Alumni
PhD Alumni
Vincent Laroche
PhD 2026
At Berkeley, Vincent studied the impact of stratified shear mixing on the evolution of biogeochemical tracers. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley in August 2026. He is now a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on turbulence closures for large-scale ocean models.
Rachel Allen
Thesis: Conditions Influencing Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments
PhD 2018
Seungjin Baek
Thesis: The Role of Atmospheric Forcing in Determining Transport in a Shallow Tidal Lagoon
PhD 2006
Jingyi Bao
immersed boundary method
PhD 2018
Gabrielle Boisrame
Thesis: Wildfire Effects on the Ecohydrology of a Sierra Nevada Watershed
PhD 2016
Margaret Byron
Thesis: The rotation and translation of non-spherical particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence
PhD 2015
Tvetene Carlson
PhD 2025
Michaella Chung
Thesis: Field Methods for Collection of Spatially Distributed, Hydrologic Watershed Data
PhD 2018
Kelly Clevenson
PhD 2026
Audric Collignon
Thesis: Intratidal Transport and Mixing Processes at the Shoal-Channel Interface in a Partially-Stratified Estuary
PhD 2013
Alex Connolly
Thesis: Large-eddy simulation of complex terrain effects on atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence and stable flow phenomena
Now at Columbia University
PhD 2020
Mary Cousins
Thesis: Hydrodynamics and water quality in Rodeo Lagoon, a hypereutrophic coastal lagoon
PhD 2010
Octavia Crompton
Thesis: Who’s afraid of the Saint Venant Equations? (Everyone, so I replaced it with Machine Learning)
PhD 2018
Megan Daniels
Thesis: Soil Moisture in complex terrain: quantifying the effects on atmospheric boundary layer flow and providing improved surface boundary conditions for mesoscale models
PhD 2010
David Dralle
Thesis: How much water will we have by the end of summer? Progress and pitfalls along the path to prediction
PhD 2016
Lilian (Lily) Engel
PhD 2023. Thesis: Into the Plankter-Verse: Physical-Biological Interactions in Estuaries
I am an environmental engineer specializing in physical-biological interactions in estuaries. I am currently a postdoc at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) where I am coupling a larval dispersal model with the Salish Sea Model to assess the spread of the invasive European Green Crab species in Washington waters working with Lysel Garavelli. In my PhD I developed idealized biophysical numerical models, including the Peter-Parker Model, to study phytoplankton bloom dynamics in estuaries working with Mark Stacey.
Matthew Falcone
PhD 2025
Madeline Foster-Martinez
Thesis: Marsh Dynamics: Laboratory and Field Investigations of Gas Transport, Wave Attenuation, and Biosolids Amendment
PhD 2017
Jon Fram
Thesis: Exchange at the estuary-ocean interface: Fluxes through the Golden Gate Channel
PhD 2005
Alexandre Georges
PhD 2025
Steve Gladding
Thesis: Quantification of sediment bed-water column exchange processes in the South San Francisco Bay estuary
PhD 2011
Eli Goodfriend
adaptive mesh refinement for large-eddy simulation
PhD 2014
Olivia Yip (Hoang)
Thesis: Tidal and Seasonal Observations of Stratification and Water Temperature in Lower South San Francisco Bay
PhD 2019
Rusty Holleman
Thesis: Dispersion and Tidal Dynamics of Channel-Shoal Estuaries
PhD 2013
Kevin Hsu
Thesis: Hydrodynamic Exchange in Estuarine Perimeter Habitats
PhD 2013
Kimberly Huynh
Thesis: Automated Measurements of Gas Exchange in Wetlands
PhD 2021
Jenna Israel
PhD 2026
Maureen Downing Kunz
Thesis: Physical Interactions Between Free-Floating Macrophytes and Environmental Flows
PhD 2011
Rebecca Leonardson
Thesis: Exchange of fine sediment with gravel riverbeds
PhD 2010
Morgan Levy
Thesis: Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Hydrology in Brazil
PhD 2016
Katherine Lundquist
Thesis: Immersed Boundary Methods for High Resolution Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Flow Over Complex Terrain
Now at LLNL
PhD 2010
Lissa MacVean
Thesis: Perimeter exchange, hydrodynamics and stratification in an estuary
PhD 2010
Nikola Marjanovic
atmospheric boundary layer simulations for wind energy
PhD 2015
Maureen Martin
Thesis: Chlorophyll and suspended sediment exchange between central San Francisco Bay and the coastal Pacific Ocean
PhD 2006
Tessa Maurer
Thesis: Development of Novel Data Applications for Improving Precipitation-Runoff Modeling in Headwater Catchments
PhD 2020
Marc Muller
Thesis: Bridging the Information Gap: Remote Sensing and Micro Hydropower Feasibility in Data-Scarce Regions
PhD 2015
Theresa Oehmke
Thesis: Effects of Particle Shape and Fluid Shear on the Kinematics and Mass Transfer of large Particles in Turbulent Flow
PhD 2021
Gopal Penny
Thesis: The Drying of the Arkavathy River: Understanding Hydrological Change in a Human-Dominated Watershed
PhD 2017
Cristina Poindexter
Thesis: Wetland water flows and interfacial gas exchange
PhD 2014
Kyle Pressel
Thesis: Water Vapor Variability Across Spatial Scales: Insights for Theory, Parameterization, and Model Assessment
PhD 2012
Tianjiao Pu
PhD 2026
Katya Rakhmatulina
Thesis: Quantifying Links Between Fire and Water cycles Across Time, Place, and Processes, in California’s Seirra Nevada
PhD 2020
David Ralston
Thesis: Hydrodynamics and scalar transport in subtidal channels through intertidal mudflats
PhD 2005
Jehan Rihani
Thesis: Isolating the Effects of Water Table Dynamics, Terrain and Soil Moisture Heterogeneity on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Coupled Models
PhD 2010
Ann Scheliga
PhD 2026
Rudi Schuech
Thesis: Odorant Detection by Biological Chemosensor Arrays
PhD 2011
Paul Seibert
PhD 2026
Jason Simon
Thesis: Towards Grid-independent Dynamics in High-resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Models
Now at Duke University
PhD 2019
Stefan Talke
Thesis: An investigation on the hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics on an intertidal mudflat in Central San Francisco Bay
PhD 2005
Diane Taylor
atmospheric dispersion of methane
PhD 2017
Ian Tse
PhD 2015
Alan Vaz Lopes
Thesis: Analysis of Hydrologic Droughts in the Amazon Basin
PhD 2015
Wayne Wagner
Thesis: Temperature and Tidal Dynamics in a Branching Estuarine System
PhD 2012
Liya Weldegebriel
Thesis: Reversing land degradation in the Ethiopian Highlands
PhD 2021
David Wiersema
Thesis: Mesoscale to Microscale Atmospheric Modeling Over Complex Terrain
urban dispersion simulations, now at LLNL
PhD 2019
Jeannie Wilkening
Thesis: Seeing the trees for the forest: Exploring the interdependence of environmental and physiology in driving ecohydrological dynamics
PhD 2022
Megan Williams
Thesis: Hydrodynamics and Salt Dispersion in Intermittently Closed Bar-Built Estuaries
PhD 2014
Susan Willis
Lukas WinklerPrins
Thesis: How A Marsh Falls Apart
PhD 2023
Adam Wise
wind energy simulations
PhD 2024
Minghui Zhang
Thesis: Monitoring agricultural behavior under climate change with cloud computing and satellite imagery
PhD 2020
Bowen Zhou
Thesis: Large-eddy Simulation of the Nighttime Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Now at Nanjing University
PhD 2012
Postdoc Alumni
Olatubosun Fasipe
Miller Research Fellow 2023 – 2026 / Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Dr. Fasipe Olatubosun’s research sits at the intersection of water-energy-environment nexus modeling, data-driven decision science, sustainability science and engineering, and hydrologic network observation and sensor technologies. A key application of my work has been in river basin planning and sustainable small hydropower, where I integrate physical modeling and AI-enabled Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System (MCSDSS) for transparent, defensible decisions that can be utilized and scaled globally to achieve carbon neutrality goals.
Bobby Arthur 2015-2017
stably-stratified flows, now at LLNL
Gabriele Bellani 2011-2013
Ankur Bordoloi 2015-2016, 2018-2019
Andreas Brand
Matt Brennan
Bicheng Chen 2020-2021
urban dispersion simulations, now at Xiamen University
Mike Dvorak
turbulence and wind energy, now at Sailor’s Energy
Xue Feng 2015-2017
Ruth Lambert
Rachel Pepper
Nimish Pujara 2015-2018
Matt Reidenbach 2004-2007
Xiaoming Shi 2015-2018
LES and clouds, now at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jian Zhou
EFMH postdoc, 2018–2020
I was a postdoc of EFMH during 2018 to 2020. My research focuses on estuarine physics. I currently work at Hohai University, China.
MS Alumni
Macy Frost Chang
machine learning for offshore wind energy (MS thesis)
Léo Guillotte
wildfire smoke data assimilation
James Neher
simulations over complex terrain