Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology Research Summary: Streams may not enter people‘s thoughts on a daily basis, but we depend on stream water in our daily lives for drinking water and food (e.g. crop irrigation, fish).

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Research Summary: Most of my research takes place in national parks. These protected areas are perhaps our most pristine, relatively untrammeled places on earth. However, escalating visitation

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management Research Summary: Plant diseases have the potential to wipe out entire crops, which would not only effect farmers, but everyone who depends on that crop for either

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology Research Summary: Climate change will affect all of Earth‘s ecosystems and yet the responses of soils have been comparatively understudied, despite the importance that soils and their associated communities play in

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology Research Summary: Organisms exhibit an incredible diversity of reproductive behavior, and a major goal of evolutionary ecology is to understand how factors such as food availability and predation risk have driven

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistics Research Summary: The goal of my work is to develop a modeling framework to yield a uniform assessment tool for wetland health. There is currently a wide range of metrics, or

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: I use maps to study how human activities, such as development, recreation, and resource extraction, impact our natural resources. Specifically, I am interested in impacts

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology Research Summary: I study the ecology of selenium in plants. Selenium is a naturally occurring element that is a required nutrient for many animals, including humans, but also toxic at high

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship Research Summary: The majority of the Earth’s human population now lives in cities. We are just beginning to scratch the surface in understanding how the urban and suburban

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Rain-fed agriculture is an important source of food and income for the people in West Africa. Being able to accurately represent the West African Monsoon in weather and