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Garrett Finucane
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
BioI'm a physical oceanographer!
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Veronica Frans
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oceans
BioVeronica is a quantitative ecologist and science communicator focused on understanding biodiversity-human relationships within the contexts of conservation, sustainability, and ecological theory. She advances methods in ecological and synthesis research by creating innovative, open-source databases, modeling tools, and frameworks that have been widely adopted for conservation and industrial applications. Her award-winning research has been published in leading journals such as Methods in Ecology & Evolution and Nature Ecology & Evolution, and has consistently gained global media attention, being featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and Smithsonian Magazine.
Veronica earned a dual Ph.D. in Fisheries & Wildlife and Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior from Michigan State University in 2024. She also holds a dual M.Sc. in International Nature Conservation from Göttingen University (Germany) and Lincoln University (New Zealand). She has studied and worked in many places around the world—from as far north as Alaska’s Bering Sea, to as far south as the Falkland Islands. Speaking six languages, her international experiences and relationships with diverse communities inform her research on coupled human-natural systems at local to global scales.
Veronica is a Stanford Science Fellow and National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology at Hopkins Marine Station (Doerr School of Sustainability). Her faculty host is Fiorenza Micheli, the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Chair of the Oceans Department, and Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions. For her postdoctoral research, Veronica is developing a novel framework for predicting human-wildlife relationships under global change. -
Laura Frouté
Postdoctoral Scholar, Energy Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLaura is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, working on subsurface engineering solutions for the energy transition. Part of her research focuses on replicating geological hydrogen production in the laboratory and identifying and mitigating reactivity constraints at the microscale. Her research also focuses on investigating carbon storage into various basalt formations by measuring their carbon mineralization potential. Her expertise includes designing laboratory-scale pilots and conducting research on rock formations in the context of hydrocarbon production, carbon storage, and hydrogen production to understand the interplay of geochemistry, reaction mechanisms and complex storage and transport processes across length scales. To study the evolution of porous media properties following reaction or transport experiments, she uses a wide spectrum of multiscale, multimodal material characterization techniques (sorption, XRD, XRF, μCT, FIB-SEM, TEM). She holds a MS in Chemical Engineering from ENSIC (France) and a PhD in Energy Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her interests range from subsurface engineering, fluid flow in porous media, to environmental and regulatory issues in the oil & gas industry, CCUS, climate solutions and energy policy.
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Emily Geyman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Geophysics
BioI am a Stanford Science Fellow and postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Geophysics, working with Ching-Yao Lai. My research explores the connections between landscape dynamics, the global carbon cycle, and climate. I combine field observations, remote sensing, and physical models, often using space-for-time substitutions: natural experiments in which spatial patterns help reveal processes that unfold over timescales too long to observe directly.
At Stanford, I use optical and radar satellite observations to investigate how meltwater drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet controls ice motion and its response to warming. I completed my Ph.D. at Caltech, where I studied how river migration and permafrost shape carbon cycling in Arctic landscapes, alongside projects investigating the controls on mountain erosion and post-wildfire debris flows.
Before Caltech, I worked at the Norwegian Polar Institute, reconstructing 80 years of glacier change across Svalbard to understand how climate and glacier geometry govern ice loss. I earned my B.A. in Geosciences at Princeton, where I combined fieldwork on modern carbonate sediments in the Bahamas with biogeochemical and stratigraphic models to understand how carbonate rocks record ancient sea level and ocean chemistry. This work informs how we read the geological record to reconstruct Earth’s climate and carbon-cycle history. -
Melanie Gittard
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am an applied environmental and development economist studying the impacts of climate change and water pollution in sub-Saharan Africa.
