Skip to main content Skip to navigation
Washington State University

Graduate Students

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

M.S. Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences

Maryam Akhlaghi Ghanbari

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Limnology, Biogeochemistry | Advisor: Sarah Roley | Location: Tricities

Riley Baxter

Program of Study: M.S. Natural Resources Sciences | Research Interest: Limnology | Advisors: Sarah Roley | Location: Pullman

Brandon Boehnke

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Transgenerational isotopic marking of Chinook Salmon otoliths | Advisor: Dr. Roley | Location: Tri-Cities

Katherine Burgstahler

Program of Study: MS 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

Kylie Denny

Program of Study: M.S. Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest : Quail | Advisor: Jeff Manning | Location: Pullman, Heald 407

Larra Bea Elliott

Program of Study: Master of Science in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Natural Organic Reduction | Advisor: Lynne Carpenter-Boggs | Location: Global Campus

Nathan Enos

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Community engagement collaborative dynamics | Advisor: Kara Whitman | Location: Pullman

Garrett Foster

Program of Study: Master of Science in Environmental Science | 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 Science | Research Interest: Microzooplankton grazing patterns in dam-managed waters | Advisor: Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens | Location: Vancouver

Danielle Holt

Program of Study: MS in Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Understory/overstory plant community dynamics | Advisor: Mark Swanson | Location: Pullman, Troy 306

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

Rebekah Lumkes

Program of Study: M.S. Environmental Science | Research Interest: Mule deer habitat selection and survival | Advisor: Lisa Shipley | Location: Heald 425

Margaret Magee

Program of Study: MS in Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Huckleberries | Advisor: Mark Swanson | Location: Pullman

Marwa Mahmoud

Program of Study: MS in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Natural Resource Management, Wildlife Ecology, Environmental Policy | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, Heald Hall

Sandra Mayne

Program of Study: M.S. Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: The dispersion of eDNA for use in aquatic ecology and conservation | Advisor: Dr. Caren Goldberg

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 Science | 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

Shawn Preston

Program of Study: MS 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

Mitchell Ralson

Program of Study: M.S. in Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest : Environmental DNA / Aquatic Ecology | Advisor: Dr. Caren Goldberg | Location: Heald 533

Luke Schefke

Program of Study: MS in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Patterns of tree mortality from insect damage | Advisor: Arjan Meddens | Office: Troy 309

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

Hailey Smith

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Surface water quality policy in the Columbia River Basin | Advisor: Julie Padowski | Location: Pullman

Allie Stift

Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental Science | Research Interest: Wildlife Communities In Sagebrush-Steppe Landscapes | Advisors: Lisa Shipley & Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman

Elsa Toskey

Program of Study: M.S. Environmental Science | Research Interest: ecology of stream macroinvertebrates on the Olympic Peninsula | Advisor: Dr. Stephen Bollens | Location: VSCI; 14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue

M.S. Geology


 

Hadeel Al Harthi

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

Cole McGregor

Program of Study: M.S. in Geology | Research Interest: Timing of metamorphism & recrystallization on the South Tibetan detachment system | Advisor: Sean Long | Location: Pullman

Johnny Murphy

Program of Study: M.S. Geology | Research Interests: – Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry | Advisor: Jeff Vervoort | Location: Webster 246 Pullman

Isabelle Rein

Program of Study: M.S. Geology | Research Interest: Scapolite geochemistry as a tracer for fluids and their origin within metamorphic rocks | Advisor: Johannes Hammerli | Location: Pullman

Alexus Richardson

Program of study: M.S. Geology | Research Interest: Geophysics/Planetary Geophysics | Advisor: Catherine Cooper | Location: Webster 429

Andy Stacey

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

Elizabeth Urban

Program of Study: M.S. in Geology | Research Interest: Crust Petrology | Advisor: Johannes Haemmerli | Location: Webster Hall, Pullman

Lily Wallenbrock

Program of Study: M.S. In Geology | Research Interest: Isotope Geochemistry — Sr isotopes in apatite crystals | Advisor: Johannes Haemmerli | Location: Pullman, Webster 246

Ph.D. Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences


 

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: diet diversity and habitat characteristics that influence nutritional status and gut microbial communities of Alaskan herbivores | Advisor : Lisa Shipley | Location: Pullman

Daniel Auerbach

Program of Study: PhD Environmental & Natural Resource Science | Research Interest : Use of drones to assess salmonid spawning. Remote sensing | Advisor: Dr. Alex Fremier | Location: Paccar Floor 4

Mark Batcheler

Program of Study: PhD Environmental Science and Natural Resources | Research Interest: Ecological impacts of Agroforestry Management Systems | Advisor: Marcia Ostrom | Location: Troy 306

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

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

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

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

Madhulika Gurazada

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Natural climate variability impacts on agriculture | Advisor: Dr. Deepti Singh | Location: VSCI 250, Vancouver

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

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, Heald 405

Georgia Isted

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

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: Room TBD Heald Hall Pullman

Dmitri Kalashnikov

Program of Study: Ph D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Climate extremes, air pollution, wildfires | Advisor: Dr. Deepti Singh | Location: VSCI 250, Vancouver

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: 254 East, Tri-Cities

Travis King

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

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

Summer Lockhart

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Carbon biogeochemistry (the Carbon Cycle) | Advisor: Kent Keller | Location: Troy 306

Chelsea Mitchell

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Green storm water infrastructure & aquatic toxicology | Advisor: Dr. Anand Jayakaran | Location: Puyallup Research & Extension Center

Meghan Parsley

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Conservation genomics of amphibians and environmental DNA | Advisor: Caren Goldberg | Location: Heald 533

Lulu Peach

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest : Conifer resin physiology and dendrochronology | Advisor: Henry Adams | Location: Troy 306

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

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

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: Heald

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: VSCI 14, Vancouver

Hasan Roshan

Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Conceptual issues on Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus, information-theoretic analysis of dynamics of environmental systems, and environmental policy and decision making | Advisor: Stephen Katz | Office location: PACCAR

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

R. Alex Thompson

Program of Study: Ph.D in Environmental and Natural Resource Science | Research Interest: when, where and how drought kills trees, how trees resist and recover from drought, and the ecological consequences of this phenomena for global forests | Advisor: Henry Adams

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

Ph.D. Geology


 

Nolan Blackford

Program of Study: Ph.D. Geology | Research Interest: Structural geology and tectonics | Advisor: Sean Long | Location: Webster 454

Manuela Botero

Program of Study: PhD Geology | Research Interest : Geochronology and Isotope geochemistry | Advisor: Jeffrey Vervoort | Location: Webster 254

Tsai-Wei Chen

Program of Study: Ph.D. Geology | Research interest: Geochronology, radiogenic isotopes and early Earth processes | Advisor: Jeff Vervoort | Location: Webster 423

Rachelle Hart

Program of Study: Ph.D. Geology | Research Interest: Late-stage Columbia River Flood Basalts | Advisor: John Wolff | Location: Webster 254

Adelie Ionescu

Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interests: tectonics, thermochronology, structural geology

Andrea Richardson

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

Ross Salerno

Program of Study: PhD Geology | Research: Radiogenic isotope geochemistry and the early Earth | Advisor : Jeff Vervoort | Location: 1043 Webster Hall Pullman

Evan Soderberg

Program of Study: PhD Geology | Research Interest: Volcanology, Petrology, Geochemistry | Advisor: John Wolff | Location: Webster 454, Pullman Campus

Jarred Zimmerman

Program of Study: Ph.D. Geology | Research Interest: Isotope geochemistry, trace element geochemistry, economic geology | Advisor: Peter Larson | Location: Webster 429