Team

Faculty

Vamsi Ganti

Vamsi Ganti

Associate Professor

Department of Geography, 4810 Ellison Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara
    vganti@ucsb.edu
    (805) 893-5991
    (805) 893-2578
  CV

Postdoctoral Scholars

Youwei Wang

Youwei Wang

Ph.D., Delft University of Technology

    Remote sensing of river mobility
    youweiwang@ucsb.edu

Graduate Students

Debsmita Das

Debsmita Das

M.S., Presidency University

   Non-uniform and unsteady dune dynamics
   d_das@umail.ucsb.edu
Huck Rees

Huck Rees

B.A., UC Davis; M.A. CU Boulder

  Controls on terrestrial sediment residence times
  jamesrees@ucsb.edu
Feifei Zhao

Feifei Zhao

B.S., University of Texas at Austin

  Multi-thread river evolution
  xiafeizhao@ucsb.edu
Sam Lance

Sam Lance

Masters student; Bren School

   Controls on timing of avulsions

Undergraduate Researchers

Corey Bell

Corey Bell

Undergraduate; Earth Science

  Controls on set lengths of cross strata
  cwbell@umail.ucsb.edu
Jacob Pike

Jacob Pike

Undergraduate; Environmental Studies

Planet imagery analysis
  jspike@ucsb.edu

Alumni

Kate Leary

Postdoc Sept 2018 to June 2020; Now Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech

Sam Brooke

Postdoc April 2019 to April 2021; Now Senior Earth Observation Data Scientist, Terrabotics

 

Austin Chadwick

Postdoc Aug 2022 to Aug 2023; Now Postdoc at Columbia University

 

Jeff Valenza

Postdoc Aug 2021 to Aug 2023

 

Evan Greenberg

PhD 2024; Recipient of the Lancaster award; Now NASA postdoctoral fellow at JPL

Thesis title: Remote sensing of river mobility: Quantifying the Controls, Timescales, and Stratigraphic Record of River Movement

Madeleine Haddad

Undergraduate Researcher Summer 2023

 

Jonah McLeod

Visiting graduate student researcher

Robert Mahon

Visitor, Summer 2022 and 2023; Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans

 

Madeline Kelly

Visitor, Summer 2023; Postdoctoral Scholar, University of New Orleans