Lab Lead
Erwan Monier
Associate Professor
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Co-director of the Climate Adaptation Research Center
530-754-1837
emonier[at]ucdavis.edu
247 Hoagland Hall
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Current Lab members
Jishi Zhang
Assistant Project Scientist
Projects: High-resolution Earth system modeling, evaluation, energy applications, and extreme weather impacts using the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).
jszh[at]ucdavis.edu223 Hoagland Hall
Sequoia Alba
PhD Candidate, Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Group
Project: Evaluating and improving the high-resolution gridded daily reference evapotranspiration (ETo) product from the Spatial CIMIS project. Updating ETo zones map using Spatial CIMIS and Machine Learning approaches.
salba[at]ucdavis.edu151 Hoagland Hall
Dipti Baral
MS Student, International Agricultural Development Graduate Group
Project: Examining the future climate impacts on rice yield in the Sacramento Valley of California
dbaral[at]ucdavis.edu151 Hoagland Hall
Geneva Bethel
MS Student, Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Group
Project: Examining the uncertainty in future climate projections of climate extremes, partitioning into contributions from internal variability, model uncertainty, and emissions scenarios
gbethel[at]ucdavis.edu
236 Hoagland Hall
Heather Childers
MS Student, Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Group
Project: Developing a global gridded version of the AquaCrop crop model for both major global crops and specialty crops relevant to California agriculture and examining the impacts of climate change on crop yield and crop water demand globally and in California.
hmchilders[at]ucdavis.edu
236 Hoagland Hall
Hamsa Ganapathi
PhD Student, Geography Graduate Group
Project: Examining the future climate impacts on tree fruits in California, understanding the economic consequences and potential migration responses, and understanding the farmers decision making process.
hganapathi[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Yanyan Lu
PhD Candidate, Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Group
Project: Examining the future impacts of climate and land-use change on wildfires and the global biogeochemical cycles and understanding the implications of wildfires on the future of the global carbon budget.
yanlu[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Lara Hannicke
Visiting student, MS student in Environmental Sciences at the Technical University of Munich
Project: Examining the influence of past CO2 concentrations, nitrogen deposition, ozone pollution, and climate change on historical carbon fluxes from the land.
lchannicke[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Anne Borger
Undergraduate student in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning
Project: Developing a chronicle of extreme weather in California for the past 50 years to examine the impacts, preparedness, and lessons learned from wildfires, droughts, floods, and heatwaves on local communities
aeborger[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Anna Chan
Undergraduate student in Computer Science
Project: Assessing the environmental factors that affect the nitrogen and carbon fluxes of biocrusts and their roles within the global carbon and nitrogen cycles.
akhchan[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Artem Dudukalov
Undergraduate student in Computer Science
Project: Developing an automated Bayesian calibration framework for the GDSTEM model.
adudukalov[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Nitya Golla
Undergraduate student in Data Science
Project: Calibrating a Python implementation of AquaCrop for maize globally.
ngolla[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Anchita Hazarika
Undergraduate student in Environmental Science & Management
Project: Examining the influence of past CO2 concentrations, nitrogen deposition, ozone pollution, and climate change on historical carbon fluxes from the land.
akhazarika[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Tessa Krellner
Undergraduate student in Atmospheric Science
Project: Examining the endothermic properties of urban systems and their responses to a changing climate
tkrellner[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Ann Leker Wallace
Undergraduate student in Atmospheric Science
Project:
alekerwallace[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Eshal Naeem
Undergraduate student in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning
Project: Improving the representation of humans in global fire models using agent-based modeling approaches.
aeborger[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Zach Van Vechten
Undergraduate student in Environmental Science & Management
Project: Investigating how stratospheric aerosol injection geoengineering could impact global agricultural yields.
zvanvechten[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall
Alumni
Shuaiqi Wu, Atmospheric Science Graduate Group PhD Student, degree awarded in 2025
Mikayla Bailey, Undergraduate Student Intern, Environmental Science & Management, 2025
Sonya Rauschenbach, Atmospheric Science Graduate Group Master's Student, degree awarded in 2024
Shloka Janapaty, Undergraduate Student Intern, Applied Mathematics student at Columbia University, 2020–2024
Sahil Mehta, High School Student Intern, 2022–2024
Hao Liu, Visiting International Scholar, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2023
Bianca Biess, Visiting International Scholar, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2023
Kelley Chu, Undergraduate Student Intern, Statistics student, 2020–2022
Sara Ludwick, Geography Graduate Group PhD Student, 2021–2022
Rosemary Uyeda, Atmospheric Science Graduate Group Master's Student, 2020-2022
Aditya Tadimeti, High School Student Intern, 2018–2021
Jared Trok, Undergraduate Student Intern, Atmospheric Science student, 2020–2021
Emerald Sherwood, Undergraduate Student Intern, Physics student, 2020–2021
Connie Van, Undergraduate Student Intern, Environmental Science & Management student, 2020–2021
Vivek Thangam, Undergraduate Student Intern, Chemical Engineering student 2019–2020
Prudentia Gugu Zikalala, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2019-2020
Mira Segaran, Undergraduate Student Intern, Environmental Science & Management student 2019–2020
Alexander Ortiz, Undergraduate Student Intern, Environmental Science & Management student 2019–2020
Jazmine Dahi, Undergraduate Student Intern, Environmental Science & Management student 2019
Renee Hu, Undergraduate Student Intern, Geology student, 2019