Graduate Student

Chloe Faehndrich

Graduate Student

My research combines hydrologic modeling and remote sensing to quantify the hydrologic impacts of beaver restoration, including flow regime and groundwater storage changes, in California's Sierra Nevada. More broadly, I develop quantitative methods to better understand and predict water resource dynamics under anthropogenic, natural, and climate-driven influences. Before coming to Berkeley, I earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science and Spanish from Skidmore College, and conducted water resources research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey...

Jacob Gorneau

Graduate Student

Jacob A. Gorneau is a PhD working primarily on arachnid evolution and systematics in the context of museum-based biology and enjoys connecting these topics to recent (ecological) and geologic change. Regarding ecological change, he is exploring arthropod responses to mega wildfire and cattle grazing. With respect to geological change, he is studying the evolution of a scorpion genus Uroctonus, found in forested regions of the Western United States. He also works on the evolution of traits (e.g., behavior) using phylogenetic comparative methods....