Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Juan Sebastian Acero Triana

PhD, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


MSc, Applied Hydrometeorology, Russian State Hydrometeorological University


BSc. Agricultural and Biological Engineering, National University of Colombia

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Research: Ecohydrology of agroecosystems and lake-groundwater interaction in the Salton Sea basin

Dr. Sandra Armengol Vall

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside. My research is aimed at gaining knowledge and understanding in the use of chemical and isotopic tracers in hydrogeology. My main areas of expertise include the use of conventional chemical techniques, geochemical modelling and geostatistics to identify the groundwater provenance in aquifers and to study water-soil interactions including salinization processes.


I have five years of experience in analyzing groundwater chemistry and collecting rainwater samples. I worked in groundwater related issues in Spain (Onyar River Basin, Llobregat River Basin) and North (Iberá Estuary) and Central (Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin) Argentina. I have planned and conducted many surveys, including building a rainwater monitoring network for a 2300 km2 basin.

Dr. Adam Schreiner- McGraw

I am a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Riverside. I obtained my PhD from Arizona State University studying ecohydrological controls on focused groundwater recharge. My background is primarily in observational hydrology with expertise in environmental sensor networks, eddy covariance measurements, cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sampling, and hydrologic modeling. My scientific philosophy is to combine high-resolution hydrologic observations with state-of-the-art watershed models to build deep understandings of the problems that I study. I am motivated by scientific questions that aim to improve our ability to predict and manage water resources in the future, particularly in water-stressed regions. This includes the hydrologic impacts of land cover change and climate change, and connections between the hydrologic cycle and ecology, or ecohydrology. My main project focuses on understanding surface-groundwater interactions in the California Central Valley within the context of climate change. 

Undergraduate Students

Maxim Shapovalov 

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BS in Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside

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Research: Groundwater monitoring and time series analysis in the Kaweah River watershed

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Alumni

Kiarash Ehsani

 

MS in Environmental Sciences

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Aarushi Jha 

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MS in Environmental Sciences (2020)

Thesis Title: Application of a Semi-Distributed Hydrologic Model to Understand Hydrologic Flux Partitioning of an Arid, Highly Managed Watershed

Dr. Conrad Wasko

Visiting scholar, University of Melbourne

Dr. Clare Stephens

Visiting scholar, University of New South Wales

Jacob Palmer

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M.Eng in Chemical and Environmental Engineering

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Undergraduate Students

  • Kelly Perez (2019): (UCR, undergraduate researcher, groundwater monitoring)

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  • Carly Pierce (2018): (UCR, undergraduate researcher, Land cover change)

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  • Mohamed Eissa (2017): (UCR, undergraduate researcher, Semi-distributed modeling)

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  • Kyle Fructuoso (2017): (UCR, undergraduate researcher, Seawater intrusion)

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  • Austin Fimbres (2017): (UCR, undergraduate researcher, Stream flow analysis)

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  • Huihai Wang (2017): (UCR, undergraduate researcher, Hydrologic modeling)