Past Ph.D. Students
Manuja Aparekke, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 Across the Supply Chain of the Forestry Sector in the Southern United States.
Spring 2022 - Summer 2026
Kanchana Balasubramanian, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Ecological and Social Dimensions of Ecosystem Services: Gendered Perceptions and Spatial Prioritization for Sustainable Forest Management and Conservation Planning.
Spring 2021 - Summer 2025
Hosne Ara Akter, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Economics and Carbon Intensity of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Derived from Forestry Biomass in the Southestern United States.
Summer 2020 - Spring 2025, Co-advised with Dr. Bruno Da Silva
Asiful Alam, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Exploring the Sustainability of Forestry Resources at the Nexus of Changing Land USe and Cliamte: A Case Study from the Guld Coast of the Panhandle Florida.
Spring 2021 - Fall 2023
Parag Kadam, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Multi-level Approach for Assessing the Trends and Impacts of Forest Certification.
Fall 2019 - Spring 2022
Kazi Ullah, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Modeling Adoption of Carinata Production and Designing the Supply Chain of Carinata-based Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production in the Southern United States.
Summer, 2018 - Spring 2022
Omid Karami, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Assessing Environmental and Economic Impacts of Carinata-based Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the SE United States.
Fall 2017 - Summer 2021
Ranjit Bawa, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Ecological and Economic Tradeoffs associated with Land Cover Change and Water Services in southeast United States.
Fall 2017 - Spring 2021
Farhad Masum, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Projecting the Sustainability of Biopower Generation in Georgia, United States.
Summer 2017 - Fall 2020
Fabio Secanho, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Using Spatial Models to Analyze the Provision of Ecosystem Services in the Upper Chattahoochee Watershed, Georgia, United States.
Fall 2017 - Fall 2020
Karuna Paudel, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Increasing efficacy of longleaf pine restoration efforts in the southern united states at multile scale.
Fall 2016 - Summer 2020
Noah Goyke, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Linking Heirs' Property and Sustainable Forestry: Insights from African American Family Forest Landowners in Georgia, USA.
Summer 2017 - Spring 2017
Suraj Upadhaya, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: Keep it Green or Make it Blue: Understanding the Dynamics of Land Use Changes and its Impacts on Ecosystem Services in the Context of Deforestation due to Blueberry Expansion in Southern Georgia, USA.
Fall 2015 - Summer 2019
Arundhati Jagadish, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: New Summer, Old Winter: Household Energy Transitions in Rural Himalayas of India.
Fall 2014 - Spring 2018