Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2025-2026

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil & Crop Sciences

Research Summary: The transition to renewable energy has raised concerns about the displacement and degradation of agricultural and rangelands, especially with more land-intensive solar energy. My research seeks to understand the ecological impacts of large-scale solar energy development as well as the potential for integrating regenerative livestock grazing and solar energy generation on the same piece of land. These multi-land-use systems have the potential to increase landuse efficiency and achieve a range of benefits across the food-energy-water nexus. I’m collaborating with an interdisciplinary research team to study the ecological and carbon cycling impacts of these systems in the Southeastern United States.