Lab PI: Lisa Patrick Bentley
Lisa joined the Department of Biology at SSU in 2016. She received her Ph.D. at Texas Tech University where she studied the ecophysiology of desert plants in Texas, Arizona and California. As a post-doc, she led projects scaling plant form and function in the tropics. She now mostly focuses on using terrestrial laser scanning approaches to quantify fuel loads, examine forest structure change after wildfire and model future wildfire behavior.
Current Graduate Students:
Brittany Burnett
Brittany Burnett is currently investigating how spectral signatures from satellite data correlate with structural change from aerial LiDAR. She is highly motivated by the way GIS can expand the scientific reach of researchers and land stewards alike, and plans to leverage her Masters to produce foundational, open-access data in the field of remote sensing ecology.
Monica Delmartini
As a Stewardship Specialist for Sonoma County Ag + Open Space, Monica manages Saddle Mountain Preserve. Monica has years of both wildfire and prescribed fire experience as an ecologist and regularly uses fire as a stewardship tool.
Current Undergraduate Students
Aneliya Goldshtayn
Olivia Haley
Jasmine Jauregui Casillas
Cassidy Nettles
Elizabeth Sahagun Lopez
AJ Staal
Research Assistant
Elliott Smeds
Software Developer
Patrick Stafford
Former Graduate Students
Lauren Webster (2025)
Randi Carter (2025)
Alex Flores (2024)
Dawson Bell (2024)
Zane Cooper (2022)
Alanna Post (2022)
Paul Bacchi (2021)
Brieanne Forbes (2021)
Paris Krause (2021)
Cory O’Gorman (2020)
Manuel Hernandez (2020)
Megan Gaitan (2019)
Former Undergraduate Students (in the past 5 years)
Justin Smith, Claudia Kamiya Shikina, Elaine Senaya, Shelby Anderson, Francisco Elias, Anthony Flores, Emilio Orozco, Hailey Freeman, Nancy Pearson, Auggie Stiltz, Guadalupe Carrasco, Jessi Pluckrose, Mahsa Karami, Logan Southall, Jake Williams, Nikko Calzadilla, Savanna Gouvaia, Sehajpreet Sran, Kaylee Dillard, Sarah Arroyo-Chavez, Alex Barajas-Ritchie, Lauryn Calderon, Kristi Faro, Renzo Grimaldi, Jolene Markarian, Karishma Patel, Danielle Phillipi, Monica Wahl, Lauren Webster
