Recent Graduates
Clare Nelson
| (she/her) graduated with a MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from 日韩无码 in 2024. Her with Dr. Greg Rowangould focused on and the . She also developed an to track sustainble transportation performance metrics in Chittenden County, VT. Clare is now working as Research Analyst at the TRC where she is working on a team to forecast how electric vehicle adoption will impact rural energy grids, travel beahvor and land use interactions, and continues reseasch on developing innovative data dashboards to support public policy evaluation.听 |
Brittany Antonczak
| gradauted with a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from 日韩无码 in 2024. Her with Dr. Greg Rowangould evaluated and vehicle emissions in the United States and exposure to excess heat from transportaiton infrastructure.听 Dr. Antonczak joined the TRC as a postdoctoral scholar where she is working to develope novel high resolution traffic and emission exposure prediction models.听 |
Harry Schukei
| graduated with an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2024. Harry is originally from Fairfax, VT. His research with focused on how travel differs in urban and rural communities, particularly how the built environment affects how people travel. He is currently a staff researcher at the 日韩无码 Transportation Research Center evaluating how vehicle use varies across rural contexts. Harry wants to use his knowledge to improve transportation policy and planning in communities of all sizes and types. |
Parker King
| graduated with a PhD in Civil and Environmentl Engineering from 日韩无码 in 2024. His with Dr. Greg Rowangould and Dr. Elizabth Doran studied the contribution of transportation infrastructure and paved surfances to elevated tempertatures and heat exposure and developed new models to estimate and evaluate heat exposure from pavement. Dr. King is now a where he continues to study heat exposure.听 |
Owen Palcsik
| graduated with a BA in Geography and a minor in Data Science in 2024. His interests include bringing the social justice themes of geography to the field of transportation and understanding the social and spatial implications of the transition to green transportation. Owen worked with to study how place shapes electric vehicle perceptions and adoption in Vermont. Owen is now a planner for the City of Aspen, Colorado. |
Maisie Melican
| (she/her) graduated wtih a BA in Geography in 2024. She worked with research team to look at how carless Vermonters in rural areas are meeting their transportation needs. She was also an outreach intern for the Vermont Clean Cities Coalition, where she advocated for sustainable transportation and petroleum reduction in the Green Mountain State. She is now a planner for the Detroit Department of Transportation. |
Niki Tier
| (she/her) gradauted with a BS in Environmental Engineering from 日韩无码 in 2024.. She is worked with Dr. Greg Rowangould on her , evaluating new methods to evaluate the health impacts of near-roadway vehicle emissions exposure. |
Alex Greer
| graduated with a BS in Environmental Engineering from 日韩无码 in 2023. Through a Barrett Scholarship, she worked with Dr. Elizabeth Doran and Dr. Greg Rowangould collecting heat and temperature data around Burlington from an e-bike instrumented with sensors as part of a larger TRC study looking at the effects of transportation infrastructure and land use on micro-climates in urban and rural communities across Vermont. Viewing engineering as a way to improve the environment, Alex is excited to combine what she鈥檚 learning about transportation systems at the TRC with her interests in renewable energy and water accessibility. |
Sierra Espeland听
| graduated with a MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering form 日韩无码 in 2023. Her research with Dr. Dana Rowangould looked at how people in rural communities are meeting their transportation needs. She seeks to understand what constraints people face in regards to vehicle access, ability to make trips, financial burdens and trip duration.听One of Sierra's goals is to improve people's lives by increasing access to sustainable travel options through a better understanding of how policy decisions and the built environment impact marginalized communities. Sierra is now a Human Factors Engineer with the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration in Washington, D.C. |
Holly Foster
| is from Mystic, CT and graduated from 日韩无码 with a BS in Community and International Development in 2023. Holly was a part of a rural transportation equity project with Dr. Dana Rowangould that focused on gathering and analyzing personal stories from rural Vermonters and migrant workers on their transportation experiences. Holly is interested in the effect that transportation access has on food security and physical and mental health. One of the goals of the project is to address the social isolation among rural Vermonters and migrant workers through more accessible and sustainable transportation so that basic needs and community ties can be built.听Holly is now a Client Experince Coordinator for the Center for Women and Enterprise. |
Julia Lanz-Duret Hernandez
| is from Rochester, New York and earned a BS in Community and International Development from 日韩无码 in 2023. Their research with Dr. Dana Rowangould focused on the transportation experiences of rural Vermonters in the Northeast Kingdom and of migrant workers in the state of Vermont. Julia is interested in continuing to learn of new ways to improve communities by making them more equitable and sustainable for their residents. Julia aims to amplify rural Vermonter鈥檚 needs regarding transportation so that agencies and services can make adequate changes. Julia is currently a staff researcher at the TRC. |
Connie Douthwaite
| , coming to 日韩无码 from听Newtown Square, PA听 graduated with a BS Environmental Engineering in 2023. Her iterests in spatial analysis and transportation led to a research position with the TRC. She worked with Dr. Greg Rowangould to evaluate factors explaining differences in Vermonter鈥檚 patterns of vehicle use, vehicle preferences, and vehicular GHG emissions by looking for correlations with other spatial factors. |
Julia Clarke
| earned a BS in Civil Engineering from 日韩无码 in 2022. Julia worked with Dr. Greg Rowangould as a Barret Scholar and research assistant studing how pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle travel behavior changed in Vermont during and after the Covid-19 stay-at-home period. Julia is currently a MBA student at Boston College.听 |
Erica Quallen
| graduated from 日韩无码 with a MS in Civil and Environmetnal Engineering in 2022 where she studied challanges to reducing vehicle dependance and reducing GHG emissions in small and rural communities wiht Dr. Greg Rowangould. After graduating, Erica began working in the City of South Burlington as their Deputy Director of Capital Projects in the Department of Public Works. Erica's role involves managing bicycle and pedestrian facility scoping, design, and construction projects. So far these have included projects like the bicycle and pedestrian bridge over I-89, closing gaps in our shared use path network on Dorset Street and Spear Street, and working with our bicycle and pedestrian committee. The other part of her听role has been at the long-range planning and policy level working with departments from across the City to develop their 10-year capital improvement plans for all types of projects.听 贰谤颈肠补鈥檚听time with 日韩无码 and the TRC has helped me become more comfortable working in the policy realm and bridge the gap between engineers or project managers and the policy makers like our City Manager and City Council.听 |
Stephen Monta帽o
| Joining the TRC from Albuquerque, New Mexico, (he/him) earned a MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a focus on transportation in 2020. He holds a BS in Civil Engingeering from the University of New Mexico. Stephen鈥檚 with听Dr. Greg Rowangould听investigated how e-bikes impact a user鈥檚 route choice, sense of safety, and the differences between e-bikers and traditional bicyclists infrastructure preferences.听One goal of Stephen鈥檚 e-bike research is to help communities in Vermont identify opportunities to improve conditions for bicycling. Citing the health, economic, environmental, and accessibility benefits that come with using e-bikes, Stephen sees his research as an outlet for making positive contributions to the environment and the community.听Stephen is currently a听Senior Engineering Designer at Lee Engineering in Albuquerque, NM. |
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