Current Students & Postdoctoral Fellows

Sarun Khadka, BSc (MSc Student)

Nursery Thinning Impacts on Seedling Genetic Diversity in Improved Seedlots

 

Office: Earth Sciences Building

E-mail: sarun1@ualberta.ca


Dr. Shes Bhandari, PhD -  Postdoctoral Fellow

Silvicultural Regimes to Maximize Gain

I am investigating the growth performance of improved and unimproved seed stands of white spruce and how this growth performance is affected by the site quality. Furthermore, I am also investigating how the intervention of silvicultural treatments improves the growth performance of those stands. The preliminary results showed that the site quality has a bigger influence on growth performance than the source of seed (improved vs unimproved).

Office: Earth Sciences Building 3-32C

E-mail: sheskant@ualberta.ca


Eden McPeak, BSc (MSc Candidate)

Establishment of realized gain trials

I received my BSc in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Alberta, and am currently an MSc candidate in the Thomas Lab. My project is focused on assessing the first Realized Gain Trials in the province for overwinter survival and growth. This includes comparing the survival and growth of white spruce and lodgepole pine seedlings grown from wild and genetically improved seed.

Office: Earth Sciences Building

E-mail: emcpeak@ualberta.ca


Dr. Stefan Schreiber, Research Associate

Clonal drought responses of female and male Populus tremuloides previously exposed to drought

 

E-mail: sschreib@ualberta.ca


Current Support & Technical Staff

Stacy Bergheim, BSc (Forestry) - Tree Improvement Lab Coordinator

Formerly RES-FOR project coordinator

RES-FOR website

Office: Earth Sciences Building 3-32B

Email: sberghei@ualberta.ca

Phone: 780-492-0447

 

Emelie Dykstra

 

 

Kieran Fischer