RWC Students
Nikesa Aubertin (She/Her)
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Water policy, Tribal energy resources
Advisor: Allyson Beall King
Jacob Bernal (He/Him)
MS Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Wildfire impacts on surface water quality, water governance
Advisor: Julie Padowski
Nathan Enos (He/Him)
MS Student, 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
Sierra Forler
Ph.D. Student, School of Biological Sciences (Pullman)
Research interests: Environmental toxicology, PFAS
Advisor: Erica Crespi
McKenzie Frazier
MS Student, School of the Environment (Vancouver)
Research interests: Microzooplankton Grazing Dynamics in Dam-Managed Waters
Advisor: Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens
Kinsey Freeman
Ph.D. Student, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Research interests: Water governance, policy, nonpoint source pollution, climate change
Advisor: Julie Padowski
Madison Honig (She/Her)
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Reproductive ecology and drinking water quality
Advisor: Aaron Blackwell
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
Evan Lexcox (He/Him)
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology (Pullman)
Research interests: Cultural transmission of climate change adaptive behaviors
Advisor: Anne Pisor
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
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
Erin Poor
MS Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Pullman)
Research interests: Watershed modeling and nutrient transport
Advisor: Jan Boll
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
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