PhD Research
The Bren School offers a research-oriented PhD, the cornerstone of which is an original work of research presented as a dissertation in an important area of environmental science and policy. Below is a list of current PhD students who have advanced to candidacy, as well as their research topics and faculty advisors.
| Student | Research Topic | Advisor | |
| Tal Ben-Horin | The Role of Infectious Diseases in Wildlife Conservation | Lenihan | |
| Erin Bray |  |
The Interactions among Hydrology, Stream Temperature, and the Mechanisms Governing Thermal Regime during a Large-scale Flow Experiment in the San Joaquin River, California | Dunne |
| Mary Collins | |
Toxic “Outliers” and “Mainstreamers”: A Facility-Based Analysis of the Predictors of Pollution-Related Health Risk Intensity | Anderson Young |
| Sheetal Gavankar | Sustainability assessments of the products and services enabled by emerging technologies in face of high uncertainties; the role of uncertainties as the context for risk communication. | Keller Suh |
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| Aubrey Dugger | |
Interacting effects of land management strategies and climate change on water resources in the semiarid Santa Fe municipal watershed | Tague |
| Darcie Goodman | Monitoring and Management of Small West Coast Estuaries: Creating a Bayesian Decision Model | Melack | |
| Allison Horst | The Toxicity of Engineered Nanomaterials on, and their Interactions with, Bacteria | Holden |
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| Patrick Jantz | The Ecological Effects of Residential Development on U.S. National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges | Davis | |
| Alexios Nicolaos
Monopolis |
Eco-Positive Psychology: The Environmental and Mental Health Benefits of Voluntary Simplicity | Young | |
| Theresa Nogeire | |
Landscape Ecology, Working Landscapes, Habitat Modeling | Davis |
| Conrado Rudorff | Flooding, mixing and carbon dynamics in an Amazon floodplain lake: insights from numerical modeling | Melack | |
| Dongxu Zhou | Fate and transport of nanomaterials in aqueous environments; using light-scattering techniques to study the aggregation-agglomeration phenomena of engineered nanomarterials. | Keller |