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Current Students
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Maceo Carrillo Martinet
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Research: Water quality and hydrology of the Rio Grande bosque
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Armand E. Dichosa
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Diana Northup and Larry Barton
Research: Role of microbes in secondary mineral formations rich in iron and manganese in cave ecosystems |
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Karen Gaines
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Manuel Molles and Astrid Kodric-Brown
Research: Food webs, biodiversity, and ecology of odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) |
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Ondrea C. Hummel
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Manuel Molles and Scott Collins
Research: Restoration of oxbow ecosystems along the Rio Grande |
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Matthew Kirk
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Laura Crossey
Research: Biogeochemistry of arsenic |
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Eric Scherff
Degree Attempting: M.S.
Advisor: Cliff Dahm and Vicenc Acuña
Research: Restoration and geomorphology of the Gila River floodplain |
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Jessica Snider
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Diana Northup and Will Pockman
Research: Geomicrobiology of plant roots and root rhizospheres in caves |
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Jennifer Tichy
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Research: Continuous real-time measurements of nutrients and gases in streams and rivers |
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David Van Horn
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Research: Water quality and nutrient dynamics of the surface waters of the Rio Grande corridor and Valle Caldera |
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Lydia Zeglin
Degree Attempting: Ph.D.
Advisor: Cristina Vesbach-Takacs and Cliff Dahm
Research: Geomicrobiology of cold and warm deserts |
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Former Students
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Michelle A. Baker
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Associate Professor of Biology at Utah State University
Michelle's Webpage |
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William Barnes
Degree Achieved: M.S.
Thesis: Cottonwood performance in flood and non-flood sites in the middle Rio Grande bosque
Advisor: Cliff Dahm and Manuel Molles
Where are they now? Private consulting in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Susan E. Block
Degree Achieved: M.S.
Thesis: Biogeochemistry of the Middle Rio Grande bosque – links among surface water, groundwater and sediments
Advisor: Laura Crossey
Where are they now? Geological and hydrological consulting in South Carolina |
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Chelsea Crenshaw
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Press and pulse nutrient dynamics in stream ecosystems
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology at Utah State University |
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Kim D. Eichhorst
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Dynamics of defoliator activity of a leaf beetle and two leaf-roller moths along an urban to rural gradient in the middle Rio Grande riparian corridor
Advisor: Cliff Crawford and Manuel Molles
Where are they now? Data manager and staff member of the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) |
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Lisa M. Ellis
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Floods and fires along the Rio Grande: the role of disturbance in the riparian forest
Advisor: Manuel Molles
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Christine S. Fellows
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Metabolism in low-order montane catchments: From whole stream to aquifer
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Lecturer at Griffith University at the Nathan Campus and staff member of the Australian Rivers Institute in Brisbane, Australia
Christine's Webpage |
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Barton Faulkner
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Compartmental modeling approach for evaluating nutrient retention and attenuation in streams
Advisor: Mike Campana
Where are they now? Hydrologist with the Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Research group of the Environmental Protection Agency in Ada, Oklahoma
Barton's Webpage |
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Marcy Gallo
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Impact of photodegradation on leaf litter decomposition in arid lands
Advisor: Bob Sinsabaugh
Where are they now? Staff member for the American Geological Institute (AGI) in their Government Affairs Program in Washington D.C. |
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Armand Rossini Groffman
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Iron cycling and redox structure of a shallow alluvial aquifer
Advisor: Laura Crossey
Where are they now? Groundwater hydrologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Mary Harner
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Belowground dynamics of cottonwoods along the Rio Grande
Advisor: Manuel Molles
Where are they now? Lecturer at the University of Nebraska at Kearney |
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James T. Markweise
Degree Achieved: M.S.
Thesis: Assessment of biological strategies to remediate cyanide heap-leached ores
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Scientist with Neptune and Company, Inc. in Los Alamos, New Mexico |
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Michael C. Marshall
Degree Achieved: B.S.
Thesis: Stream hydrogeology and hyporheic invertebrate community structure along longitudinal gradient (senior honors thesis)
Advisor: Maury Valett and Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Postdoctoral researcher at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia |
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Dianne E. McDonnell
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Scaling riparian evapotranspiration to canopies along the Middle Rio Grande corridor in central New Mexico.
Advisor: Julie Coonrod and Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Civil engineering and environmental ecohydrology consultant in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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John Morrice
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Influence of stream-aquifer interactions on nutrient cycling in headwater streams
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Research biologist at the Mid-Continent Ecology Division of the Environmental Protection Agency in Duluth, Minnesota |
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Douglas L. Moyer
Degree Achieved: M.S.
Thesis: Influence of livestock grazing and geologic setting on morphology, hydrology, and nutrient retention in four southwestern riparian-stream ecosystems
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Project head for the Chesapeake Bay river input monitoring program of the United States Geologic Survey in Richmond, Virginia
Doug's Webpage |
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Dennis L. Newell
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Hydrogeochemistry of CO2-rich mineral springs: implications for tectonics and microbiology
Advisors: Laura Crossey and Zachary Sharp
Where are they now? Postdoctoral researcher in geochemistry and hydrology at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Diana E. Northup
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Geomicrobiology of caves
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Research associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico
Diane's Webpage |
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Laura Hagan Petronis
Degree Achieved: M.S.
Thesis: Natural and mining-related sources of metal contamination, Red River, northeastern New Mexico: a hydrochemical investigation of surface water and groundwater
Advisor: Laura Crossey
Where are they now? Engineering specialist for the Office of the State Engineer of the State of New Mexico performing hydrologic and hydrogeologic evaluations to support water rights administration, interstate stream compact compliance and water resources management |
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Jennifer Follstad Shah
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Effects of flood regime and plant competition on soil N cycling in semi-arid riparian ecosystems: implications for restoration
Advisor: Cliff Dahm
Where are they now? Postdoctoral researcher at Duke University |
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Teresa M. Tibbets
Degree Achieved: Ph.D.
Thesis: Ecological stoichiometry of riparian trees and arthropods: effects of flooding and exotic species along the Middle Rio Grande, NM
Advisor: Manuel Molles
Where are they now? Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wyoming |
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David S. Vinson
Degree Achieved: M.S.
Thesis: Seasonal biogeochemistry and mineral cycling of the Middle Rio Grande alluvial aquifer, New Mexico
Advisor: Laura Crossey
Where are they now? Ph.D. student in biogeochemistry at Duke University |
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Jeremy L. Weiss
Degree Achieved: M.S.
Thesis: Relating vegetation variability to meteorological variables at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Advisor: Dave Gutzler
Where are they now? Senior research specialist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona |
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Gregory J. Wroblicky
Degree Achieved: M.S. Earth and Planetary Sciences 1995.
Thesis: Numerical modeling of stream-groundwater interactions, near-stream flowpaths, and hyporheic zone hydrodynamics of two first-order mountain stream-aquifer systems
Advisor: Michael Campana
Where are they now? Jacobs Engineering |
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