Sarah Avila-Barnard
Advisor: David C. Volz
Environmental Toxicology
Flame retardant-induced effects on epigenetic reprogramming during early development
Kunpeng Chen
Advisor: Ying-Hsuan Lin
Environmental Sciences
Climate effects and health effects of atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) substance; mechanisms and kinetics of formation of atmospheric pollutants.
Aral Greene
Advisor: Pete Homyak
Environmental Sciences
Researching biogeochemical cycling specifically effects of nitrogen deposition in dryland watersheds. Interested in science communication with young learners
Sasha Karapetrova
Advisor: Jay Gan
Environmental Toxicology
Sasha (she/they) is from Chicago, Illinois and graduated Pomona College with a B.A. in Molecular Biology and a minor in Russian and Eastern European Studies. Her current research focus is studying microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems.
J Kemner
Advisor: Pete Homyak
Environmental Sciences
Exploring the effects of prescribed burn seasonality on forest soil carbon cycling.
Benjamin Maki
Advisor: Sam Ying
Environmental Toxicology
Working on projects related to manganese release in soils and the subsequent contamination of groundwater
Clare Murphy-Hagan
Advisor: Andrew B. Gray
Environmental Sciences
Researching fluvial trash and microplastic pollution fate and transport
Ben Newcomb
Advisor: Daniel Hirmas
Environmental Sciences
Wildfire impacts on dynamic soil properties in steep shrublands
Michael Rodriguez
Advisor: Francesca Hopkins
Environmental Sciences
Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon/nitrogen cycling of California Dairies. Effect of land application of dairy manure/compost on greenhouse gas emissions
Md Rubaiat Nurul Alam
Advisor: Ying-Hsuan Lin
Environmental Toxicology
Chemical analysis of the toxic air pollutants and investigating the disease progression from biological aspects.
Qingyang Shi
Advisor: Jay Gan
Environmental Sciences
Exploring the degradation of halogenated organic compounds
Danielle Stevenson
Advisor: Sam Ying
Environmental Toxicology
Applications for Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Agricultural Systems to Limit Heavy Metal Uptake in Food Crops
Lin Tan
Advisor: King-Fai Li
Environmental Sciences
Interested in global carbon cycle and chemistry-climate interaction.
Jenna Wiegand
Advisor: David C. Volz
Environmental Sciences
Osmoregulatory impacts of environmental chemicals on fish embryos
Yaxin (Jane) Xiong
Advisor: Jay Gan
Environmental Sciences
Focusing on developing a tiered framework that integrates simple process-based, quantitative structure- property relationships to describe the CEC flux from the input sources, through the soil/root interface, and into leaves/fruits
Yuhua Xiong
Advisor: Kurt Schwabe
Environmental Economics
Researching water economics and computational economics
Tiantian Zhou
Advisor: Jirka Šimunek
Environmental Sciences
Simulation of water stable isotopes transport in the vadose zone