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Tyson Swetnam and Kit O'Connor shared the honor of top honor in Agriculture and Environmental Sciences as well as the President's Award at the Homecoming Student Showcase.  The winning poster's title was  "Mapping Forests in 3-D: Applications of Vegetation Mapping from Aerial Lasers."

My research interests include carbon dynamics, fire ecology, restoration ecology, and remote sensing. I am currently employed by the US Forest Service under the Student Temporary Experience Program (STEP). My work for the USFS involves quantifying the amount of above ground carbon in the Coronado National Forest through remotely sensed data calibrated with ground-truth measurements.

Don Falk is Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona, with joint appointments in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. His research focuses on fire history, fire ecology, dendroecology, and restoration ecology, including multi-scale studies of fire as an ecological and physical phenomenon.

Dr. John Koprowski in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment takes a special interest in what happens to populations at the edges of their range. Range edges are constantly growing due to fragmentation - and these are the places where we are likely to see striking ecological shifts as the climate changes.