PhD Alumni
Rachel Allen
Thesis: Conditions Influencing Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments (PhD 2018)
Seungjin Baek
Thesis: The Role of Atmospheric Forcing in
Determining Transport in a Shallow Tidal Lagoon (PhD
2006)
Jingyi Bao
(PhD 2018)
Gabrielle Boisrame
Thesis: Wildfire Effects on the Ecohydrology of a Sierra Nevada Watershed (PhD 2016)
Margaret Byron
Thesis: The rotation and translation of non-spherical particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence (PhD 2015)
Michaella Chung
Thesis: Field Methods for Collection of Spatially Distributed, Hydrologic Watershed Data (PhD 2018)
Audric Collignon
Thesis: Intratidal Transport and Mixing
Processes at the Shoal-Channel Interface in a
Partially-Stratified Estuary (PhD 2013)
Alex Connolly
Thesis: Large-eddy simulation of complex terrain effects on atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence and stable flow phenomena (PhD 2020)
Mary Cousins
Thesis: Hydrodynamics and water quality in
Rodeo Lagoon, a hypereutrophic coastal lagoon (PhD
2010)
Octavia Crompton
Thesis: Who's afraid of the Saint Venant Equations? (Everyone, so I replaced it with Machine Learning) (PhD 2018)
Megan Daniels
Thesis: Soil Moisture in complex terrain:
quantifying the effects on atmospheric boundary
layer flowand providing improved surface boundary
conditions for mesoscale models (PhD 2010)
David Dralle
Thesis: How much water will we have by the end of summer? Progress and pitfalls along the path to prediction (PhD 2016)
Lilian Engel
Thesis: Into the Plankter-Verse: Physical-Biological Interactions in Estuaries (PhD 2023)
Madeline Foster-Martinez
Thesis: Marsh Dynamics: Laboratory and Field Investigations of Gas Transport, Wave Attenuation, and Biosolids Amendment (PhD 2017)
Jon Fram
Thesis: Exchange at the estuary-ocean
interface: Fluxes through the Golden Gate Channel
(PhD 2005)
Steve Gladding
Thesis: Quantification of sediment bed –
water column exchange processes in the South San
Francisco Bay estuary (PhD 2011)
Eli Goodfriend
(PhD 2014)
Olivia Yip (Hoang)
Thesis: Tidal and Seasonal Observations of Stratification and Water Temperature in Lower South San Francisco Bay (PhD 2019)
Rusty Holleman
Thesis: Dispersion and Tidal Dynamics of
Channel-Shoal Estuaries (PhD 2013)
Kevin Hsu
Thesis: Hydrodynamic Exchange in Estuarine
Perimeter Habitats (PhD 2013)
Kimberly Huynh
Thesis: Automated Measurements of Gas Exchange in Wetlands (PhD 2021)
Maureen Downing Kunz
Thesis: Physical Interactions Between
Free-Floating Macrophytes and Environmental Flows
(PhD 2011)
Rebecca Leonardson
Thesis: Exchange of fine sediment with
gravel riverbeds (PhD 2010)
Morgan Levy
Thesis: Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Hydrology in Brazil (PhD 2016)
Katherine Lundquist
Thesis: Immersed Boundary Methods for High
Resolution Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer
Flow Over Complex Terrain (PhD 2010)
Lissa MacVean
Thesis: Perimeter exchange, hydrodynamics
and stratification in an estuary (PhD 2010)
Mikola Marjanovic
(PhD 2015)
Maureen Martin
Thesis: Chlorophyll and suspended sediment
exchange between central San Francisco Bay and the
coastal Pacific Ocean (PhD 2006)
Tessa Maurer
Thesis: Development of Novel Data Applications for Improving Precipitation-Runoff Modeling in Headwater Catchments (PhD 2020)
Marc Muller
Thesis: Bridging the Information Gap: Remote Sensing and Micro Hydropower Feasibility in Data-Scarce Regions (PhD 2015)
Theresa Oehmke
Thesis: Effects of Particle Shape and Fluid Shear on the Kinematics and Mass Transfer of large Particles in Turbulent Flow (PhD 2021)
Gopal Penny
Thesis: The Drying of the Arkavathy River: Understanding Hydrological Change in a Human-Dominated Watershed (PhD 2017)
Cristina Poindexter
Thesis: Wetland water flows and interfacial gas exchange (PhD 2014)
Kyle Pressel
Thesis: Water Vapor Variability Across
Spatial Scales: Insights for Theory,
Parameterization, and Model Assessment (PhD 2012)
Katya Rakhmatulina
Thesis: Quantifying Links Between Fire and Water cycles Across Time, Place, and Processes, in California's Seirra Nevada (PhD 2020)
David Ralston
Thesis: Hydrodynamics and scalar transport
in subtidal channels through intertidal mudflats
(PhD 2005)
Jehan Rihani
Thesis: Isolating the Effects of Water Table
Dynamics, Terrain and Soil Moisture Heterogeneity on
the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Coupled Models
(PhD 2010)
Rudi Schuech
Thesis: Odorant Detection by Biological
Chemosensor Arrays (PhD 2011)
Jason Simon
Thesis: Towards Grid-independent Dynamics in High-resolution
Numerical Weather Prediction Models (PhD 2019)
Stefan Talke
Thesis: An investigation on the
hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics on an intertidal
mudflat in Central San Francisco Bay (PhD 2005)
Diane Taylor
(PhD 2017)
Ian Tse
(PhD 2015)
Alan Vaz Lopes
Thesis: Analysis of Hydrologic Droughts in the Amazon Basin (PhD 2015)
Wayne Wagner
Thesis: Temperature and Tidal Dynamics in a
Branching Estuarine System (PhD 2012)
Liya Weldegebriel
Thesis: Reversing land degradation in the Ethiopian Highlands (PhD 2021)
David Wiersema
Thesis: Mesoscale to Microscale Atmospheric Modeling Over Complex Terrain (PhD 2020)
Jeannie Wilkening
Thesis: Seeing the trees for the forest: Exploring the interdependence of environmental and physiology in driving ecohydrological dynamics (PhD 2022)
Megan Williams
Thesis: Hydrodynamics and Salt Dispersion in Intermittently Closed Bar-Built Estuaries (PhD 2014)
Susan Willis
Lukas WinklerPrins
Thesis: How A Marsh Falls Apart (PhD 2023)
Minghui Zhang
Thesis: Monitoring agricultural behavior under climate change with cloud computing and satellite imagery (PhD 2020)
Bowen Zhou
Thesis: Large-eddy Simulation of the
Nighttime Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer (PhD 2013)
PostDoc Alumni
Bobby Arthur 2015-2017
Gabriele Bellani 2011-2013
Ankur Bordoloi 2015-2016, 2018-2019
Andreas Brand
Matt Brennan
Bicheng Chen 2020-2021
Mike Dvorak
Xue Feng 2015-2017
Ruth Lambert
Rachel Pepper
Nimish Pujara 2015-2018
Matt Reidenbach 2004-2007
Xiaoming Shi 2015-2018
Jian Zhou 2018-2020