Tag: Meet a scientist
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Meet a scientist: Joshuah Perkin
Article originally written by Claire Corley. Did you know that studying fish populations helps with understanding water management? Looking at the behaviors and patterns of organisms such as fish can give researchers a better perspective of how to manage water. Dr. Joshuah Perkin, assistant professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences…
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Meet a scientist: Kent Portney
Article originally written by Claire Corley. When it comes to urban sustainability, the focus has mostly been on air, primarily as it relates to climate change, climate mitigation and climate adaptation. With much less attention on water, Dr. Kent Portney, a Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service professor, recognized this lack of attention and…
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Meet a scientist: Rosario Sanchez-Flores
Originally authored by Claire Corley. The idea of uncertainty can be an unsettling topic. Dr. Rosario Sanchez-Flores, a Texas Water Resources Institute research scientist, is using science to tackle a major source of uncertainty affecting agriculture and water security along the Texas-Mexico border: transboundary aquifers. “There is not much data on it and not much research…
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Meet a scientist: Andrew Dessler
From working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, to serving in the White House, to teaching in a lecture hall at Texas A&M University, Dr. Andrew Dessler has served in many roles as a scientist. Now a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M, he has researched a range of topics, including atmospheric chemistry, stratospheric…
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Meet a scientist: Peter Knappett
Flowing through South Asia across India and into Bangladesh, the Ganges River is largely undrinkable. It flows into the largest delta in the world, the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, where the poor water quality is indicative of the regions’ low-quality surface water and groundwater, with the latter containing highly toxic concentrations of naturally occurring arsenic. Dr. Peter…
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Meet a scientist: Michael Schramm
Growing up in eastern North Carolina, Michael Schramm spent most of his youth surfing, fishing and exploring the rugged Atlantic coast. The barrier island beaches not only influenced his childhood activities but also helped develop his professional interests. Now a Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) research associate, Schramm joined TWRI in May 2016 to apply his longtime…
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Meet a scientist: Jessica Light
Most people are wary of parasitic insects such as lice and ticks. But for Dr. Jessica Light, understanding these complex parasites is a driving force of her research. As an associate professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Light studies evolutionary processes and associations between organisms, mainly mammals and their parasites. “One of…
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Meet a scientist: Perry Barboza
Alaska is home to some of the largest animals in North America, such as moose, caribou and muskoxen. While there, Dr. Perry Barboza spent a lot of time thinking and working on these iconic species that roam the tundra and forests. Barboza moved from Alaska to College Station in August 2015 to serve as a…
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Meet a scientist: Daniel Roelke
From the Sea of Galilee in Israel, to the northern Gulf of Mexico, to a neotropical river in Venezuela, Dr. Daniel Roelke’s research has led him all over the world — in pursuit of species smaller than a drop of water. An associate professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Department of Oceanography,…
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Meet a scientist: Wendy Jepson
For some people, having access to clean water is not as easy as simply turning on a faucet. Some of the United States’ poorest regions rely on inadequate water delivery systems, unaffordable potable water or unclean tap water for their household water use. This is a reality for tens of thousands of households in colonias,…
