Meet Our People

Leadership

Steven J. Burian, Ph.D., PE

Executive Director, CIROH; Director of Science, Alabama Water Institute; Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

Michael Fedoroff, Ph.D., RPA

Director, CONSERVE Research Group

Michael S. Gremillion

Director, Global Water Security Center

Lanna Nations

Research Education and Outreach Program Director

Stefanie O’Neill, M.A.

Director Research Institute Financial Affairs

Brock Parker, M.A.

Director of Research Institute Communications

AWI Staff

Virgestine Bone

Subaward Coordinator I

Kim Byers, MBA

Communications Specialist III

Allison Chapman

Accountant II

Ellie Fuller

Events Coordinator

Michael Hill

Training Coordinator

Hannah Holcomb, Ph.D.

AWI Research Education Program Manager

Natalie Lau

Accountant II

Jasmine Porter

Web Strategist II

Irasema Quezada, MFA

Graphic Designer II

Cass Saenz

Financial Analyst

Saralyn Taylor

Administrative Assistant II

Marie Wilson

Education and Outreach Coordinator

AWI Student Employees

Angelica Fiscella

Communications Intern

Ekaterina Menkina

Graduate Research Assistant /  Multimedia Intern

Roseline Soto Velazquez

Graphic Design Intern

CIROH Staff

Binyam Asfaw

 Postdoctoral Fellow

Riley Baird

CIROH Communications Specialist I

Pia van Benthem

Project Coordinator

C. Bullen

CIROH Project Manager

Yun-Jae Choung

Water Node Operations Manager

Kamal Chowdhury

Software Scientist II

Sagy Cohen

Deputy Director, CIROH
Professor of Geography

Josh Cunningham

Software Scientist II

Alex Dean

Software Scientist I

Juzer Dhondia

Physical Scientist

Lexie Dyar

Administrative Assistant

Xia Feng

Physical Scientist

Dong Ha Kim, Ph.D.

Physical Scientist

Sifan A. Koriche, Ph.D.

Hydrologic Scientist I

Sonam Lama

Programmer Analyst I

Benjamin Lee, M.S.

Development Operations Engineer

Quinn Lee

Programmer Analyst II

Travis Loof, Ph.D.

Social & Communication Scientist

Alemayehu Midekisa

Geospatial Scientist

Parthkumar Modi

 Postdoctoral Fellow

Stephanie Paul

Project Manager

Arpita Patel

Assistant Director of IT and Development Operations

Chad Perry

Software Scientist

Ryan Ruiz

CIROH Communications Specialist II

Dina Sang

Physical Scientist

Manjila Singh

 DevOps Engineer I

JunHo Song, Ph.D.

Hydrologic Scientist I

Amrutha Suresh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sai Harsha Vemula

DevOps Engineer

Nimisha Wasankar

Postdoctoral Fellow

Erin White, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Director of Science and Research Operations

Elliot Wickham, Ph.D.

Hydrologic Scientist I

CONSERVE Staff

Desirae Abella

Digiseed Tribal Liasion

Bridget Agbesi

CONSERVE Graduate Research Affiliate

Bennett Bearden, Ph.D

Director of Water Policy

Simon Bortz, Ph.D

AWI CONSERVE Faculty Fellow

Yuliya Gluhova, M.A

Graduate Research Assistant

Misty Goings

AERI Project Coordinator

Katie Gudgen

CONSERVE Research Affiliate

Josiah Gullatte

Director of Watershed CPR

Grace Henson

CONSERVE Program Coordinator

Katie Horton, Ph.D.

CONSERVE Postdoctoral Fellow

Grant Hunter

CONSERVE Graduate Research Affiliate

Daelen Jenks

CONSERVE Graduate Research Assistant

Hazhir Karimi, Ph.D.

CONSERVE Postdoctoral Fellow

Michael McKain, Ph.D.

Director of Future Ecologies

Mary Pitts , Ph.D

CONSERVE Watershed Management Advisor

Mojdeh Rasoulzedeh, Ph.D.

AWI CONSERVE Faculty Fellow

Alejandro Ross

CONSERVE Graduate Research Affiliate

Seema Soti

CONSERVE Graduate Research Affiliate

Rebecca Totten, Ph.D

AWI CONSERVE Faculty Fellow

Anthony Vedral

CONSERVE Sea Grant Research Coordinator

Ke Wang, Ph.D

CONSERVE Associate Postdoctoral Fellow

Xinyue Ye, Ph.D

Director of Artificial Intelligence

GWSC Staff

Kate Brauman, Ph.D.

Deputy Director, GWSC

Penny Beames

Contractor

LaCrecia Brown

Program Coordinator

Emma Dyson

Cartographer

Tharaka A. Jayalath

Postdoctoral Fellow

Misty Mathews

Chief of Staff
Strategic Operations Program Manager

Penelope Mitchell, Ph.D.

Human-Environmental Analyst

Erin Menzies Pluer, Ph.D.

Environmental Data Scientist

Nicholas Roberge

Senior Geospatial Intelligence Analyst

Caily Schwartz, Ph.D.

Human-Environmental Analyst

Cordarrius Twitty

Communications Specialist I