Ferna V. Alvarez-Carrascal, M.S.
Doctoral Student, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Ferna Alvarez-Carrascal is a Ph.D. Student in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Since Fall 2022, Ferna has been a graduate research assistant for Dr. Jonathan Gilligan. In the Fall of 2023, she joined the Drinking Water Justice Lab. Her research interest lies in the interface of climate variability and change, environmental degradation, natural resources, water availability and quality, its influence on social systems, and the related decision-making processes to guarantee the well-being of human societies. She couples environmental knowledge with social behavior systems to study how these can mitigate or adapt to the effects of the current environmental emergency. She utilizes different statistical methodologies, machine learning algorithms, and agent-based modeling to achieve this.
DWJL Projects
- National CWS ESAB Database Development
Additional Service
- Committee Member, Project Pyramid
- Treasurer, Vanderbilt Association of Women Geoscientists