The Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) Get to Know Your Postdoc Seminar Series (GTKYPD) is a monthly seminar series that provides EESA postdocs opportunities to showcase their research to the broader EESA community, to enable networking with researchers across EESA disciplines, and to foster stronger postdoc ties. The seminar series was originally started by the Energy Geosciences Division in 2018, and through its success, expanded to the larger area in 2019.
The goals of the seminar series:
- to provide a platform for postdocs to communicate to fellow postdocs and PIs in the area who they are
- to forge a strong community for future collaboration and a support network for career advancement
Visit the EESA Postdocs and Early Careers page for more information and upcoming events.
Our Get to Know Your Postdoc Seminar Series Committee
Chair
Operations liaison
Learn more about the Get to Know Your Postdoc Seminar Series Committee Responsibilities.
Our Featured Postdocs (January 2021 – Present)
Barbara Bomfim
CESD: Does soil fertility influence how forests respond and recover from tropical cyclones?
Keurfon Luu
EGD: Coupled hydromechanical modeling of injection induced seismicity in basement faults
Stephany S. Chacon
CESD: Impacts of Hydrological Perturbations on Tropical Forest Soils in Panama
Daniel Eldridge
EGD: Isotope fractionations and methane clumped isotope compositions from ethane pyrolysis experiments
Ricardo Eloy Alves
CESD: Microbial traits
mediating organic matter transformation down the soil profile
Guillem Sole-Mari
CESD: Towards flow-tube modeling of reactive transport in hillslopes
Chet Hopp
EGD: Characterizing fault reactivation in shales with distributed fiber optic strain measurements in grouted boreholes
Yao Zhang
CESD: How do we detect early warning signals of drought?
Utkarsh Mital
EGD: Machine Learning frameworks for imputation and expansion of meteorological datasets
Ulysse Pasquier
CESD: Modeling the urban hydro-climate for groundwater recharge and flood risk management in cities
Joan Damerow
EGD: Towards a more connected data ecosystem for multidisciplinary biological and environmental data
Our Featured Postdocs (January – December 2020)
Gianna Marschmann
CESD: Trait-based modeling of microbial interactions in the rhizosphere
Robert Crystal-Ornelas
EGD: Documenting data reporting formats using GitHub
Huanping Huang
CESD: Human Influence on the Northeast US Extreme Precipitation Increase Since 1996
Pramod Bhuvankar
EGD: Pore-scale simulations of mobile clay fines in porous media
Jessica Needham
CESD: The importance of demography in predictions of future forest dynamics
Mamun Miah
EGD: Ground motion variability and building response simulations from stochastic and hybrid earthquake source models
Barbara Bomfim Fernandes
CESD: Pan-tropical meta-analysis of forest response to and recovery from wind disturbance
Ilhan Ozgen
EGD: Some contributions to the modeling of environmental flows
Stijn Wielandt
CESD: Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring of Remote Field Sites
Nithya Subramanian
EGD: Understanding the Structure and Energetics of Layered Swelling Clay Minerals Through Molecular Simulations
Kripa Jagannathan
CESD: Improving the Usability of Climate Science for Decision-Making
Pei Li
EGD: Multiphase Flow and Reactive Transport in Porous Media: A Pore-Scale Perspective
Dong Kook Woo
CESD: Precision agriculture is key to feeding the world in the 21st century
P. James Dennedy-Frank
EGD: Constraining hydrologic connection and river water sources in a watershed spanning the Sierra Nevada and Central Valley
Shaoyue (Emily) Qiu
CESD: Are afternoon deep convection and precipitation more likely to occur over dry or wet surface in Oklahoma?
Zhi Li
EGD: Hydrodynamic modeling of shallow coastal marshes
Pat Sorensen
CESD: Winter is coming: Snowmelt microbial ecology at high chemical and molecular resolution
Harrison Lisabeth
ESD: Lab scale seismology: insights into the pressure dependence of wave propagation in fractured rocks
Our Featured Postdocs (October – December 2019)
Qina Yan
CESD: Predicting soil thickness by integrating land surface and sub-surface heterogenieties
Sergio Carrero Romero
EGD: Bedrock influences in nutrients and metals mobility in mountain watersheds
Rebecca Dewhirst
CESD: PECTIN – Poplar esterified cell wall transformation and metabolic integration study
Utkarsh Mital
EGD: Spatial Downscaling of Precipitation using Machine Learning at the Basin Scale