current students & postdocs
Anna Wright
PhD Student Carbon processing in streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. |
Dr. Jenny Pensky
Postdoctoral Researcher USGS national water quality synthesis and Upper Colorado River Water Quality |
Dr. Khum Thapa-Magar
Postdoctoral Researcher McMurdo Dry Valleys Species Distribution Modeling Using Remote Sensing |
Jason Hanania
MS Student High frequency analysis of river-groundwater interactions and bank storage across seasons. |
Jared Collins
PhD Student Stream-Groundwater Interactions in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica PhD Student |
Former Students & postdocs
Dylan Blaskey
PhD Student, 2024 University of Colorado Past and Future of Alaskan River Discharge, Temperature, and Ice |
Mia Vanderwilt
MS Student, 2023 University of Colorado Characterizing Velocity Gradients in the McMurdo Dry Valleys with High-Resolution Optical Imagery, Feature-Tracking Methods, and In Situ Observations |
Christa Torrens
PhD Student, 2022 University of Colorado Biogeochemical Dynamics and Response to Permafrost Degradation in McMurdo Dry Valley Streams, Antarctica |
Margaret Digiorno
MS Student, 2022 University of Colorado Resolving Flow-Dependent Indicators of Groundwater Exchange in the Columbia River, WA |
Joel Singley
PhD Student, 2021 University of Colorado Stream Corridor Connectivity Controls on Nitrogen Cycling |
Erin Cantrell
MS Student, 2020 University of Colorado Hydrologic controls on removal of oxygen in the bed of a mountain stream, East River, Colorado. |
Samuel Beane
MS Student, 2020 University of Colorado Hydrologic responses to foehn winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. |
Anna Bergstrom
PhD Student, 2020 University of Colorado The effect of sediment on hydrological and biogeochemical connectivity of glaciers within the McMurdo Dry Valleys ecosystem, Antarctica Now an assistant professor at Boise State University |
Dr. Ruth Heidel
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019 Influence of dust deposition on polar, alpine, and subalpine ecosystems. Now an assistant professor at Kenyon College |
Maggie Spangler
Masters Student, 2019 Comparison of diversions and impoundments on downstream water quality and ecosystem processes. Now a Water Quality Engineer for Northern Water, Colorado |
Patrick Hendrickson
MS Student, 2018 Ecological characterization of the Kuparuk River aufeis field, North Slope, Alaska. |
Abigail Conner
MS Student, 2019 University of Colorado Irrigation impacts on hydrologic exchange flows and examination of governance using a social-ecological framework |
Ran Wei
MS Student, 2019 University of Colorado Lake ecology modeling in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. (image coming soon) |
Colleen Wilson
MS Student, 2017 University of Colorado Increased stream temperature in response to extreme precipitation events |
Adam Wlostowski
PhD Student, 2017 University of Colorado Hydrologic Connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Water-Mediated Mass and Energy Fluxes in Streams and Soils. |
Eric Sokol Postdoctoral Fellow Community Modeling in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Ryan Webb
PhD Student, 2016 Colorado State University Fate of Snowmelt in Complex Subalpine Terrain |
Erika Smull
MS Student, 2015 Colorado State University Physical and biological removal of nitrate along a Colorado montane headwater stream: Understanding the role of bidirectional hydrologic exchange at the reach to catchment scale |
Zach Sudman
MS Student, 2015 Colorado State University Impacts of thermokarst activity on a stream in the McMurdo Dry Valleys |
Woochul Kang
MS, 2014 Colorado State University Reactive transport modeling of nutrients in Arctic tundra streams |
Zach Langford
MS, 2013 Penn State University Characterizing spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape, McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctica |
Emily Bernzott
MS, 2012 Penn State University Stream nutrient conentration modeling the McMurdo Dry Valleys |
Adam Wlostwoski
MS, 2012 Penn State University Solute Transport Dynamics in Alaskan Arctic Tundra Streams |
Katy Gerecht
MS, 2012 Penn State University Anomalous Stream Temperature Response to Storms in a Forested Headwater Stream in Central Pennsylvania |
Chris Bakey
MS, 2012 Penn State University Determining advection in hyporheic zones of arctic tundra streams using heat as a tracer |
Sarah Godsey
Postdoc Hillslope hydrologic and energy triggers of slope failure in thermokarst terrain, Alaska |
Jeffery Eveland
MS, 2011 Penn State University Snow Dynamics in a Polar Desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. |
P. Corbitt Kerr
MS, 2011 Penn State Univeristy The Significance of Model Structure in One- Dimensional Stream Solute Transport Models with Multiple Transient Storage Zones |
Adam Ward
Ph.D., 2011 Penn State University Characterizing solute transport in coupled stream-hyporheic systems using electrical resistivity imaging Now an assistant prof. at Indiana University. |
Tom Voltz
MS, 2011 Penn State University (co-advised with T. Wagener) Riparian hydraulic gradient and water table dynamics in two steep, headwater streams |
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Susan Gregg
MS, 2011 Penn State University (co-advised with T. Wagener) How connected should a stream be to its catchment? Assessing stream-groundwater interactions and hyporheic exchange in stream ecosystem restoration |
Mitch Weaver
MS, 2010 Penn State University Modeling biogeochemical fluxes in meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys |
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Michael Taptich
Undergraduate Schreyer's Honors thesis advisee, 2010 Penn State University Classification of the hyporheic zone under the Clean Water Act - Post Rapanos decision |
Christa Kelleher
MS, 2010 Penn State University (co-advised with T. Wagener) Responses of stream temperatures throughout Pennsylvania to regional climate change |
Martin Briggs
MS, 2009 Colorado School of Mines Partitioning surface and hyporheic transient storage throughout a coastal stream network |
Robert Payn
Ph.D., 2009 Colorado School of Mines Advancing hydrologic characterizations of streams across time and space |