Ph.D. Career Outcomes
- 2024-2025: 3 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed Sara Eshleman Sensing Human Legacies in the Tropical Forests of Northern Central America Timothy Beach Postdoctoral Research Associate (University of Exeter) Byron Smith The Ancient Maya as Geomorphic Agents: Landesque Capital Investments in the Three Rivers Region of NW Belize and the Buenavista Valley of Northern Guatemala Timothy Beach and Sheryl Luzzadder Beach Assistant Professor (Cal Poly Humboldt) José C. Pons Mountain Roots: Volcanic Range Formation to Early Plant Domestications, a Biogeographic History of the Central Mountains of Mexico (66-.01 MYA) Timothy Beach Unknown - Accordion 2Panel 2. Add body text in this space.
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- 2023-2024: 3 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed Alicia Danze Shifting Infrastructures: “Feeling Your Way” Through Breakage and Repair in Immigration Court Rebecca Torres Lecturer (University of Texas at Austin) Alexander Marden Multiscale Spatiotemporal Approaches to Contemporary Pyrogeography in Savannas Systems Kelley Crews GIS and Geospatial Data Coordinator (University of Texas at Austin) Dominica Whitesell Exclusionary Aesthetics: Urban Development and Secondhand Clothing Markets in Kampala, Uganda Caroline Faria Program Officer (United Nations Environment Program) - 2022-2023: 4 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed Xochizeltzin Castañeda Camacho Changes in Vegetation Cover and Social Composition in Three Protected Areas of Arid Northern Mexico William Doolittle, Eugenio Arima Assistant Professor (St. Olaf College) Audrey Denvir Avocados Become a Global Commodity: Consequences for Landscapes and People Eugenio Arima, Kenneth Young Research Associate (World Resources Institute) Blaise Murphy Terracing in the Andagua Valley, Southern Peru: A Socio-Geomorphic Landscape in the Anthropocene William Doolittle, Carlos Ramos Project Archeologist (TRC Companies, Inc.) Anaïs Zimmer Human Environmental Interactions in the Deglaciating European Alps and Tropical Andes Timothy Beach Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) Permanent Sustainability Scientist (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) - 2021-2022: 5 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed Leila Character Machine Learning for Archaeological Feature Detection Using Lidar and Sonar Timothy Beach Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Delaware) Assistant Professor (Sam Houston State University) William Delgado-Thompson New Water, New Energy - Solar Power for a Proposed Desalination Plant and Existing Water Production and Distribution Infrastructure in Water-Scarce Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Timothy Beach, Sheryl Beach Desalination/Water Reuse Engineering Specialist (Texas Water Development Board) Colin Doyle Reconstructing the Rio Bravo Watershed: Over 2000 Years of Wetland Management in Northwest Belize Timothy Beach, Sheryl Beach Principal Scientist (Floodbase) Sisimac Duchicela Land-Use Transitions in Andean Landscapes: Ecological and Socioeconomic Perspectives on Landscape Restoration Kenneth Young NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of California Riverside) Assistant Professor (University of Colorado Boulder) Daniel Levine Novel Approaches to Conservation Biogeography Across Public and Private Lands Kelley Crews Lecturer (University of Texas at Austin) Assistant Professor of Instruction (University of Texas at Austin) - 2020-2021: 2 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Moulay Sounny-Slitine Geomorphology of Megafans Sheryl Beach Assistant Instructional Professor (University of Florida) Assistant Instructional Professor (University of Florida) Greta Wells Holocene Jokulhlaups Along the Hvita River, Iceland Sheryl Beach Lecturer (University of Iceland) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (University of Iceland) - Accordion 5Panel 5. Add body text in this space.
