MORALES LAB UC Davis
Research in the News
Let's Get Civil UCD Podcast Let's Splish Splash into Water (w Professor Morales)
AGU Newsletter-Hydrology Section Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
ACS Weekly PressPac Another concern arises over groundwater contamination from fracking accidents
Cornell Media Relations Office Fracking Flowback Could Pollute Groundwater With Heavy Metals
Diario da Universidade de Vigo Destacados Expertos Analizaron no Campus os Últimos Avances en Recuperación de Solos
La Voz de Galicia Campus: Videoconferencia Sobre Arquitectura del Suelo
USDA: National Institute of Food and Agriculture Newsroom Science of Small - Following the Flow
92 WICB-Ithaca College Radio Helping Ithaca Neighbors Understand TCE Contamination
Cornell Engineering Magazine In their Back Yards: Students Help a Neighborhood Understand TCE Pollution
Outreach Activities
Our group organized this year's Civil and Environmental Engineering exhibit for Picnic Day through the "Science is Art" gallery.
Jaclyn, Kimberly, Jorge, and Brandon demoed how water flows in aquifers at the MESA + MSE High School day (Oct 2024).
Janice Weldon, Jorge Vargas, & Jaclyn Nguyen put together a hydrology workshop for 5th-8th graders for STEM Squad
(Oct 2023).
The triple Js (Jaclyn Nguyen, Janice Weldon, and Jorge Vargas) hosted morning activities about groundwater through the MESA + Material Science Engineering Day for High School Students (Oct 2023).
Jaclyn Nguyen, Janice Weldon, Zoe Kanavas, and Brandon Green hosted the "Water Beneath our Feet" workshop for the MESA
Summer program (Jul 2023)
Janis Patiño advises motivated Santa Clara high school students Bhuvi and Eschwar on the development of a low-cost,
point of use water filtration system designed to remove nitrate and arsenic in groundwaters from rural India (2021-2022)
As part of the Society of Water and Environmental Graduate Graduate Students, our group hosted a day-long visit from Ghidotti
Early College High School students to learn about 1) groundwater systems, 2) flow dynamics, and 3) water treatment (2021)
Zoe Kanavas volunteers to expose high school students to technical careers in environmental engineering on the National STEM
Day organized by MESA (2019)
Alejandro Perez guest speaks at Contra Costa Community College Center for Science Excellence symposium on "Gaining
professional experience through research as a transfer student" (2019)
Our group offered lab tours and research insights for the 13th Northern California Community College STEM Transfer Day (2018)
Women in Water Research Trans Tahoe Swim Relay: (2017), (2018), (2019)
The Dialogue and Discernment Series: Roundtable discussion on “Science In the Post-Truth Era" (2017)
STEM Ambassador: Assistant to after-school Science Club sessions for schoolchildren (2014)
Cornell Prison Education Program: Instructor of university level chemistry for inmates at Auburn Correctional Facility (2010)
Expand Your Horizons: Volunteer of outreach program to stimulate interest in science and math in pre-teen girls (2009, 2010)
University-Community Partnership: Project leader to monitor contaminated air intrusion into neighborhood homes (2005-2007)