Previous Postdocs

 

Sarah Gray Sarah is an environmental Chemist with a PhD in environmental and analytical chemistry from the University of Montana, who studied ocean acidification before coming to Trinity. As a postdoc she investigated carbon cycling in local freshwaters and assessed the susceptibility of carbon dynamics to climate change. Sarah took a position as an assistant Professor of Chemistry at Armstrong State University, and is now at Stockton University in New Jersey. Sarah taught Introduction to Environmental Science, The Earth’s Climate and Environmental Chemistry.
Cameron Douglass ​Cameron has a MS in Weed Science from Cornell University and a PhD in Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management from Colorado State University. At Trinity he conducted research on invasive species management at a coastal site in Southeastern Connecticut. He now works as a research scientist at the EPA. Cameron taught Methods in Environmental Science, Introduction to Environmental Science and a course on Biological Invasions.
Krista Ehlert ​Krista holds a PhD in Ecology and Environmental Science from Montana State University where she studied the efficacy of biological methods to control cheatgrass in crop and grasslands. As a postdoc she investigated the link between Lyme disease incidence in CT and the spread of Japanese Barberry. She now moved on to become an assistant professor / state specialist at South Dakota State University. Krista taught Introduction to Environmental Science, Ecology, and Biological Invasions.
El-Hachemi Bouali El graduated with a PhD in Geophysics from Michigan Technological University, where he used remote sensing to study the life-cycle of unstable slopes. At Trinity El used ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to investigate polluted sites in Hartford and periglacial deltas in the Connecticut Valley. El got his dream job out west and is now an assistant professor of geosciences at Nevada State College in Henderson, NV.
David Kurz David is a multidisciplinary environmental scientist studying the effects of global change on linked social and ecological systems. He is especially interested in socio-ecological processes such as land-use change, hunting, and shifts in wildlife distributions. For his PhD work at UC Berkeley, David studied links between Indigenous hunting communities and bearded pigs in Malaysian Borneo. In 2021, he joined the Trinity community as a postdoctoral fellow in environmental science.