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CURRENT STUDENTS AND
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Sanjay Mohanty
(Post doctoral scholar) is a post doctorial scholar working in
the Urban
Water ERC. He is studying how to best design bioinfilitration
systems for the removal of pathogens in stormwater. Sanjay received his
PhD from University of Colorado Boulder and is originally from India.
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Anthony
Wai Thoe
(Post doctoral scholar) is a post doctorial scholar working on a project
to model beach water quality along the State of California
coastline. Anthony previously worked on a similar project in Hong Kong
where he is from and attended graduate school.
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Dan Wang
(Post doctoral scholar) is a post doctorial scholar working on the State
of California source identification project to identify sources of
microbial pollution along the coast line. She received her PhD from UC
Davis in 2011 and is from China.
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Kevan
Yamahara (PhD 2011, COS early career fellow). He studied enterococci and
E. coli in beach sand along the California Coast. Kevan used to be a
professional fisherman and is an avid surfer. He was recently awarded a
position at the Center for Ocean Solutions as an early Career Scholar to
work with Boehm and Chris Scholin at MBARI to adapt the environmental
sample processor to measure concentrations of fecal indicators and pathogens.
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Angela Rice is a PhD student who is studying water,
hands, and health in developing countries. In the picture at the right,
she
is making a biscuit on a stick while camping. She is currently living in
Bagamoyo, Tanzania with her husband Michael where she is overseeing the
operation of the microbiology lab for our NSF-funded project.
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Lauren Sassoubre
is a PhD student.
She is studying the distribution of Salmonellae in San Pedro Creek and
also the persistence of enterococci in sunlight. She is also involved
in the California Source ID project.
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Todd Russell
is a PhD student. He is studying the transport of E. coli, enterococci,
and coliphage through sands. He is also involved in the State of
California Source Identification project and leads the efforts of source
tracking a Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz.
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Mia Morgan is a PhD student who is studying water,
hands, and health in developing countries. Mia is particularly
interested
in the intersection of public health and engineering.
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Simon Wong is a PhD student. He is interested in the intersection
of fluid mechanics with water quality science. He is studying the effect
of internal tides on shoreline water quality at Huntington Beach, CA. He
is also interested in the fate of small plumes in the coastal
ocean. Simon is from Hong Kong and is an extremely gifted mathematician.
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Peter Maraccini is a PhD student. He is interested in source
tracking and sunlight inactivation of microorganisms in water.
He received a BS from UIUC in 2010.
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Kendra Brown is a PhD student. More coming soon.
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FORMER STUDENTS AND POST DOCS |
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Amy Pickering (PhD, 2011)
was a doctoral student in the IPER program where she
studied the efficacy of alcohol-based hand sanitizer for reducing
bacteria and pathogen concentrations on hands, and improving health in the
developing
world. Amy is now a post doc at Stanford and works on projects in Kenya,
Mali, Bangladesh, and Tanzania.
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Nick de Sieyes
(PhD 2011)
was a California Sea Grant trainee. He studyed
submarine groundwater discharge along wave-dominated California
beaches. In the picture at the left, he is installing well points at our
field site at
Huntington Beach, Ca. (Nick is on the beach, Keeney Willis is on the
ladder.) Nick currently works at UC Davis.
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Blythe Layton (PhD, 2011)
studied enterococci in the environment and the relation between climate
and health. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowship. She recently began working at Southern California
Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) as a post doctoral scholar.
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Sarah Walters (Post doctoral scholar).
Sarah studyed the persistence of nucleic acids in natural waters. In
particular, she was working with poliovirus and enterococci.
Her poliovirus plaque assay is shown at the right. She also ran the
USDA project to look at pathogens and indicators in coastal
streams.
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Emily Viau (Post doctoral scholar) studied the
health risk of exposure to land based runoff from streams in
Hawaii. Her work is funded by the NSF Oceans and Human Health
program. She also assisted in the Tanzania project with the
microbiology and pathogen testing of water and hand rinse
samples. Emily received her PhD from Yale in 2009 studying pathogens
in biosolids.
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Tim
Julian (PhD, 2010). His thesis is entitled Fomites in
Infectious Disease Transmission: A modeling, laboratory, and field
study on microbial transfer between skin and surfaces.
He is currently a post doc in Kellog Schwab's group at Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health in Baltimore.
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Karen
Knee (PhD, 2010) Karen was
a doctoral student
in geology and environmental sciences. She was co-advised by Adina Paytan
and Ali Boehm. She studied
submarine groundwater discharge along the Kona coast of Hawaii and the
North shore of Kauai
(in Hanalei). She is currently a Fulbright Scholar working in Ecuador.
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Maggie Montgomery (Post doctoral scholar 2009-2010) worked on the
Tanzania project to understand how providing personalized
information on water quality and hand contamination influences
people's behaviors and attitudes about water, as well as their
health and stored water quality, and hand contamination. She is
currently working on international water and health issues.
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Daniel
Keymer (PhD, 2009)
studied the ecology of Vibrio cholerae in
California coastal waters.
Daniel was the recipient of a Stanford Graduate
Fellowship. In the photo to the left, Daniel
collects data during one of his monthly sampling outings. Daniel is
a post doc at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
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Alyson
Santoro (PhD, 2008)
studied the
microorganisms responsible for nitrogen cycling in
coastal aquifers and
how sea surface temperature and other ocean physics
controls pollutant and phytoplankton levels in the
surf zone.
In this picture, she is collecting
samples from the surf zone at day break during August
of 2005. Alyson
was the recipient of an NSF Graduate fellowship. A
culture of ammonia
oxidizing bacteria and archaea she collected and grew
from the subsurface at
Huntington Beach is shown to the right. Alyson is a post
doctoral researcher at Woods Hole
Oceanographic
Institute. She wil be beginning a faculty
position at Horn Point Marine Lab in Maryland in
2011. She is the proud owner of a german shepard.
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Nick
Handler (MS with thesis, 2006). He studied
the
effect of land use on coastal water quality in central and northern
California. He is currently working in
the lab as a researcher. Nick's sampling sites are shown to
the right.
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Deyi
Hou received his MS and ENG degrees. His work focused on risk endured
from recreational
water contact. He is also studyed the ecology of fecal indicator
bacteria and Salmonella spp.
in seawater. He was the recipient of the Shaw Fellowship from Stanford
University.
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Francisco
Tamayo was a high school student who worked in the lab. He worked
with
Kevan Yamahara studying enterococci persistence in sand. He
attended
Eastside Prep in East Palo Alto where he was a resident at one of the
dormatories. He is an amazing artist and musician! His talents never
cease to amaze us! He is now an undergraduate student at Yale. Go Francisco!
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| Lilian Lam was a high school senior when she started in the
lab.
She attends Swarthmore College. She has worked with Daniel Keymer and
Blythe Layton.
During the summer of 2006, she investigated the variability in Vibrio
cholerae
across a salinity. During the summer of 2007, she worked with Blythe to
study
the esp gene in enterococci and what species of enterococci can be
found in the environment. She is a whiz at molecular methods and
might just be the most productive member of the lab. She is now a
graduate student here at Stanford in the Microbiology
Department!
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