There is a significant need for masters-level research projects around many new and exciting forestry challenges.  

The combination looks potentially strong for MES students seeking thesis topics: 

  • They have fairly abundant (and growing) data (LiDAR, drone LiDAR, multispectral imagery, field collections on various animal and botanical topics, and more). 
  • They can provide science support and guidance to some level (possibly not as formal advisors, but helping to keep the research on the right track from the outset)
  • They can facilitate permissions for field access to study areas, including directing students into locations that are topical.  Including a “new T3” type area on the north peninsula (“Jimmy Come Lately” Forest area). 
  • They have active relationships with partners in government, tribes and industry as stakeholders they can coordinate in meetings or other methods of access. 
  • The potential topics can range from wetlands to fire risk reduction, to forest treatments, to biochar and carbon, to amphibians and other animal resilience studies (that is, there are a lot of angles for potential MES thesis studies). 
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For questions, please reach out to Tracy Petroske at Tracy.Petroske@dnr.wa.gov, Courtney Bobsin at cbobsin@uw.edu, or Ally Krupper at akrup99@uw.edu.