Gi Joo Kim

Joo received his PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea in 2022. His PhD research focused on both deriving theoretical improvements in reservoir operations and applying them in real-world reservoir management. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University in 2022, Joo joined the Lamontagne Lab in June 2023. His current research focuses on using scenario discovery tools to understand the complex dynamics among multiple sectors in global human-Earth systems

Website: https://gijookim.info/

Jacob Wessel

Jake is a fourth year PhD student. His research interests include energy systems modeling under uncertainty and low-carbon electricity futures. He is interested in better understanding how detailed energy systems models can be incorporated into food-energy-water nexus frameworks to inform decision making and better characterize uncertainty. Jake received his master’s degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University, investigating future grid scenarios of the U.S. West Coast power system under stationary weather uncertainty. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

Catherine Knox

Catherine is a fourth year PhD candidate in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and is co-advised by Dr. Shafiqul Islam and Dr. Jonathan Lamontagne. Her work focuses on improving decision-making in complex and collective action problems. She explores this in two distinct ways: first, through a project that synthesizes consensus-based approaches with decision-making under deep uncertainty to address uncertainty and ambiguity; and second, through the development of an agent-based model to explore the effects of regionalization on sea level rise adaptation outcomes. Catherine holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering with a minor in International Relations from the University of Southern California. She also completed an M.S. in Environment and Resource Management at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where her thesis work contributed to an agent-based model on water-driven migration in Southern Iraq.

Benjamin Manoli

Ben is a second year PhD student. His interests include renewable energy and climate change mitigation. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Isaac Thompson

Isaac is a second year PhD student. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and worked as a post-bachelors research assistant at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. He is interested in studying the interplay between water, energy, and food systems.

David Koval

David is a first-year PhD Student. He received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Tufts University in 2024. He’s interested in stochastic hydrology and risk-based decision making.

Ella Erskine

Ella is a fourth-year undergraduate studying geological science and environmental science. She is interested in hydrologic modeling and fluvial impacts on infrastructure resilience.