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Joel Scheingross (he/him/his)
Associate Professor
jscheingross – at – unr.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Geomorphology, weathering/carbon cycling, inclusive community building and punk rock. 

 

Current graduate students:

Priyasha Negi 
PhD student in the Geology
Influence of tectonics and climate on petrogenic organic carbon oxidation

 

 

Michael Robinson (he/him/his)
PhD student in the Graduate Program in Hydrologic Sciences
Autogenic waterfalls and ridgeline profiles

 

 

Sophie Rothman (she/her/hers)
(co-advised with Scott McCoy)
PhD Student in the Graduate Program in Hydrologic Sciences
Knickpoint retreat and river long profile evolution

 

 

Current undergraduate students:
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Adan Albarran Ayala
Undergraduate student in Civil Engineering
Bedrock erosion flume experiments  

 

 

Photo of Sterling Ferguson holding a fish

Sterling Ferguson 
Undergraduate student in Geology
Petrogenic organic carbon oxidation

 

 

Dennis Garcia 
Undergraduate student in the NevadaTeach Program
River erosion and K-12 outreach 

 

 

Former graduate students:

  • Mara Nutt, MS 2023 (University of Nevada Reno), Investigating the tectonic geomorphology of the Santa Ynez Mountains, CA and developing middle school geoscience lessons.
  • Scott Feehan (primary adviser: Scott McCoy), PhD 2023 (University of Nevada Reno), Controls on the uncertainty of sediment transport thresholds and the implications for interpreting river processes. Now a USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow. 
  • Erika Groh, MS 2021 (University of Nevada Reno), Morphologic signatures of autogenic waterfalls: A case study in the San Gabriel Mountains, California. Now at Balance Hydrologics.
  • Nina Golombek (co-advised with Niels Hovius), MS 2019 (University of Potsdam), Seasonality of organic carbon export and stable isotopic signatures in an Andean Lowland River. Now a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

Former undergraduate and high school students:

  • Peyton Cromer, University of Nevada Reno, NevadaTeach Program, Spring 2023
  • Ryen Brown, University of Nevada Reno, NevadaTeach Program, Fall 2021 – Fall 2022
  • Tarra Mora, UNR McNair Scholar, Jan. 2022 – Sept. 2022, Identification of waterfalls in the Sierra Nevada, CA
  • Ramona Schneider, University of Bonn, Winter 2018, Experimental investigation of silicate weathering during fluvial transport.
  • Toni Schmidt, University of Potsdam, Spring 2017, Experimental investigation of organic carbon oxidation during river transport.
  • Nina Golombek, University of Potsdam, 2016 – 2017, Oxidation of organic carbon in the Rio Bermejo, Argentina (Bachelor’s thesis)
  • Juliane Preimesberger, California Institute of Technology, Summer 2014, Bedrock erosion experiments at steep slopes.
  • Gheorghe Schreiber, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, Summer 2013, The role of mixed grain size distributions in fluvial bedrock incision.
  • Khadijah Omerdin, Westridge High School, Academic Year 2012/2013, Bedrock erosion by suspended sediment. 
  • Daniel Lo, California Institute of Technology, Summer 2012, Foam and waterfall plunge-pool erosion experiments.
  • Conor O’Toole, Bowdoin College, Summer 2010/2011, Preliminary waterfall sediment transport and bedrock erosion experiments