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Current Students and Projects

Avalon Johnson, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Rapid habitat assessment of vernal pools for amphibian conservation
 Advisor for funding sources: School of Science Summer Research Award, School of Science Travel Award

Tinsley Stewart, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: FTIR analysis of microplastics in Hudson River sediments to identify sourcing
 Advisor for funding sources: School of Science Summer Research Award, School of Science Travel Award

Korey Weiss, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Controls on wildlife distribution along the Fall Kill watersheds

Amanda Lee, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Climate change education approaches using hyper-local resources

Jack Navin, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Nutrient biogeochemistry within the hyporheic zone under low-head/beaver dams
 Advisor for funding sources: Hudson River Foundation Polgar Fellowship, Marist Travel Award

Maddie Dwyer, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: SmartRock calibration and application towards hydrologic processes of vernal pools
 Advisor for funding sources: School of Science Summer Research Award, Marist Travel Award

Shannon Hickey, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Fall Kill flood estimation and user assessment of housing relocation policies
 Advisor for funding sources: School of Science Summer Research Award (pending)

Anna Taylor, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Co-advisor for project: Impacts of Asian jumping worm invasions on soil carbon dynamics
 Advisor for funding sources: School of Science Summer Research Award, Marist Travel Award

Erin Novobilsky, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Assessment of beaver pond cyanobacterial toxicity via akinete assemblage
 Advisor for funding sources: Hudson River Foundation Polgar Fellowship (pending)

Past Students and Projects

Tadd Bindas, Undergraduate, Marist College

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Hydroinformatics at Pennsylvania State University

• Advisor for Honors Thesis project: Road salts and faults: Preferential transport of high salinity groundwater via geologic faults that connect highways to streams
• Advisor for funding sources: $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Emma Butzler, Undergraduate, Marist College

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Hydrology and Geospatial Analytics at NC State University

• Advisor for project: Spatial Patterns of Nutrient Loading in the Fall Kill: Evaluating the Influence of Septic Systems on a Hudson River Tributary.
• Advisor for tiered mentoring with local high school students (MH-YES): Spatial patterning of watershed factors affecting stream health in the Hudson River Valley
• Advisor for funding sources: $6,500 Hudson River Foundation, $755 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Samantha Musso, Undergraduate, Marist College

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology at Michigan State University

• Advisor for project: Cyanotoxins in the Hudson River: Experimental investigation of warming and water chestnut’s combined influences on cyanobacterial community assemblage and resulting toxicity
• Advisor for funding sources: $6,500 Hudson River Foundation (canceled – COVID-19), $3000 Sheryl Todd Family Foundation

Luke Hatch, Undergraduate, Marist College

Currently pursuing a Ph.D./PE in Civil Engineer and Stream Restoration at Oregon State University

• Advisor for project: Rapid trash assessment and spatial sourcing in Poughkeepsie’s Fall Kill creek
• Advisor for project: Influence of Beaver Dam Analogs on Riparian Vegetation and Sediment Deposition in a Low Order Stream in Northern Utah
• Advisor for project: Influences of spatial heterogeneity in hyporheic exchange and nutrient dynamics on fluvial ecosystems in semi-arid, irrigated versus hemiboreal, non-irrigated systems, Utah and New York.
• Advisor for funding sources: $819 Marist VPAA Student Research Award
  

Matt Badia, Undergraduate, Marist College

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry at George Mason University

• Advisor for project: Influence of rain-on-snow flooding on road salt pollution in the Fall Kill watershed

Natalie Kelcher, Undergraduate, Marist College

Completed a MAT in Science Education
 Advisor for project: Ecology of vernal pools under a changing climate (partnered w/ Scenic Hudson)
 Advisor for funding sources: $4200 School of Science Summer Research Award, $600 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Jessica Howe, Undergraduate, Marist College

Currently pursuing an M.S. in Sustainable Energy at SUNY ESF

• Co-advisor for project: Barges on the Hudson River: Resiliency of coastlines to oil spills
• Advisor for funding sources: $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Katie Butterfield, Undergraduate, Marist College

Currently pursuing a J.D. in Environmental Law at the University of Hawaii

• Advisor for project: Mapping nutrient inputs to Sprout Creek from agricultural practices

Carli Piretra, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: International comparison of urban trash management policies and their relation to instream trash and microplastic: USA and Spain
 Advisor for funding sources: $4200 School of Science Summer Research Award, $1800 School of Science Travel Award

Valentina Cerda, Undergraduate, Marist College Spring 2021 – current
 Advisor for project: Cyanotoxins in the Hudson River: Experimental investigation of warming and water chestnut’s combined influences on cyanobacterial community assemblage and resulting toxicity
 Advisor for funding sources: $6,500 Hudson River Foundation, $4200 School of Science Summer Research Award

Madison Michetti, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Impacts of wildlife on enterococci bacteria in the Fall Kill watershed
 Advisor for tiered mentoring with local high school students (MH-YES): Spatial patterning of watershed factors affecting stream health in the Hudson River Valley
 Advisor for funding sources: $4200 School of Science Summer Research Award, $300 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Brooke Peterson, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Groundwater inflow as a control on Blanding’s Turtle populations in mitigated wetlands
• Advisor for funding sources: $3400 School of Science Summer Research Award, $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award, $400 Marist VPAA Student Travel Award

Ellie Petraccione, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Co-advisor for Honors Thesis project: Assessing the potential for harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Hudson River: Spatial abundance of cyanobacteria and their abiotic controls
• Co-advisor for communication project: Communicating the risking risk of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Hudson River: Interactive digital visuals for use with the general public
• Advisor for funding sources: $6,500 Hudson River Foundation, $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award, $646 Marist VPAA Student Travel Award

Colleen Bradley, Undergraduate, Marist Colleg

• Advisor for project: Storage dependence index: A sub-annual climatic metric to predict the depth of soil
• Advisor for research project and tiered mentoring with local high school students (MH-YES): Hydrologic and anthropogenic controls on spatial nutrient dynamics in the Fall Kill and Sprout Creek, New York
• Advisor for funding sources: $3400 School of Science Summer Research Award, $1000 School of Science Summer Research Award, $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award, $690 Marist VPAA Student Travel Award

Gabi DeGennaro, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Spatial patterning of microplastic accumulation in sediments of a drinking water reservoir, Chadwick Lake, New York
• Co-advisor for project: Influence of geomorphology and hydrology on Japanese knotweed in Fern Tor Preserve, New York

Julianna Alder-Colvin, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Co-advisor for project: Influence of spatial heterogeneity in groundwater exchange rates on lake ecosystem function, University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Wisconsin
• Advisor for project: Quantifying the influence of Japanese knotweed on infiltration rates of forest soils
• Advisor for funding sources: $7000 NSF-REU Co-Advisor, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Katey Samarro, Undergraduate, Marist College

• • Advisor for research project and tiered mentoring with local high school students (MH-YES): Spatial scaling of watershed factors affecting stream health in the Hudson River Valley
  • Advisor for funding sources: $4200 School of Science Summer Research Award

Olivia Fabrizi and Brennan Duarte, Undergraduates, Marist College

• Advisor for team project: Mother Nature’s Hit Single: Evaluation of music-based science communication.
• Advisor for funding sources: $9,999 Strategic Planning Projects Advisory Committee Grant (canceled – COVID-19),

Olivia Fabrizi, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Spatial data compilation, digitization, and visualization for the Fall Kill watershed.
• Advisor for funding sources:$1500 Sheryl Todd Family Foundation, $4200 School of Science Summer Research Award, $3700 Tarver Family Summer Award (canceled – COVID-19)

Catherine Cremin, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Experimental investigation of Japanese knotweed’s (Polygonum cuspidatum) impact on the water holding capacity of diverse soil types

Melina Serrao, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Spatial patterning and chemistry of microplastic accumulation in sediments of Long Island, New York (partnered w/ NOAA)
 Advisor for funding sources: $4200 School of Science Summer Research Award

Madison Langweil, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Environmental justice and sustainability in public health

Dinna Mohamed, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: Environmental justice and sustainability in public health

Veronica Stureborg, Undergraduate, Marist College
 Advisor for project: AI-Driven Predictive Modeling of Flood Response to Intensified Precipitation in a Rural-to-Urban Watershed in the Northeastern U.S.
 Advisor for funding sources: $600 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Carter Schuh, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Spatial patterns of microplastic accumulation in tributary-estuaries of the Hudson River
• Advisor for funding sources: $3400 School of Science Summer Research Award, $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

James Robitaille, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Assessing spatial variation in hyporheic exchange in the Saw Kill creek bed.
• Advisor for project: Analysis and visualization of HRECOS datasets to understand event-scale turbidity dynamics in the Hudson River Estuary.

Clairice Drexler, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for Honors Thesis project: Relation of groundwater inflow and organic sediment accumulation in Blanding’s turtle habitat present in artificial and natural wetlands, Arlington, New York
• Advisor for funding sources: $400 Marist VPAA Student Research Award

Jeramie Glynn, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Co-advisor for project: Spatial analysis to identify processes controlling geomorphic slumping

Brittney Portes, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Localizing terroir for the future using global datasets, and the effects of viticulture expansion in the Hudson Valley on the resilience of soil health under a changing climate

Emily Poole, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Best practices for water resources communication through video and social media

Alexandra Barnes-Schwartz, Undergraduate, Marist College

• Advisor for project: Water quality influences of beaver dams in the Hudson Valley

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Pre-Marist

Will Durrett,

Undergraduate, Colorado College, Summer 2013 – Spring 2014

• Co-advisor for his senior thesis project focused on subsurface ecohydrologic regimes within mountain systems

Dane Vannosdeln,

Masters of Arts in Teaching Student, Colorado College, Summer 2014 – Spring 2015

• Research mentor for his master’s thesis focused on the character impacts of outdoor-based instruction within diverse (socioeconomic status, race, and cognition) student populations

Leona Waller and Ellen Becket,

Undergraduates, Colorado College, Summer 2013

• Advised their independent summer research fellowship to quantify participant presences for water resource management at the annual “Burning Man” festival within the Black Rock Playa, Nevada

Edward Crawford,

Undergraduate, Colorado College, Summer 2013

• Advised and directed a summer research fellowship designed to expose him to field methods in hydrology

Daniel Boyes,

Undergraduate, Colorado College, Summer 2011

• Advised a component of his senior project looking at human impacts to stream quality

Jackie Hancock,

MSc Student, University of Idaho, 2010 – 2011

• Provided advising in the planning and implementation of her Master’s project focused on the relations of surface/ground-water exchange and salmonid habitat