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Dr. Paige E. Copenhaver-Parry
Dr. Parry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at George Fox University. She completed her PhD in Ecology at the University of Wyoming in 2016 under Dr. Dan Tinker and joined the faculty at George Fox University in the fall of 2016. Her research program emphasizes the ecological processes underlying forest tree distributions and range dynamics. Paige currently teaches Ecology, Environmental Science, Plant Biology and Statistical Methods in Biology.
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Current Students
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Claire Retter
Claire is a junior and is pursuing a B.A. in Biology with an emphasis in Cultural Diversity. Ecology has always been one of her passions, and she joined the Parry Lab in order to experience the world of research, to be directly involved with learning more about how climate change affects our forests, and to develop essential professional skills. She is currently researching the degree to which range-wide seedling recruitment patterns can be explained by regional climate versus microclimate.
Joanna Gunther
Joanna is a sophomore biology major and chemistry minor. She joined the Parry Lab to gain experience in ecological research. She looks forward to developing her understanding of ecological processes and statistical modeling via her work in the lab. Her current research aims to determine whether the climate buffering effects of canopy cover can attenuate drought-induced seedling mortality in the Pacific Northwest by evaluating seedling survival rates in relation to canopy density. Joanna hopes to pursue a career in ecological research, specifically emphasizing the chemical ecology of plant-pollinator interactions.
Carmen Hixson
Carmen is a sophomore biology major with a concentration in ecology and field biology. She joined the Parry Lab to gain experience in ecological research, to learn more about how climate change influences our environment, and to refine what area of ecology she wants to go into in the future. Her work in the Parry Lab will include assisting in collecting seed and seedling data in the field and processing the seed data to help determine how seed production and dispersal influence recruitment patterns. She is excited to learn more about research methods and data collection this summer.
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Former Students
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Shelby Byerly
2019 Graduate: Biology
Incoming Ph.D. student Bradley Butterfield Lab Biological Sciences Doctoral Program, Northern Arizona University Elizah Stephens
2018 Graduate: Biology
Incoming Ph.D. student Peter Homyak Lab Environmental Sciences Graduate Program, UC Riverside Christopher Murar
2019 Graduate: Biology
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