Laurel G. Larsen
Assistant Professor
email: laurel at berkeley dot edu
Curriculum vitae
Departmental web page
Dino Bellugi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dino is using machine learning and data-driven techniques to resolve spatially explicit feedback in watersheds and predict shallow landslides.
Website
Edom Moges
Postdoctoral Researcher
At ESDL, Edom applies information theory to understand hydrological processes and reduce model uncertainty.
Sheila Trampush
Postdoctoral Researcher
Omar Wani
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Galen Gorski
Postdoctoral Researcher
Galen is working to understand watershed connectivity and hydrologic routing using machine learning models and other data-driven approaches. He is particularly interested in understanding the critical storage time-scales in hydrologic systems and how they influence water quality parameters.
Saalem Adera
Ph.D student
email: saalem dot adera at berkeley dot edu
Saalem is working on quantifying feedbacks between water quantity/quality and the landscape through which it flows - with the overarching goal of improving the hydrologic predictions used for water resources management.
Rosanna Neuhausler
Ph.D student
Rosanna is interested in data-driven and mechanistic approaches to modeling watersheds as complex systems. Her work focuses on the island of Moorea.
Samuel Stein
Ph.D student
Sam is interested in coastal wetland ecosystems, with a particular focus on how wetland management can be leveraged to improve ecosystem services such as water quality and flood attenuation.
Liang Zhang
Ph.D student
email: angelikazhang at berkeley dot edu
Liang is interested in how information-flow timescales relate to other hydrological timescales, and the physical factors of watersheds that influence this mechanism.
Justin Kadi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ayush Kamat
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jordan Wingenroth
Laboratory Manager
email: j dot wingenroth at berkeley dot edu
Not pictured:
Tu Lan, undergraduate research assistant
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Alumni
Candace Yee
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Elle Chen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nicole Ulakovic
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Elizabeth Coda
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Yayla Sezginer
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Justin Nghiem
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hong-xu Ma
Ph.D student
Hong-xu's research interests focus on geomorphic processes influencing landscape evolution in coastal regions and remote sensing technology for advancing hydrology.
Erin Beller
Ph.D student
Erin's research investigates mechanisms and trajectories of historical change in ecosystem service provisioning. Her work focuses on the Silicon Valley.
Morgan Williams
Ph.D student
email: morgan dot williams at berkeley dot edu
Morgan is working on soil formation in alpine uranium-contaminated mine sites and soil as a complex system.
Website
Christopher Tennant
Postdoctoral Scholar
Christopher is working on data-driven approaches to resolve the critical timescales and length scales of feedback governing the evolution of landscapes.
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Mollie van Gordon
2018 Ph.D recipient
Mollie's work in the ESDL focused on remote sensing, ethnographic tools, and machine learning to understand the feedbacks between human land use decisions, climate, and water availability in the Sahel. Now she is a staff scientist at the Institute for Disease Modelling in Bellevue, WA.
Katrina Ginsberg
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Colin Keating
Laboratory Manager
Corey Scher
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Corey's work with Chris focused on extracting detailed channel bathymetry and floodplain topography from lidar imagery, in order to test hypotheses about controls on river channel geometry.
Alexa Groenke
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Alexa's work with Mollie focused on exploratory causal analysis of hydrologic variables in poorly understood watersheds in the West African Sahel.
Will Nardin
Former NCED2 Postdoctoral scholar
Will performed Delft 3D modeling of inland and coastal marshes in order to elucidate flow-vegetation-sediment-landscape feedbacks. Now he is faculty at the University of Maryland.
Aaron Hurst
Laboratory Manager
Aaron kept the lab running like a well-oiled machine and provided assistance with many of our projects. Now she is a PhD student in Geology at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Annika Min
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Annika worked with Mollie, using machine learning to perform land use/land cover classification over the Sahel in order to analyze how changing land use alters the hydrologic cycle in this region.
Danielle Watts
Postdoctoral scholar
email: dwatts at berkeley dot edu
Danielle's work examined feedbacks between plants, hydrology, geomorphology, and biogeochemistry that influence the structure and dynamics of wet meadow landscapes. She is now a data scientist for Edyn.
Aayush Khurana
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email: akhurana at berkeley dot edu
Aayush received his BS in Chemical Engineering in 2015. He worked on data processing and statistical algorithms to better understand environmental feedback processes governing the evolution of wet meadows.
Jessica Anderson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jessi Anderson worked on vegetation mapping and vegetation community shifts in wet meadows. Here, she is pictured in the field at Big Spring Run, PA.
Marissa Goodman
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Marissa worked to develop new approaches to trace the movement of particulate organic material through aquatic ecosystems. She is now a master's student in Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington.
Kristen Isom
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kristen worked to understand vegetation changes and vegetation-hydrology-sediment feedbacks in wet meadow restoration projects.
Jenny Marion
Undergraduate Research Assistant
email: jenny dot marion at berkeley dot edu
Jenny worked to characterize hydrologic connectivity in wetlands and understanding its relationship to flow velocity and landscape development.
Clothilde Labrousse
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Clothilde worked on simulation modeling of wet meadow geomorphology.
Josephine Fong
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Josephine worked on a model of the evolution of restored wet meadow-floodplain ecosystems. Now she's a PhD student at UC Davis.
Not pictured:
Roxi Shiu, undergraduate research assistant
Danielle Satin, undergraduate research assistant
Jacob Amme, undergraduate research assistant: Jacob worked on the Wax Lake Delta field experiments of sediment flow through different aquatic vegetation communities.
Brittany Burson, undergraduate research assistant: Brittany worked on physical models of wet meadow geomorphology.
Erica Ta, undergraduate research assistant: Erica performed GIS analyses of the geomorphology of Sierra Nevada wet meadow ecosystems.
Jie Ma, research assistant: Jie has been working on mathematical modeling to quantify the relationship between hydrologic connectivity and discharge in heterogeneously vegetated wetlands.
Mandy Kim, undergraduate research assistant: Mandy has been working on organic matter analyses in intermittent streams and data processing algorithms for quantifying environmental flows and bed shear stresses in wetlands.
Lily Haine, undergraduate research assistant: Lily has been working on simulation modeling of biodiversity arising from non-transitive competition in populations with multiple limiting resources.
Sydney Moss: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Cody
Mascot
Cody can often be found snoozing on Professor Larsen's office floor and is the group therapist. Likes/interests: Squirrels, gophers, snuggling, venison treats, running, pickup trucks, seagulls, the beach. Fears: Fireworks, carrot juice, baby seals. Dislikes: Grass allergies.
Group Pictures
End-of-year luncheon with Mollie van Gordon and her team of undergraduate research assistants, May 2017:
Going-away party for Will Nardin, February 2017:
ESDL group dinner at Laurel's house, December 2015:
Clockwise, from foreground: Laurel Larsen, Aaron Hurst, Aayush Khurana, Morgan Williams, Jessica Anderson, Danielle Watts, Hongxu Ma
Exploratorium "After Dark" outing, April 2014:
From left to right: Jan Hildebrand, Jie Ma, Laurel Larsen, Jessica Anderson, Aayush Khurana
From left to right: Aayush Khurana, Jessica Anderson, Laurel Larsen, Jan Hildebrand, Jie Ma.