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

• Josue Chevez-Sahona (Auburn University)

• Caroline Crews (Auburn University)

• Maya Lapp (University of Tennessee)

• Jared Gorrell (Austin Peay State University)

  • Thesis: “Flora and ecology of Shortleaf Pine-Oak Savannas of the Black Belt Ecoregion of Alabama."

Past Graduate Students

• Claire Ciafre (Austin Peay State University)

  • Thesis: “Deterministic and stochastic factors jointly drive plant community composition and diversity in isolated wetlands."

• Zach Irick (Austin Peay State University)

  • Thesis: "Taxonomy of the Clematis viorna complex (Clematis subgenus viorna) of the southeastern United States."

• Thomas Murphy (Austin Peay State University)

  • Thesis: “Taxonomic Study of the Clematis reticulata Species Complex (Ranunculaceae: Subgenus Viorna)."

• Michelle McInnis (Austin Peay State University)

  • Thesis: “Vascular flora and community ecology of riverscour communities of Clear Fork, Morgan County, Tennessee."

• Brittany Georgic (Austin Peay State University)

  • Thesis: “"Vascular flora and community ecology of the powerline grasslands of the Cumberland Plateau ecoregion."

• Diana Soteropolous (university?)

  • Dissertation: “Enhancing the Arkansas floristics toolbox for conservation: using community science and field surveys to close knowledge gaps in species distribution, species co-occurrence, and floristic quality."

• Mason Brock

  • Thesis: “Flora of riverscour communities of Tennessee's Caney Fork River."

• Cooper Breeden (Austin Peay State University)

  • Non-thesis