Dr. Julia Cisneros
Assistant Professor
Earth Surface Processes
Department of Geosciences
Virginia Tech
cisneros@vt.edu
Current Students
Afrida Aranya
PhD Candidate
“Tracing Urbanization from Stream Bed to Reservoir, Sediment Signals in the Lake Austin Watershed, Texas”.
Aleen Pertuz-Paz
PhD Student
Exploring sediment dynamics, geomorphic processes, and the interactions between flow, sediment transport, and landscape evolution using remote sensing.
Cora Jones
Undergraduate Researcher
Understanding the morphology and evolution of natural and refurbished coastal dunes.
Erin Thimmesch
Undergraduate Researcher
The role of measurement methods on detected sediment grain size characteristics.
Past members
Graduate Researchers
- Daniel Alvarez, MS Thesis, ‘Quantifying the Spatial Variability of Bedform Morphology and Bedload Fluxes within Sand-Bedded River Bends’, Graduated May 2026.
- Now PhD Student, TAMU Geography, Fall 2026–Present
