THE TEAM
Prospective students are welcome to e-mail Dr. Huff with questions about available funding and are encouraged to pursue independent funding opportunities. Please see the Department of Forestry's graduate study page for more information about the degree program. Undergraduate hourly work, research internships, and independent studies are often available.
Incoming Ph.D. students can apply for the NSF graduate research fellowship.
Incoming post-doctoral scholars may be eligible to apply for a SESYNC fellowship or an NSF SBE fellowship. Graduate students interested in community-based participatory research may be able to fund their field work here.
Incoming Ph.D. students can apply for the NSF graduate research fellowship.
Incoming post-doctoral scholars may be eligible to apply for a SESYNC fellowship or an NSF SBE fellowship. Graduate students interested in community-based participatory research may be able to fund their field work here.
Dr. Emily S. Huff
Emily is an assistant professor in human dimensions of forestry at Michigan State University. Emily's research focuses on coupled human and natural systems. She integrates social and ecological data to predict and explore 1) the effects of human behavior on forest ecosystems and 2) the influence of resource quality and availability on decision-making. Emily has a B.A. in Environmental studies and music composition from Brandeis University, an M.S. in Natural Resource Science and Management from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Social Science and Forestry from the University of Maine. When not analyzing data or writing grants and papers, she can be found running her dog Zelda, playing piano, and traveling the world.
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Antoinette Shirley, PhD Student, 2018 -
Alex White, PhD Student, 2018 -
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Dr. Kamla Gaur, Research Associate |
Erika Kraus, PhD Student, 2013-2019
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Kamla Gaur is a Research Scholar from University of Nottingham-UK. She has a multi-disciplinary background in Forestry, Geography and Natural Resources Management. Before, moving to MSU, Kamla completed a PhD from the University of Nottingham in UK, where she studied the process of forest land rights settlement in indigenous territories of India. Kamla is an alumnus of the University of Copenhagen – Denmark, the Technical University of Dresden – Germany and the Indian Institute of Forest Management. She has worked with various forest-dependent communities in India, Nepal, Ethiopia, Bolivia and Indonesia. Her research interests largely focus around the social, cultural and political aspects of forest use and management. At MSU, Kamla is exploring research projects focusing gender mainstreaming in American forest policies, and relevance of translating science in forest policy-making.
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Erika Kraus is a doctoral candidate in the Michigan State University Forestry Department, broadly interested in how people affect nature. She is studying human-nature interactions through the ecosystem service science framework, specifically how changes in the biophysical environment affect the provision of cultural ecosystem services in the Republic of Benin.
Erika is from north-eastern Kansas. She earned bachelor’s degrees in Biology and French, and then joined the United States Peace Corps and served in the Republic of Benin (in western Africa) from 2005-2008. Once returned, she earned a master’s degree in African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, during which she also studied classical Arabic. |
Emily Huizenga
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Kezia Salosso
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