Society of Water and Environmental Graduate Students
Mel is a third year PhD student in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering . He received his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Economics and Management from Michigan State University in 2018. He has a series of broad interests including: entrepreneurship, natural resource equity, water resources technology, water quality monitoring, and the junction between economics and water quality/supply. Mel works closely with the UC Davis chapter of Engineers Without Borders and has future goals such as developing a startup company with the goal of increasing access to potable water in negatively impacted communities.