Current Lab Members

Marc Beutel

Principal Investigator

Dr. Marc Beutel is an associate professor of environmental engineering in the School of Engineering at UC Merced, where he started in July 2015.

Before this, he was in the Civil and Environmental...

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Louis Amegbletor

PhD Student

I am originally from Ghana, West Africa and undertook my BSc Degree in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST. I served as a Research...

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Melissa Conn

MS Student

Originally from Reno, Nevada, I received my BS in Environmental Science. Both my studies and fieldwork have emphasized aquatic ecology, limnology and stream/fish habitat monitoring. I moved to San...

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Shelby Defeo

PhD Student

I completed my BS with an emphasis in Environmental Chemistry at The Evergreen State College in Washington, where my undergraduate research focused on water quality and mercury consumption in...

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Michelle Gilmore

Staff Research Associate

My research interests are broadly related to geo- and environmental chemistry, landscape evolution, and intersections between ecological, geological, and anthropological systems. I began working with...

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Danielle Jones

PhD Student

I received my B.S. in Chemistry from UCLA and my M.S. in Watershed Management from Humboldt State University, where I worked on pollutant removal in the famous Arcata Marsh, one of the first...

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Naivy Rodal Morales

PhD Student

I am originally from Mexico City, Mexico where I received my BS in Geological Engineering from the National Autonomous University of México doing undergraduate research on the origin and geochemistry...

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Mark Seelos

PhD Student

After graduating with a BS in earth sciences from UC Santa Cruz in 2012, I worked on water quality issues as a stewardship intern at a small non-profit, an Americorps Watershed Stewards Program member...

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