Sarah Avila-Barnard
Advisor: David C. Volz
Environmental Toxicology
Flame retardant-induced effects on epigenetic reprogramming during early development
Erin Bowey
Advisor: Roya Bahreini
Environmental Sciences
The chemistry of Aerosols and their environmental impacts
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
Hannah Hapich
Advisor: Andrew B. Gray
Environmental Sciences
Fluvial fate and transport of microplastic pollution; open-source environmental database management
Haley Johnson
Advisor: Andrew B. Gray
Environmental Sciences
Fluvial microplastic fate and transport
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
Aspen Smith
Advisor: Jay Gan
Environmental Toxicology
Aspen (she/her) researches the effects of organic contaminants in agricultural systems. She's also interested in education and methods to improve science communication with the general public.
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.
Miranda Vega
Advisor: Sam Ying
Environmental Sciences
Miranda (she/ella) is interested in soil and water quality and its effects on Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. She is also looking for ways to integrate traditional ecological knowledge systems into her research. #LandBack
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