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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:

Omar Hernández 
PhD student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences
Volcanic geomorphology and ridgeline evolution

 

 

Priyasha Negi
PhD student in 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

 

 

Current undergraduate students:
Photo of Adan

Adan Albarran Ayala
Undergraduate student in Civil Engineering
Bedrock erosion flume experiments  

 

 

Peregrine holding a rock and hand lens

Peregrine Hart
Undergraduate student in Geology
Petrogenic organic carbon oxidation

 

 

Trista posing in front of an outcrop

Trista McLaughlin 
Undergraduate geology student in the NevadaTeach Program
K-12 outreach 

 

 

Former graduate students:

  • Sophie Rothman, PhD 2024 (University of Nevada Reno), Waterfall erosion and alteration of river form
  • 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:

  • Dennis Garcia, University of Nevada Reno, NevadaTeach middle school outreach, 2021 – 2025.
  • Evelyn Campbell, University of Nevada Reno, NevadaTeach middle school outreach, Spring 2025
  • Sterling Ferguson, University of Nevada Reno, Summer and Fall 2024, Graphite weathering
  • Peyton Cromer, University of Nevada Reno, NevadaTeach middle school outreach, Spring 2023
  • Ryen Brown, University of Nevada Reno, NevadaTeach middle school outreach, 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