This is a partial list of current graduate students in the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation.
Sage Fletcher
M.S. Student Systems Ecology
Contact
- Office
- CHCB 435
- sage.fletcher@umconnect.umt.edu
Personal Summary
Originally from New Hampshire, Sage grew up hiking in the White Mountain National Forest. Sage attended Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where they earned a B.A. in Environmental Analysis and a minor in Spanish. For her undergraduate senior thesis with the Williams Marine Environmental Change Lab, she worked on developing and interpreting records of environmental variability with Crustose Coralline Algae in order to test Clathromorphum compactum as a climate proxy within the Labrador Sea. After graduating with honors in the winter of 2023, they worked as a Forest Ecology Research Assistant at the Niobrara Valley Preserve in northern Nebraska to complete a recensus of the Niobrara ForestGEO Plot. She also worked on the Lake Sunapee Food Web Project with the Lake Sunapee Protective Association (LSPA), where she completed zooplankton counts and assisted with fieldwork days in the spring of 2024. Sage is currently pursuing their master’s degree in Systems Ecology at UM with Global Climate and Ecology Lab. Her research focuses on the impact of wildfires on lake metabolism in western Montana.
Education
B.A. in Environmental Analysis (Science Track) from Pitzer College, 2023
Research Interests
- Ecosystem Ecology
- Limnology
- Biogeochemistry
- Climate Science