BEMAN LAB - Key Persons
Adrienne Harris was a UCM undergraduate who worked on various topics in the lab for several years.
Angela Yu was a UCM undergraduate who continued on as a laboratory technician. She also went to sea in 2017, and then played a key role in processing hundreds of samples from the ETNP.
Ari Cairo worked on various aspects of our ETNP project and received her M.S. degree in 2018.
Daniela Alonso was a UCM undergraduate student who worked in the lab for many years on many projects! She also braved the waters of the eastern tropical North Pacific (ETNP) to help us on a research cruise in 2017.
Elisabet Perez-Coronel completed her Ph.D. in the middle of the pandemic(!), focussing on methane in high elevation lakes in Yosemite. She was a UC MEXUS and an ISEECI (Institute for the Study of Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts) fellow, was awarded with the VESR (UC Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve) graduate student grant for her Ph.D. research, and attended several international workshops such as the Hopkins Microbiology Course in 2015, SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) summer school in 2018, and the Sao Paulo School of Advance Methane Science in 2018.
Elizabeth Perkins was a UCM undergraduate student working in Yosemite in 2011.
Jesse Wilson was a Ph.D. student who worked in Palau and Monterey Bay. He also worked on the PacX Challenge and helped out with just about everything in the lab. He is now a postdoc in the Bowman Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Jorge completed his Ph.D. in 2021 working in the amazing Merced Vernal Pools and Grasslands Reserve and beyond. He received a CONACyT-UC MEXUS fellowship, and his work was supported by many other sources.
Julia Cline was a UCM undergraduate student who worked in Yosemite in 2011.
Kelly Henry was a postdoc in the lab from 2013-2014. She lead preliminary research at Bodega Marine Lab and worked on nitrogen cycling in Palau.
Mark Reynolds was a UCM undergraduate student working in Yosemite in 2014.
Mike received a B.S. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Stanford in Geological and Environmental Sciences. Before joining the UC Merced faculty in 2009, he was a postdoc in Marine Environmental Biology at USC, a lecturer at UCLA, and an Assistant Researcher at the University of Hawai'i. He is a member of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI) and the Environmental Systems and Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate groups, and teaches classes in Biology, Environmental Systems, and Earth Systems Science.
Molly Carolan worked on sequencing and transcriptomic analysis of ETNP data and received her M.S. degree in 2014.
Rodney Severson was a UCM undergraduate who worked in the lab for several years and was instrumental in our work on the ‘PacX Challenge' published in 2014.
Samantha Vazquez was also a UCM undergraduate student who continued on as a laboratory technician. She played a key role in processing samples from the ETNP and was also heavily involved in data analysis.
Scott Williams was a UCM undergraduate student who worked in the lab from 2010-2011.