LUFA | Lab for Urban Forestry in the Anthropocene
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Meet the LUFA Team

          LUFA is a research group led by Dr. Jess Vogt at DePaul University, located in the beautifully-treed neighborhood of Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois. We are based in the Department of Environmental Science & Studies and frequently collaborate with people from around the Chicagoland area and beyond! Learn more about individual members of our team below.

Principal Investigator

Jess Vogt

Dr. Jess Vogt

CV & More About Jess
Jess is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Studies (ENV) at DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois). She received her PhD, MPA, and MSES from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), and her B.A. in biology and environmental studies from Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisconsin). As leader of LUFA, she studies tree planting, neighborhoods, and urban social-ecological systems through the lens of sustainability science. She is passionate about creating spaces in which everyone can find their place to contribute to creating a world where all can thrive and flourish. Her quest is to answer the question, How can we create more resilient communities of humans and nature?
AT LEFT: Jess is standing in front of to a propped up dead tree branch in Dongling Park in Shenyang, Lioning, China, during the Urban Forests and Sustainability International Symposium in May 2016.

Current Students

Peter Dziaba

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Peter graduated in June 2022 from DePaul University with a B.A. in environmental studies with a concentration in sustainability. In fall 2022, he is returning to DePaul as a student in the M.S. Environmental Science program. Peter is a member of the summer’s 2022 LUFA CommuniTree field crew that is conducting an inventory of trees planted through the CommuniTree initiative. His specific academic and professional interests and experiences are environmental justice, ethnobotany, and community-based sustainability work. Peter has worked with the Buffalo Grove Park District to develop an ethnobotanical field guide, as well as to design and present an interactive program on ethical foraging for native herbal teas. Peter's favorite tree species is the bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa). When not working, his favorite hobby is gardening: he has been an active member of DePaul Urban Gardeners (DUG), as well as helping maintain his local township's community garden and managing his own home garden.

Kristine Lorenzo

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Kristine is a graduate student in the Environmental Science program. She has a BS in Elementary Education from the University of Illinois (2006).  After 13 years as a hairstylist and business owner, she is combining her skills in teaching and communication with her lifelong interest in nature and ecology. Her role in LUFA will involve qualitative and quantitative research regarding stewardship and maintenance of newly planted trees and their survival outcomes with the CommuniTree project. Her interests include urban wildlife and biodiversity, as well as helping people reconnect to/recognize urban spaces as ecosystems. She loves exploring natural spaces as well as examining the moss, fungi, plants and wildlife in the playgrounds, parking lots and other overlooked areas in urban spaces. Kristine is also a volunteer at Garfield Park Conservatory, and at Urban Wildlife Institute, where she assists with urban wildlife biodiversity monitoring.


Former LUFA Students

Click the button at right to see the profiles of former LUFA students, what projects they worked on, and what they're up to now.
Former LUFA Students
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1110 West Belden Avenue Chicago Illinois 60614
DePaul University
Department of Environmental Science & Studies

env.depaul.edu

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Site last updated: August 9, 2018.
  • LUFA Home
  • Team
    • About Jess
    • Former LUFA Students
    • Vogt CV
  • Trees@DePaul
  • Projects
    • CommuniTree Research >
      • 2017 CommuniTree Interview Script
      • 2019 CommuniTree Volunteer Survey
      • 2021 CommuniTree Tree Inventory Protocol
    • TreeKeepers Motivations
    • Tree Preservation >
      • Home Builder Survey
      • Study Home Owner Survey
      • Comparison Home Owner Survey
    • Urban Forests as SESs
    • Virtual Tree Inventory
    • Interdisciplinary UF
    • UF for the Anthropocene
    • Neighborhood Tree Planting
    • Climate Change
    • Work as a Future Earth Fellow
    • Cost of Not Maintaining Trees
    • Educators' Summit May 2019 >
      • Call for Contributions
      • Program >
        • Monday Talk Descriptions
        • Poster Presentation Descriptions
        • Tuesday Talk Descriptions
        • Workshop Descriptions
  • Pubs
  • Teaching
    • ENV 151 >
      • Student Blog Posts
      • ENV 151 Photo Gallery
    • ENV 261 >
      • ENV 261 Photo Gallery
    • ENV 341 >
      • ENV 341 Photo Gallery
      • Urban Forestry Online Teaching Resources
    • ENV 407
    • ENV 506
  • Contact
  • Blog