{"id":1010,"date":"2025-08-28T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/?page_id=1010"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:50:46","slug":"jamie-behan-student-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/meet-our-students\/students-on-the-job\/jamie-behan-student-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Behan \u2013 Student on the Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-wrap.wp-block-kadence-rowlayout.kb-row-layout-id1010_901034-dc{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}.kb-row-layout-id1010_901034-dc > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id1010_901034-dc > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id1010_901034-dc > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:60px;row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 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The summer of her senior year, Jamie is working in the Penobscot Experimental Forest (PEF) collecting data for various ongoing experiments at PEF. The majority of the work she has done involves forest mensuration at various plots, to see how different types of\u00a0silvicultural management affects the diversity of species, growth rate, and density of trees in the area. This particular study has been going on since the 1950\u2019s.\u00a0Recently, the crew has been working to help collect data on a deadwood study being conducted by Bethany Munoz, who recently received her PhD from 91¸£Àû\u2019s School of Forest Resources and is now a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s Northern Research Station.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06\"]{margin-top:0px;font-size:18px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06\"]{text-align:left!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1010_f92d51-06\">Of her summer position, Behan said, \u201cI think it\u2019s awesome to be apart of something with that kind of weight. 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