Lab Members

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 Graduate Students

Sequoia Alba

PhD Candidate, Atmospheric Science 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.edu
151 Hoagland Hall

Shuaiqi Wu

PhD Candidate, Atmospheric Science Graduate Group

Project: Examining the future impacts of climate and extreme weather on California crops using data-driven and processed-based models, focusing on both perennial crops and annual specialty crops.

shqwu[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall


Yanyan Lu

PhD Candidate, Atmospheric Science 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 climate stabilization scenarios.

yanlu[at]ucdavis.edu
151 Hoagland Hall


Hamsa Ganapathi

PhD Student, Geography Graduate Group

Project: Examining the future impacts of climate change 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


Current Student Interns

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


Alumni

Sonya Rauschenbach, Atmospheric Science Graduate Group Master's Student, degree awarded in 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

Shloka Janapaty, Undergraduate Student Intern, Applied Mathematics student at Columbia University, 2020–2024

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

Mira Segara, 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