Fall 2021 GIGLE Team
(Gasparini's Inclusive Geomorphology & Landscape Evolution Team)
Claire Hudson
Undergraduate Student
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dong-Eun (Daniel) Kim, Post-doc, 2020
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Nathan Lyons, Post-doc, 2016 - 2019
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Margaux Mouchene, Post-doc, 2017
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Sabrina Martinez, MS, 2019
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Jordan Marie Adams, PhD, 2017
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Qi Li, PhD, 2016 (Kyle Straub was Qi's primary advisor)
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Carl Swanson, MS, 2016
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Jianwei Han, PhD, 2014
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Heather Hoey, MS, 2012
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Glenn Fischer, MS, 2012
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Emanuele Giachetta, International Visiting Scholar, 2011
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Olivia Boraiko, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2021
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Meagan Knowlton, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2013
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J. Andy Menking, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2009
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B. Tierney Walsh, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2009
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Carey Schafer, Undergraduate Capstone Project
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Arye Janoff, Undergraduate Capstone Project
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Kristina Leggas, Und. research
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Samantha Hilburn, Und. research
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Joseph Firkaly-Paciera, Und. research
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Carrie Leibensperger, Und. research
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Julia Mudd, Und. research
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Sara Nethercutt, Und. research
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Lindsay Roth, Und. research
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Ethan Ader, Und. research
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Philip Dunek, Und. research
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