Fall 2021 GIGLE Team
(Gasparini's Inclusive Geomorphology & Landscape Evolution Team)
Claire Hudson
Undergraduate Student
Claire has supported research efforts in the Guadalupe Mountains and Puerto Rico. She started working in our lab in the first semester of her freshman year, and is currently working on a few things, including an honor's thesis on the impact of different cropping pattern on nitrogen effluent.
Shaina Brown
Undergraduate Student
Shaina is working to understand historic flow patterns in the Mississippi River. Shaina started this research and then got hooked and decided to do a senior thesis! Shaina and Sergio collobarote.
Sam Anderson
Graduate Student
Sam is working on his PhD studying how rock properties can impact landscape evolution. His primary field area is the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Texas. Sam is also a Landlabber! (And a chess player - he is on the right in this picture.)
Laurent Roberge
Graduate Student
Laurent is working on his PhD thesis. He is studying source-to-sink sediment dynamics. His field area is a number of watersheds in northeastern Sicily. He is also a Landlabber! (and skier)
Sergio Villamarin Gomez
Graduate Student
Sergio is building Python tools to test for stationarity in rivers, along with some fun Landlab projects. Sergio is a convert from math - welcome to earth science sergio!
Wally Darling
Graduate Student
Wally is working in the local National Park - Jean Lafitte. He is analyzing an array of well data to help the park better understand the flow of water in an area with trails and how this area may change over time with climate change and subsidence.
GIGLE Team Alumni
Dong-Eun (Daniel) Kim, Post-doc, 2020
Nathan Lyons, Post-doc, 2016 - 2019
Margaux Mouchene, Post-doc, 2017
Sabrina Martinez, MS, 2019
Jordan Marie Adams, PhD, 2017
Qi Li, PhD, 2016 (Kyle Straub was Qi's primary advisor)
Carl Swanson, MS, 2016
Jianwei Han, PhD, 2014
Heather Hoey, MS, 2012
Glenn Fischer, MS, 2012
Emanuele Giachetta, International Visiting Scholar, 2011
Olivia Boraiko, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2021
Meagan Knowlton, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2013
J. Andy Menking, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2009
B. Tierney Walsh, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2009
Carey Schafer, Undergraduate Capstone Project
Arye Janoff, Undergraduate Capstone Project
Kristina Leggas, Und. research
Samantha Hilburn, Und. research
Joseph Firkaly-Paciera, Und. research
Carrie Leibensperger, Und. research
Julia Mudd, Und. research
Sara Nethercutt, Und. research
Lindsay Roth, Und. research
Ethan Ader, Und. research
Philip Dunek, Und. research