{"id":51,"date":"2011-04-25T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:26:31","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Biogeoscience Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Current Biogeoscience Ph.D. Students<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sawyer Balint<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:sjbalint@bu.edu\">sjbalint@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nik Bates-Haus<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:nikbh@bu.edu\">nikbh@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Abby Beilman<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:abeilman@bu.edu\">abeilman@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alejandra Castillo Cieza<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:sacast@bu.edu\">sacast@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emerson Conrad-Rooney<\/strong>, Biology &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:econradr@bu.edu\">econradr@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Yu-Qing Chua<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:ychua@bu.edu\">ychua@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emma Daily<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:daily@bu.edu\">daily@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Erin Frates<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:esfrates@bu.edu\">esfrates@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Annabelle Gao<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:agao525@bu.edu\">agao525@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tristan Green<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:twgreen@bu.edu\">twgreen@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Yang<\/strong> <strong>Gu<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:yanggu@bu.edu\">yanggu@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua Harrington<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:joshuaph@bu.edu\">joshuaph@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Elizabeth Johnson<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:egjohnso@bu.edu\">egjohnso@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Kanee<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:skanee@bu.edu\">skanee@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mira Kelly-Fair<\/strong>, Biology &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mirakf@bu.edu\">mirakf@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Catherine Mahoney<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:catmah@bu.edu\">catmah@bu.edu<\/a><a href=\"mailto:malmborg@bu.edu\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlotte Malmborg<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:malmborg@bu.edu\">malmborg@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dylan Mankel<\/strong>, Biology &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mankeldy@bu.edu\">mankeldy@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leeza Moldavchuk<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:lmoldavc@bu.edu\">lmoldavc@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Milena Raeber<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:mraeber@bu.edu\">mraeber@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Yvanna Serra<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:yserra@bu.edu\">yserra@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Schroedl<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:astrobio@bu.edu\">astrobio@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hristiana Stoynova<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:stoynova@bu.edu\">stoynova@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Asha Thapa<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:thapasha@bu.edu\">thapasha@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Corinne Vietorisz<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:cviet@bu.edu\">cviet@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Abigail Whittington<\/strong>, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:awhitt@bu.edu\">awhitt@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Wilson<\/strong>,\u00a0Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:wilson47@bu.edu\">wilson47@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Xiaohui Zhu,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:zhuxh@bu.edu\">zhuxh@bu.edu<\/a><a href=\"mailto:lzipf@bu.edu\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Xiaoran (Seamore) Zhu,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:seamorez@bu.edu\">seamorez@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Biogeoscience Alumni<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rose Abramoff, <\/strong>Biology &#8211; Assistant Professor, University of Maine <a href=\"https:\/\/forest.umaine.edu\/rose-abramoff\/\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor Adams<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Postdoc, University of Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/kort.engin.umich.edu\/kort-group\/\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nia Bartolucci<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Physical scientist, U.S. EPA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarabeth Buckley<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Environmental Scientist, Oxman<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joanna Carey<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Associate Professor at Babson College <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joannaccarey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Betsy Cowdery<\/strong><span>, Earth and Environment -Postdoc, James Hutton Institute, Scotland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Chua, <\/strong>Earth and Environment \u2013 Postdoc at Boston College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc.edu\/bc-web\/schools\/morrissey\/departments\/eesc\/people\/postdocs\/Emily-Chua.html\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Condon,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; Technical Manager of Data Analytics, City of Minneapolis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Decina<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Executive Director of Climate Science, Policy, and Action, University of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hollie Emery,<\/strong>Earth and Environment &#8211; Offshore Project Specialist,\n<div>\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model pvs-entity__image \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper \">\n<div class=\"EntityPhoto-square-3-ghost-company ivm-view-attr__ghost-entity \">\n<div class=\"visually-hidden\">Offshore Project Specialist, <span class=\"t-14 t-normal\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Foster<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Assistant Professor, Babson College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babson.edu\/about\/our-leaders-and-scholars\/faculty-and-academic-divisions\/faculty-profiles\/sarah-quinn-foster.php\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amanda Gallinat<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Postdoc, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Garvey,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211;\u00a0Program Manager, Global Nitrogen Innovation Center for Clean Energy and the Environment (NICCEE), <span class=\"page-title__heading--top\">University of Maryland<\/span>Center for Environmental Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Allison Gill<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Assistant Professor, Williams College <a href=\"https:\/\/biology.williams.edu\/profile\/alg4\/\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Steven Gougherty,<\/strong> Biology &#8211; Environmental Analyst, MassDEP<\/li>\n<li><strong>Josh Gray<\/strong>, Associate Professor at North Carolina State University <a href=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamie Harrison,<\/strong> Biology &#8211; Senior Associate, Industrial Economics, Inc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elise Heiss,\u00a0<\/strong>Associate Professor of Chemistry, Kings College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kings.edu\/directory\/profiles\/elise-heiss.html\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Margaret Hendrick<\/strong>, CEO, Fresh Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/fresh-energy.org\/staff\/margaret-cherne-hendrick\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Xiaoman Huang<\/strong>,\u00a0Earth and Environment<\/li>\n<li><span><span><strong>I-Fang Hsieh,<\/strong> Biology &#8211; <\/span><\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Associate, Bioanalytical Operations, Entrada Therapeutics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lydia Jefferson<\/strong>,\u00a0Earth and Environment<\/li>\n<li><strong>JiHyun Kim<\/strong>,\u00a0Postdoc at Indiana University Bloomington<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leticia Lee,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; Data scientist, Societal Computing Innovation Lab<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poliana Lemos,<\/strong> Biology &#8211; Adjunct Faculty, Santa Monica College, Department of Biology<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Maguire<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Biogeochemistry Section Leader; The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchdiscovery.drexel.edu\/esploro\/profile\/timothy_maguire\/overview\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua Mantooth<\/strong>, Engineer III, Edward Jones<a href=\"mailto:jhkim26@bu.edu\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Julia Marrs,<\/strong> Earth and Environment -Biologist, NIST<\/li>\n<li><strong>Claudia Mazur, <\/strong>Earth and Environment &#8211; Project Manager, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tempest McCabe,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland, College Park<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eli Melass,<\/strong>\u00a0Postdoc at Boston University\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elimelaas.wix.com\/profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tara Miller<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; <span aria-hidden=\"true\">Northeast Campaign Manager, Offshore Wind Energy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Minkyu Moon,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; Assistant Professor, Kangwon National University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luca Morreale<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Assistant Research Scientist, <span class=\"page-title__heading--top\">University of Maryland<\/span>Center for Environmental Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ha Nguyen<\/strong>, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erin Pierce,<\/strong> Biology &#8211; Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caroline Polgar<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Grant manager, National Braille Press<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Quinn,<\/strong> Biology &#8211; Business Intelligence Analyst, Google<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicholas Ray,<\/strong> Biology &#8211;\u00a0 Assistant Professor, University of Delaware <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udel.edu\/academics\/colleges\/ceoe\/departments\/smsp\/faculty\/nicholas-ray\/\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Reinmann,\u00a0<\/strong>City University of New York <a href=\"https:\/\/asrc.gc.cuny.edu\/environment\/people\/andrew-reinmann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Angela Rigden<\/strong>, Postdoc at Harvard University <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ajrigden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jenna Rindy<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Senior Environmental Specialist, Covia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mustafa Saifuddin<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Staff scientist, EarthJustice and Visiting Assistant Professor, NYU<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Sanders-Demott<\/strong>, Director, Ecosystem Carbon Science, Clean Air Task Force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catf.us\/experts\/rebecca-sanders-demott\/\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexey Shiklomanov<\/strong>,\u00a0Earth and Environment &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ashiklom@bu.edu\">ashiklom@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ashiklom.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Sorensen<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nrs\/meet\/patrick-o-sorensen\/\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Radost Stanimirova<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; GIS Research Associate, World Resources Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/profile\/radost-stanimirova\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Damien Sulla-Menashe<\/strong>,\u00a0Postdoc at Boston University\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sullamen.wix.com\/damien-sulla-menashe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenneth Takagi, <\/strong>Lead Consultant and Environmental Scientist, WSP, NY<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Trlica<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Research Scholar, <span aria-hidden=\"true\">North Carolina State University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Tuttle<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandsciences.syracuse.edu\/people\/faculty\/sam-tuttle\/#Biography\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sasha Vivelo,<\/strong> Biology &#8211;\u00a0<span><a href=\"mailto:sashavivelo@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sashavivelo@gmail.com<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sashavivelo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jon Wang<\/strong>, Earth and Environment &#8211; Assistant Professor, University of Utah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biology.utah.edu\/homepage\/jon-wang\/\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Liang Wang,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; Senior Research Scientist, BU<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zoey Werbin,<\/strong> Biology &#8211; Ecological Data Scientist, FUNGA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kathryn Wheeler,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211;\u00a0NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoc at MIT<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yik Hong Wong,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; Postdoc, MIT<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jessica Wright,<\/strong> Earth and Environment &#8211; Senior Consultant, PA Consulting<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lucy Zipf<\/strong>, Biology &#8211; Visiting Assistant Professor, Muhlenberg College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Biogeoscience Ph.D. Students Sawyer Balint, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; sjbalint@bu.edu Nik Bates-Haus, Earth &amp; Environment &#8211; nikbh@bu.edu Abby Beilman, Biology &#8211; abeilman@bu.edu Alejandra Castillo Cieza, Biology &#8211; sacast@bu.edu Emerson Conrad-Rooney, Biology &#8211;\u00a0econradr@bu.edu Yu-Qing Chua, Biology &#8211; ychua@bu.edu Emma Daily, Biology &#8211; daily@bu.edu Erin Frates, Biology &#8211; esfrates@bu.edu Annabelle Gao, Biology &#8211; agao525@bu.edu Tristan Green, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bio-geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}