Hydrologic Science Students

Current Students (Spring 2013)

PhD Geoscience-Hydrology

• Miguel Aguayo (Flores)
• Patrick Kormos (McNamara)
• Mel Kunkel (Flores)
• Mike Poulos (Pierce)
• Annika Quick (Benner)
• Michael Thoma (Barrash)
• Katelyn Watson (Flores)

MS Hydrologic Science

• Erik Boe (McNamara)
• Blaine Dawson (Flores)
• Tiffay Farrell (Feris)
• Alex Frye (McNamara)
• Xavier Gagne (Benner)
• Ricci Loughridge (Flores)
• Ryan McCutcheon (McNamara)
• Erin Murray (Flores)
• William Parham (McNamara)
• Ian Penn (Benner)
• Brian Stark (Benner)
• Daniel Tappa (Flores)
• Reggie Walters (Flores)
• Brian Yelen (Benner)

M in Earth Science – Hydrologic Science (non-thesis)

• Elyse Begnoche (McNamara)
• Isaac Fournier
• Kellie Rey

Completed Students

PhD Geoscience – Hydrology

• Coming Soon

MS Hydrologic Science (Founded 2006)

• Pam Aishlin (McNamara): Groundwater recharge estimation using chloride mass balance.
• Brian Anderson (McNamara): Spatial distribution and evolution of seasonal snowpack in complex terrain: An evaluation of the SNODAS modeling.
• Andrew Austreng (Benner):
• Alison Burnop (McNamara):
• Monty Busbee (Benner): Arsenic Contamination in the Treasure Valley Shallow Aquifer
• Dave Eiriksson (McNamara):
• Somenath Ganguly (Benner): Modeling an Groundwater Flow in an Arsenic Contaminated Aquifer, Cambodia
• Brian Hanson (Benner):
• Joel Homan (McNamara): The Development and Evaluation of Ground, Model and Satellite-based Snowmelt Depletion Curves.
• Brady Johnson (Barrash):
• Megan Kenworthy (Pierce):
• Aurel Lamontagne (McNamara): Characterization and quantification of ground heat flux for late season shallow snow.
• Daniella Makram-Morgos (McNamara):  Influence of saturted wedge dynamics on hillslope-stream connectivity.
• Mike Poulos (Pierce):
• Kerry Riley (Pierce):
• Alden Shallcross (McNamara):
• Toni Smith (Benner):
• Daniel Stanaway (Ferris):
• Ben Stratton (Venkataramana): Evaluation of the spatially varying water balance processes in a semi-arid mountainous watershed of Idaho using the soil water assessment tool (SWAT) model.
• Mike Thoma (McNamara): Determining Recharge Routes to the Treasure Valley, ID using dissolved noble gas data.
• Ryan Warden (McNamara): Temporal and spatial analysis of stream and groundwater interactions.
• Kerrie Weppner (Pierce):
• Mike Whitson (McNamara): Lateral water redistribution during spring snowmelt and simulated rain-on-snow events.
• Jennifer Wilson (McNamara): A geochemical investigation of groundwater sources, Blackfoot River, Idaho

M in Earth Science-Hydrology

• Mat Weaver
  
• Doug Davidson
• Brian Himes

MS Civil Engineering – Water Resources

• Ivan Geroy (Molly Gribb): Factors influencing soil moisture at the hillslope scale in a semi-arid mountainous environment.

Hydrologic Science related degrees prior to 2006

• Heather Best (McNamara, MS Geology):
• Carter Borden (McNamara, MS Geology): A Comparison of Sediment Monitoring to Sediment Facies Mapping in the Middle Fork Payette River, Central Idaho
• Jordi Figueras (Gribb, MS Civil Engineering) Designing an automated multistep outflow system for soil hydraulic property testing
• Laura Grant (McNamara, MS Geology): Distribution of Soil Water Dynamics in a Small Mountain Catchment.
• Bernadette Hoffman (McNamara, MS Geology) Multiscale fracture analysis of the Idaho Batholith
• Katrina Ladd (Benner, Civil Engineering):  Identifying controls on surface carbon dioxide efflux in a semi-arid ecosystem.
• Patrick Kormos (McNamara, MS Geology): Isotope hydrograph separation during snowmelt in a mountain catchment.
• Shannon Murray (Mead, MS Mathematics): The Richard’s equation and its constitutive relations.
• Mike Procsal (McNamara, MS Geology):  Development of an areal snow depletion curve in the Dry Creek Experimental Watershed using MODIS satellite imagery and the Utah Energy Balance snow accumulation and melt model.
• Brian Ragan (McNamara, MS Geology): Evidence for Adjustments in Hill-Slope Hydrology After Wildfire.
• Eric Rothwell (McNamara, MS Geology): The influence of hyporheic flow on stream temperature.
• Rayna Treneva (Mead, MS Mathematics): Computational hydrologic modeling
• Jason Williams (McNamara, MS Geology): Characterization of the spatial and temporal controls on soil moisture and streamflow generation in a semi-arid headwater catchment.
• Melissa Yenko (McNamara, Geology): Hydrometric and geochemical evidence of streamflow sources in the Upper Dry Creek Experimental Watershed.