Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Research Summary: Mycobacterium bovis is a bacterium that causes Tuberculosis in most mammal species, including humans. We have developed genetic fingerprinting protocols to aid in tracking the disease

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Research Summary: We study diseases in natural populations of wildlife across North America. Particularly, we study how urbanization impacts disease transmission among bobcats, mountain lions, and domestic

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Biology Research Summary: Her research was broadly focused on understanding how populations respond to environmental variation – work that lies at the interface between evolution, ecology, and conservation. Website: https://www.katielangin.com/

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Science

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Student, Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship Research Summary: Willow communities are dying back in Rocky Mountain National Park and possibly throughout the West. With a demise of this critical plant community which many

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Student, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: My PhD research is examining the impacts of climate change on alpine grasslands in Tibet, as well as how these changes could affect the traditional yak and

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: Transportation systems are society‘s arteries, moving people, goods and services that support a high quality of life. However, roads often bisect wildlife habitats, resulting in

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph. D. Student, Department of Agricultural Resource Economics Research Summary: My research focuses on recreational fishery management. Recreational fisheries are managed in a number of ways, but in the United States, one of the most costly

Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2011-2012 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology Research Summary: The devastating “Dust Bowl” of the 1930’s resulted from severe drought that lasted for multiple years in addition to poor land management practices. Recent climate models predict that extreme

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