Graduate Researchers
SGI’s research staff serve on many student graduate research committees. Below is a list of our current and past graduate students whose scholarly work was supervised in part or whole by SGI researchers and contributed to SGI’s research work.
Current Graduate Students
Josué Chevez-Sahona (Auburn University)
Caroline Crews (Auburn University)
Maya Lapp (University of Tennessee)
Jack Looney (University of Arkansas)
Jared Gorrell (Austin Peay State University). Project: “Flora and ecology of Shortleaf Pine-Oak Savannas of the Black Belt Ecoregion of Alabama."
Past Graduate Students
Zach Irick (Austin Peay State University), in progress. Thesis: "Taxonomy of the Clematis viorna complex (Clematis subgenus viorna) of the southeastern United States."
2025. Robert Langellier (University of Vermont).
2024. Gabby LeFevre (Austin Peay State University).
2020. Thomas Murphy (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Taxonomic Study of the Clematis reticulata Species Complex (Ranunculaceae: Subgenus Viorna)."
2019. Claire Ciafre (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Deterministic and stochastic factors jointly drive plant community composition and diversity in isolated wetlands."
2019. Cooper Breeden (Non-Thesis).
2017. Mason Brock (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Flora of riverscour communities of Tennessee's Caney Fork River."
2017. Angela Mummaw (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Taxonomy of the Quercus schumardii complex in Tennessee.”
2016. Kelly Anderson (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Vascular flora and community ecology of riverscour communities of the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, Blount County, AL.”
2016. Judy Redden (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “A floristic ecological survey of seepage fens in the western highland rim of TN.”
2016. Devin Rodgers (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Vascular flora and vegetation of the Cumberland Plateau sandstone riverscour communities in Daddy’s Creek Gorge, Cumberland and Morgan Counties, TN.”
2013. Dawn York (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Invasive species survey and mapping of the Ocoee River Gorge in Polk County, TN.”
2012. Courtney Gorman (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Taxonomic, Ecologic, and Biogeographic Studies of Polymnia (Asteraceae).”
2012. Clea Klagstad (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “Vascular flora and vegetation classification of the Cheatham Wildlife Management Area, Cheatham County, TN.”
2010. Kim Norton (Austin Peay State University). Thesis: “The floristic and community ecology of seasonally wet limestone glade seeps of Tennessee and Kentucky.”