Our team
Dr. john abatzoglou
professor |
Dr. katherine hegewisch
Project Scientist |
Dr. Emily Williams
Postdoctoral scientist |
Dr. Dmitri Kalashnikov
postdoctoral scientist |
Dr. Mukesh Kumar
Postdoctoral scientist |
Dr. Cong Yin
postdoctoral scientist |
Previous team members
- Ken Prewitt, 2025, PhD Management of Complex Systems, Climate Suitability and Agronomic Integration of High-Value Specialty Crops in California, currently an instructor at UC Merced and CEO/Owner of Serendipity Grove LLC
- Abigail Lute, 2021, PhD Water Resources, Understanding Current and Future Mountain Hydroclimate: Consideration of Air Temperature, Snow, and Rock Glaciers, currently a research scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center
- Joshua Clark, 2020, MS Natural Resources, Verification of Red Flag Warning across the Northwestern US as Large Fire Occurrence Forecasts, currently a Fire Scientist at Bridger Aerospace and Principal Engineer at FireSci
- Lauren Parker, 2017, PhD Geography, Modeling the Thermal Niche for Perennial Agriculture Under Current and Future Climate Change, Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018; currently the Managing Director of Secure Water Future and Academic Coordinator, VISTA University of California Merced
- Wenlong Feng, 2018, MS Geography, Interannual county-level climate–yield relationships for winter wheat on the Columbia Plateau, USA, currently a lecturer at Xi'an University of Finance and Economics
- Stephen Gillis, 2016, MS Environmental Science, currently a small business owner in North Carolina
- Donovan VanSant, 2015, MS Environmental Science, currently a Senior GIS analyst for People's Utility District of Tillamook (OR)
- Renaud Barbero, 2012-2015, Postdoc Fellow, currently a research scientist at IRSTEA in Aix-en-Provence, France
- Paige Farrell, 2015, MS Geography, Sensitivity of soil loss to climate change in the Inland Northwest USA, currently an Environmental Broker at Willis Towers Watson
- Jeremy Jenkins, 2012, MS Geography, Fine-Scale Temperature and Physiography in Northern Idaho: an observational comparison to PRISM, currently a Water Resource Manager at Liberty Lake Washington
- Jacob Wolf, 2012, MS Geography, Evaluation of Drought Indices for tracking streamflow in Idaho, currently an Air Quality Meteorologist with EPA
- James Favors, 2011, MS Meteorology, Regional Method of identifying surges of the North American Monsoon, currently Program Lead in Heliophysics at NASA
- Holly Diehl, 2011, MS Geography, Observed and projected Climate and Hydrology in the eastern Great Basin