Postdoctoral / Students

Postdoctoral Positions Available! Please contact Dr. Andy 'Anaru' Kliskey.

1. University of Alaska Anchorage
   Biological Science Department
   3101 Science Circle
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749
   
   

Dr. Kalb Thayer Stevenson, Post-Doc

University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3101 Science Circle
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749
   afkts@uaa.alaska.edu
   
   Current research interests:
   Dr. Stevenson's research interests include integrative biology and overcoming limits to short-season agriculture and food production in the North. Kalb currently teaches Environmental Science and Principles of Physiology labs.
   
   

Dr. Gargi Chaudhuri, Post-Doc

University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3101 Science Circle
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749
   gchaudhuri@uaa.alaska.edu
   
   Current research interests:
   Dr. Gargi Chaudhuri earned a Bachelors in Geography (Honors, specialization in Cartography) in 2005 at Shri Shikshayatan College, University of Calcutta, then her Masters in Geography (specialization in Cartography) in 2007 at the University of Calcutta and finally her PhD in Geography at the University of California Santa Barbara, 2011. Her research interests include Cartography, Geographic Information Science and System, Land use change modeling, Land use and Land Cover change, Network Analysis and Remote Sensing.
   
   

Bill Overbaugh, Ph,D. Student

Bureau of Land Management
c/o University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3101 Science Circle
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-271-5508
   Bill_Overbaugh@ak.blm.gov
   
   Current research interests:
   Bill is enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Ph. D. Program studying the Benefit-based Outcome Approach to Outdoor Recreation for Improving Community Resilience.  This involves measuring four levels of recreation demand (activity, experience, benefits, and place settings) and analyzing the diversity within each level to determine community resilience and productive capacity. He is employed with the Bureau of Land Management as the Alaska BLM Recreation Director responsible for Recreation, Visitor Services and Protected Area Management for 90 million acres of public land and water. His professional interests include international cooperation and has worked extensively in Mexico and Russia. He was also recognized recently for his recreation contributions when he recieved the prestigious Mardy Murie Award, for details see page 9 of the Spring 2008 BLM Alaska Frontiers newsletter.

2. Current Research Publications & Presentations:
   Managing for Recreation Benefit Outcomes to Improve Community Resilience and Adaptive Capacity (Dec. 2007)

3. The Role of Recreation as an Indicator of Community Health.  A Poster for Partners Outdoors in Snowbird, Utah  (January 2008)
4. The Role of the Recreation System in Building Community Resilience and Adaptive Capacity, A Presentation for AAAS, Anchorage, AK  (September 2007)
   
   

Brad Barr, Ph,D. Student

Senior Policy Advisor, NOAA
c/o University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3101 Science Circle
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749
   Brad.Barr@noaa.gov
   
   Current research interests:
   Marine protected areas as coupled human-ecological systems
   
   

Kim Jochum, Ph, D. Student

University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3101 Science Circle
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749
   kajochum@alaska.edu
   
   Current research interests:
   I am a Wildlife Biologist with major interests in wildlife management and global environmental issues, where it becomes important to include human perceptions and thinking into management strategies. My current research assesses Alaska's and Sakhalin's residents perspectives and experiences encountering bears in the wild over the last 30 years. Circumstances, persepcitves and spatial explicit locations of human-bear encounters will be analyzed in relation to urban development along the most developed areas of Alaska and Sakhalin Island (Russian Far East) with the goal to inform wildlife management.

2. To participate in the Alaska Human-Bear Encounter Survey, please follow this link: http://uaa.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2c504VsErqOCdSI

Christopher Hoffman, Master's Student

c/o University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3211 Providence Drive
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749
   
   

Erik Woelber, Master's Student

c/o University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3211 Providence Drive
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749
   
   

Drew Cason, Undergraduate Student

University of Alaska Anchorage
1. Biological Science Department
   3211 Providence Drive
   Anchorage AK 99508
   1-907-786-7749