Group

Current

Ph.D.

Fatemeh Shacheri

Sediment transport in rivers: network-transport modeling and implications for freshwater mussels

Sadia Afrin Kahn

River-floodplain sediment transport

M.S.

Justus Hargett

River-network-scale predictions of embeddedness for assessing the quality of aquatic habitat and implications for biota

Tyler Smith

Transport and fate of microplastics in headwater stream riparian soils

(co-advised with Cully Hession)

M.Eng.

Isabella Munson

Assessment of factors contributing to sedimentation around engineered rock nests for hellbender salamanders

Undergraduate

Chloe Chiang (BSE) -- 11/2023-present

Megan Luczko (BSE) -- 8/2023-present

Eli Brody (BSE) -- 5/2023-present

John Ruhl (EE/BSE) -- 2/2023-present

Nathan Michaelson (BSE) -- 9/2022-present

Samantha Weatherly (BSE) -- 9/2022-present

Heather Wall (BSE) -- 8/2022-present

Reilly Oare (BSE) -- 1/2022-1/2023; 8/2023-present

Ellie Buehrer (BSE) -- 10/2021-present

Alumni

Postdoc

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

PhD

Sumaiya -- 2022

River-floodplain connectivity and sediment transport potential: Applications to sediment dynamics on floodplains and juvenile freshwater mussel settling in rivers

Coastal Engineer 3 at Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA

Muneer Ahammad -- 2022

Advanced suspended sediment sampling and simulation of sediment pulses to better predict fluvial geomorphic change in river networks

Postdoc in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University, Logan, UT

MS

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

Estimating embeddedness from bankfull shear velocity in gravel streambeds to assess sediment impacts on aquatic biota

Junior Hydraulic Engineer at Watershed Science & Engineering, Seattle, WA

Nicholas D. Christensen -- 2022

Comparison of hydraulic function and channel-floodplain connectivity between actively and passively restored reaches of Stroubles Creek 11 years after restoration

PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Elizabeth Pratt -- 2020

Evaluating watershed and stream-channel drivers of in-stream turbidity in Virginia and North Carolina

Water Resources Engineer at River Design Group, Corvallis, OR

Undergraduate

Grace Whitesell (BSE) -- 11/2022-5/2023

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