HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES GRADUATE GROUP

Casillas-Trasvina, J. Alberto

PhD, Geology

Ghent University (2022)​

Email: albcasillas@ucdavis.edu

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Research Interests:
My research interests revolve around the dynamic field of groundwater modeling, with a primary focus on applications. I am dedicated to advancing hydrogeological sciences addressing pressing global challenges related to water scarcity, sustainable water use and governance, and ecosystem protection while ensuring equitable access to clean water resources. In my current work, and in collaboration with the USDA Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems (SAWS), my aim is to develop a high-resolution sub-catchment groundwater flow model to evaluate i) the current state of a part of California’s Central Valley and, ii) Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) strategies for aquifer replenishment, providing decision makers with a robust decision support system to evaluate groundwater management policies.

Guo, Zhilin

PhD, Soil, Water and Environmental Science
University of Arizona (2016)

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Email: zlguo@ucdavis.edu

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Curriculum Vitae​

Research Interests: Groundwater flow and contaminant transport simulation. Regional scale transport modeling. Groundwater remediation.

Goharian, Erfan

PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Utah (2015)

Email: egoharian@ucdavis.edu

Curriculum Vitae​
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Research Interests: Erfan Goharian's research interests include integrated water resources modeling and management, system analysis, system dynamics of food-energy-water nexus, and hydroinformatics. He has additional expertise related to hydrologic modeling, climate change impact assessment on water resources, and stormwater management. He is leading the research on integrated modeling and management of water resource systems in California as a part of UC WATER Security and Sustainability Research Initiative. He aims to develop a framework to model interactions among the major sectors of the water system (snow, mountain subsurface water, surface reservoirs, and groundwater systems) to achieve greater water security and sustainability in California. Beyond his technical background, he has experience working in collaborations across institutions and disciplinary boundaries (CI-Water Project and USAID Partner Center for Advanced Studies in Water).

Henri, Christopher Vincent

PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech (2015)

Email: chenri@ucdavis.edu

Curriculum Vitae​

Research Interests: I am interested in the fate and transport of conservative and reactive contaminants in heterogeneous aquifers and in improving the risk estimation through stochastic modeling and numerical method development. My researches at UC Davis focus on providing methods, protocols, criteria and technical tools to enable decision makers to apply the Anti-Degradation policy to groundwater resources.

McNew, Coy

PhD, Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University

Email: mcnewcp@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae​

Research Interests: Coy received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Vanderbilt University in December 2015, where he studied the environmental transport of engineered nanomaterials, including state of the art analytical laboratory techniques and a first of its kind machine learning approach to describe particle transport behavior. His current research interests include linking particle and solute transport at the laboratory, continuum, and field scales, as well as the fabrication and application of custom sequenced DNA-labelled nanoparticles to better understand complex hydrologic, pathogenic, and associated environmental transport pathways.