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
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
William Scott Burgess
Major: Mathematics, University of California Riverside
Research: As a Digital Agricultural Fellow, I am working with Dr. Hoori Ajami and Dr. Adam Schreiner-McGraw to design computational methods for determining groundwater response to precipitation droughts. I plan to pursue a career in agricultural technology, or technology as it relates to natural resources more broadly; specifically, I am interested in the intersection of these emerging fields and the financial sector.
Maxim Shapovalov
Major: Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California Riverside
Research: Groundwater monitoring and time series analysis in the Kaweah River watershed
Alumni
Kiarash Ehsani
MS in Environmental Sciences
Aarushi Jha
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
M.Eng in Chemical and Environmental Engineering
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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)