Sediment transport in rivers: network-transport modeling and implications for freshwater mussels
River-floodplain sediment transport
Sediment transport on floodplains
Stream embeddedness and aquatic habitat
Engineering guidance for habitat restoration
Unsteady flood hydraulics and the non-uniqueness of the stage-inundation relationship on floodplains
Evaluation of vegetation characteristics from a drone-based lidar point cloud for estimating floodplain depth-dependent roughness
Assessment of floodplain functioning in restored and unrestored reaches of Little Conestoga Creek, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Allison Brasser (BSE) -- 1/2026-present
Benjamin Dye (BSE) -- 8/2025-present
Alexandra Altenburg (BSE) -- 5/2025-present
Emma Cooper (BSE) -- 9/2024-present
Alyssa Garibaldi (BSE) -- 9/2024-present
Chloe Chiang (BSE) -- 11/2023-present
Allison Pfeiffer -- 2018 -- (NCED2 postdoc, co-mentored with E. Istanbulluoglu and D. Montgomery, U. of Washington)
Role of lithology in shaping the resilience of glacially drained landscapes to climate change
Associate Professor in the Department of Geology at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Sumaiya -- 2022
Coastal Engineer 3 at Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA
Muneer Ahammad -- 2022
Water Resources Engineer at Stantec, Laurel, MD
Ellie Buerher -- 2025
Spatial distribution of fine sediment and juvenile freshwater mussel settling in rivers as influenced by boulders and large wood
ESP Associates, Morrisville, NC
Heather Wall -- 2025
Dewberry, Richmond, VA
Emma (Reilly) Oare -- 2025
Prediction of gravel streambed embeddedness using explainable AI and machine learning techniques
Hydraulic/Hydrology Engineering Specialist 1 at AtkinsRéalis, Las Vegas, NV
Justus Hargett -- 2025
Temporal variation in stream embeddedness and aquatic habitat
PhD student in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Tyler Smith -- 2024
(co-advised with Cully Hession)
PhD student in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Diana Schmidt -- 2023
Fate and transport of E. coli through Appalachian karst systems
Watershed Specialist at the City of Fort Collins, CO
Sierra Smith -- 2023
Junior Hydraulic Engineer at Watershed Science & Engineering, Seattle, WA
Nicholas D. Christensen -- 2022
PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Elizabeth Pratt -- 2020
Water Resources Engineer at Inter-Fluve, Cambridge, MA
Isabella Munson -- 2024
Assessment and design guidance on limiting sedimentation in and around engineered rock nests for Eastern Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)
Water Resources Engineer at Whitman, Requardt and Associates, LLP, Fairfax, VA
Maggie Scarborough (BSE) -- 11/2024-5/2025
Faith Colfer (BSE) -- 9/2024-5/2025
Sarah Leach (BSE) -- 3/2024-7/2025
Megan Luczko (BSE) -- 8/2023-9/2024
Eli Brody (BSE) -- 5/2023-5/2025
John Ruhl (EE/BSE) -- 2/2023-8/2024
Grace Whitesell (BSE) -- 11/2022-5/2023
Nathan Michaelson (BSE) -- 9/2022-5/2025
Samantha Weatherly (BSE) -- 9/2022-5/2025
Heather Wall (BSE) -- 8/2022-7/2024
Reilly Oare (BSE) -- 1/2022-1/2023; 8/2023-7/2024
Ellie Buehrer (BSE) -- 10/2021-7/2024
Shashwat Dhanuka (BSE) -- 10/2021-9/2022
Nathaniel Abrahams (BSE) -- 10/2021-5/2022
Sophie Bosse (BSE) -- 7/2021-5/2022
Jacob Drimer (ESM) -- 5/2021-5/2022
Jorge Bogan (BSE) -- 9/2020-8/2021
Alexa Reed (BSE) -- 1/2020-8/2021
Becki Broyles (BSE) -- 11/2019-5/2020
Diana Schmidt (BSE) -- 11/2019-5/2022
Sydney Sherer (BSE) -- 9/2019-5/2020
Amara Shareef (BSE) -- 9/2019-5/2022
Cameron Cornwell (BSE) -- 7/2019-12/2019
Sarah Moorehead (BSE) -- 6/2019-5/2020
Katie Hegadorn (BSE) -- 6/2019-8/2019
Graham Brittain (BSE) -- 5/2019-5/2020
Nicholas Christensen (BSE) -- 1/2019-5/2021
Katie Clatterbuck (BSE) -- 10/2018-5/2020
Courtney Dalimonte (BSE) -- 10/2018-5/2020
Morgan Re (BSE) -- 10/2018-5/2019
Clayton Travis (BSE) -- 5/2018-8/2021
Dan Irving (BSE) -- 5/2018-5/2019
Elizabeth Pratt (BSE) -- 3/2018-7/2019
Casey Schrading (BSE) -- 1/2018-5/2018
Josh Kennedy (BSE) -- 11/2017-5/2018
Thomas Schubert (BSE) -- 11/2017-5/2020