Trainees

Students in the CCWAS IGERT span graduate programs across the breadth of the IGERT, including hydrologic sciences, atmospheric sciences, ecology, and agricultural and resource economics. They share a common interest in collaboration to solve research and policy challenges that arise from climate change and its impact on water resources.

CCWAS trainees enter as first-year doctoral students at UC Davis or the Colorado School of Mines. Associates have taken the CCWAS core course and seminar, and may participate fully in all CCWAS activities but do not receive a stipend.

CCWAS Trainee Michael Levy met US House of Representatives member Ami Bera as part of a congressional visit sponsored by UC Davis

• James Farlin, land-surface processes in the hydrological cycle (Graduate Group in Ecology -- Kyaw Tha Paw U)
• Eric Kent, agriculture and the atmosphere (Graduate Group in Atmospheric Science -- Kyaw Tha Paw U)
• Michael Levy, integrating physical with behavioral models to improve environmental policy (Graduate Group in Ecology -- Mark Lubell)
• Derek Nixon, decision making under risk and uncertainty and adaptive management of water resources under climate change (Graduate Group in Agricultural and Resource Economics -- Jim Bushnell and Mike Springborn)
• Alan Rhoades, applied climatology (Graduate Group in Atmospheric Science -- Paul Ullrich; 2014-2015 Leland Roy Saxon and Georgia Wood Saxon Fellowship)
• Alison Whipple, hydrology and landscape-level processes (Graduate Group in Hydrologic Sciences -- Joshua Viers; 2012-2013 Kraft Fellowship; 2016 Delta Science Fellowship)

Members of the 2012 cohort plus a couple of old-timers

• Lauren Adams, water resources management and decision making under risk and uncertainty (Graduate Group in Civil and Environmental Engineering -- Jay Lund)
• Laura Condon, integrated hydrologic models and water policy (Hydrologic Science and Engineering, CSM -- Reed Maxwell)
• Amanda Fencl, decision-making under uncertainty (Graduate Group in Geography -- Mark Lubell; NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
• Josephine Fong, climate models of extratropical cyclones and extreme events (Graduate Group in Atmospheric Science -- Paul Ullrich)
• James Gilbert, water budgets under uncertainty (Hydrologic Science and Engineering, CSM -- Reed Maxwell)
• Jorge Guerra, atmospheric dynamics and water availability (Graduate Group in Atmospheric Science -- Paul Ullrich)
• Katherine Markovich, hydroclimatology and water management (Graduate Group in Hydrologic Sciences -- Graham Fogg; 2012-2013 Fulbright Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellow; Ernest E. Hill Fellowship 2016-2017)
  

Trainees in the 2013 cohort, plus Pico Downes-Grosberg

• Ellen Bruno, agricultural decision-making and water policy (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
• Lauren Foster, hydroclimate modeling of rain-snow transitions in mountain regions  (Hydrologic Science and Engineering, CSM -- Reed Maxwell)
• Alejo Kraus-Polk, floodplain restoration and agriculture (Geography -- Brett Milligan)
• Stephen Maples, integrating hydrologic models with climate predictions  (Hydrologic Sciences -- Graham Fogg; NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
• Matthew Renquist, paleoclimatology and climate models (Geology -- Isabel Montañez)
• Stacy Roberts, environmental history of water use (History -- Louis Warren)

• Alyssa DeVincentis, groundwater management (Hydrologic Sciences -- Sam Sandoval Solis; Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development Future Leaders Fellow)
• Scott Devine, soil hydrology (Soils and Biogeochemistry -- Toby O'Geen and Randy Dahlgren) 
• Elizabeth Elliott, weather and climate dynamics (Atmospheric Science -- Paul Ullrich; Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship)
• Linda Estelí Méndez, groundwater policy (Geography -- Mark Lubell; NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
• Richard Pauloo, groundwater sustainability (Hydrologic Sciences -- Helen Dahlke and Graham Fogg)
• Marielle Pinheiro, atmospheric blocking and climate change (Atmospheric Science -- Paul Ullrich)
• Elaheh White, water management (Civil & Environmental Engineering -- Jay Lund; NSF Graduate Research Fellow)