Our team

john abatzoglou

associate professor

Curriculum Vitae, Bio, ​Google Scholar

katherine hegewisch

Project Scientist

Ashwin Thomas

PHD environmental systems 

Ken Prewitt

PhD Management complex systems

Renee Young

bs environmental systems science
Join our team: We are currently looking for motivated graduate students to work with us on scientifically interesting and application climate related research. 

Previous team members

  • Abigail Lute, 2021, PhD Water Resources, Understanding Current and Future Mountain Hydroclimate: Consideration of Air Temperature, Snow, and Rock Glaciers, currently a postdoc at Princeton/GFDL
  • Joshua Clark, 2020, MS Natural Resources, Verification of Red Flag Warning across the Northwestern US as Large Fire Occurrence Forecasts, currently a Data Scientist at HazardHub
  • Lauren Parker, 2017, PhD Geography, Modeling the Thermal Niche for Perennial Agriculture Under Current and Future Climate Change, Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018; currently a Coordinator and Postdoctoral Fellow of the California Climate Hub at UC Davis
  • Wenlong Feng, 2018, MS Geography, Interannual county-level climate–yield relationships for winter wheat on the Columbia Plateau, USA, currently a PhD student at New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Stephen Gillis, 2016, MS Environmental Science, currently a small business owner in North Carolina
  • Donovan VanSant, 2015, MS Environmental Science, currently a 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 project scientist at Geosyntec Consultants