honors)
- Nick Ferrauolo—BS in Wildlife Ecology
- Jacob Foster—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- Dimitrje Howe-Poteet—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- Amy Hughes—BA
- Hope Kohtala—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- Sarah Marsh—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- McKenna Mollner—NSF-REU student
- Andrew Morgan—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- Chelsea Patterson—NSF-REU student
- Morelys Rodriguez—NSF-REU student
- Natalie Siwek—NSF-REU student
- Augusta Stockman—NSF-REU student
- Madison Syer—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- Theresa Therriault—BS in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism