Our team
Principal Investigator
Office: 302B, Scoates Hall
Email: salvatore.calabrese@ag.tamu.edu
Phone: 979–458-7963
Hi! I am the group lead and my interests include multi-scale ecosystem processes, thermodynamics, ecohydrology, soil carbon dynamics, nutrient cycling and everything that my team members below are interested in 😊
Ph.D. Students
ACHLA JHA
Office: 322 Scoates Hall
Email: achla@tamu.edu
Phone: 979–402–9842
As a Ph.D. student in the BAEN department, I am currently studying the interactions of the soil hydraulic processes and carbon cycle within the soil structure. My research interests include analyzing climate and land-use change impacts on the hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles in the critical zone, GIS applications to hydrologic modeling, and the development of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for bacterial impairment of streams. Previously, I also received my Master of Science in Biological and Agricultural Engineering while working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI).
Outside of research, I enjoy traveling and learning new languages.
NIKHILA GOLLAKOTA
Office: 322 Scoates Hall
Email: nikhilag@tamu.edu
I am Nikhila Gollakota, a Ph.D. student in Water Management and Hydrological Science (WMHS program). I graduated with an MS in Environmental Science from the University of Oklahoma after my BS-MS degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), India. My research interests are soil moisture dynamics, hydrology, ecosystem models, contaminant fate and transport.
POST-DOCS
RODOLFO SOUZA
Office: 312 Scoates Hall
Email: rodolfo.souza@tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-3685
I am interested in the ecohydrology of natural and agro-ecosystems to develop management strategies to reduce the footprint of human activities. My current research projects aim to understand i) the effect of inter-annual rainfall variability on ecosystem productivity and; ii) how climate regulates the benefits of agricultural practices.
HENG HUANG
Office:217 Scoates Hall
Email: heng.huang@ag.tamu.edu
I am interested in the broad impacts of climate change on ecosystem dynamics and stability using a combination of empirical and theoretical approaches. My current research investigates the stochastic behavior of ecosystem carbon fluxes driven by rainfall dynamics and its implications for the global carbon balance under climate change.