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
Office: Earth Sciences Building 3-32B
Email: sberghei@ualberta.ca
Phone: 780-492-0447
Emelie Dykstra
Kieran Fischer