Graduate Student Fellows, 2007-2008

Bryan Brandel
B.S., 2000, Albertson College of Idaho
Department: Biology Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Academic Advisor: Carol Wessman
Research Area: Changes in ecosystem properties, including carbon storage, across a creosotebush (Larrea tridentate) and grassland transition using field measurements and remote sensing

Nikolaus Buenning
B.A., 2003, University of Colorado at Boulder, Astronomy
Department: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Academic Advisor: David Noone
Research Area: The impact of future climate change on terrestrial processes and the spatial distribution of d18O of atmospheric CO2

Christa Hasenkopf
B.S., 2003, Penn State, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Department: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Academic Advisor: Margaret Tolbert
Research Area: Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Organic Haze Particles on Early Earth Climate

Scott W. McCoy
B.A., 2005, University of Washington, Business Administration
B.S., 2005, University of Washington, Geology
Department: Geological Sciences
Academic Advisor: Greg Tucker
Research Area: Debris flows and landscape evolution; Across space and time scales through numerical modeling, remote sensing and field observation

Shalini Mohleji
B.A, 2000, University of Virgina, Environmental Sciences
M.S. 2002, Purdue University, Atmospheric Sciences
Department: Environmental Studies
Academic Advisor: Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
Research Area: Homeland Security Science Research and Development funding/management

Kathryn L. Plath
B.S., 2004, Santa Clara University, Chemistry
Department: Chemistry
Academic Advisor: Veronica Vaida
Research Area: Vibrational Spectroscopy and Overtone-induced Photochemistry of Atmospherically Relevant Organic Acids

Keah Schuenemann
B.S., 2004, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
M.S. 2006, University of Colorado, Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Department: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Academic Advisor: John Cassano
Research Area: Precipitation over Greenland and the organization of synoptic weather patterns in the Greenland region through the use of self-organizing maps (SOMs) as an analysis of the past, present, and future state of the Greenland climate system and mass balance of the ice sheet