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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
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
Meidina Fitriana
Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Wildlife Ecology & Conservation | Advisor: Dan Thornton | 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
Nathan Ivy
Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Impacts of emerging contaminants in roadway runoff on aquatic ecosystems with a focus on tire-derived chemicals like 6PPD-quinone and their toxic effects on Pacific salmonids | Advisor: Jen McIntyre | Location: Puyallup Research & Extension Center
Claire Kurlychek
Pronouns: She/Hers | Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Spatial ecology and habitat selection | 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
Pronouns: She/Her | Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Wildlife Management in Changing Ecosystems, Community Science, Environmental Policy, Stakeholder Collaboration | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, WA
Anastasia McConachie
Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Molecular effects and toxicodynamics of 6PPD-quinone in coho salmon & aquatic ecosystems | Advisor: Jen McIntyre | Location: Puyallup Research & Extension Center
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
Jasmine Ortiz
Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Advisor: Kara Whitman | Location: Pullman, WA
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
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
Aurora Schermbeck
Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: | Advisor: Jennifer Phillips | Location: Pullman, WA
Savannah Swanson
Program of Study: M.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Investigating tree physiological response to bark beetle outbreak | Advisor: Henry Adams | 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
Bode Trappett
Pronouns: He/Him | Program of Study: M.S. in Geology | Research Interests: Tectonics, geomorphology, geochronology, GIS | Advisor: Scott Jess | 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
Tanvir Ahmed
Pronouns: He/Him/His | Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: climate adaptive water resource management, social-ecological system dynamics and modeling, collaborative/adaptive water governance & policy, transboundary water cooperation and conflict, Columbia river basin management, climate vulnerability assessment and resilience of water resources, climate induced migration, fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQca), GIS & Remote Sensing, statistical modelling | Advisor: Kara Whitman | Location: Pullman, WA
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
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: Benthic cyanobacterial blooms, freshwater biogeochemistry, and decomposition of aquatic plants | 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
Pronouns: She/Her | Program of Study: Ph.D. Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: River corridor hydrobiogeochemistry | Advisor: Sarah Roley | Location: Tri-Cities, WA
Leonard Haule
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: | Advisor: Dan Thornton | Location: Pullman, 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
Kelechi Ibeh
Pronouns: He/Him | Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: Forest Ecology, Forest Landscape Modelling, Ecosystem Services, GIS, Climate Change | Advisor: Austin Himes | 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
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
Nandini Premkumar
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: | Advisor: Anand Jayakaran | Location: Puyallup Research & Extension Center
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
Allie Stift
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interest: Wildlife Communities in Sagebrush-Steppe Landscapes | Advisors: Lisa Shipley & Dan Thornton | 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
Marlen Terrazas
Pronouns: She/Hers | Program of Study: Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences | Research Interests: behavioral phenotypes and mate selection in birds exposed to sensory pollutants | Advisor: Jennifer Phillips | 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
Victoria Ng-Zilar
Pronouns: She/Her | Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Insterests: Geoscience Education | Advisor: Michael Pelch | Location: Pullman, WA
Mollie Pope
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interests: | Advisor: Johannes Hämmerli | Location: Pullman, WA
Andrea Richardson
Pronouns: She/her/hers | 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
Rajib Kumar Saha
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research interest: Geochronology, Geomorphology, Landform Evolution, Quaternary Geology Geoarchaeology, Sedimentology, Geochemistry and Geoscience Education | Advisor: Scott Jess | Location: Pullman, WA | Geological Survey of Bangladesh
Shane Scoggin
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interest: | Advisor: Johannes Hammerli | Location: Pullman, WA
Evan Soderberg
Program of Study: Ph.D. in Geology | Research Interest: Volcanology, Petrology, Geochemistry | Advisor: John Wolff | Location: Pullman, WA