Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering Research Summary: My research involves quantitative sustainability analysis and lifecycle assessment, using ecosystem models to determine the best way to produce non-food crops for large-scale biofuel production. Perennial grasses such
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: I am interested in understanding how current air pollution issues are impacting our country’s national parks. One project I am currently involved in is assessing the impacts of
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: For thousands of years, the endemic Island fox roamed the northern California Channel Islands free from predators, but in the 1990’s golden eagles became established
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: The complexity of large- and small-scale processes controlling global climate makes predicting future trends extremely difficult. My research aims to better understand some of the small-scale processes involved in
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Severe, prolonged droughts are predicted to occur more frequently due to global climate change. Droughts cause a variety of economic, social and environmental stresses. My research uses an
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Research Summary: My research focuses on the interactions and feedbacks between ecological and social systems, specifically how people respond and adapt to environmental changes and how their responses
Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2015-2016 Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management Research Summary: Rice is essential for food security, providing income and food for half of the world’s population. Bacterial diseases are major constraints to rice yield worldwide.
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?).
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
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