Our Team

Postdocs

Osama Tarabih (2022-2025; now at Tulane University)

Thanh Duc Dang (2021-2023 postdoc, Now at NIWA in New Zealand)

PhDs

Megan Kramer (PhD in Environmental Engineering, Spring 2026).

Jess Boyer (PhD in Environmental Engineering, Spring 2026). Now with NOAA

Michelle Platz (PhD in Environmental Engineering, Spring 2022). Dissertation: Coral restoration monitoring and modelling: utilizing monitoring data to improve reef restoration site assessment

Osama Tarabih (2022-2025; now at Tulane University)

Joshua A. Benjamin (PhD in Environmental Engineering, Fall 2021). Dissertation: Seawater Desalination Energy Recovery through Pressure Retarded Osmosis: A Techno-Economic Assessment. Now with Black & Veatch.

Charlotte J. Haberstroh (PhD in Civil Engineering-Water Resources, Spring 2021). Dissertation: Plastic Pollution in Coastal Urban Rivers: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Plastic Release and Transport. Now with Black & Veatch.

Masters

Tione Grant (MS in Environmental Engineering in 2026)

Daniela Vásquez (MS in Civil Engineering-Water Resources Fall 2023). Now with HDR

Nisa Ishfaqun (MS in Environmental Engineering in 2023)

Andres Lora (MS in Civil Engineering-Water Resources in Spring 2023). Now at Black and Veatch

Gopi Chand Yenikapalli (2023-2024, data engineer).

Lillian Mulligan (MS in Environmental Engineering, Summer 2021). Thesis: Development of a Numerical Process Model for Adsorbent-amended Constructed Wetlands.

Samar AL Mashrafi (MS in Environmental Engineering, Summer 2021). Thesis: Sustainability Assessment of a Pressure Retarded Osmosis System. Now at Arcadis

Mohit Kaura (MS in Environmental Engineering, December 2018). Thesis: The Role of Forests in Securing Hydropower Needs in Cambodia.

Katie B. Castor (MS in Engineering Science/Concentration in Env. Eng., August 2018, now with FL DEP). Thesis: Regulatory Methodology and Unmitigated Wetland Loss in Southwest Florida. Now with Scalar Consulting Group, Inc.

Awet E.Tsegay (MS in Civil Engineering-Water Resources, August 2018). Thesis: Underground Stormwater Treatment Performance in Urban Coastal Catchments: Case Study of Baffle Boxes in the City of Tampa.

Undergrads

Luis Marquez (BS in Environmental Engineering in Spring 2026), Now in graduate school at UC Berkeley

Ochithya Fernando (BS in Environmental Engineering in Spring 2025)

Jenna Brooks (BS in Civil Engineering in Spring 2023). Now NSF GRF and Graduate Student at Northeastern University

Adele Howard (BS in Civil Engineering 2023)

Bruno Mancini (REU; BS in Chemical Engineering Spring 2022). Now a PhD at University of Arizona

Emily Nabong (Visiting Scholar/PhD student from Univ. of Sydney)

Alexander J. Miller (MS in Civil Engineering, Summer 2020). Thesis: Structural and Agricultural Value at Risk in Florida from Flooding during Hurricane Irma. Now with HDR

Jessica Carlee Chaffin (BS in Civil Engineering-Environmental Water Resources Spring 2019). Now with HDR.

Ruben Palomo Martinez (BS in Civil Engineering-Environmental Water Resources Fall 2019). Now with Jones Edmunds and Associates.