Alumni Yearbook
This page is under construction and currently only represents a limited list of EPS alumni.
Name | Degree | Year |
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Current Position | Thesis Topic |
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Sirine Fakra | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher | |
Percy Link | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | AutoGrid Systems Senior Data Scientist | |
Benjamin Nault | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral Researcher | Observational constraints on upper tropospheric NOx emissions, lifetime, and oxidative products |
Jasper Oshun | Ph.D. | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science | Assistant Professor of Geology, Humboldt State University | The isotopic evolution of a raindrop through the critical zone |
Holly Brown | Ph.D. | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science | Evaluating and Improving the ElarmS Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm | |
Marisa Palucis | Ph.D. | 2014 | Earth and Planetary Science | Dartmouth Department of Earth Sciences, Assistant Professor | Using quantitative topographic analysis to understand the role of water on transport and deposition processes on crater walls |
Jesse Day | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | NextCaller, Principal Data Scientist and Product manager | The Dynamics of Precipitation Variability in the Asian Monsoon |
Olive Boyd | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Analysis of Seismic Moment Tensors, In-Situ Stress, and Finite-Source Scaling of Earthquakes at The Geysers Geothermal Field, California | |
Octavia Crompton | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Postdoctorial Researcher at UC Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Who’s afraid of the Saint Venant Equations? (Everyone, so I replaced it with Machine Learning) |
Jacob Seeley | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Harvard University Center for the Environment, Environmental Fellow | Convection, Radiation, and Climate: Fundamental Mechanisms and Impacts of a Changing Atmosphere |
Elizabeth Mitnick | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Stable isotope fractionation and trace element partitioning in marine, terrestrial, and laboratory-synthesized carbonates | |
Hannah Bourne | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Stable isotope fractionation and trace element partitioning in marine, terrestrial, and laboratory-synthesized carbonates | |
Michael Antonelli | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Ca Isotopes in Igneous and High-Temperature Metamorphic Systems and the Hydrothermal Chemistry of Paleoseawater | |
Benjamin Fildier | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Benjamin Fildier Guest Postdoctoral Fellow Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Physical Constraints and Modeling Uncertainties on the Intensication of the Global Hydrologic Cycle |
Noah Randolph-Flagg | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center | The role of groundwater in volcanic and fault zone processes |
Stephanie Wuerth | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Pandora, Data Scientist | Development and Applications of a Carbon-Weather Data Assimilation System |
Joshua Tollefson | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Unraveling Neptune's Atmospheric Structure from Multi-Wavelength Observations | |
Robert Citron | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Early Mars Geodynamics: Giant Impacts, Super-plumes, and Vast Oceans | |
William Hawley | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | NSF Postdoc; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University | The Life and Death of a Tectonic Plate: Imaging the Juan de Fuca Plate with Amphibious Seismic Data |
Elizabeth Niespolo | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences | Determining Timescales and Paleoenvironments of Quaternary Human Evolution Using Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes |
Kathryn Materna | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | UC Berkeley Active Tectonics lab | Geodetic and Seismological Investigations of Earthquake Cycle Deformation and Fault Zone Properties |
Robert Martin-Short | Ph.D. | 2019 | Earth and Planetary Science | Data Scientist at App Annie | Seismic investigation of subduction in Cascadia and Alaska and Simulating the ability of MyShake networks to detect and locate earthquakes |
Qingkai Kong | Ph.D. | 2018 | Earth and Planetary Science | Joint Berkeley Seismology Lab and Berkeley Division of Data Sciences Assistant Data Science Researcher | MyShake – Building a global smartphone seismic network |
Kristen Fauria | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | Vanderbilt University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Assistant Professor | Dynamics of pyroclastic density currents and submarine eruptions |
Jacob Edman | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | KoBold Metals Data Scientist | Convection and Gravity Waves in the Tropical Atmosphere |
David Mangiante | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Metal and mineral catalyzed organic photochemistry in modern and prebiotic environments | |
Ian Rose | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Postdoctorial Scholar | True polar wander on convecting planets |
Carolina Munoz-Saez | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | Universidad de Chile, Postdoctorial Researcher | Dynamics of Geyser systems, El Tatio, Atacama |
Shuai Zhang | Ph.D. | 2016 | Earth and Planetary Science | First-principles Simulations of Minerals in Earth and Planetary Interiors | |
Tyler Arbour | Ph.D. | 2017 | Earth and Planetary Science | CMET- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Postdoctorial Scholar | Cultivating and Characterizing Electroactive Microbial Communities using Bioelectrochemical Systems and Metagenomics |