Principle Investigator
Doctoral Students
There is currently an opening in the CACE lab for a PhD student. Please contact Professor Wagstrom if you are interested.
Fatema Parvez
Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2011)
Fatema Parvez received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 2011. After graduation, she worked for Renata Limited, a pharmaceutical company, as an assistant manager for one and half years. In Fall 2013, she joined the CACE lab where she is developing novel approaches for modeling air pollution across both regional and local scales. Besides her academic activities, she enjoys watching movies, visiting new places, and cooking. (Anticipated defense date: April 2018)
Carmen Lamancusa
Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University (2012)
Carmen Lamancusa received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University in the spring of 2012. He attended the graduate program at Drexel University before transferring to the University of Connecticut to work with Dr. Wagstrom starting in the fall of 2013. He is developing a module within the GEOS-Chem global atmospheric chemistry model that will allow for tagged pollutants to be easily tracked in global scale simulations. Outside of academia, he acts as a manager for a live-action roleplaying group that he and his friends started six years ago. (Anticipated defense date: April 2018)
Masters Students
There are currently openings for MS students in the CACE group. Please contact Dr. Wagstrom if you are interested in joining the group.
Undergraduate Students
Designing and calibrating a low cost gaseous air pollutant monitors: Evan Dennison (2020), Natalie Krebs (2019), Juliette Nealon (2019), Kyle Terracciano* (2018)
Developing an air monitoring drone: Erick Bailey (2018), Kevin Lei (2018), Soha Nadeem (2019), Dana Parmalee (2018)
Comparing air pollution exposure to runners and cyclists in different cities: Katherine Gosselin (CivE 2020), Matthew Lewicki (2020), Kealy Walters (2018)
Estimating pollutant deposition to different North American biomes: Sarah Rumsey (EEB 2019)
Estimating pollutant deposition to different North American watersheds: Andrea Naranjo-Soledad (2019), Jikku Samuels (2018)
Pesticide and herbicide drift: Colby Buehler* (2018)
Comparing air pollution concentrations at schools in Connecticut: Anita Luxkaranayagam (PNB 2019), Caressa Wakeman (2019)
Testing low-cost approaches for passive nitrogen deposition monitoring: Timothy Haddon (2019), Luke Kinard (2019)
*denotes students working on Honors Thesis projects
There are currently openings for undergraduate researchers in the CACE group. Please contact Dr. Wagstrom if you are interested in joining the group. Available projects can be viewed here.
Alumni
Xuanwen (Kerry) Chen, M.S. 2016 Quantifying Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition to U.S. Waterways
Samantha Ramsay, B.S. Honors 2017 Evaluating Exercise Routes and Potential Pollutant Exposures
Undergraduate Alumni: Naomi Adler (2015), Rachel Cristiano (2017), Evan Dall (2016), Steven Frick (2016), Jessica Guerrera (2016), Arie Havasov (2015), Summer Kochersperger (2017), Anthony Mafale (2017), Adam Medina (2016), Maria Alejandra Sanchez (2016), Marc-Alexander Schwarze (2016), Joshua Woodruff (2016)
Past Undergraduate Students: Carlos Flores (2018), Alex Keane (2018), Carmi Mandelkern (2018), Nicolas Norberg (2019)