Surani is from Sri Lanka. She is a Master student in Geophysics program. Her thesis research focuses on the electrical properties (electrical resistivity and induced polarization) of regolith samples. She uses laboratory instruments to measure these properties under controlled hydrologic conditions (matric suction).

Zihao is currently a PhD student in Geoscience Program. He is from China and got his MS degree from Central South University. His thesis research focuses on the integrated modeling of deep hydrothermal systems and shallow critical zones. In particular, the geophysical signatures of the entire system will be simulated in a coupled way. 

Joshua is from Minnesota and joined us as a PhD student in Geophysics in 2024 Fall. His thesis focuses on the hydrologic modeling of hydrologic systems. He will develop an appropriate upscale method to apply geophysics-informed hydrologic modeling from the catchment scale to the watershed scale. 

Skye is from Wyoming. She was a Master student in Hydrologic Sciences Program from 2021 to 2025. Her research focused on the seasonal variations of subsurface water storage (soil moisture and rock moisture) and their interaction with snowmelt. Her thesis uses geophysical and hydrologic field methods. She is currently working for the Idaho Departmetn of Environmental Quality. 

Jing was a PhD student at Central South University, China (currently a postdoc at Peking University). He was visiting our group from Dec 2019 to Dec 2021. His study was focused on developing a stochastic inversion scheme for estimating unsaturated properties from transient measurements (soil matric suction and self-potential during drainage tests). 

Courtney is from Kentucky and is currently working in AECOM. She was in our MS in Geophysics program from 2021/08 to 2023/08. In her thesis research, she studied the self-potential signals of vadose zone hydrologic processes using laboratory soil column tests. She defended her thesis in August 2023. 

Hang is from China and is currently working as a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He will be an assistant professor at the University of Iowa starting in the 2025 Fall. He was in our PhD in Geophysics program from 2020/09 to 2024/05. Summary of his thesis research: (1) developed geophysics-informed hydrologic modeling (i.e., incorporating seismic-derived critical zone architecture into hydrologic modeling, (2) improved resistivity inversion by imposing realistic spatial regularization, (3) formularized a hydrologic constraint for time-lapse resistivity inversion, and (4) analyzed the subsurface structure influence on water partitioning in mountainous catchment. 

Taylor is from Montana and is currently working in Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. He was an MS student in the Hydrologic Science program from 2019/09 to 2021/08. In his thesis study, he developed an integrated soil column system that can measure both the electrical and hydraulic properties of saturated and unsaturated soils. His thesis can be found at https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/1860/