May 2022

Kristen’s Ph.D. research focuses on collecting and understanding emissions from oil and natural gas (ONG) production facilities. She is particularly interested in methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) because of their negative effects on global climate, air quality, and human health.

Ethan’s Ph.D. research focuses on atmospheric models. He has primarily been running and analyzing high-resolution Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulations over Wyoming to understand differing weather phenomena. More specifically, wildfire changes by the end of the century and extreme wind events over Wyoming.

In a course of her graduate research studies, Sourav is focused on understanding how sequence features contribute to structure and function in desiccation-tolerant intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). To explore this sequence-structure-function relationship, she is working on a Tardigrade-specific desiccation-tolerant protein.

Ryan’s research deals with tardigrades, a.k.a water bears, a.k.a the toughest animals on Earth. He wants to know how they are able to survive crazy conditions such as having almost no water in their bodies, turning into glass-like little balls, and then being thrown into space.