Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Look at any photo of Earth taken from space, and one of the first things you may notice is that clouds cover a large portion of the Earth’s

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology Research Summary: Recent initiatives to foster the engagement of diverse constituencies in climate change action have emphasized the transformative potential of children and youth as agents of sustainable change within their

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Student, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Research Summary: International development programs are designed to be “win-win” – improving both environmental and social factors – however many of the social outcomes such as environmental

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology Research Summary: Understanding how living organisms respond to a changing climate is a fundamental challenge to biologists. Tolerance to heat is one practical way to measure an organism’s response to climate

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Research Summary: I use cottonwood trees to understand floodplain land surface processes and river discharge histories. Cottonwood age is a proxy for the age of the underlying land

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Student, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Research Summary: I study the social and ecological dimensions of cropping system intensification in semi-arid regions, which is the practice of reducing periods in a crop rotation when

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Research Summary: Over the last several decades, lakes show a warming trend globally due to changes in temperature and reduced cloud cover. Even the most remote lakes, such

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: Amphibians worldwide are declining at unprecedented rates. An invasive fungus is one culprit that is doing damage in the Rocky Mountains. Though once common in

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary: Expanding human development increases the ways humans and wildlife interact. Interactions sometimes lead to conflicts, which cause consequences ranging from decreased human tolerance for wildlife

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geosciences Research Summary: Understanding the global carbon cycle is important for fully understanding climate change. One aspect of the carbon cycle that isn’t well studied is how much carbon is stored in