Dr. Kolden
Crystal Kolden grew up in western Washington climbing trees and loving the outdoors. After getting a fairly useless bachelor's degree in history, she ended up on a Forest Service firefighting crew in California and decided that her calling was figuring out how to burn stuff legally. Over the years she has worked in most of the western US, including Alaska and Hawaii, and now gets to burn stuff AND look at satellite images of burnt stuff. When not playing with fire, she enjoys permaculture gardening in her backyard and kayaking and hiking with her dog and husband and twin boys.
Graduate Students
Vincent Jansen
Vincent S. Jansen is a northwest native, having grown up in Spokane (also his middle name) and taken his bachelor's degree in Geography at Western Washington University. After completing a stint in AmeriCorps and working for the Nature Conservancy at northeastern Oregon's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, Vincent completed an MS in Environmental Science at UI on remote sensing of grazing impacts on the bunchgrass prairie. He is now continuing to develop that research while working towards a doctorate in Geography. He is funded by an award from the TNC Priscilla Bullitt Collins Trust.
Joshua Picotte
Joshua works full-time for a contractor to the US Geoglogical Survey, EROS, where he is part of the MTBS product development and maintenance team. He resides in California.
Joshua works full-time for a contractor to the US Geoglogical Survey, EROS, where he is part of the MTBS product development and maintenance team. He resides in California.
Alumni
Dr. Arjan Meddens (post-doc, 2014-2016) - now a Research Assistant Professor at UI
Originally from the Netherlands, Arjan earned his BS (Forest and Nature Conservation) and MS (GIS and Remote Sensing) degrees from Wageningin University, and his doctorate in Environmental Science from the University of Idaho in 2012. His main research focus is on forest ecology, remote sensing, carbon cycling, and forest disturbance, using satellite and other geospatial data for assessing global change. He enjoys spending time with his wife and kids. Click here to visit Arjan's website.
Originally from the Netherlands, Arjan earned his BS (Forest and Nature Conservation) and MS (GIS and Remote Sensing) degrees from Wageningin University, and his doctorate in Environmental Science from the University of Idaho in 2012. His main research focus is on forest ecology, remote sensing, carbon cycling, and forest disturbance, using satellite and other geospatial data for assessing global change. He enjoys spending time with his wife and kids. Click here to visit Arjan's website.
Robert Hougham (postdoc, 2011-2013): Assistant Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Extension
Forrest Bowlick (MS Geography, 2012): Assistant Professor, UMass Department of Geography
Vincent Jansen (MS Environmental Science, 2014): Still here, pursuing a PhD (see above).
Katie Morrison (MS Geography, 2014): Forest Policy analyst at Oregon Department of Forestry.
Patrick Olsen (MS Geography, 2014): Instructor of Geography at UI
Ty Bleeker (MS Geography, 2015): Wilderness Education Instructor
T. Ryan McCarley (MS Geography, 2016): Spatial Analyst, Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC), Salt Lake City, Utah
John Kannady (MS Geography, 2016): GIS specialist for an archaeology firm, Atlanta, GA
Devin Yeatman (MS Natural Resources, 2017): Land Steward, The Nature Conservancy South Carolina
Aaron Sparks (PhD Natural Resources, 2017): Post-doc in the Boschetti Lab, University of Idaho
Forrest Bowlick (MS Geography, 2012): Assistant Professor, UMass Department of Geography
Vincent Jansen (MS Environmental Science, 2014): Still here, pursuing a PhD (see above).
Katie Morrison (MS Geography, 2014): Forest Policy analyst at Oregon Department of Forestry.
Patrick Olsen (MS Geography, 2014): Instructor of Geography at UI
Ty Bleeker (MS Geography, 2015): Wilderness Education Instructor
T. Ryan McCarley (MS Geography, 2016): Spatial Analyst, Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC), Salt Lake City, Utah
John Kannady (MS Geography, 2016): GIS specialist for an archaeology firm, Atlanta, GA
Devin Yeatman (MS Natural Resources, 2017): Land Steward, The Nature Conservancy South Carolina
Aaron Sparks (PhD Natural Resources, 2017): Post-doc in the Boschetti Lab, University of Idaho