School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations
Submissions from 2025
Carbon sequestration through conservation tillage in sandy soils of arid and semi-arid climates: A meta-analysis, Samantha Lynn Colunga, Leila Wahab, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, and Engil Isadora Pujol pereira
Assessing inter-organizational collaboration within the transboundary network governing the conservation of Southern Resident Killer Whales, Dane Pedersen, Owen Temby, Antonia Sohns, Evelyn Roozee, and Gordon M. Hickey
Submissions from 2024
Offsetting the greenhouse gas footprint of hydropower with floating solar photovoltaics, Rafael M. Almeida, Areefin-Ul-Hassan Chowdhury, Hansapani Rodrigo, Mingxu Li, and Rafael J. P. Schmitt
Iron-Imine Cocktail in Drug Development: A Contemporary Update, Judith Anane, Esther Owusu, Gildardo Rivera-Sanchez, and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Year-round CO2 emissions from the drawdown area of a tropical reservoir: Strong seasonal and spatial variation, Ícaro Barbosa, José R. Paranaíba, Sebastian Sobek, Sarian Kosten, Rafael M. Almeida, Vitor Duque, Natália Mendonça, Nathan Barros, and Raquel Mendonça
Biotechnology for sustainable materials: innovating today for a greener tomorrow, Shashi Kant Bhatia, Saurabh Bhatia, Maria Eugenia Inda-Webb, Konstantina Kourmentza, Tae Seok Moon, Vijai Singh, Vishal Ahuja, Jingbo Li, Sanjeet Mehariya, and Jikai Zhao
Salmonella in the environment: A review on ecology, antimicrobial resistance, seafood contaminations, and human health implications, Mohammad Maruf Billah and Md Saydur Rahman
Teaching Philosophy Statements: The Impact of a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Alyssa G. Cavazos, Cristina Trejo, Javier Cavazos Vela, Stephanie Garza-Ochoa, Yaritza Marin, and Alexis Racelis
Microeukaryote metabolism across the western North Atlantic Ocean revealed through autonomous underwater profiling, Natalie R. Cohen, Arianna I. Krinos, Riss M. Kell, Rebecca J. Chmiel, Dawn M. Moran, Matthew R. McIlvin, Paloma Z. Lopez, Brianna A. Alanis, Eric W. Chan, and John A. Breier
Red harvester ants Pogonomyrmex barbatus (Smith, 1858) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) do not distinguish between sorghum head mold symptomatic and asymptomatic seeds, Lilly Victoria Elliott-Vidaurri, Hannah J. Penn, and Robin A. Choudhury
Disaster plant pathology: Smart solutions for threats to global plant health from natural and human-driven disasters, Berea A. Etherton, Robin A. Choudhury, Ricardo I. Alcalá Briseño, Romaric A. Mouafo-Tchinda, Aaron I. Plex Sulá, Manoj Choudhury, Ashish Adhikari, Si Lin Lei, Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, and Jacobo Robledo Buritica
Mangroves of the Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic, Daniel A. Friess, Ena L. Suárez, Anna R. Armitage, Cheryl Doughty, Laura C. Feher, Ilka C. Feller, Alejandro Fierro, Kara R. Radabaugh, Lorae T. Simpson, William C. V Vervaeke, and Carlos Zamora-Tovar
The Effect of TiO2 on the Electrochemical Performance of Sb2O3 Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries, Kithzia Gomez, Elizabeth M. Fletes, Jason Parsons, and Mataz Alcoutlabi
Scaling Up Pareto Optimization for Tree Structures with Affne Transformations: Evaluating Hybrid Floating Solar-Hydropower Systems in the Amazon, Marc Grimson, Rafael M. Almeida, Qinru Shi, Yiwei Bai, Hector Angarita, Felipe Siqueira Pacheco, Rafael Schmitt, Alexander Flecker, and Carla P. Gomes
Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices, Kyle Haines, Owen Temby, Josiah Heyman, Mya J. Brown, Fonna Forman, Christopher Fuller, Dongkyu Kim, Alex S. Mayer, and Alexis Racelis
Red Harvester Ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus, Nests Impact Soil Compaction But Not Temperature in Peri-Urban Habitats of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Geovanni Hernandez, Hannah J. Penn, Richard Cano, Lilly Victoria Elliott-Vidaurri, and Robin A. Choudhury
Factors Influencing the Faunal Recolonization of Restored Thornscrub Forest Habitats, Audrey J. Hicks, Jerald T. Garrett, and Christopher A. Gabler
A Decade of Monitoring Reveals a Dynamic Fish Assemblage on a Substantial Artificial Reef in the Texas Gulf of Mexico, David Hicks, Ethan T. Getz, Richard Kline, and Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro
Temperature Thresholds for Leaf Damage from Two Extreme Freeze Events (2018 and 2021) Near the Northern Range Limit of Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) in Southeastern North America, Simen Kaalstad, Michael J. Osland, Donna J. Devlin, C. Edward Proffitt, Laura C. Feher, Anna R. Armitage, Richard H. Day, Kathleen M. Swanson, Gordon H. Anderson, and Alejandro Fierro-Cabo
Urban Soil Compaction Remediation by Shallow Tillage and Compost in Hydroseeded Lawn, James Jihoon Kang, Adam Flores, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, and Jungseok Ho
Effects of hyposalinity on ion content, organic osmolytes, and lipid peroxidation in the seagrass Halodule wrightii, Joseph L. Kowalski, Kirk Cammarata, Michael W. Persans, Kristina P. Vatcheva, and Sarah Quintanilla
The impact of pricing structure change on residential water consumption: A long-term analysis of water utilities in California, Juhee Lee, Mehdi Nemati, Maura Allaire, and Ariel Dinar
Stable Isotope Analysis of Antipatharian Diets from the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Keir J. Macartney, Victoria Salinas, Zachary Rivera, and David Hicks
Detection and Monitoring of Plant Pathogens and Pests, Walter F. Mahaffee, Lindsey D. Thiessen, Kevin M. King, and Robin A. Choudhury
The fishing cat: New insights on distribution in the northern sector of Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Rupesh Maharjan, Rama Mishra, and Jhamak Bahadur Karki
Integrating Remote Sensing with Ground-based Observations to Quantify the Effects of an Extreme Freeze Event on Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) at the Landscape Scale, Melinda Martinez, Michael J. Osland, James B. Grace, Nicholas M. Enwright, Camille L. Stagg, Camille L. Stagg, Simen Kaalstad, Gordon H. Anderson, Elena A. Flores, and Alejandro Fierro-Cabo
Early corticosterone increases vocal complexity in a wild parrot: An organizational role of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis in vocal learning?, Celia Rose McLean, Astolfo Mata, Richard Kline, and Karl S. Berg
Early corticosterone increases vocal complexity in a wildparrot: An organizational role of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis in vocal learning?, Celia Rose McLean, Astolfo Mata, Richard J. Kline, and Karl S. Berg
Review of the life history and conservation of federally endangered plant species of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, Beth A. Middleton, Elizabeth A. Gonzalez, Emily J. Lain, Benito Trevino, Christopher A. Gabler, Jerald T. Garrett, Brenda Molano-Flores, Janice Coons, Laura M. de la Garza, and Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo
Synthesis and Characterization of Titanium Nitride–Carbon Composites and Their Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries, Helia Magali Morales, Horacio Vieyra, David A. Sanchez, Elizabeth M. Fletes, Michael Odlyzko, Timothy P. Lodge, Victoria Padilla-Gainza, Mataz Alcoutlabi, and Jason Parsons
Targeted Therapy in Breast Cancer: Advantages and Advancements of Antibody-Drug Conjugates, a Type of Chemo-Biologic Hybrid Drugs, Attrayo Mukherjee and Debasish Bandyopadhyay
A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science, Rebecca Nixon, Brooke McWherter, Anna Erwin, Jonathan Bauchet, and Zhao Ma
A pilot study on particulate matter concentrations from cooking and its effects on indoor air pollution in a Mexican American household in Mission, South Texas, USA, Sai Deepak Pinakana, Carlos Garcia Patlan, Esmeralda Mendez, and Amit U. Raysoni
Personal Exposure to Black Carbon: Impact of Time-Activity Patterns and Environmental Factors on Exposure Levels, Sai Deepak Pinakana, Johnathan R. Gonzalez, and Amit U. Raysoni
Review of agricultural biomass burning and its impact on air quality in the continental United States of America, Sai Deepak Pinakana, Amit U. Raysoni, Alqamah Sayeed, Juan L. Gonzalez, Owen Temby, Dawid K. Wladyka, and Katarzyna Sepielak
Skimming genomes for systematics and DNA barcodes of corals, Andrea M. Quattrini, Luke J. McCartin, Erin E. Easton, Jeremy Horowitz, Herman H. Wirshing, Hailey Bowers, Kenneth Mitchell, María del P. González-García, Makiri Sei, and Catherine S. McFadden
Exploitation of environmental DNA (eDNA) for ecotoxicological research: A critical review on eDNA metabarcoding in assessing marine pollution, Sakib Tahmid Rishan, Richard Kline, and Md Saydur Rahman
New prospects of environmental RNA metabarcoding research in biological diversity, ecotoxicological monitoring, and detection of COVID-19: a critical review, Sakib Tahmid Rishan, Richard Kline, and Md Saydur Rahman
Road mitigation structures designed for Texas ocelots: Influence of structural characteristics and environmental factors on non-target wildlife usage, Anna Rivera Roy, Kevin W. Ryer, Md. Saydur Rahman, John H. Young Jr., and Richard J. Kline
Managing inter-organizational trust and risk perceptions in transboundary fisheries governance networks, Evelyn Roozee, Dongkyu Kim, Antonia Sohns, Jasper R. de Vries, Owen Temby, and Gordon M. Hickey
“Another Kid on the Block”: Testing the Effects of Artificial Substrates on the Recruitment of Juvenile Fishes in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Stefany Salinas and Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro
Evaluating Indoor Air Quality in Residential Environments: A Study of PM2.5 and CO2 Dynamics Using Low-Cost Sensors, Kabir Bahadur Shah, Dylan Kim, Sai Deepak Pinakana, Mkhitar A. Hobosyan, Armando Montes, and Amit U. Raysoni
Editorial: Critical praxis and the social imaginary for sustainable food systems, Max Stephenson Jr., Kim Niewolny, Laura Zanotti, and Anna Erwin
Robust Hydropower Planning Balances Energy Generation, Carbon Emissions and Sediment Connectivity in the Mekong River Basin, M. Tangi, Rafael Schmitt, Rafael M. Almeida, S. Bossi, Alexander S. Flecker, F. Sala, and A. Castelletti
Using Bayesian multispecies models to evaluate fish and invertebrate detection probability and distribution in the hypersaline Bahia Grande tidal basin, Roy M. Ulibarri, Catherine M. Eckert, David Hicks, David Montagne, Brandon Jones, and David R. Stewart
A multivariate approach to assessing landscape structure effects on wildlife crossing structure use, Thomas J. Yamashita, Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso, David B. Wester, Kevin W. Ryer, Richard J. Kline, Michael E. Tewes, John H. Young Jr., and Jason V. Lombardi
Assessing Tax Revenue Implications of Environmental Policy: A Case Study of China’s Channel City Policy, Yongwen Yang and Juhee Lee
Agenda de investigación para el manejo sustentable del manglar en Tamaulipas, México [Research agenda for the sustainable management of mangroves in Tamaulipas, Mexico], Carlos Zamora-Tovar, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, and Glenda Nelly Requena-Lara
Valorization of Seafood Waste for Food Packaging Development, Zhijing Zhan, Yiming Feng, Jikai Zhao, Mingyu Qiao, and Qing Jin
Submissions from 2023
Assessment of Dermo Perkinsus marinus in the “Southern Oyster” from a High-Salinity Environment, D. Ammons, D. Gonzalez, Ming-Tsan Lu, and Joanne Rampersad
Saturating growth rate against phosphorus concentration explained by macromolecular allocation, Gabrielle Armin, Jongsun Kim, and Keisuke Inomura
Predictive ecology and management of phyllosphere microbial communities through cross-scale synthesis, David W. Armitage, Morgan E. Carter, Robin A. Choudhury, Mitja Remus-Emsermann, Cindy E. Morris, Johan H. Leveau, Linda L. Kinkel, and José Pablo Dundore-Arias
Rapidly Changing Range Limits in a Warming World: Critical Data Limitations and Knowledge Gaps for Advancing Understanding of Mangrove Range Dynamics in the Southeastern USA, Rémi Bardou, Michael J. Osland, Steven Scyphers, Christine Shepard, Karen E. Aerni, Jahson B. Alemu I, Robert Crimian, Richard H. Day, Nicholas M. Enwright, and Christopher A. Gabler
Multi-omics assisted breeding for biotic stress resistance in soybean, Ashita Bisht, Dinesh Kumar Saini, Baljeet Kaur, Ritu Batra, Sandeep Kaur, Ishveen Kaur, Suruchi Jindal, Palvi Malik, Pawanjit Kaur Sandhu, and Amandeep Kaur
Detection of a Diverse Endophyte Assemblage within Fungal Communities Associated with the Arundo Leaf Miner, Lasioptera donacis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Marie-Claude Bon, John A. Goolsby, Guy Mercadier, Fatiha Guermache, Javid Kashef, Massimo Cristofaro, Ann T. Vacek, and Alan Kirk
Detection of a Diverse Endophyte Assemblage within Fungal Communities Associated with the Arundo Leaf Miner, Lasioptera donacis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Marie-Claude Bon, John A. Goolsby, Guy Mercadier, Fatiha Guermache, Javid Kashef, Massimo Cristofaro, Ann T. Vacek, and Alan Kirk
Biodiversity of forage fishes in the Lower Laguna Madre, southernmost Texas, David Camarillo Jr., Elizabeth Mogus Garcia, and Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro
Chloeia rozbaczyloi, a new species of polychaete (Archinominae: Amphinomidae) and first record of the family for the Nazca Ridge, southeastern Pacific Ocean, Juan I. Cañete, María S. Romero, Erin E. Easton, Ariadna Mecho, and Javier Sellanes
Effects of short-term exposure to a pesticide mixture on free-swimming behavior in goldfish, Carassius auratus, Esmirna Cantu, Michelle Rivera, Brittney Lacy, and Md Saydur Rahman
Molecular and biochemical biomarkers in the American oyster Crassostrea virginica exposed to herbicide Roundup® at high temperature, Afsana Chowdhury and Md Saydur Rahman
Draft genome of methanol-oxidizing Methylobacterium fujisawaense strain LAC1, Jooho Chung, Jinha Kim, John C. Blazier, Myung Hwangbo, and Kung-Hui Chu
Microplastics Distribution within Western Arctic Seawater and Sea Ice, Alessandra D’Angelo, Nicole Trenholm, Brice Loose, Laura Glastra, Jacob Strock, and Jongsun Kim
Impacts of Episodic Freshwater Inflow Pulses on Seagrass Dynamics in the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, 1998–2017, Hudson R. DeYoe, Warren Pulich Jr., Melissa Lupher, Ram Neupane, and Carla G. Guthrie
Impacts of tectonic subsidence on basin depth and delta lobe building, Tian Y. Dong, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Brandee Carlson, Brandon McElroy, Elena Il’icheva, Maksim Pavlov, and Hongbo Ma
Tree canopy cover and elevation affect the distribution of red harvester ant nests in a peri-urban setting, Lilly Victoria Elliott-Vidaurri, Isabel Martinez, Engil Isadora Pujol pereira, Hannah J. Penn, and Robin A. Choudhury
“Collaborative NGO Analysis in NRM: When your collaborator is also your unit of analysis”, Anna Erwin, Lorien MacAuley, and Brooke McWherter
Self-organization for community resilience in an invisible agricultural community, Anna Erwin, Chelsea A. Silva, and Zhao Ma
Can trap color affect arthropod community attraction in agroecosystems? A test using yellow vane and colorless traps, Adegboyega Fajemisin, Satinderpal Kaur, Alejandro Vasquez, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Cascading Effects of Cover Crops on the Subsequent Cash Crop Defense against the Polyphagous Herbivore Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), Adegboyega Fajemisin, Alexis Racelis, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Increased floodplain inundation in the Amazon since 1980, Ayan Fleischmann, Fabrice Papa, Stephen K. Hamilton, Alice Fassoni-Andrade, Sly Wongchuig, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Rodrigo Paiva, John Melack, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, and Rafael M. Almeida
Nutritional challenges of substituting farmed animals for wild fish in human diets, Sebastian A. Heilpern, Rafael M. Almeida, Kathryn J. Fiorella, Alexander S. Flecker, Demetra Williams, and Peter B. McIntyre
On the architecture of collaboration in inter-organizational natural resource management networks, Gordon M. Hickey, Evelyn Roozee, Remko Voogd, Jasper R. de Vries, Antonia Sohns, Dongkyu Kim, and Owen Temby
Globally-distributed microbial eukaryotes exhibit endemism at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, Sarah K. Hu, Amy R. Smith, Rika E. Anderson, Sean P. Sylva, Michael Setzer, Maria Steadmon, Kiana L. Frank, Eric W. Chan, Darlene S. S. Lim, and John A. Breier
Effect of Different Pre-Growth Temperatures on the Survival Kinetics of Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes in Fresh-Cut Salad during Refrigerated Storage, Avninder Kaur and Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy
Effect of Different Pre-Growth Temperatures on the Survival Kinetics of Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes in Fresh-Cut Salad during Refrigerated Storage, Avninder Kaur and Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy
Trichomes mediate plant–herbivore interactions in two Cucurbitaceae species through pre- and post-ingestive ways, Ishveen Kaur and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Revisiting the Genomic Approaches in the Cereals and the Path Forward, Ishveen Kaur, Ashima Relan, Dinesh Kumar Saini, Gurleen Kaur, Anju Biswas, Lovepreet Singh, Shivreet Kaur, and Karansher Singh Sandhu
Advances and perspectives of using stable isotope probing (SIP)-based technologies in contaminant biodegradation, Jinha Kim, Myung Hwangbo, Chih-Hsuan Shih, and Kung-Hui Chu
Advances and perspectives of using stable isotope probing (SIP)-based technologies in contaminant biodegradation, Jinha Kim, Myung Hwangbo, Chih-Hsuan Shih, and Kung-Hui Chu
Visualization of Productivity Zones Based on Nitrogen Mass Balance Model in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Jongsun Kim, Myung Hwangbo, Patricia S. Thibodeau, Georgia Rhodes, Emma Hogarth, and Stewart Copeland
Combined effects of high temperature and pesticide mixture exposure on free-swimming behaviors and hepatic cytochrome P450 1A expression in goldfish, Carassius auratus, Brittney Lacy, Michelle Rivera, Leinady Flores, and Md Saydur Rahman
Inter-seasonal comparison of acoustic propagation in a Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadow in a shallow sub-tropical lagoon, Kevin M. Lee, Megan S. Ballard, Andrew R. McNeese, Preston S. Wilson, Gabriel R. Venegas, Mathew C. Zeh, and Abdullah Rahman
Inter-seasonal comparison of acoustic propagation in a Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadow in a shallow sub-tropical lagoon, Kevin M. Lee, Megan S. Ballard, Andrew R. McNeese, Preston S. Wilson, Gabriel R. Venegas, Mathew C. Zeh, and Abdullah Rahman
Quantifying sponge communities from shallow to mesophotic depths using orthorectified imagery, Michael P. Lesser, Marc Slattery, and Keir J. Macartney
Investigation of the Thermodynamics for the Removal of As(III) and As(V) from Water Using Synthesized ZnO Nanoparticles and the Effects of pH, Temperature, and Time, Helia Magali Morales, Grecia Torreblanca, Arnulfo Mar, Mataz Alcoutlabi, Thomas Eubanks, Erik Plata, and Jason Parsons
Metal contents in house geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from industrial and urban areas of southern Tamaulipas, Mexico and western Andalucía, Spain, may reflect airborne metal pollution, Luisiana Morales-Zamudio, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, Md Saydur Rahman, and Miguel Antonio Dominguez-Crespo
IntelliBeeHive: An Automated Honey Bee, Pollen, and Varroa Destructor Monitoring System, Christian I. Narcia-Macias, Joselito Guardado, Jocell Rodriguez, Joanne Rampersad, Erik Enriquez, and Dong-Chul Kim
Balancing renewable energy and river resources by moving from individual assessments of hydropower projects to energy system planning, Jeffrey J. Opperman, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Rafael Kelman, Rafael J. P. Schmitt, Rafael M. Almeida, Emily Chapin, Alexander Flecker, Marc Goichot, Guenther Guenther Grill, and Julien J. Harou
Air Pollution in South Texas: A Short Communication of Health Risks and Implications, Sai Deepak Pinakana, Esmeralda Mendez, Ismaila Ibrahim, Md. Salahuddin Majumder, and Amit U. Raysoni
Assessment of Air Pollution Levels during Sugarcane Stubble Burning Event in La Feria, South Texas, USA, Sai Deepak Pinakana, Edward Robles, Esmeralda Mendez, and Amit U. Raysoni
Effects of elevated temperature on 8-OHdG expression in the American oyster (Crassostrea virginica): Induction of oxidative stress biomarkers, cellular apoptosis, DNA damage and γH2AX signaling pathways, Md Faizur Rahman, Mohammad Maruf Billah, Richard Kline, and Md Saydur Rahman
A Review of Literature on the Usage of Low-Cost Sensors to Measure Particulate Matter, Amit U. Raysoni, Sai Deepak Pinakana, Esmeralda Mendez, Dawid K. Wladyka, Katarzyna Sepielak, and Owen Temby
Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect subterranean and aquatic invasive species: A critical review on the challenges and limitations of eDNA metabarcoding, Sakib Tahmid Rishan, Richard Kline, and Md Saydur Rahman
Significance of storage conditions on the flow properties of wheat flours, Jared Lou Rivera, Jikai Zhao, Aminu Owonikoko, and Kaliramesh Siliveru
Activity Patterns of the Endangered Amargosa Vole (Microtus californicus scripensis), Austin N. Roy, Anna D. Rivera Roy, Deana L. Clifford, and Janet E. Foley
Evidence of an established population of Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in south Texas, USA, Adam Sanjar, Drew R. Davis, and Richard J. Kline
Post-Harvest Eucalyptus Residue Removal Reduces Soil Aggregation and Biological Activities in Central-West Brazil, Karla Nascimento Sena, Thaís Soto Boni, Kátia Luciene Maltoni, Ana Maria Rodrigues Cassiolato, and Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira
Use and effectiveness of wildlife exits designed for ocelots and other mesocarnivores on a south Texas highway, Zarina N. Sheikh, Jamie E. Langbein, Kevin W. Ryer, Md Saydur Rahman, Christopher A. Gabler, John H. Young Jr., and Richard Kline
Sex and stress modulate pupal defense response in tobacco hornworm, Sukhman Singh, Sakshi Watts, Ishveen Kaur, Isabella Rodriguez, Jessica Ayala, Dariela Rodriguez, Elian Martin, and Rupesh R. Kariyat
Effective farm management promotes native AMF and benefit organic farming systems, Pushpa Soti, Rupesh R. Kariyat, and Alexis Racelis