Meet Our Team
GEMS grew out of Earth Sciences Mentor Match and the Graduate Admissions in the Earth Sciences programs. We merged to expand our reach and ability to provide accessible and free mentorship to any undergraduates interested in applying to graduate school or fellowships in the Earth Sciences.
We are always looking for new members to help us lead this program into the future. Please reach out if you are interested!
Steering Committee
Christina Richardson
Christina is an assistant professor of cooperative extension through UC ANR at UC Santa Cruz. Research Website
Araceli Serrano
Araceli is currently working for California State Water Resources Control Board Region 5. Research Website
Sarah Hurley
Sarah is an assistant research professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She studies microbial oceanography through time. Research Website
Ben Johnson
Ben is an assistant professor at Iowa State University. He studies geosphere-biosphere interactions over Earth History. Research Website
Isabel Hong
Isabel is an assistant professor at Villanova University. She studies coastal records of geohazards. Research website
Leah Shteynman
Leah is currently a Ph.D. Student at Arizona State University studying the effects of shock metamorphism on geochronology of impact craters.
Kristen Rahilly
Kristen is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. She teaches courses about all things geoscience.
Taylor Deneau
Taylor is a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut modeling the transient response of past climate and ice sheets to external forcings.
Katie Biegel
Katie is a postdoctoral scholar and environmental seismologist at UC Davis. She studies debris flows and glacial outburst floods at Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens. Research Website
Past Team Members
Christine Bruno
Amina Abdulsalam
Ciara Asamoto
Maddie Wood
Evans Onyango
Christine Bassett
Markus Petters
Marjahn Finlayson
Trang Vo
Dannielle Fougere
Yiyi Huang
Xiaonan Tai