Graduate Profiles
Constance Cooper
Braided rivers, and their terminal deltas, played a critical role in clastic terrestrial deposition prior to the Devonian. After which, rooting land plants profoundly impacted fluvial systems by stabilizing channels, this facilitated a transition to abundant meandering rivers.
Ethan Sweet
All life on Earth depends on the Critical Zone, which includes plants and trees, soil, and the subsurface, including groundwater. Research in the Critical Zone examines how disturbances and climate change affect ecosystem services and energy, food, and the water cycle.
Jake Perez
Doctoral student Jake Perez is using fieldwork in the high Arctic and supercomputer-based simulations to better understand how thawing permafrost will influence the Earth’s carbon cycle. Permanently frozen soils, or permafrost, are rapidly thawing in the Arctic.
