Systems Ecology Environmental Engineering Program

Graduate Students

Previous Graduate Students

Sharlynn Sweeney
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (2009) - Renewable water flows and wealth in Thailand, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Michael Murray-Hudson
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (2009) - Title forthcoming, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Daniel McLaughlin
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (2009) - Ecohydrologic evaluation of wetlands on phosphatic clay settling areas, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Carrie Boyd
M.S. Env. Eng. Sciences (2008) - Revegetation of wetland ecosystems on clay settling areas , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Sean King
M.E. Env. Eng. Sciences (2007) - Title forthcoming, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Lynn Saunders
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (2007) - Treatment potential of wastewater drainage ditches in a rural community of the Andean Amazon , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Ben Vivas
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (2007) - Development of an index of landscape development intensity for predicting the ecological condition of aquatic and small isolated palustrine forested wetland systems in Florida , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Jim Surdick
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (2005) - Amphibian and avian species composition of forested depressional wetlands and circumjacent habitat: The influence of land use type and intensity , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Kori Jacobs
M.S. Env. Eng Sciences (2004) - Hydrology, Soil and Vegetation Characteristics of Newly Created Wetlands on Phosphate Mined Lands, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Kori is currently working for an environmental consulting firm in Gainesville.

May Lehmensiek
M.S. Env. Eng Sciences UF (2004) - Evaluation of Tourism in the Okavango Delta in Botswana Using Environmental Accounting , with Mark Brown as committee chair. May is currently working for the St. Johns River Water Management District in Florida.

Kelly Chinners Reiss
Ph.D. Env. Eng Sciences (2004) - Developing Biological Indiactors for Isolated Forested Wetlands in Florida, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Kelly currently holds a joint appointment as Postdoctoral Research Assitsant through the Center for Environmanetal Policy in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences and Lecturer for the School of Natural Resources and Environment at UF.

Matt Cohen
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences UF (2003) - Spatial analysis of emergy and economic variables and their relationship to soil erosion in the Lake Victoria Basin, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Matt is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at U of F.

Johanna Bjorklund
Ph.D. Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (2003) - Emergy Evaluation of Waste Technologies and Agricultural Production in Sweden, with Mark Brown as committee Co-Chair.

Fanny Meillaud
M.S. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (2003) - Emergy Evaluation of a Solar Building in Switzerland, with Mark Brown as committee co-chair. Fanny is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Switzerland.

Eliana Bardi
M.S. Env Eng. Sciences UF (2002) - Emergy Evaluations of Ecosystems: A basis for Mitigation Policy, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Eliana is currently working at the Center for Environmental Policy.

Glenn Behrend
M.S. Env. Eng. Science (2002) - Carrying Capacity of the Florida Keys , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Glenn is currently with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Andres Buenfil
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences U of F (2002) - Emergy Evaluation of Alternate Water Supplies and Their Treatments in Florida, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Andres also completed a paper on "Emergy Evaluation of Water Supplies in Southwest Africa" as a result of a summer fellowship at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. Andres returned to his home in Mexico where he has developed a private consulting business in Ecological Engineering.

Cecilia Ferreyra
M.S. in CNRE UF (2002) - Emergy Evaluation of Argentina and the Rolling Pampas, Argentina , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Cecilia is currently pursuing her Doctorate at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

Charlotte Lagerberg
Ph.D. Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (2002) - Emergy Evaluation of Swedish Greenhouse Agriculture, with Mark Brown as Committee Co-Chair. Charlotte is currently faculty at Swedish Agricultural University in Southern Sweden.

Mike Murray-Hudson
M.S. Env. Eng Sciences (2002) - Distribution of Potential Macrophyte Indicators in Small Isolated Wetlands in Florida, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Lisa Spurrier
M.S. Env. Eng Sciences (2002) - Evaluating the Influences of Wetland Characteristics on Tree Canopy Cover of Florida Cypress Domes , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Cynthia Irvin
MS Env. Eng Sciences UF (2001) - Evaluation Emergy Evaluation of a National Estuarine Research Reserve in Florida , with H.T. Odum and Clay Montague as committee Co-Chairs. Cynthia currently works for the Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville.

Charles Mann
dual degree M.S. in Env. Eng. Sciences and Law (2001) - An Emergy Evaluation of Everglades Restoration Alternatives, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Charles is currently a practicing attorney in south Florida.

Stefanie Nagid
M.S. Env Eng. Sciences (2001) - Vegetative, hydrologic, and soil interactions in eight northeast Florida ecosystems , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair.

Tom Abel
Ph.D. in Anthropology UF (2000) - Ecosystems, sociocultural systems, and ecological economics for understanding development: the case of ecotourism on the island of Bonaire, N.A. , with H.T. Odum and Mark Brown as committee members aiding with methods. Tom is a faculty member at National Taipei University, Taiwan.

Susan Carstenn
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (2000) - Self-organization and successional trajectories of constructed forested wetlands, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Susan is currently on the faculty of Hawaii Pacific University.

Sherry Brandt-Williams
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (1999) - Evaluation of watershed control of two Central Florida lakes : Newnans Lake and Lake Weir with H.T. Odum as Committee Chair. Sherry currently works for the St Johns Water Management District in Florida.

B.J. Bukata
M.S. Env Eng Sciences (1999) - The development and role of microtopography in constructed forested wetlands on phosphate-mined land , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. BJ is currently working for an engineering/environmental consulting firm in Gainesville.

Matt Cohen
M.S. Env. Eng Sciences (1999) - Simulating hierarchical convergence for regional stormwater treatment in low-relief landscapes , with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Matt also completed his PhD in our program (2003) and is now faculty in the School of Forest Resources and Conservtion, University of Florida.

Kristina Jackson
M.S. Env. Eng Sciences (1999) - Competition and contributions of pioneer plants in forested wetland succession after phosphate mining, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. Kristina currently lives in Gainesville and is developing environmental curricula for elementary schools.

John Juston
M.S. Env Eng. Sciences (1999) - Using BASINS to Simulate Nonpoint source runoff in the St. Marks, Florida watershed, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. John is currently living and working in Sweden.

David Tilley
Ph.D. Env. Eng. Sciences (1999) - Emergy basis of forest systems, with Mark Brown as Committee Chair. David is currently a faculty member in the Department of Bilogical Resources Engineering, University of Maryland where he teaches Ecological Engineering.

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