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Current graduate students

Current undergraduate students

Former graduate students

Julia Carr (currently Postdoc at Simon Fraser University)
PhD Dissertation title (summer 2022): Rock strength and sediment controls on bedrock river incision in the Taiwan Central Range

Joanmarie Del Vecchio (currently Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College)
PhD Dissertation title (summer 2021): Appalachian pasts, arctic futures: Permafrost landscape response to warming
MS Thesis title (fall 2017): A record of coupled hillslope and channel response to Pleistocene periglacial erosion in a sandstone headwater valley, central Pennsylvania

Al Neely (currently Postdoc at University of Tübingen, Germany)
PhD Dissertation title (summer 2020): Bedrock fracture spacing controls on hillslope and channel erosion in steep landscapes

Perri Silverhart (currently Staff Geologist at Geosyntec, Washington, D.C.)
MS Thesis title (fall 2019): Land use versus climate controls on hillslope erosion at a farmed upland watershed in central Pennsylvania

Former undergraduate students

Grace Druschel (Penn State) NASA PA Space Grant Research Intern 2022
Project: Mapping of dry ravel deposits following the 2020 Bobcat Fire, CA

Ava Yurchak (Penn State), NASA PA Space Grant Research Intern 2022
Project: Bedrock exposure mapping from high-resolution panoramas, Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA

Allie Lister (Penn State), NASA PA Space Grant Research Intern 2021-2022
Project: Evaluating topographic metrics of hillslope bedrock exposure in Eastern CA

Maya Kita (Penn State) 2021-2022
Project: Bedrock channel geometry in Taiwan

Nancy Weinheimer (Penn State), BS, Spring 2021 (currently MS student at University of Wyoming)
Thesis title: Topographic and climatic controls on the transition from soil-mantled to bedrock-dominated hillslopes in the Inyo Mountains and Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

Nicholas Walter (Penn State), BS, Spring 2021
Thesis title: Mapping Post-Fire Dry Sediment Loading in Channels on Hillslopes in Southern CA Following the 2020 Apple Fire

Christian Erikson (Penn State) 2020-2021 (currently MS student at Dartmouth College)
Project: Grain size and surface roughness mapping from drone surveys in the Liwu River, Taiwan

Allison Clark (Penn State), NASA PA Space Grant WISER Research Intern Spring 2020-Spring 2021
Project: Typhoon impact on boulder transport in the Taiwan Central Range from repeat drone surveys

Emily Loucks (Penn State), BS, Spring 2020 (currently Geologist at US Forest Service, ID)
Thesis title: Rock strength controls on hillslope and channel morphology in the Guadalupe Mountains, NM/TX

Nazmi Yusri (Penn State), BS, Spring 2020
Thesis title: Quantifying the impact of landslides on river morphology in Taiwan using drone surveys

Katie Kohlman (Penn State), NASA PA Space Grant WISER Research Intern, Spring/Fall 2019
Project: Grain size mapping of rivers in the Taiwan Central Range using drone surveys

Lisa Woodward (Penn State), BS, Spring 2019
Thesis title: Mapping post-wildfire sediment erosion using repeat airborne lidar topography in the San Gabriel Mountains of California

Rosellen Martin (Penn State), NASA PA Space Grant WISER Research Intern, Spring/Fall 2018
Project: Aspect controls on periglacial landforms in central Pennsylvania

Tara Wu (Penn State), NASA PA Space Grant WISER Research Intern, Spring 2018
Project: Alluvial fans and debris flow mapping in Saline Valley, CA

Nicholas McCarroll (Penn State), BS, Spring 2017 (currently PhD student at Kansas State University)
Thesis title: Quantifying connections between channel-bed microtopography and grain size distribution in mountain streams using Structure-from-Motion

Tyler White (Penn State), BS, Spring 2017
Thesis title: Mapping bedrock hillslope morphology with high-resolution imagery and topography

Perri Silverhart (Middlebury College), REU Summer 2016 (currently MS student at Penn State)
Project: Evaluating the importance of regolith heterogeneity on catchment hydrology in  Garner Run, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

Connor Martin (University of Pittsburgh), REU Summer 2016
Project: Geomorphic mapping of Garner Run, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (poster)

Michael Sickler (Penn State), BS Spring 2016
Thesis title: Sediment storage in upland valley networks, Eastern Central Range, Taiwan

Sarah Granke (Pomona College), REU Summer 2015
Project: Geomorphic mapping of Garner Run, Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (poster)