Tianjiao Pu completed her PhD from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in August 2024. Originally from Wuxi, China, she received her BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018.  Tianjiao's thesis focused on mapping waterbodies and flooding combining CYGNSS and machine learning techniques to improve methane emissions and better understand how areas of flooding and wildfires can emerge in various landscapes under specific hydrological conditions.

Tianjiao is now a postdoctoral research associate at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University.  Find her new contact info HERE.

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Becca conducted her senior thesis under Cynthia's, Paul's, and Eric Romero's (ESPM PhD student) guidance, running a greenhouse experiment on the impacts of increasing water salinity on two wetland species, one native to the Delta, the other invasive. She received her BSc from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in Spring 2025.

Madison conducted her senior thesis under Cynthia's and Anna's guidance, studying the impacts of climate change on water availability in the Huang Huai Hai River Basin in China, combining reanalysis data and various climate scenarios. She received her BSc from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in Spring 2025 and is now attending Columbia University’s M.Sc. in Climate program with an Advanced Certificate in Climate Systems and Analytics as a Dean’s Graduate Scholar.

Joaquin Jamieson completed his BSc in Environmental Engineering Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Spring 2024. Originally from Madera, California, Joaquin studied the effects of regreening efforts on the expansion of the Sahara Desert using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and rainfall data between September 2022 and June 2024. He also frequently assisted with fieldwork at Point Reyes. Joaquin is now continuing in the department and working towards his MSc.

Ella Camp completed her BSc from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Spring 2024. In the Water & Carbon Lab, Ella worked on dew and fog foliar uptake in grasses from 2022 to 2024, as part of the CEE Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). Ella is now continuing in the department and working towards his MSc.

Eleazar Quijada is a 3rd year undergraduate student, currently enrolled in the College of Natural Resources and majoring in Environmental Sciences. In the Water & Carbon Lab as a freshman and sophomore, Eleazar helped organize meteorological data to compare to firearm incidents across the US and used remotely sensed chlorophyll-a data over the Arctic Ocean to understand the effects of fertilization from boreal fires.