RWC Students
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Nikesa Aubertin (She/Her)
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Water policy, Tribal energy resources
Advisor: Allyson Beall King
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Ted Ballenger (He/Him)
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
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Jacob Bernal (He/Him)
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Wildfire impacts on surface water quality, water governance
Advisor: Julie Padowski
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Nathan Enos
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Collaborative governance and alternatives to water policy, focusing on community driven action
Advisor: Kara Whitman
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Seth Flanders
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Spokane)
Research interests: Water resources management, erosion reduction, ecological drone uses
Advisor: Alex Fremier
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McKenzie Frazier
MS Student, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Microzooplankton Grazing Dynamics in Dam-Managed Waters
Advisor: Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens
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Kinsey Freeman (She/Her)
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Water governance, policy, nonpoint source pollution, climate change
Advisor: Julie Padowski
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Sarah Hewitt (She/Her)
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
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Madison Honig (She/Her)
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Reproductive ecology and drinking water quality
Advisor: Aaron Blackwell
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Julianna Hoza
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
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Neo Koite (They/Them)
MS Student, School of Biological Sciences
Research interests: Herpetology and community science engagement
Advisor: Caren Goldberg
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Coti Kremer (She/Her)
MS Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pullman)
Research interests: Hydrology, watershed modeling, climate change
Advisor: Jan Boll
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Rebecca LaRue (She/Her)
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
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Evan Leacox (He/Him)
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Cultural transmission of climate change adaptive behaviors
Advisor: Rob Quinlan
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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
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Nate Neal
MS Student, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Ecological associations of native and invasive freshwater bivalves in the Columbia River Basin
Advisor: Stephen Bollens
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Jasmine Ortiz
MS Student, School of the Environment
Research interests:
Advisor: Kara Whitman
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Erin Poor
MS Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pullman)
Research interests: Watershed modeling and nutrient transport
Advisor: Jan Boll
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Cassie Rueda (She/Her)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology (Pullman)
Research interests: Characteristics of indigenous food sovereignty movements among Columbia River Basin tribes
Advisor: Dylan Bugden
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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
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Jordan Thompson
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Lithic technology, geochemical analysis, and geoarcheology
Advisors: Rachel Horowitz and John Blong