Ryan DeSantis


Office: 305E Noble Research Center
Address: 008c Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74075
Phone: (405) 744-8221
Fax: (405) 744-3530
Email: ryan.desantis@okstate.edu

Degree Program
  Ph.D. Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Forest Resources Option

Research Topic:
  Forest Dynamics of the Oklahoma Cross Timbers

Education
BS: Forestry(Forest Science), University of New Hampshire, 2000
MS: Applied Ecology, Michigan Technological University, 2004

Research Interests:
Fire Ecology, Forest Ecology, Disturbance Ecology, Dendroecology

Recent Publications (since 2000)
LaForest, L., P. Brown, N. Benzing, R. DeSantis, G. Dillon, W. Flatley, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, C. Lafon, T. Saladyga, J. Slayton, L. Svenson, K. Tackett, and N. Toth. 2008. Fire history in old-growth pine-oak forest stands along Gold Mine Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, 15–19 April 2008, Boston, Massachusetts.. 

DeSantis, R.D. & Storer, A.J. 2007. Characterizing mechanical and prescribed fire treatments following clearcutting of jack pine (Pinus banksiana) and short term treatment effects on insect communities. Masters, R.E. & Galley, K.E.M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland & Shrubland Ecosystems