Congratulations to Dr. Maya Hayden who completed her PhD this August. Her dissertation, “Abandoned Channels as Refugia for Sustaining Pioneer Riparian Forests” combined field data with mesocosm experiments to explore controls on cottonwood recruitment dynamics along the Sacramento River in Northern California. Dr. Hayden will continue her education as a California Sea Grant Fellow working with the NOAA San Francisco Bay and Outer Coast Sentinel Site Cooperative (NOAA Sentinel Site).
Congratulations also to Dr. Natalie van Doorn (PhD 2014), a post-doctoral fellow at UC Davis. Dr. van Doorn was recently appointed as a research urban ecologist with the USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW). She will be working out of the Albany, CA office where she will continue her research on street tree demography and climate-ready trees for urban ecosystems.