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
Bostic, Darcy
Degree Program: MS
Major Professor: Mark Lubell
Research Area: Groundwater Policy
Email: djbostic@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
Castaldo, Giovanni
Degree Program: PhD
Major Professor: Thomas Harter
Research Area: groundwater contamination from agricultural practices in the Central Valley.
Email: gcastaldo@ucdavis.edu
Castrellon Romero, Maria Gabriela "Gaby"
Degree Program: MS
Major Professor: Laura Foglia and Graham Fogg
Research Area: Characterization and modelling of surface and subsurface hydrologic processes in tropical watersheds of Central America.
Email: mgcastrellon@ucdavis.edu
Chino, Yuiko
DeMars, Christopher
DeVincentis, Alyssa
Degree Program: PhD
Major Professor: Samuel Sandoval Solis
Research Area: Climate-smart agriculture for sustainable water management
Email: ajdevincentis@ucdavis.edu
Ebert, Logan
Garza-Diaz, Laura Elisa
Degree Program: PhD
Major Professor: Samuel Sandoval Solis
Research Area: Integrated Water Resources Management
Email: legarza@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
Jara, Daniel
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
Larrieu, Kenneth
Degree Program: MS
Major Professor: Gregory Pasternack
Research Area: Fluvial Geomorphology
Email: kglarrieu@ucdavis.edu
Li, Tingyu “Nina”
Degree program: PhD
Major Professor: Gregory Pasternack
Research Area: Ecohydraulics
Email: styli@ucdavis.edu
Maples, Stephen
Degree program: PhD
Major Professor: Graham Fogg
Research Area: Groundwater modeling in agriculturally dominated systems
Email: srmap@ucdavis.edu
Website: https://stephenmaples.me
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
Moniz, Pete
Degree program: MS
Major Professor: Gregory Pasternack
Research Area: Near-census analysis of juvenile salmonid rearing and habitat use in regulated gravel/cobble rivers.
Email: pjmoniz@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:
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regional groundwater quality
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contaminant transport
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geostatistics and geospatial analysis
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data science and machine learning
Email: rpauloo@ucdavis.edu
Website: richpauloo.github.io
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
Reimer, Anna Marie
Degree program: MS
Major Professor: Graham Fogg
Research Area: Real-time accounting of change in groundwater storage.
Email: amreimer@ucdavis.edu
Rice, Bill
Degree Program: PhD
Major Professor: Thomas Harter and Laura Foglia
Research Area: TBD
Email: wcrice@ucdavis.edu
Saiz, Ramon
Simms, Bradley
Degree Program: MS
Major Professor: Thomas Harter, Laura Foglia
Research Area: Physical Hydrology
Email : bmsimms@ucdavis.edu
Speiser, William
Degree Program: PhD
Major Professor: John Largier
Research Area: Coastal Oceanography
Email : whspeiser@ucdavis.edu
Sperisen, Carli
Degree program: MS
Major Professor: Peter Hernes
Research Area: Hydrologic Chemistry
Email: cnsperisen213@ucdavis.edu
Sy, Andrew
Tolley, Gus
Degree program: PhD
Major Professor: Thomas Harter
Research Area: Numerical Modeling and Groundwater-Surface-Water Interactions
Email: gustolley@ucdavis.edu
Wiener, Jason
Degree Program: PhD
Major Professor: Greg Pasternack
Research Area: TBD
Email : jswiener@ucdavis.edu
Winter, Sam
Degree Program: MS
Major Professor: Dr. John Largier
Research Area: TBD
UCD Email: swinter@ucdavis.edu
Wong, Andy
Degree program: PhD
Major Professor: Yufang Jin
Research Area: Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration
Email: ajywong@ucdavis.edu
