Current Students

Josh Horn

Education: Bachelor's in Biology, Thomas More College, USA

Research Title: Temporal carbon dynamics and vegetative management of the urban forest in east Orlando, Florida, USA

Research Description: Determine the net carbon balance of urban trees by quantifying changes in carbon storage and sequestration and emissions due to direct management of urban trees.

Research Interests: Urban ecology, restoration ecology, watershed managment, GIS and computer modeling, ecosystem services and disservices

Ronald Cademus

Education: Bachelor in Forest Engineering, Universidad ISA, Domnican Republican

Research Title: Evalution of the trade-offs between water yield and carbon sequestration in the Orange Creek Basin using a GIS-based model.

Reserach Description: Determine spatially-explicit relationship between carbon sequestration and water yield and quantify the trade-offs that may exist between tehm within forest plantations in a watershed.

Reserach Interests: Forest Ecosystem Services and GIS

Sonia Delphin

Education: Bachelor's in Forest Engineering, National University of Asuncion, Paraguay

Research Title: Effect of Land Use and Land Cover on the provision of ecosystem services in the Lower Suwannee River and Pensacola Bay watersheds, Florida, USA

Research Description: Based on a GiS model, determine the effects of land use and land cover changes due to urbanization and hurricanes on ecosystem services such as carbon storage, timber, and water yield.

Research Interests: Ecosystem services, GIS and Remote Sensing

Ivelisse Ruiz

Education: Master's in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, SFRC, University of Florida
Bachelor's in Biology, University of Puerto Rico

Research Interests: Urban forestry, human ecology dimension of natural resources management, disturbans and regeneration, ecosystem services, reforestation ecology, sustainability of artificially or naturally restored sites

Alessio Russo

Education: Chartered Agronomist and Forester, University of Naples, Italy
Master's in Design and Planning of Green Area and the Landscape, University of Pisa, Italy
Bachelor's in Plant Production, University of Naples, Italy

Research Title: Ecosystem services of urban greening in cities of South Tyrol, Ital

Research Description: Quantify the ecosystem services such as carbon storage and sequestration, air quality and thermal comfort at the streetscape level.

Research Interests: Urban forestry and sustainable environmental design

Interested Students

Information for college students about undergraduate and graduate courses.

Courses

A variety of courses with a natural resource, fire ecology, or urban forest focus are taught at the undergraduate and graduate level at both the Gainesville and Plant City campuses.

• Gainesville course listings: Undergraduate and Graduate

Graduate School

Information about the School of Forest Resources and Conservation's graduate programs can be found at http://sfrc.ufl.edu/gradprograms.html.

Interested MS and PhD applicants should send a letter of interest to Dr. Escobedo.