Collaborators

Vanessa Schroeder works as a Senior Faculty Research Assistant I for Oregon State University’s Extension Service, specializing in rangeland ecology to support wildlife habitat. She holds a masters degree in Wildlife Science from OSU. Her applied research and extension projects fall under three themes 1. Evaluating the effects of land management practices on sagebrush-obligate avian…

Dr. Minatre is an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow whose research has examined the impact of moderate- and high-severity wildfire on soils. Her current work investigates the interacting effects of prescribed fire and grazing on soils across the western US. 

Dr. Koutzoukis is a postdoc at the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab researching anything related to vegetation, fire, and climate and their trends and impacts on resistance and resilience in sagebrush ecosystems. She now relies on data products produced from SageSTEP monitoring data like R&R indicators and Treatment Response Groups and uses SageSTEP data to validate…

Dr. Bagcilar is a Biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center. Her research considers how global change, fire, and management interact to impact soil and ecosystem processes across landscapes. Within SageSTEP, she primarily focuses on the effects of fuel treatments and annual grass invasion on ecosystem carbon storage.

Dr. Rogova is passionate about nature conservation and the use of remote sensing in ecological research. She is currently a postdoc in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at OSU, where she studies the natural dynamics of cheatgrass, their environmental drivers, and whether future fluctuations in cheatgrass abundance can be predicted. She is…

Scott as an Ecologist with the USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center managed field and data logistics for the first 18 years of the SageSTEP project. 

Dustin began his Bureau of Land Management (BLM) journey in wildland firefighting while attending Idaho State University, working seasonally from 2001 to 2005 on the Twin Falls District as a wildland firefighter on an engine. During this period, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Zoology. After graduation, he transitioned to the Idaho Falls District…

Maddy’s research focuses on how environmental variability, disturbance, and global change influence vegetation change and ecosystem function in rangelands, and how management strategies can address these changes. She is leading projects on drought resilience and carbon storage using SageSTEP data.