Congratulations to all of these award winners and nominees for these highly deserved awards and for your service to FRS, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, and your communities. These awards would not be possible without the efforts of nominators who take the time to help highlight their colleagues.
Read about wildfire in a Q&A with Courtney Schultz. Schultz is a professor of natural resource and fire policy, director of the Public Lands Policy Group, and director of the Climate Adaptation Partnership, housed in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship in the Warner College of Natural Resources.
Zoe Lipscomb is receiving a B.S. degree in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability from the Warner College of Natural Resources. She worked in Troy Ocheltree’s plant ecophysiology laboratory while at Colorado State University and plans to combine her love for working with people with her passion for rural communities.
Esme Wissinger is receiving their B.S. in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship with a concentration in Forest Management from the Warner College of Natural Resources. Esme worked at the Environmental Learning Center during their time at Colorado State University and found joy in communicating with people of all ages about natural resources.
Read a Q&A with Angelika Helmer, a student graduating from the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship with B.S. degrees in forest management and natural resources management and a minor in ecological restoration. Angelika served the department as a peer advisor, offering support and guidance to other students.
Camille Stevens-Rumann is an assistant professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University and assistant director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. Her research focuses on post-disturbance recovery and challenges facing disturbed lands, whether that is understanding species and ecosystem responses to disturbances or applications for improving future ecosystem management.
The University houses an extraordinary array of research, education, and engagement activities to tackle the climate crisis. CSU experts are working on the interrelated challenges of climate change mitigation, which requires reducing greenhouse gas concentrations and emissions, and adaptation, which involves adjusting infrastructure, policy, and social systems to new conditions.
The Warner College finalists are Camden Baker, Natural Resource Stewardship in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship; Jeremiah Gorske, Conservation Leadership in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources; and Anna Wright, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology through Forest and Rangeland Stewardship.
Established in 1977 by an executive order from President Jimmy Carter, the two-year fellowship program is designed to help graduate students jump-start their careers through unique leadership training. Each fellowship comes with a full salary and benefits at a select federal agency, which provides training, development and mentoring.
Chris Herron transferred to Colorado State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Rangeland Ecology, Rangeland and Forest Management, then a master’s in Rangeland Ecosystem Science, Restoration Ecology from CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources. Chris is now a principal investigator with CSU’s Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML).