​Kari E. Veblen
Professor
​Kari received her PhD in ecology from University of California-Davis and was a post-doc with the USGS in Corvallis, OR. She is an ecologist with broad interests, including livestock-wildlife-plant interactions, plant community ecology, grazing ecology, and restoration ecology. Current field site locations include the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, USA, and Kenya, East Africa.

​Maria Stahl
PhD student, Quinney Fellow
​​Maria is working on a USDA NIFA-funded project that explores the compatibility of Criollo cattle, a heritage breed, with Colorado Plateau landscapes. 

​Josh Day
PhD student
​​Josh is studying the patterns and drivers of sagebrush establishment and persistence in rangelands of the Colorado Plateau. 

​Spencer Good
MS student
​As part of a project funded by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Spencer is working on a broadscale experiment that tests how composition of restoration seed mixes and associated seeding practices can be modified to overcome establishment barriers associated with particular site conditions.

​McKenna Delton
MS student
​Kenna is working on a field experiment that tests how different bluebunch wheatgrass plant populations, including both locally-collected and those that have been selected and tested for broadscale use, perform across different ecological conditions encountered at restoration sites.  This project is a collaboration with Dr. Tom Monaco at USDA-ARS. 

​Alex Stosich
MS student
Alex is working on a field and greenhouse project focused on the propagation and out-planting of a rare plant (Penstemon albomarginatus) in the eastern Mojave Desert, informing potential management efforts for the threatened species. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Lesley DeFalco at USGS-WERC. 
​Lab Alumni

Grad students
­­­­­Sofia Koutzoukis, PhD, (defended, 2022): “A fine-scale understanding of sagebrush resource islands to improve restoration outcomes in the Intermountain West”
Liz Bailey, MS (2021): "Transplanting mature mountain big sagebrush plants yields high first-year survival in former agricultural lands"
Kyle Nehring, MS (2021): "Interactive effects of soil and browsing on big sagebrush: implications for restoration success​"
​Merran Owen, MS (2020; co-advised with Dr. Tom Monaco): ​"Effects of biocrust development on establishment of native plants in a salt desert system"
Eric LaMalfa, (Quinney Fellow), PhD (2018): “Fire-herbivory interactions in an East African savanna: effects on Acacia drepanolobium and the demographic bottleneck”
Brittany Duncan, MS (2018; co-advised with Dr. Karin Kettenring): “Impacts of cattle grazing as a tool to control Phragmites australis in wetlands on nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon”
Lacey Wilder, MS (2016; co-advised with Dr. Tom Monaco): "Assessment of restoration seedings on Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative project sites"
​Rebecca Mann, MS (2016): “Intraspecific variation in the response of Elymus elymoides to competition from Bromus tectorum”
Maike Holthuijzen (NSF Graduate Research Fellow), MS (2015): “Grass-shrub spatial associations over precipitation and grazing gradients in the Great Basin”

Post-docs
Abdullahi Ali (2017-2022)
Corinna Riginos (2016 - 2017)
Huiqin He (2015 - 2016; co-advised with Dr. Tom Monaco)
Lin Liu (2014 - 2015; co-advised with Dr. Tom Monaco)

Undergraduate researchers
Elise Riley (2019 - 2021; co-advised with Dr. Julia Burton)
Amberlee Burrows (2016)
Justin Taylor (2015 - 2017; co-advised with Dr. Juan Villalba & Dr. Eric Thacker)
Lacey Wilder (2015)
Sara Germain (2014 - 2016)
Trec Reed (2014 - 2015)
Hope Braithwaite (2013 - 2015; co-advised with Dr. Juan Villalba & Dr. Eric Thacker)
Tim Bateman (2013 - 2015; co-advised with Dr. Juan Villalba & Dr. Eric Thacker)
Brittany Duncan (2013-2014)