Meet the Poop Group...

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Annalise Blum is an environmental engineering major, class of 2010, from Berkeley, California. She deferred for a year before Stanford to volunteer in Thailand and Guatemala. Last summer she lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania helping with a research project on water and child health. She interned in the child survival department at Population Services International in Washington DC in the winter of 2009. And more...

Jess Fosbrook

Jess is a Master's student in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology concentration within Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is focused on water resources management and water supply and sanitation in developing countries. She is interested in the roles that NGO's and donor organizations play in bringing improved water and sanitation to developing areas, the institutions that manage water and sanitation systems, and how governments are working to bring access to their unserved populations.
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Natalie Giannelli

Natalie joined the Davis Research Group in Fall 2008 to pursue her interests in developing world water and sanitation issues. She is a candidate for the Master degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology concentration. Before coming to Stanford, Natalie worked for three years at the World Bank in the Water and Urban group in Latin America and the Caribbean where she was involved in operations as a Junior Professional Associate. And more...

Sara Marks

Sara describes herself as an environmental engineer with social issues. As a PhD student in the Poop Group she focuses on the factors that influence water system sustainability in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly the role that community members’ “sense of ownership” plays in the long-term performance of communal infrastructure. Her field work on this topic has taken her to Mozambique, Senegal, and Kenya. And more...

Mia Mattioli

Teizeen Mohamedali

Born in Kenya, Teizeen also lived and travelled to many countries in Africa throughout her childhood. From stomping through a bog on Mt. Kenya, snorkeling in coral reefs in the Red Sea, to camping in the Okavango River Delta in Botswana, Teizeen became absolutely fascinated with nature. Aquatic ecosystems became particularly interesting to her because of their life-sustaining role across all branches of the biological tree and their close links to human health, poverty and environmental degradation. And more...

Maggie Montgomery

Maggie is a Postdoctoral Scholar involved in research on water, sanitation, hygiene, and health in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has a major responsibility for the project “Multi-scale modeling of health behavior choices: Water, sanitation, and child survival in Africa.” She returns to the Farm after completing her B.S. (with honors, civil/environmental engineering) in 2001 and M.S. (engineering) in 2002. And more...

Kyle Onda

Kyle is an undergraduate in the class of 2011, majoring in Environmental Engineering and minoring in African and Middle Eastern Languages. Kyle is currently researching water for productive use and will be carrying out household surveys in Senegal. And more...

Sara Piaskowy

Originally from Crete, IL (just south of Chicago), Sara came to Stanford in Fall 2008 after receiving her Bachelors in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University in 2007. She spent the year in between working as a research assistant in at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa. And more...

Amy Janel Pickering

Amy is a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources and an active member of the Davis Poop Group. Her current research focuses on identifying factors that influence hand hygiene behavior in developing countries. She is also interested in identifying reliable and accurate indicators for measuring hand hygiene in the field. In addition to her field work in Tanzania, she also spends time on hand hygiene and health issues in low income day care centers in the bay area. And more...

Angela Rice

Kory Russel

Anne Thebo

Valentina Zuin

Valentina was born and grew up in Milan, Italy and she is a PhD student in the Emmet Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). Valentina’s focus is on water service delivery in peri-urban areas in developing countries. In particular, she is interested in understanding how water utilities learn to serve poor consumers, and how services provided by alternative providers such as water resellers and small scale private providers can be better integrated with the service provided by utilities.
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