Improvement of water cycle prediction in the national water model through regional calibration, meteorological forcing improvements, and coastal coupling; Complex interactions between water cycle, pollutant transport, agriculture activities, ecosystem behaviors and their social-economic impacts, in responding to different climate and human activity forcing.

Alexa got her bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering with a focus on water resources engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After working as a consulting engineer for two years she is now pursuing a master’s degree in hydrology at Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests include hydrologic model accuracy and forecasting, climate change, limnology, and science communication.

Co-advised with Adrienne Marshall

Kate graduated from the University of Idaho with her BS in Hydrogeology whereafter she worked in both private and public sectors for 5 years before completing her Masters degree in Hydrology at the Colorado School of Mines (2022). Kate has previous research experience investigating the seasonal flux of environmental conditions and metal solutes, she is currently focusing on specializing in surface water prediction and coastal coupling.

Brooke graduated from Boston University with a BA in Earth and Environmental Sciences in May 2023. She is now pursuing a master’s degree in hydrology. Her research interests include limnology, river systems, climate change and freshwater availability, coastal dynamics, aquatic ecology, and biogeochemistry.

Izzy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering. At UC Berkeley she did research in fluid mechanics focusing on particle transport in multi-zone systems and energy generation using hydrofoils. At the present, her research interests include hydrodynamic ice studies and modeling, fluid mechanics, limnology, climate change and surface hydrology.

Gabriella got her BS and MS degrees in civil engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary, where she is a PhD student focusing on turbulent exchange processes at the air-water interface and hydro- and thermodynamics of shallow lakes including numerical modeling. She is currently a Fulbright visiting student researcher at the Colorado School of Mines investigating ice formation and dynamics in lakes.