Charles LaFon, M.S., Program in Geography (committee member), University of Tennessee (1994) "Fifty years of succession on abandoned pastures at the Oak Ridge Reservation, Tennessee: Influences of pre- abandonment land use on vegetation development" 
Larry Pounds, Ph.D., Program in Ecology (committee member), University of Tennessee (1995) "A model for multiple preserve selection for endangered plants"
Gary Huxel, Ph.D., Program in Ecology (committee member) University of Tennessee, (1995) "Influences in community assembly"
Milena Holmgren, Ph.D., Program in Ecology (committee chairman), University of Tennessee (1996) "Responses of Forest Tree Seedlings to Experimental Variation in Light and Water"
Brenda Rashleigh, Ph.D., Program in Ecology, (committee member), University of Tennessee (1998) "Multi-scale analylsis of Unionid freshwater mussel community structure in the Upper Tennessee Basin"
Michelle Boyd, MS, Ecology, (committee member), University of Tennessee (1998) "Landscape Ecosystem Classification in the Cherokee Forest - Phase 2"
William Rivers, Ph.D., Ecology (committee member), University of Tennessee, (1999) "Landscape-level control of population dynamics: Late- Quaternary paleoecology of Beech in Upper Michigan"
Charles LaFon, Ph.D., Ecology, (committee member), University of Tennessee (2000) "Patterns and consequences of ice storms in forested Appalachian landscapes"
Gregory Barlar, MS, Forestry, (committee member), University of Tennessee (2000) "Temporal and spatial variation in annual growth of yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.) at Walker Branch Watershed, Tennessee."
Donald Martorello, Ph.D., Ecology, (committee member) University of Tennessee, (Black bear population dynamics)
Enrique Gomezdelcampo, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, (committee member), University of Tennessee (2002). A model of carbon and nitrogen dynamics for temperate grasslands and forests.
Jason Fridley, Ph.D., Ecology, (committee member), University of North Carolina (2002). "The influence of species diversity on ecosystem productivity in different environments: experimental plant communities and theory."
Patrice Cole, Ph.D., Ecology, (committee member), University of Tennessee. (2003). "Environmental effects on Microstegium vimineum, an invasive exotic plant species"