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Graduate Students

Featured image: Geology Grads & Undergrads In The Field. Photo Credit: Isabelle Rein, Geology M.S. Graduate

M.S. Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences

Shane Adams

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Environmental Education | Advisor: Kara Whitman | Location: Pullman, WA

Nikesa Aubertin

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Water Policy, Natural resources, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge | Advisor: Allyson Beall King & Kara Whitman | Location: Pullman, WA

David Ballenger

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: | Advisors: | Location: Vancouver

Jacob Bernal

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: wildfire-watershed risks, water governance and policy, environmental collaboration | Advisor: Julie Padowski | Location: Pullman, WA

Katherine Burgstahler

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Climate adaptability & ecological connectivity | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Inès Cauquil

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Tree mortality & resin duct response in drought x fire interactions | Advisor: Henry Adams | Location: Pullman, WA

Kylie Denny

Program of Study: M.S. Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Forest Vertebrate Occupancy in Relation to Wildfire Intensity | Advisors: Lisa Shipley & Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Nathan Enos

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Community engagement collaborative dynamics | Advisor: Kara Whitman | Location: Pullman, WA

Jacie Fabela

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Microzooplankton grazing on phytoplankton in the lower Columbia River | Advisors: Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens and Steve Bollens | Location: Vancouver

Ana Ferreira

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: wildlife ecology and conservation | Advisor: Lisa Shipley | Location: Pullman, WA

Garrett Foster

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Sciences | Research interest: 6PPD-quinone toxicodynamics in coho salmon | Advisor: Dr. Jen McIntyre | Location: Puyallup Research & Extension Center

McKenzie Frazier

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Microzooplankton grazing patterns in dam-managed waters | Advisor: Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens | Location: Vancouver

Chinhoo Gang

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: | Advisors: Julie Padowski & Jan Boll | Location: Pullman, WA

Trent Hill

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Wildlife ecology, conservation, and wildlife responses to disease | Advisor: Lisa Shipley | Location: Pullman, WA

Claire Kurlychek

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: | Advisor: Lisa Shipley | Location: Pullman, WA

Caitlin Lawrence

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interests: Aquatic toxicology & the effects of storm water and anthropogenic chemicals on aquatic ecosystems | Advisor: Jen McIntyre | Location: Puyallup

Mason Mahacek

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: | Advisor: Arjan Meddens | Location: Pullman, WA

Marwa Mahmoud

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Natural Resource Management, Wildlife Ecology, Environmental Policy | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Jess Mitchell

Pronouns: She/her | Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Freshwater Ecology | Advisor: Steve Bollens | Location: Vancouver

Nathaniel Neal

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Climate adaptation of freshwater mussels | Advisor: Dr. Stephen Bollens | Location: Vancouver

Lillian Pavord

Program of Study: MS in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Aquatic Toxicology | Advisor: Jen McIntyre | Location: Puyallup Extension Center

Ksenia Pereverzeva

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: The effects of climate change on the anatomy and secondary metabolism production of resin ducts in pinion pines | Advisor: Henry Adams | Location: Pullman, WA

Shawn Preston

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: How extreme events, like heat waves, impact agricultural perennial crops in Washington State — applying this methodology to regional areas | Advisor: Deepti Singh | Location: Pullman, WA

Garrett Price

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: | Advisors: | Location: Vancouver, WA

Dana Shellhorn

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: fisheries, environmental DNA, and invasive species | Advisor: Caren Goldberg | Location: Pullman, WA

Sujay Singh

Program of Study: M.S. in Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Utilizing non-invasive techniques to study wildlife ecology | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Jared Stieve

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: • Remote sensing of salmon spawning habitat using drones | Advisor: Alex Fremier | Location: Pullman, WA

Allie Stift

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Wildlife Communities in Sagebrush-Steppe Landscapes | Advisors: Lisa Shipley & Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Aurora Schermbeck

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: | Advisor: Jennifer Phillips | Location: Pullman, WA

M.S. Geology


 

Hadeel Al Harthi

Program of Study: M.S. in Geology | Research: Geophysics & Planetary Geophysics | Advisor: Catherine Cooper | Location: Pullman, WA

Brianna Dowler

Program of Study: M.S. in Geology | Research Interests: Metamorphic and igneous petrology, high-temperature geochemistry, geochronology | Advisor: Johannes Hammerli | Location: Pullman, WA

Cole McGregor

Program of Study: M.S. in Geology | Research Interest: geochronology and Paleoproterozoic orogenesis | Advisor: Jeff Vervoort | Location: Pullman, WA

Andy Stacey

Program of Study: M.S. Geology | Research Interests: Earth Evolution, Continental Assembly & Geochronology | Advisor: Jeff Vervoort | Location: Pullman, WA

Elizabeth Urban

Program of Study: M.S. in Geology | Research Interest: Archean Continental Crust Evolution | Advisor: Johannes Haemmerli | Pullman, WA

Lily Wallenbrock

Program of Study: M.S. In Geology | Research Interest: Isotope Geochemistry — Sr isotopes in apatite crystals | Advisor: Johannes Haemmerli | Location: Pullman, WA

Ph.D. Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences


 

Okikiola Alegbeleye

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resources | Research Interests: Remote sensing, forest ecology, GIS, Fires, Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning | Advisor: Arjan Meddens | Location: Pullman, WA

Mohamed Alssalem

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Biochemical and Physiological disturbances following exposure to environmental toxins | Advisor: John Stark | Location: Puyallup Extension Center

Katie Anderson

Program of Study: Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Impacts of diet and physiology on the gut microbiome and nutritional status of herbivores | Advisor : Lisa Shipley | Location: Pullman, WA

Stephanie Blair

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: The toxic effects of urban storm water runoff on Pacific Salmon | Advisor: Jen McIntyre | Location: Puyallup Research & Extension Center

John Buster

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: watershed biogeochemistry, nutrient cycling (nitrogen focused) | Advisor: Sarah Roley | Location: Tri-Cities, WA

Olivia Butterman

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Farm succession and transfer, farmland access, and agroecology | Advisor: Marcia Ostrom | Location: Pullman, WA

Seth Flanders

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: | Advisor: Alex Fremier | Location: Pullman, WA

Kinsey Freeman

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Water governance, policy, nonpoint source pollution, environmental justice, climate change | Advisor: Julie Padowski | Location: Pullman, WA

Madeline Franz

Program of Study: PhD Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Interactions between climate, fire regimes, and plant communities | Advisor: Dr. Arjan Meddens | Location: Pullman, WA

Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest : River corridor hydrobiogeochemistry | Advisor: Dr. Sarah Roley | Location: Tri-Cities, WA

Madhulika Gurazada

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Natural climate variability impacts on agriculture | Advisor: Dr. Deepti Singh | Vancouver, WA

Nathan Hooven

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Effects of pre-commercial thinning on snowshoe hare (Lepus Americanus) density, survival, and spatial ecology in the Loomis State Forest, north-central Washington | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Miles Hopkins

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Quantitative study of mesocarnivores for conservation | Advisor: Jeff Manning | Location: Pullman, WA

Georgia Isted

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resources | Research Interests: Upland Birds | Advisor: Jeff Manning | Location: Pullman, WA

Edwin Jacobo

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Bird Ecology, Migration, and Stopover Ecology | Advisor: Jeff Manning | Location: Pullman, WA

Dmitri Kalashnikov

Program of Study: Ph D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Climate extremes, air pollution, wildfires | Advisor: Dr. Deepti Singh | Location: Vancouver, WA

Shawnee A. Kasanke

Program of Study: Ph.D. Natural and Environmental Sciences | Research Interest : Nutrient cycling in plant-fungi-bacteria mutualisms. | Advisor: Dr. Sarah Roley | Location: Tri-Cities, WA

Travis King

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Apex Predators | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Benjamin Leonard

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: storm water impacts on salmon and other sensitive species in the Pacific Northwest | Advisors: John Stark + Jen McIntyre | Location: Puyallup Research & Extension Center

Summer Lockhart

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Carbon biogeochemistry (the Carbon Cycle) | Advisor: Kent Keller | Location: Pullman, WA

Aaron Pelly

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Aquatic plant effects on river metabolism | Advisor: Sarah Roley | Location: Tri-Cities, WA

Dylan Quinn

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Wildfire & prescribed fire effects on soil hydraulics and post-fire hydrological modeling | Advisor: Kevan Moffett | Location: Vancouver, WA

Lucy Perera-Romero

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Large mammal ecology and conservation in neotropical forests | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA

Luke Reyes

Program of Study: PhD Environmental and Natural Resource Science | Research Interest: Carbon and water cycle impacts of future climate change | Advisor: Dr. Marc Kramer | Location: Vancouver, WA

Severin Scott

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Landscape Level Change, Climate, Stakeholder Interactions | Advisor: Arjan Meddens & Michelle Steen-Adams | Location: Pullman, WA

Hailey Smith

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Surface water quality policy in the Columbia River Basin | Advisor: Julie Padowski | Location: Pullman, WA

Katie Swensen

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Hydrologic recovery of reburned, moist mixed-conifer forests | Advisor: Dr. Kevan Moffett | Location: Vancouver, WA

Lea Wilson

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Ecohydrology of the urban forest; climate change impacts on the urban forest; social-ecological resiliency in the urban forest | Advisor: Kevan Moffet | Location: Vancouver, WA

Yetunde Rotimi

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Ecosystem conservation, wetland restoration, ecosystem services, remote sensing | Location: Pullman, WA

Bianca Wong Rodriguez

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: | Advisors: | Location: Vancouver, WA

Ph.D. Geology


 

Manuela Botero

Program of Study: PhD Geology | Research Interest : Geochronology and Isotope geochemistry | Advisor: Jeffrey Vervoort | Location: Pullman, WA

Tsai-Wei Chen

Program of Study: Ph.D. Geology | Research interest: Geochronology, radiogenic isotopes and early Earth processes | Advisor: Jeff Vervoort | Location: Pullman, WA

Rachelle Hart

Program of Study: Ph.D. Geology | Research Interest: Late-stage Columbia River Flood Basalts | Advisor: John Wolff | Location: Pullman, WA

Adelie Ionescu

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interests: tectonics, thermochronology, structural geology | Advisor: Sean Long | Location: Pullman, WA

Andrea Richardson

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interests: tectonics, structural geology, igneous petrology | Advisor: Sean Long | Location: Pullman, WA

Aurora Rosenberger

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interests: Structural geology, metamorphic petrography, and tectonics | Advisor: Sean Long | Location: Pullman, WA

Shane Scoggin

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interest: | Advisor: Johannes Hammerli | Location: Pullman, WA

Evan Soderberg

Program of Study: PhD Geology | Research Interest: Volcanology, Petrology, Geochemistry | Advisor: John Wolff | Location: Pullman, WA

Jarred Zimmerman

Program of Study: Ph.D. Geology | Research Interest: geochemistry with emphasis on hydrothermal alteration and associated ore deposition | Advisor: Peter Larson | Location: Pullman, WA