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Background

A postdoctoral researcher (aka "postdoc") is a person who has earned a PhD degree, but is seeking to gain a second proficiency and additional experience, with an eye toward an eventual faculty position.  A postdoc can last from 1-5 years.  Because I view a postdoc as a transitional position, my preference is to regularly encourage the postdoc to work effectively toward earning their next job as a professor or whatever else they seek as a career path.  I provide mentoring on technical skills, writing, creative scientific thinking, scholastic life, DEI, and permanent job applications. Faculty positions are extremely competitive, and increasingly so with the onset of the covid pandemic. Realistically, to garner a faculty position the postdoc period is a time for taking initiative, exhibiting grit, and working very effectively.  Postdocs have the most freedom in their time (neither teaching nor taking classes) , which means they need to develop strong time management skills to be successful.  A postdoc can also be a terrific opportunity to make an impact on society in the applicaiton of one's research to local environmental problems. Among my former postdocs trained 2000-2016, all are now tenure-track professors, except one who leads a consulting firm. My most recent postdocs since 2017 have tended to take more diverse career paths.

Current Postdocs

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Dr. Anzy Lee

  • Ecohydraulics of California's diverse river types

Past Postdocs

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Dr. Herve Guillon

  • Machine learning in geomorphology
  • Reach-scale channel type prediction
  • Fractal scaling of river catchments
  • Principal Data Scientist at ag-tech startup Vitidore
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Dr. Romina Diaz-Gomez

  • Remote sensing of rivers
  • Machine learning prediction of terrestrial river corridor grain size distributions from topographic indicators alone
  • Machine learning prediction of riparian vegetation presence/absence from topographic indicators alone
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Dr. Colin Byrne

  • Ecogeomorphology of California's river archetypes
  • River classification software development
  • Hydraulic Engineer at U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
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Dr. Sebastian Schwindt

  • Ecogeomorphic restoration design of gravel/cobble rivers
  • River Architect software development
  • Head of Hydro-Morphology Group at University of Stuttgart
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Dr. Andrew B. Gray

  • Asessment of watershed scale sediment sources and sinks in an agriculture-dominated landscape (2014-2015).
  • Assistant Professor of Watershed Hydrology at University of California at Riverside.
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Dr. Joshua R. Wyrick

  • Waterfalls systematics (2005-2006)
  • Near-census analysis of river landforms and topogrpahic change processes (2009-2013)
  • Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at York College of Pennsylvania
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Dr. Beth Watson

  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Salinas River Estuary (2007-2009)
  • Associate Professor of Wetlands Science at Drexel University
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Dr. Marco Maneta

  • Distributed hydrological modeling of present and future conditions based on different WRF dynamically downscaled GCM inputs.
  • Associate Professor of Watershed Hydrology at University of Montana.
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Dr. Hamish Moir

  • Ecohydraulics of Chinook salmon adult spawning habitat (2003-2006)
  • Principal at CBEC, Inc.
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Dr. Peng Gao

  • Suspended sediment processes in arid, irrigation-dominated drainages (2003-2005)
  • Professor of Physical Geography, Syracuse University, New York
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Dr. Kendrick Brown

  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of floodplains at the river to tidal freshwater estuary interface (2000-2002)
  • Research Scientist at the Canadian Forest Service; Adjunct Professor at University of British Columbia Okanagan
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