Ricardo González-Pinzón

EcoHydrology and HydroSystems Lab


  
 
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Team members

     

    Lina Rodriguez (Ph.D. student)

     

    Lina is currently working on the NSF-funded project: "Collaborative Research: Informing River Corridor Transport Modeling by Harnessing Community Data and Physics-Aware Machine Learning". In her master's degree,  she worked on environmental research post wildfire disturbances.

     

    Bidek Pokharel (MS student)

     

    Bidek  is currently working on the NSF-funded project: "Can treated wastewater mitigate water scarcity without compromising the ecological sustainability of arid rivers?". This research focuses on how biochemical processes in arid rivers respond to continuous exposure to treated effluent and their capacity to recover from disturbances.

     

    Paige Tunby (Ph.D. student)

     

    Paige is currently working on the NSF-funded project: "How far downstream do wildfire disturbances propagate in fluvial networks? ". In her MS degree,  she worked on the development of rapid response teams to do environmental research posfire .

Past Members

    Jancoba Dorley (Ph.D. student)

     

    Jancoba worked on quantifying stoichiometric constrains on nutrient uptake processes (DOE grant) and metabolism in streams (NSF grant). Jancoba graduated from his Ph.D. in 2022. He graduated from Penn State with a BS in Petroleum engineering in the Spring of 2016 and an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering with focus on water resources engineering in the spring of 2018. Previous work includes modeling nutrients export in an agricultural dominated watershed (the Clear Creek watershed at the Intensively Managed Landscape Critical Zone Observatory), coupled with climate change. He also worked in projects related to the Blake Ridge gas hydrate offshore (North Carolina shores) as an undergraduate student doing seismic interpretation and inversions.

     

     

    Asmita Kaphle (MS. student)

     

    Asmita worked on the NSF-funded project: "How far downstream do wildfire disturbances propagate in fluvial networks?". This project addressed two fundamental questions about the impact of wildfires: 1) how far downstream do wildfire disturbances propagate in fluvial networks, and 2) what are the key controlling factors? We combined Eulerian monitoring (fixed sensors at a site) and Lagrangian monitoring (mobile sensors that move with a water stream) within a Rapid Response Team (RRT) framework to investigate changes in water quality [e.g., pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, dissolved organic matter (DOM), and nutrients (e.g., nitrate)] before and after wildfires. 

     

    Aashish Sanjay (Ph.D. student)

     

    Aashish finished two MS degrees (in Civil Engineering and Architecture) in the Spring of 2020. His MS work focused on the development of the SC-FLAWLeSS filtration system. For his Ph.D., Aashish developed a revolutionary sensing technique for water quality monitoring. Aashish graduated from his Ph.D. in 2023 and obtained a BS in Civil Engineering from Mumbai University, in India.

     

    Justin Nichols (Ph.D. student)

     

    Justin finished a MS degrees in Civil Engineering in the Spring of 2020 and a Ph.D. in the Spring of 2023. His MS work focused on quantifying nutrient uptake dynamics with semi-continous sensors and traditional nutrient addition experiments. For his Ph.D., Justin developed a quantitative framework to scale nutrient uptake dynamics in fluvial networks. Justin was born and raised in Belen, New Mexico. After graduating from Belen High School, Justin joined the United States Army, where he served for 4 years. During his service, Justin traveled to different parts of the world and saw firsthand the importance that access to clean water has on communities. After his service, he decided to attend the University of New Mexico to pursue a degree in Civil Engineering. During his sophomore year of school, he discovered the Water Resources Engineering department within Civil Engineering and he knew that was the path he wanted to take as a future Civil Engineer.

     

    Peter Regier (Post-doc)

     

    Peter Regier joined us as a postdoctoral researcher from 2017 to 2020 to work on characterizing the composition of dissolved organic carbon from the headwaters to the main stem of the Rio Grande river network to interpret the connections between carbon and nutrient cycling. He was also interested in understanding how agricultural and urban water inputs to the Rio Grande influence the downstream ecosystem. His research was published on several journals including Nature Communications, Science of the Total Environment, Frontiers in Water, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, and the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (see Publications in this website). Peter is now working with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

     

    Eleonora Dallan (Ph.D.- exchange student from Italy )

     

    Eleonora visited our lab as an exchange Ph.D. student from the University of Padua, Italy. She joined us in 2019 and worked with us for a semester on answering the question:  Does the mass balance of resazurin and resorufin close at the microbial scale? Her research was published on the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (see Publications in this website). Eleonora was advised by Professor Andrea Marion.  

     

    James Sosa Fluke (MS)

     

    James worked on pathogen dynamics in rivers and his research was published on Frontiers in Water (see Publications in this website). He obtained an MS in Civil Engineering in the Fall of 2018 and is now working at the Bureau of Reclamation.

     

    Kelsey Bicknell (MS)

     

    Kelsey worked on understanding the dynamics of food-energy and water resources in an agricultural network downstream of an urban center. Her research was published on Frontiers in Water (see Publications in this website). She obtained an MS in Civil Engineering in the Spring of 2019 and is now working at the engineering firm CDM Smith in Albuquerque.

     

    Emily Wolf (MS)

     

    Emily worked on techniques to improve the quantification of solutes in rivers. Her research was published on Limnology and Oceanography: Methods (see Publications in this website). She obtained an MS in Water Resources in the Fall of 2018 and is now working with the National Parks Conservation Association.

     

    Sumant Avasarala  (Ph.D.)

     

    Sumant worked on understanding the transport and fate of U and other metals in surface water - groundwater interactions. He was advised by Dr. Jose Cerrato. Our collaboration was published on Environmental Science and Technology (see Publications in this website). Sumant graduated with a PhD degree in 2017 and is went to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Riverside.

     

    Vanessa Garayburu (MS)

     

    Vanessa completed her MS degree in 2017 and is now working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research in my lab focused on understanding nutrient processing in streambed sediments from a river continuum and part of our work was published on Water Resources Research (see Publications in this website).

     

    Jacob Mortensen (MS)

     

    Jake received a MS degree at UNM. His MS research focused on closing nutrient loops in aridland basins. Our research was published on Environemental Science and Technology (see Publications in this website). After his MS degree, he went to work with American Southwest Ichthyological Researchers, L.L.C.

     

    Cameron Herrington (MS)

     

    Cameron earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering (cum laude) and M.S. in Civil Eneering (magna cum laude) at the University of New Mexico. He went to work with the Bureau of Reclamation in Albuquerque.