Dan Myers
(AGU-H3S chair)
Stroud Water Research Center

Dan is a postdoctoral associate at the Stroud Water Research Center, where he works with the National Park Service to evaluate stream monitoring protocol and analyze trends in watershed health in the National Capital Region. He was previously a PhD candidate in the Ficklin Hydroclimatology Lab at Indiana University Bloomington. Dan comes from the land of plentiful lakes, streams, and snow in Northern Michigan, USA’s “tip of the mitt” region. Also, Dan was formerly a student at the Annis Water Resources Institute and had a 4.5 year career at the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council (both in Michigan, USA) helping communities protect their treasured watersheds.

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Zoe Kanavas (she/her)
(AGU-H3S Treasurer)
University of California, Davis

Zoe Kanavas is a 4th year Ph.D. Candidate in Water Resources Engineering at the University of California, Davis. She holds a M.S. in Water Resources Engineering from the University of California, Davis and a dual B.S. in Geological Engineering and Geophysics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Zoe’s research is focused on the fundamental physics that drive groundwater flow at extremely small scales, employing computational fluid dynamics, statistical analysis, and machine learning to do so. She is an AGU Local Science Partner and 2nd year AGU-H3S member. Zoe’s leadership, collaboration, and innovation skills align with her career goals to use science policy to combat environmental injustice. In her spare time, Zoe enjoys rock climbing, mountaineering, skiing, and chasing her dog, Vinny.

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Christian Roumelis (He/Him)
(Young Hydrologic Society Representative)
Ohio State University

Christian is a Master’s student in Audrey Sawyer’s computation hydrogeology group at Ohio State. He received his B.S. in hydrogeology from the University of Texas at Austin where he completed an undergraduate honors thesis under the supervision of Dr. Bayani Cardenas and PhD candidate Anna Turetcaia studying dam and aquifer interactions along the Lower Colorado River. He then spent a year in consulting at GSI Environmental before pursuing his graduate degree. His current research focuses on investigating redox processes in coastal aquifers as a response to sea level rise. In his free time, you can find Christian playing spikeball or reading.

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Paige S. Becker (she/her/hers)
Indiana University at Bloomington

Paige is a PhD Candidate at Indiana University researching in the Ward Hydro Lab. Paige was born and raised in Colorado, spending much of her time hiking near the headwaters of the Colorado River. Growing up in Colorado piqued her interest in studying mountainous watersheds. She received her B.S. in Environmental Engineering, and M.S. in Hydrology at the Colorado School of Mines (Helluva Engineer). Paige uses a combination of field and modeling methods to advance understanding in river corridor exchange for mountain headwaters. Her field research took place at H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Cascades of Oregon. Paige is currently located in Knoxville, TN doing a fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory working with Scott Painter on combining her field data with the numerical models at ORNL. In her free time, she loves to run and hike with her dog, read books, snowboard, and share science memes.

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Dylan Blaskey (he/him)
University of Colorado

Dylan is a PhD student with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on climate change impacts on Arctic rivers and the indigenous people who depend on them. When not in the field or coding, he enjoys canoeing, cooking, reading for fun, and painting.

Shuyu Chang
Pennsylvania State University

Shuyu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at Penn State University, studying with Dr. Kimberly Van Meter. As a Ph.D. student trained as a hydrologist, data scientist, and researcher, she strives to develop data-driven and process-based models, to address water quality challenges, and to provide decision-making support within the realm of water policy and management, across different spatial and temporal scales. Currently, She is using computational modeling approaches to simulate water quality dynamics to better understand how dam construction and removal influence downstream water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region, particularly under changing climate dynamics.

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Sidian Chen
University of Arizona

Sidian is a PhD student in the Subsurface Flow Physics Group at the University of Arizona. He is broadly interested in the fundamental physics of fluid flow and transport in environmental and energy systems in Earth’s subsurface. His current research focuses on micro-scale (i.e., pore-scale) modeling of multiphase fluid flow, transport, and thermodynamic phase change behaviors in geological porous media. The specific application of his research is to study the transport of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the vadose zone and the production of gas/oil from shale formations.

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Kalani Heinz (she/they)
University of California, Los Angeles

Kalani Heinz (she/they) is a Ph.D. candidate in Hawaiian archaeology at UCLA. Drawing from the ʻōlelo noʻeau (Hawaiian proverb) i ka wā ma mua, ka wā ma hope, the future is in the past, her research integrates archival and computational analysis to argue that research on the past, when performed in ways that center the community, have the potential to positively contribute to modern environmental justice movements, namely water rights movements. Outside of her research, she is passionate about Hawaiian culture based education. In her free time, she enjoys playing touch rugby and serves as the secretary for the National Pacific Islander Education Network and as the President for the Hawaiʻi’s Daughters Guild of California.

Srinidhi Jha
Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

Srinidhi Jha has completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Indore where he worked to understand climate extremes and their implications for risk and resilience. Srinidhi received his Bachelors in Civil Engineering and Master’s in Water Resources Engineering. He is a Yoga enthusiast, loves the game of cricket and likes to read and write poetry.

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Deon Knights
West Virginia University

Deon is a postdoctoral fellow at West Virginia University. He studies nutrient transport and processing in coastal freshwater systems including tidal freshwater zones and coastal aquifers of the Great Lakes. His current work aims at understanding how inorganic nitrogen is processed in channels and thermokarst lakes of arctic deltas before discharging to the Arctic Ocean. Outside of research Deon enjoys spending time with family, cooking, drumming, and playing tennis, soccer, cricket, and video games.

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Katarena Matos
University of Colorado, Boulder

Katarena holds a Bachelor’s (2016) and Master’s (2018) degree in Hydrology from the University of Arizona, where her work focused on the hydrologic characterization of the Landscape Evolution Observatory at Biosphere 2. She looks forward to starting her PhD journey at the University of Colorado Boulder with Professor Holly Barnard where her work will focus on studying the Critical Zone in the American West. Katarena is also a member of the AGU Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee and part of the team planning the “Cultivating Leadership for Change and Justice in the Geosciences” virtual workshop series. During her free time, you will probably find her baking something she’s craving, trying to grow, relaxing at the beach or swimming endless laps in a pool.

Lorrayne Miralha, Ph.D. (she/her)
Arizona State University

Dr. Miralha’s research intersects hydrological concepts and spatiotemporal modeling approaches to improve understanding of watershed processes and ecosystem health. Currently, as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Oregon State University under Dr. Bladon’s and Dr. Segura’s labs, Lorrayne has been working on understanding the effectiveness of riparian practices on stream ecosystems. Specifically, she is investigating how different forest management practices associated with riparian areas influence water quantity, quality, and stream metabolism in headwater streams in Northern California. Throughout her academic career, she has investigated spatial patterns associated with water quality variables, explored environmental concerns linked to excess nutrients from highly agricultural regions, and developed Deep Learning approaches able to map agricultural sources of pollution in the United States. Her skills involve hydrological modeling, spatial-temporal analysis, machine learning, remote sensing, and GIS. Her goal is to use research outcomes to guide environmental policymakers and modelers to implement solutions that result in optimal sustainable outcomes. She is a forest engineer from Brazil with a masters in Physical Geography from University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University. She loves hiking, playing board games, and cooking when not in front of a computer.

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Jeremy Patterson (he/him)
University of Wisconsin – Madison

Jeremy is a PhD candidate in hydrogeology at University of Wisconsin – Madison. His research centers on characterizing the physical properties that govern subsurface flow and transport, and the heterogeneity that exists in these properties across scales motivated by a desire to advance the adoption of carbon mitigation strategies and environmental decision making under uncertainty. Prior to pursuing a career in hydrogeology, Jeremy has explored multiple career paths including whitewater rafting guide, registered nurse, and U.S. military. This is his first-year as an AGU-H3S member, and he is excited to collaborate with excited H3S members to serve early career members of the AGU Hydrology Section. When not doing water related activities you will find Jeremy running, making (and eating) pizza, or playing with his furry friend Zazu.

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Eric J. Shearer (he/him)
University of California, Irvine

Eric is a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering at the UC Irvine at the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing. He is studying climate-scale trends of precipitation in hydroclimate extremes, namely tropical cyclones and atmospheric rivers. At UC Irvine, Eric is co-president of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Association (CEEGA), a trainee of the National Science Foundation Ridge to Reef Traineeship, and a founding member of the UC Student Research Union (SRU-UAW). During his undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, he studied Earth Science with a minor in Astronomy and Planetary Science. In his spare time, Eric enjoys hiking, snowboarding, paddleboarding—really, anything outdoors—along with cooking, gaming with friends, and playing with his pet parrot, Bandida.

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Shruti Upadhyaya, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
University of Oklahoma

Dr. Shruti Upadhyaya is a postdoc at the Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC), the University of Oklahoma. Professionally, she is a Civil Engineer who then went on to pursue higher studies in Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Science (GIS) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). Her expertise is in the retrieval of precipitation using geostationary satellite observations and state-of-the-art statistical/machine learning tools and techniques. Her vision is to lead research in satellite hydrometeorology to advance weather and water prediction and associated hazards. In her spare time, she likes cooking and traveling. She also enjoys dancing and practices an Indian classical dance form called “Kathak”.

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Lawrence Vulis (he/him)
University of California, Irvine

Lawrence is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California Irvine and a first year member of H3S. He has a B.E. in Earth System Science and Engineering from the City College of New York. His PhD research is on the characterization of river delta morphology and hydrology to understand geomorphic processes, with a focus on arctic river deltas. Using a mixture of satellite imagery, climate reanalysis data, and in-situ observations, he analyzes how quantitative differences in delta structure, e.g. shoreline shape and lake spatial distribution, relate to hydroclimatologic differences across deltas, which is important for understanding how a changing climate will impact delta form and function. When not behind a computer screen, he enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, and playing with his dog and rabbit.

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