RWC Students
Tanvir Ahmed
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Water Resources Management, Water Conservation, System Dynamics Modeling, Water Governance and Policy, Community Based Adaptation. Currently focusing on evaluating social-ecological dynamics of water conservation in the Walla Walla River Basin.
Advisor: Kara Whitman
Nikesa Aubertin
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Water policy, Tribal energy resources
Advisor: Allyson Beall King
Kinsey Ayers
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Water governance, policy, nonpoint source pollution, climate change
Advisor: Julie Padowski
Ted Ballenger
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Watershed biogeochemistry and aquatic ecology. Currently focused on greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater systems.
Advisor: John Harrison
Jacob Bernal
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Wildfire impacts on surface water quality, water governance
Advisor: Julie Padowski
Claire Anh Sao Boudard
MS Student, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Feeding Ecology of Native Freshwater Mussels in the Columbia River
Advisor: Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens and Stephen Bollens
Olivia DeStefano
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Lower Snake River Dams
Advisor: Hannah Haemmerli
Nathan Enos
Graduated Summer 2025, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Collaborative governance and alternatives to water policy, focusing on community driven action
Advisor: Kara Whitman
Seth Flanders
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Spokane)
Research interests: Water resources management, erosion reduction, ecological drone uses
Advisor: Alex Fremier
McKenzie Frazier
Graduated July 2025, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Microzooplankton Grazing Dynamics in Dam-Managed Waters
Advisor: Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens
Sam Hall Watson
MS Student, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Wildfire impacts on land-atmosphere feedbacks
Advisors: Deepti Singh and Kevan Moffet
Sarah Hewitt
MS Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pullman)
Research interests: Water stress in the Columbia River Basin, water resource management, and cooperative methods of stewardship and watershed restoration
Advisor: Sasha McLarty
Madison Honig
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Reproductive ecology and drinking water quality
Advisor: Edward Hagen
Julianna Hallza
Ph.D. Student, School of Biological Sciences (Vancouver)
Research interests: Biotic responses to beaver-related restoration, amphibian facilitation by beavers across climate gradients
Advisor: Jonah Piovia-Scott
Neo Koite
MS Student, School of Biological Sciences
Research interests: Herpetology and community science engagement
Advisors: Erica Crespi and Caren Goldberg
Constanza (Coti) Kremer
MS Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pullman)
Research interests: Hydrology, watershed modeling, climate change
Advisor: Jan Boll
Rebecca LaRue
Ph.D. Student, Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (Pullman)
Research interests: Environmental politics, public policy, natural resource management, and comparative state politics
Advisor: Michael Goldsby
Amanda Laverty
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Climate extremes, water resources, and policy
Advisor: Deepti Singh
Evan Leacox
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Cultural transmission of climate change adaptive behaviors
Advisor: Rob Quinlan
Alex Lopez
Ph.D. Student, School of Biological Sciences (Pullman)
Research interests: Thermal tolerance in Chinook salmon populations of the Columbia Basin
Advisors: Patrick Carter and Michael Phelps
Nate Neal
Graduated May 2025, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Ecological associations of native and invasive freshwater bivalves in the Columbia River Basin
Advisor: Stephen Bollens
Jasmine Ortiz
MS Student, School of the Environment
Research interests: Collaborative governance, environmental policy, and community-driven solutions.
Advisor: Kara Whitman
Marissa Ortiz
MS Student, School of the Environment (Tri-Cities)
Research interests: Beaver dam analogs
Advisor: Sarah Roley
Hermosa Otero
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Culturally significant plants with a focus on first foods, Tribal environmental policy
Advisor: Landon Charlo
Erin Poor
MS Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pullman)
Research interests: Watershed modeling and nutrient transport
Advisor: Jan Boll
Cassie Rueda
Ph.D. Student, Sociology (Pullman)
Research interests: Characteristics of indigenous food sovereignty movements among Columbia River Basin tribes
Advisor: Dylan Bugden
Hailey Smith
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Impact of climate change on future river temperatures, targeted riparian restoration strategies
Advisor: Julie Padowski
Jordan Thompson
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Lithic technology, geochemical analysis, and geoarcheology
Advisors: Rachel Horowitz and John Blong