People

Berkeley Freshwater includes faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and research assistants associated with labs of Drs. Stephanie Carlson, Albert Ruhi, and Ted Grantham in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley.                                                                

Former Lab Members

Graduate Students

Moidu, Hana (Ph.D. 2022: Co-advised by Stephanie and Ted, “Never the same river twice: On the causes and consequences of intermittent stream drying across space and time”, now an Environmental Effects Specialist in the Environmental Protection Branch at Environment and Climate Change Canada)

Lamarins, Amaïa (Ph.D. 2022, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour – Co-advised by Mathieu Buoro and Stephanie)

Wingenroth, Jordan (M.S. 2019: “The effects of river drydown and pool isolation on terrestrial vertebrates in an intermittent river”, Advised by Stephanie)

Kelson, Suzanne (Ph.D. 2018: “Eco-evolutionary dynamics of a partially migratory salmonid fish,” now with McBain Associates consulting, Advised by Stephanie)

Klip, Jan Mario (Ph.D. 2018: Co-advised by Stephanie and Justin Brashares, “Ecology of black bears in the Lake Tahoe drainage,” now with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife).

Woelfle-Erskine, Cleo (Ph.D. 2015: “Watershed collaborations: Entanglements with common streams”, Co-advised by Stephanie and Isha Ray, postdoc in the Carlson Lab June 2015 – June 2016, now an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle)

Fraiola, Kauaoa (Ph.D. 2015: “Ecology and behavior of juvenile Mugil cephalus in Hawaiian streams”, now an Ecologist with the USFWS in Honolulu, HI, Advised by Stephanie).

Hwan, Jason (Ph.D. 2015: “Fragmentation of an intermittent stream during seasonal drought: intra- and interannual patterns and ecological consequences”, now with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Advised by Stephanie)

Cervantes-Yoshida, Kristina (Ph.D. 2015: “The influence of land use and Mediterranean seasonality on California stream fishes”, now with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Advised by Stephanie)

Diver, Sibyl (Ph.D. 2014: Co-advised by Stephanie and Kim TallBear, “Negotiating knowledges, shifting access: Natural resource governance with Indigenous communities and state agencies in the Pacific Northwest”, now a Lecturer, Earth Systems Program, Stanford University)

Postdocs

Evangelista, Charlotte (Postdoc: 2022 – 2023, now researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NINA; coadvised by Albert, Stephanie, and Mathieu Buoro [ECOBIOP, INRAe / UPPA, France])

Pregler, Kasey (Postdoc: August 2019 – June 2023, now the Assistant Unit Leader of the New Mexico Co-op Unit, Co-advised by Stephanie and Carlos Garza [NOAA-Fisheries])

Apgar, Travis (Postdoc: 2021 – 2023, now research scientist at CDFW; advised by Albert)

Colombano, Denise (Delta Science Postdoctoral Fellow and supported by a CDFW Prop 1 Grant: June 2020 – March 2023, now a Senior Environmental Scientist at the Delta Stewardship Council, Co-advised by Albert and Stephanie)

Sarremejane, Romain (Postdoc: 2020, now Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University; advised by Albert)

Tu, Tongbi (Postdoc: 2019 – 2020, now Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; advised by Albert)

de Mendoza, Guillermo (Postdoc: 2018 – 2020, now research scientist at the Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Poland; advised by Albert)

Bouchard, Colin (Postdoc: April 2019 – Feb 2020, now a postdoctoral researcher at la Tour du Valat, France, Co-advised by Stephanie and Mathieu Buoro [INRAE, France])

Vander Vorste, Ross (Postdoc: Nov 2017 – July 2019, now an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Co-advised by Stephanie and Ted)

Rodríguez-Lozano, Pablo (Ramón Areces Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship: Oct 2016 – May 2019, now a postdoc with Celso Garcia at the University of the Balearic Islands, advised by Stephanie)

Morais, Pedro (Delta Science Postdoctoral Fellow: Apr 2017 – Apr 2019, Co-advised by Stephanie and Rachel Johnson [NOAA-Fisheries])

Comte, Lise (Postdoc: 2018, now Lead Scientist at Conservation Science Partners; advised by Albert)

Wilkins, Laetitia (Swiss NSF Mobility Postdoctoral Fellow: Sept 2016 – Aug 2018, now a Max Planck Research Group Leader, Group Eco-Evolutionary Interactions, Bremen, Germany, Co-advised by Stephanie and Jonathan Eisen [UC Davis])

Härkönen, Laura (Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow:  Jan 2017 – Dec 2017, Advised by Stephanie).

Nusslé, Sébastien (Swiss NSF Mobility Postdoctoral Fellow: Aug 2013 – Oct 2017, Advised by Stephanie)

Peterson, Michael (Postdoc: Jan 2016 – Nov 2016, now a CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellow in Sacramento, CA, Advised by Stephanie)

Sturrock, Anna (Delta Science Postdoctoral Fellow: July 2014 – Sept 2016, now a Research Scientist at the University of Essex, Co-advised by Stephanie and Rachel Johnson [NOAA-Fisheries])

Bogan, Michael (David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow: Sept 2013 – May 2016, now an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Advised by Stephanie)

Buoro, Mathieu (Postdoc: Jan 2012 – Dec 2013, now a Research Scientist with INRAE on the Basque coast in Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, France, Advised by Stephanie)

Sabbatical Visitors

Siqueira, Tadeu (University of Canterbury), 2019 – 2020

Snyder, Robin (Case Western Reserve University), Fall 2019

Buoro, Mathieu (INRAE-France), August 2019

Garcia, Celso (University of the Balearic Islands), Spring-Summer 2018

del Mar Sanchez Montoya, Maria (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Spring 2018

Hendry, Andrew, Visiting Miller Professor (McGill University), 2015-16

Baskett, Marissa (UC Davis), Fall 2015