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2014 Annual Report

Graduate Students

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	John Hastings is a first year grad student in the Master's of Forestry program. He is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in Geography. John has worked as a GIS analyst for Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and a non-profit spring conservation group called the Florida Springs Institute. John's Masters project consists of using a GIS technique called gap analysis to spatially prioritize genetically significant Eastern and Carolina Hemlock populations threatened by the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and climate change. Camcore will use John's results to prioritize future locations for genetic diversity sampling/seed banking.
	Hannel Ham is a lecturer at the Department of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is also completing her Ph. D. on “The Reproductive Biology of Pinus radiata”. She is trying to understand why it is so difficult to make successful hybrid crosses with species like P. tecunumanii and P. oocarpa. Hannel is receiving a partial stipend from Camcore for this important work. She hopes to complete her Ph.D. by the end of 2013. Her major supervisors are Bill Dvorak (Camcore-NC State), Arnulf Kanzler (Sappi Research) and Ben du Toit (Univ. of Stellenbosch).
	Juan Luis Lopez, Camcore Technical Supervisor, is continuing his Ph. D. research on “The economic value of pine hybrids”. He is balancing his Camcore duties with the rigors of classes but hopes to complete his project in the next several years. Juan has mostly completed assessing the wood properties of P. patula x P. tecunumanii, P. greggii x P. tecunumanii and P. taeda x P. tecunumanii and has provided preliminary results of his study at regional technical and annual Camcore meetings.
	Andy Whittier, Camcore Research Forester, began the Masters of Science in Forestry program during the fall of 2011. Andy began working part time with Camcore in 2003 while pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Natural Resources degree at NC State. On receiving this degree he joined Camcore full time as a Research Forester. His masters research will look at how the hardwood species teak responds to different nutrient solutions in a hydroponic system. Near-infrared spectroscopy models will be developed for Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium.