Graduate Students

The Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis is a world-renowned graduate program, and home to a talented cohort of over 30 graduate students pursuing Masters and PhD degrees.

Al Dughaishi, Usama

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Isaya Kisekka

Research Area: Water reuse in agriculture

Email: dughaishi@ucdavis.edu

Atkins, Karen

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Geoffrey Schladow

Research Area: Climate change impacts on Lake Tahoe water quality as it relates to periphyton processes.

Email: ksatkins@ucdavis.edu

Berris, Helaine

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Sam Sandoval

Research Area: Sustainable agricultural water management in northern Mexico; environmental flows on the Eel River.

Email: hberris@ucdavis.edu

Calderwood, Andrew

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Laura Foglia, Graham Fogg

Research Area: Surface water - Groundwater interaction on the Cosumnes River

Email : ajcalderwood@ucdavis.edu

Calderwood, Andrew

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Minghua Zhang

Research Area: TBD

Email: chdemars@ucdavis.edu

Ebert, Logan

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Mallika Nocco

Research Area: TBD

Email: laebert@ucdavis.edu

Garza-Diaz, Laura Elisa

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Samuel Sandoval Solis

Research Area: Integrated Water Resources Management

Email: legarza@ucdavis.edu

Gately, Amanda

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Laura Foglia

Research Area: TBD

Email: amgateley@ucdavis.edu

Gervasi, Arielle

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Greg Pasternack

Research Area: Topographic change detection, sediment transport, and fluvial geomorphology

Email: agervasi@ucdavis.edu

Gomez Quiroga, Grace

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Sam Sandoval

Research Area: TBD

UCD Email Address: ggomezquiroga@ucdavis.edu

Hewett, Kate

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: John Largier

Research Area: Coastal oceanography, estuarine dynamics

Email: kmhewett@ucdavis.edu

Ismaili, Samira

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Samuel Sandoval Solis

Research Area: Water resources management

Email: sismaili@ucdavis.edu

Kennard, Rachel

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Geoffrey Schladow

Research Area: Water Policy and Management

UCD Email Address: rakennard@ucdavis.edu

Koohafkan, Michael

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Nicholas Pinter

Research Area: Geomorphology of large braided sandbed rivers

Email: koohafkan@ucdavis.edu

Kouba, Claire

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Thomas Harter

Research Area: Groundwater modeling and water resources management under the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

Email: cmkouba@ucdavis.edu

Kozar, Daniel

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: John Largier, Xiaoli Dong

Research Area: TBD

Email : djkozar@ucdavis.edu

Li, Tingyu “Nina”

Degree program: PhD

Major Professor: Gregory Pasternack

Research Area: Ecohydraulics

Email: styli@ucdavis.edu

Mautner, Marina

Degree program: PhD

Major Professor: Jon Herman and Laura Foglia

Research Area: Water resource optimization & groundwater modeling

Email: mmautner@ucdavis.edu

McCarten, Niall

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Randy Dahlgren

Research Area: TBD

Email : nfmccarten@ucdavis.edu

Miles, Kimberly

Degree program: PhD

Major Professor: Graham Fogg and Thomas Harter

Research Area: Groundwater protection and aquifer/well flow dynamics.

Email: kimmiles@ucdavis.edu

Molla, Nusrat

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Jon Herman

Research Area: Water systems optimization, water resources and equity in disadvantaged communities

Email: njmolla@ucdavis.edu

Murphy, Nicholas

Degree program: MS

Major Professor: Helen Dahlke

Research Area: Contaminant Transport & Agricultural Groundwater Banking

Email: npmurphy@ucdavis.edu

Nogueira, Xavier

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Sam Sandoval, Greg Pasternack

Research Area: TBD

Email : xrnogueira@ucdavis.edu

Owlia, Rashid Reza

Degree program: PhD

Major Professor: Graham Fogg

Research Area: Groundwater Modeling and Simulation

Email: rowlia@ucdavis.edu

Patterson, Noelle

Degree program: MS

Major Professor: Samuel Sandoval Solis

Research Area: Hydrologic alteration and surface water management

Email: nkpatterson@ucdavis.edu

Website: https://github.com/NoellePatterson

Pauloo, Rich

Degree program: PhD

Major Professor: Graham Fogg

Research Areas:

regional groundwater quality
non-Fickian contaminant transport in porous media
regional scale well failure modeling
software development for groundwater monitoring

Email: rpauloo@ucdavis.edu

Website: richpauloo.com

Twitter: @RichPauloo

Phillips, Sierra

Degree Program: MS

Major Professor: Greg Pasternack

Research Area: Pacific salmonid rearing habitat restoration theory, design, and analysis.

Email : sjphillips@ucdavis.edu

Rahman, Mashrekur

Degree Program: PhD

Major Professor: Grey Nearing

Research Area: Artificial Intelligence, Science Communication and Information Theory in Hydrologic Science

UCD email address: mashman@ucdavis.edul