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.edu151 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