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After earning a dual-BS in Bio-environmental Engineering from Rutgers University (New Jersey), I moved all the way to sunny California to get an MS in Environmental Systems at UCM. My passion for environmental engineering education and waste management could not keep me away from graduate school...

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 indigenous communities. Having grown up in California, UC Merced is an opportunity for me to return to...

I received my BS in Chemistry and a MBA in Strategic Sustainability from Humboldt State. At the time I working as the quality assurance manager for a local environmental laboratory and became fascinated with surface waters. I later obtained an MS in Environmental Engineering Sciences at the...

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 the Beutel Lab in fall 2019. I am primarily working on a research project exploring environmental...

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 of Jurassic igneous rocks in Puebla, Mexico. Currently, my interests are related to environmental...

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 Engineering Department at Washington State University. Dr. Beutel earned a B.S. in civil and...

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 Francisco for a few years and worked for an environmental consulting firm and decided to apply to UC...

Lanka DeSilva earned a BS in Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering from University of Alabama and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Washington State University under Dr. Beutel. Lanka’s graduate research focused on measuring wet and dry atmospheric deposition of mercury in rural...

Piper Marshall is originally from Honolulu, Hawaii and earned a B.S. in Civil and Environmental from Washington State University where she was a member of the university’s track team. She stayed at Washington State and earned a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Washington State University under...

Hello! I’m Jaycee Martinez and before I became a Bobcat, I was a banana slug at UC Santa Cruz. I majored in Biology with an emphasis in biochemistry, but my trajectory was never crystal clear. I researched in several different subject areas including an optical physics lab, biochemical protein lab...