Team

Faculty


Vamsi Ganti

Vamsi Ganti

Associate Professor

Department of Geography, 4810 Ellison Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (805) 893-5991

Graduate Students


Feifei Zhao

Feifei Zhao

B.S., University of Texas at Austin

  Multi-thread river evolution
  xiafeizhao@ucsb.edu
Etienne Chenevert

Etienne Chenevert

M.S., Indiana University

   Remote sensing of river evolution
  chenevert@ucsb.edu
Huck Rees

Huck Rees

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

  Controls on terrestrial sediment residence times
  jamesrees@ucsb.edu
Sam Lance

Sam Lance

Masters student; Bren School

   Controls on timing of avulsions

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 Paros Assistant Professor 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

Debsmita Das

PhD 2025; Now Postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley

Thesis title: From Sand Waves to Strata: Dynamics and Preservation of Multiscale Bedforms in Variable Fluvial Environments

Youwei Wang

Postdoc 2024; Now faculty member at Institute of Geology and Geophysics at Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jonah McLeod

Visiting graduate student researcher

Robert Mahon

Visitor, Summer 2022 and 2023; Associate Professor, University of Wyoming

Madeline Kelly

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

 

Madeleine Haddad

Undergraduate Researcher Summer 2023