Past Sustainability Leadership Fellows
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Ali Akherati
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Air pollution is the fifth leading human health risk factor globally and it has impacts on visibility and climate, directly and indirectly. …
May 26, 2020
Ghassan J. Alaka, Jr.
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2012-2013 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: My research matters because Atlantic hurricanes are destructive forces that are not well-predicted. I tackle this issue by improving our understanding of pre-hurricane weather systems over Africa. …
August 29, 2018
Suzan Hassan AlDoubi
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2013-2014 Ph.D. Candidate, School of Education Research Summary: Playing different roles in my life as a mother, wife, daughter, sister, student, and educator, allowed me to be a leader for a long time. Walking through the professional …
September 14, 2018
Charlotte Alster
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology Research Summary: My research aims to understand how microbial communities in soil vary in their response to changes in temperature and what impact this has on global carbon modeling. Soil microorganisms …
September 25, 2018
Natalie Anderson
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2013-2014 Ph.D. Student, Department of Geosciences Research Summary: I explore rivers. I am a fluvial geomorphologist. I am a professional whitewater kayaker. My passion for rivers is deep and swift and I enjoy sharing my intellectual and …
September 14, 2018
Mike Angstadt
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science Research Summary: My research examines the role that court structures play in shaping environmental outcomes. Specifically, I explore specialized environmental courts and tribunals (“ECTs”). ECTs are rapidly emerging in many …
September 25, 2018
Timothy J. Assal
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2013-2014 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology Research Summary: I am a Spatial Ecologist at Colorado State University and the U.S. Geological Survey. I study disturbance impacts on forests which can change how an ecosystem works for many …
September 14, 2018
Daniel Auerbach
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Student, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Humans need and love rivers, streams and lakes. Unfortunately, the combination of ineptitude, social inertia and ignorance have led to their ongoing degradation. If my children …
August 24, 2018
Bethany Avera
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2018-2019 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Research Summary: Disturbances and management in forest ecosystems can impact the amount of carbon stored in the forest system. …
May 23, 2018
Wahid Awad
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2014-2015 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Research Summary: Climate change and drought in particular decreases crops and wheat production worldwide. This leads to crop loss every year for millions of farmers around the world, …
September 25, 2018
Elizabeth Bach
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology Research Summary: She is a soil microbial ecologist interested in exploring how fungal and bacterial communities influence ecosystem functions, specifically carbon and nitrogen cycling. She also investigates interactions between soil microbes …
February 13, 2018
Theresa Barosh
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2018-2019 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: As a PhD student in Dr. Paul Ode’s lab at CSU, I am studying the intersection of species …
May 23, 2018
Whitney Beck
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2018-2019 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary:Freshwater algae is an important food resource for aquatic insects and fish. However, when fertilizers and other nutrient sources are added to rivers …
James Benedict
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospherics Science Research Summary: Predicting future climate is tricky. There are many pieces to the climate puzzle, and computer models used to forecast the climate decades or centuries into the future …
August 24, 2018
Katharine Benedict
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: My research is focused on understanding the types of compounds in the atmosphere and their sources that contribute to ecosystem changes in our national parks. Specifically my …
Drew Bennett
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: Trained broadly as a geographer, I integrate insights from social and physical sciences to better understand the social and ecological outcomes of market-based approaches to …
October 9, 2018
Hannah Berry
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management & Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Research Summary: Defense responses to pathogens are energetically costly to plants. In many plant species, constitutive and systemic activation …
April 30, 2019
Kelsey Bilsback
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Nearly half the world’s population uses inefficient cookstoves that burn solid fuels (e.g., wood, charcoal, coal) to cook their meals and heat their homes. About 3 million …
May 2, 2019
Sarah Bisbing
Sustainability Research Fellowship Cohort: 2012-2013 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Research Summary: The landscape of North America was historically dominated by large, intact forest. Despite diminishing in size over the last century, these valuable ecosystems continue to provide …
August 29, 2018
Brittany Bloodhart
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: I study the psychological processes of individuals when thinking about social and environmental injustice (What makes people deny climate change? What makes people DO something about climate change?). …
September 25, 2018
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