Lab Group

Current Group Members

Jangho Lee: Postdoctoral Researcher

LaTreesha Washington: MS Student

Frank Zurek: MS Student currently DOE ARM Technician
Climatological trends and ecological effects of changing surface frost frequency across the western US alpine regions

Zora Shannon: Undegraduate researcher

Thomas Sanchez: Field technician

Bilal Kaludi: Data scientist

Kai Belcastro: Undegraduate researcher

Alumni

Benjamin Ahlswede: Postdoctoral Research Fellow currently faculty at Penn State
Dynamic roots and turnover time in an Earth System Model

Cynthia Garcia-Eidell: PhD Student currently at NOAA
Life on the Margins: Dynamic Changes Along Sea Ice Edges,Coastal Margins, and Watershed Interfaces as Observed from Space

Anthony Bellagamba: PhD Student currently at Chicago Waldorf
A Drop in the Bucket: Hydrometeors and Surface Water / Ice Reservoir Isotope Exchange with the Atmosphere

Francois Ritter: PhD Student currently at LSCE Paris
Ecological significance of dew and small precipitation events

Ben Alsip: Masters Student currently at EPA
Carbonyl sulfide fluxes from a restored prairie in Illinois

Ann Cosgrove: Masters student currently at Density
The atmospheric footprint of Chicago’s Urban Heat Island.

Angellica Kucinski: Undergraduate researcher

Yasmeen Hamed: Undergraduate researcher

Melissa Carter: Undergraduate researcher

Megan Castro: Undergraduate Research Assistant currently graduate student at Michigan State University
Stable isotope analysis of old growth hemlocks from UP Michigan

Ioana Stefanescu: Undergraduate Research Assistant currently PhD student at U. Wyoming
Stable isotope analysis of Rocky Mountain tree rings

Jesus Campos: Undergraduate Research Assistant currently graduate student at UCI
Inverse modeling of carbonyl sulfide over continental US

Blanca Escutia: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Isotopic ratio of permafrost pore waters

Danielle Petkunas: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carbon monoxide fluxes from a tallgrass prairie

Justin Klein: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Preparation of wood cellulose for isotopic analysis

Jenny Bueno: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Plant sulfur and carbon fluxes under controlled laboratory setting

Lucero Serrano: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Cyrogenic Extraction specialist

Omar Ortiz: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Soil incubator

Esther Yim: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Isotopic ratios of snowpack and rainwaters in the intermountain West

Abe Beloso: Lab Technician

Ross Perez: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gravity expert

Richard Shell: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Isotopic analysis of Indian tree cores

Dariusz “the pipette master” Horwat: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Analysis of Greenland firn cores

Tom Larsen: Undergraduate Research Assistant
DIY Sensors

John Balediata: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Stable isotope analysis of Chicago area soil waters

Joe Ricchiuto: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Atmospheric mercury concentrations in the city of Chicago

Jimmy Zhou: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Drought and ecohydrology in northeast India

Jimmy Byron: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Forensic analysis of coconut waters

Laura Hildebrand: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carbon monoxide concentrations in south side of Chicago

Ian Patete: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Stable isotopic investigation of sonically levitated water droplets

Kristen Pearce: Undergraduate Researcher

Will Talavera: Undergraduate Researcher

Kyle Inthabandith: Undergraduate Researcher

Yasmeen Hamed: Undergraduate Researcher