People
Alexandra Konings
Associate Professor of Earth System Science and, by courtesy, of Geophysics
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment
CV (pdf)
Jinyang Du
Research Scientist
Interests: Interests: Passive and active microwave remote sensing; global mapping of ecohydrological variables; AI-driven flood and drought forecasting
Dapeng Feng
Postdoc
Interests: Integrating AI, physical models, and large data for hydrology and earth systems modeling; Terrestrial water cycle and its interactions with plant and climate systems
Marvin Browne
Postdoc
Interests: drought tolerance and resilience, plant hydraulics, remote sensing of plant water status
Matthew Worden
PhD Student
Interests: vegetation response to drought, carbon cycle modeling, model-data fusion, remote sensing, tropical carbon and water cycle
Trent Robinett
PhD Student
Interests: stomatal conductance models, plant hydraulics, land surface models, global ecology
Erica McCormick
PhD Student
Interests: remote sensing, vegetation use of rock moisture, vegetation response to climate change, global ecology
Veda Sunkara
PhD student, E-IPER (co-advised with Khalid Osman)
Interests: climate disaster adaptation, remote sensing, machine learning, community resilience
Ashley DeFrates
PhD Student
Interests: hydrological cycling, wildfire and fuels treatment, vegetation response to climate change, hydrologic modeling
Alumni
Sabrina Ahmed
Undergraduate research assistant, summer 2023
Joshua Bruns
Undergraduate student (Williams)
Interests: plant hydraulics, modelling
Michael Burnett
Undergrad & MS Student 2018-2019, now PhD student at University of California, Santa Barbara
Shannon Mueller
Stanford Research Experience for Teachers Fellow 2021, biology teacher at Berkeley High
Paula Rueda Villamil
UC Berkeley Undergrad, SURGE Scholar 2021, Research Assistant 2021-2023, now Environmental Scientist at Larry Walker Associates
Mckenzie Swindle
SURGE Scholar summer 2022
Jevan Yu
Undergraduate research assistant, 2022-2023 (co-advised by Alison Hoyt). Now PhD student at MIT
