Scientists
Callie Jo Schweitzer, Research Forester and Team Leader (January 2001)
Forestry Technicians
Ryan Sisk, Lead Forestry Technician (January 2003)
Nathan Brown, Forestry Technician (October 2006)
Trey Petty, Forestry Technician (June 2008)
Administrative Support
Nancy Bastin, Office Automation Clerk (June, 2006)
We also use Joanne Watson (Bent Creek) for administrative assistance
Students
From Alabama A&M University unless otherwise noted:
Undergraduate: Jaimie Hernandez (worked on riparian study 2003)
Heidi Ceruto (riparian study 2003)
Mary Opal Gomez (summer student 2004)
Sue Sparks (worked on sprout study 2003)
Maria McDougal (sprout study 2003)
Cameron Seals (Jackson county study 2002)
Andrew Cantrel (miscellaneous studies 2006)
Marvin Gaines (Jackson county study 2006)
Mbeli Tenyah (Bankhead study 2006)
Molly Wick (Bankhead study 2006, University of Wisconsin)
Adrian Johnson (summer student; Jackson county study 2003, 2004)
Marcus Bradley (summer student 2003)
Reginold Randolph (summer student 2005)
Raphael Soto (miscellaneous studies 2004)
Kelvin Young (herpetofauna Jackson county 2002)
Thomas Graham (summer student 2002)
Jennifer Rice (summer student 2002, University of Missouri)
Latoya Smith (Bankhead study 2006)
Santries Cook (Bankhead study 2006)
Brian Norris (Bankhead study 2006)
Kendra Smith (Bankhead study 2006)
Kimothy McGarity (Bankhead study 2006)
Cataria David (Bankhead study 2006)
Earlene Bracy (Bankhead study 2006)
Joseph Graham (Bankhead study 2006)
Andrew Brown (Bankhead study 2006)
Michael Jordon (Bankhead study 2006)
DeAnte Augustine (Bankhead study 2006)
Ben Stennett (summer student 2006,2008 Auburn University)
Jonathan Lampley (summer student 2007, Tuskegee University)
Chip Ryars (summer student 2008, University of the South)
Kevin Scruggs (summer student 2009, Tuskegee University)
Graduate:
Adrian Lesak (Songbird Response to Gradations of Overstory Canopy Retention in the Cumberland Plateau Oak-Hickory Forests of Northern Alabama, MS, graduated 2005)
Zach Felix (Response of Forest Herpetofauna to Varying Levels of Overstory Tree Retention in Northern Alabama, PhD candidate, graduated 2007)
Stephanie Love (Response to Light Intensity on the Regeneration of Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra L.) Outplanted Under Clearcut and Seventy-Five Percent Basal Area Retention, MS; left program in 2004)
Suen Shi (Estimating Forest Productivity Using Remotely Sensed Data, PhD candidate; left program in 2004)
John Carpenter (Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Requirements of Cerulean Warblers in Northern Alabama, MS, graduated 2007)
Shanta Parajuli (Forest Type Mapping and Forest Site Classification of Northeastern Alabama Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, MS, graduated 2006)
William Sutton (Forest Herpetofaunal Response to Prescribed Burning and Thinning in Pine-Hardwood Forests, PhD candidate)
Lisa Gardner Barillas (Census and Stopover Ecology of Nearctic-Neotropical Fall Migrating Passerines and Near-Passerines of the Walls of Jericho, Jackson County, Alabama, MS)
Joel Zak (Herbaceous Vegetation Response Under Thinning and Prescribed Burning Regimes on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama, MS)
Florance Chan (An Inventory of Herpetofauna of the State Conservation Lands in the Cumberland Plateau of Northern Alabama, MS, graduated 2007)
Jill Wick (Songbird Breeding Ecology: Response to Forest Management on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama, MS)
Reginold Randolph (Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing to Detect and Identify Causes of Forest Fragmentation in the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama, MS)
Ashantye Williams (Molecular Phylogeography of red oaks (Quercus spp., section Erthyrobalanus) of the Southern Cumberland Plateau, PhD candidate)
Meiko Thompson (Soil Chemistry Changes Under Imposed Disturbances on the Bankhead National Forest, PhD candidate)
Chelsea Scott (Use of Vernal Ponds by Breeding Salamanders in the Forest Dominated Landscape of the Cumberland Plateau of Northern Alabama Phase I: Diversity, Temporal Patterns, and Habitat Effect, MS)
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