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An MS degree recognizes proficiency in advanced scientific knowledge and technical skills.  Starting employees with an MS degree tend to earn ~$15,000 more per year in gross salary than those with only a BS degree.  To earn an MS degree a student in my lab group usually does 32 units of coursework in either the Hydrologic Sciences or Ecology Graduate Groups at UC Davis plus an MS thesis.  The purpose of the MS thesis is to gain experience as a project leader in which the candidate learns and applies management skills, technical skills, and scientific knowledge to all phases of the scientific method.  Typically an MS research project involves taking an existing scientiic hypothesis and then performing the research to explore it, usually with a blend of outdoor field work, computer modeling, traditional statistical data analysis, and GIS-based geospatial data analysis.  I hold my MS students to a high standard of research and writing quality, which is why they are highly sought after by employers.  The majority of my former MS students are now professional consultants, but two went on to become professors.

Current MS Students

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Maurice Ledoyen

  • Cover habitat prediction and use by rearing Pacific salmonids
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Arthur Koehl

  • urban stream landslide-flood synergistic risk in the SF Bay Area
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Sam Bohart

  • urban stream riparian ecology soundscapes
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Rachel Wright

  • Bioverification of Cottonwood recruitment potential prediction model for regulated, dry-summer subtropical rivers.

Past MS Students

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Xavier Nogueira

  • LiDAR terrain processing/analysis coding
  • Geomorphic covariance structure analysis of ephemeral rivers
  • Graduated December 2021
  • Consultant
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  • Fluvial topographic change detection and analysis.
  • Topographic change processes
  • Graduated June 2021
  • Consultant
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  • Adult anadromous salmonid migration past river confluences.
  • Graduated August 2020
  • PhD student at UC Davis
  • PhD student
 Kenny_Larrieu200.jpg Kenny Larrieu
  • River Architect algorithm to predict fish stranding risk due to natural or artificial flow recession.
  • Fish stransing risk prediciton at a river restoraiton site in Calfiornia
  • Fluvial geomorphic covariance structures of desert meandering rivers.
  • Graduated August 2020
  • PhD student at UC Davis
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Yuiko Chino

  • Forested mountain ecohydrology and Ecohydraulics
  • Graduated December 2019
  • PhD student at Colorado State University
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Pete Moniz

  • Development of evidence-based habitat suitability curves for rearing lifestages of Chinook salmon and O. mykiss (anadromous and resident).
  • Bioverification of near-census ecohydraulic models of rearing lifestages of Chinook salmon and O. mykiss (anadromous and resident).
  • Analysis of fluvial micro- and meso-habitat changes for rearing lifestages of Chinook salmon and O. mykiss (anadromous and resident) in response to fluvial morphodynamic changes.
  • Graduated August 2019
  • Consultant
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Luke Tillman

  • "Does Large Wood Make It Through a Montane Reservoir?"
  • Consultant with CBEC, Inc.
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Matt Weber

  • "Valley-scale morphology drives differences in fluvial sediment budgets and incision rates during contrasting flow regimes"
  • Consultant with CBEC, Inc.
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Michael Strom

  • "A Mechanistic Characterization of Hydraulic Hazard Exposure"
  • Graduated in Spring 2015.
  • Consultant at ESA Associates.
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David Ho

  • Salmonid rearing habitat at a site on the regulated, gravel/cobble lower Yuba River.
  • Graduated in Summer 2014.
  • Employed at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Bobby Gonzalez

  • "Re-Envisioning Cross-Sectional Hydraulic Geometry as Spatially Explicit Hydraulic Topography"
  • Graduated in Summer 2014.
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Leah Kammel

  • "Oncorhynchus mykiss Spawning Physical Habitat in the Lower Yuba River, California"
  • Graduated in March 2014.
  • Employed by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Matthew Vaughan

  • "Large Streamwood Storage Does Not Decrease Downstream through a Watershed"
  • Graduated in December 2013.
  • Lake Champlain Basin Program
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Tarick Abu-Aly

  • "Quantifying the effects of spatially-distributed roughness parameters derived from Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) on a 2D hydrodynamic model of the Lower Yuba River, CA"
  • Graduated in 2012.
  • Technical Director, Vice-President of Sierra Overhead Analytics.
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Rusty Barker

  • "Rapid, Abundant Velocity Observation to Validate Million-Element 1 2D Hydrodynamic Models"
  • Graduated in 2011.
  • Consultant with CBEC, Inc.
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Anne Senter

  • "Large Wood Aids Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Spawning in Marginal Habitat on a Regulated River in California"
  • Graduated in Spring 2007.
  • Went on to do a PhD
  • Consultant at Balance Hydrologic
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Jason White

  • "Valley Width Controls on Riffle Location and Persistence on a Gravel Bed River"
  • Graduated in 2009.
  • Consultant at ESA Associates.
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Aaron Fulton

  • "Gravel for Salmon in Bedrock Channels: Elucidating Mitigation Efficacy Through Site Characterization, 2D-Modeling, and Comparison Along the Yuba River, CA"
  • Graduated in 2008
  • Marin Municipal Water District.
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Rocko Brown

  • "Evaluation and Design Considerations for Spawning Habitat Rehabilitation"
  • Graduated in 2007.
  • Consultant at Cramer Fish Sciences.
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  • "The Use of Slope Creation in Gravel Augmentation for Rehabilitating Incised, Regulated Rivers"
  • Graduated in 2005.
  • Research technician at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
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Joe Wheaton

  • "Spawning Habitat Rehabilitation"
  • Graduated in 2003.
  • Professor at Utah State University.
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Jose Constantine

  • "Floodplain Evolution In A Small, Tectonically Active Basin Of Northern California"
  • Graduated in 2002.
  • Professor at Williams College.
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Chien Wang

  • "Application of a 2D Hydrodynamic Model to Salmonid Spawning Gravel Replenishment in a Regulated River, Mokelumne River, California"
  • Graduated in 2002.
  • Engineer East Bay Municipal Utility District.




 

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