Faculty
Michael H. Gardner, PhD, PE
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Davis
Email: mhgardner[@]ucdavis[.]edu
Curriculum Vitae
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, 2018 - M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, 2012 - B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, 2010
Current Members
Postdoctoral Scholars
Soo-Min Ham
Post-Doctoral Scholar (co-advised with Jason DeJong)
Email: sooham[@]ucdavis[.]edu
Research Topic: Mitigation of Overtopping Damage of Earthen Dams
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2021 - M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2016 - B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2014
Yuval Keissar
Post-Doctoral Scholar (co-advised with Nicholas Sitar at UCB)
Email: yuval_keissar[@]berkeley[.]edu
Research Topic: Granular mechanics governing rock avalanche runout
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, 2024 - M.S., Geological and Environmental Sciences,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2019 - B.S., Engineering Geology
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2016
Students
Sonia Akter
PhD Student
Email: akter[@]ucdavis[.]edu
Research Topic: Hydraulic Plucking of Fractured Rock in Unlined Dam Spillways
- M.S., Civil Engineering,
Texas State University, San Marcos, 2025 - B.S., Civil Engineering
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, 2019
Jakob Scheel
PhD Student (co-advised with Philipp Ruprecht at UNR)
Email: jscheel[@]nevada[.]unr.edu
Research Topic: Mafic magmatic enclaves as tracer of protracted mixing and hybridization
- M.S., Geophysics,
University of Hamburg, 2022 - B.S., Geophysics
University of Hamburg, 2019
Nanthaya Mira Verweij
PhD Student
Email: nverweij[@]ucdavis[.]edu
Research Topic: Multispectral Imaging for Identifying Spatially Varying Flood Depths
- B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, 2024
Past Members
PhD Students
Yuval Keissar, PhD, UC Berkeley (co-advised with Nicholas Sitar), 2024, DEM Modeling of 3-D Kinematics in Rock Slope Failure
MS Students
Ingrid Suter, MS, UNR (co-advised with Scott McCoy), 2022, Mapping bed forces to granular flow properties
Justin Toller, MS, UNR (co-advised with Kait Keegan), 2023, Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method to Estimate the Air Transport Properties of Polar Firn
Undergraduate Students
Simeon Buttery, BS, UC Davis, 2024, Hypergravity Testing Procedures for Permafrost Thawing Dynamics
Hamad Khan, BS, UC Merced, 2024, Hypergravity Testing Procedures for Permafrost Thawing Dynamics
Ruoyan Wang, BS, University of Science and Technology of China, 2024, Multispectral Image Segmentation for Identifying Flood Impacts
Kevin Ostfeld, BS, UNR, 2023, Multispectral Imaging for Identifying Erosional and Depositional Patterns During Extreme Flooding