Congratulations, graduates!

Congratulations to the SNRAS graduates who received their diplomas May 13.

Baccalaureate degrees
Adriana Amaya, B.S. Natural Resources Management: Plant, Animal and Soil Sciences
Adrian Baer, B.A. Geography and B.S. Geography Environmental Studies
Marco Delgado, B.A. Geography
Laurel Gale, B.S., Natural Resources Management: Plant, Animal and Soil Sciences.
Kelsey Gobroski, B.S. Natural Resources Management: Plant, Animal and Soil Sciences
Brianna Graves, B.S. Natural Resources Management
Bryn Hamey, B.A. Geography
Stephen Hanik Jr., B.A. Geography, History
Heidi Isernhagen, Ba.A. Geography
Alexander Kellerhals, B.A. Geography
Eric Merrill, B.S. Natural Resources Management: Forest Sciences
Charles L. Parr, B..S. Geography: Landscape Analysis and Climate Change Studies (Golden Key Honor Society)
Cody Priest, B.S. Geography: Geographic Information Science and Technology
Brian Robertson, B.S. Natural Resources Management: High Latitude Agriculture
Nina Schwinghammer, B.S. Geogrpahy: Landscape Analysis and Climate Change Studies
Erik Soederstroem, B.S. Geography: Landscape analysis and Climate Change (magna cum laude, Honors Thesis Scholar)
Nicholas Toye, B.A. Geography
Cherish Yuke, B.S. Natural Resources Management: High Latitude Agriculture


Master's degrees
Rebecca Baird, M.S. Natural Reources Management
Tina Buxbaum, M.S. Natural Resources Management
Marsha Henderson, Master's in Natural Resources Management and Geography
Kara Moore, Master's in Natural Resources Management and Geography (Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society)
Josephine-Mary Osafo-Adu Sam, M.S. Natural Resources Management (Golden Key Honor Society)
Mary Elizabeth Parent, M.S. Natural Resources Management
Tracy Rogers, M.S. Natural Resources Management

Doctoral degrees

David D'Amore, (pictured above) Ph.D. Natural Resources and Sustainability. Thesis: Hydrologic Controls of Carbon Fluxes in Alaskan Coastal Temperate Rainforest Soils. Major professor, Dr. David Valentine.

James Powell, (pictured above) Ph.D. Natural Resources and Sustainability. Thesis: Condition for Effective Use of Community Sustainability Indicators for Adaptive Learning. Major professor, Dr. Gary Kofinas.

Aiquin Zhao, Ph.D. High Latitude Agriculture, Interdisciplinary Program. Thesis: Assessment and Prediction of Potentially Mineralizable Organic Nitrogen for Subarctic Alaska Soils. Major Professor, Dr. Mingchu Zhang.

SNRAS staffer Lola Oliver, (pictured above) manager of the Forest Soils Laboratory, earned her Ph.D. in Geology. Thesis: Characterization of Permafrost Development by Isotopic and Chemical Analysis of Soil Core Samples Taken from the Copper River Basin and an Upland Loess Deposit in Interior Alaska. Major professor, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky.

Further reading:

UAF Class of 2012: Record-setting group is largest graduating class in school's historyFairbanks Daily News-Miner, May 13, 2012, by Jeff Richardson