About the Water UCI Graduate Research Team
Team Water UCI is a transdisciplinary research team of graduate students at the University of California, Irvine that represents an ongoing collaboration between water researchers at UCI, community leaders in Borrego Springs, and environmental scientists working with satellite data at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Team Water UCI project is driven by an interesting experiment in data sharing and integration. It proposes a way of incorporating the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s remotely sensed, big data view of water and climate into the same model with grounded measurements and cultural data on water use and environmental effects. In other words, this is a model that aims to question what water looks like globally, regionally, and locally, or perhaps from space, from the ground, and from underground.
Emily Brooks
School of Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
Adviser: Professor Valerie Olson
Concentration: Environmental Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies
Alireza Farahmand
Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Adviser: Professor Amir AghaKouchak
Concentration: Hydrology and Water Resources
James Goebel
School of Humanities
Department: Comparative Literature
Adviser: Professor Gabriele Schwab
Concentration: 20th Century American and Mexican Desert Literature, Ecocriticism, Critical Animal and Environmental Studies
Anna Kryczka
School of Humanities
Department: Humanities Program in Visual Studies
Adviser: Professor Cecile Whiting
Concentration: Midcentury American Art, Architecture, Design and Thought
Melissa Matlock
School of Public Health
Department: Program in Public Health
Adviser: Professor Oladele Ogunseitan
Concentration: Global Change
Daniel Winkler
School of Biological Sciences
Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Adviser: Professor Travis Huxman
Concentration: Environmental Systems and Climate Change