Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: My research focuses on the relationship between the atmospheric energy budget and the hydrologic cycle. Precipitation is one of the most important aspects of the climate system affecting

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Summary:Urbanization is accelerating around the world. As we build cities and pave over the natural landscape, we keep water from soaking into the ground, concentrating more

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: One of the most consistent patterns in ecosystems is that species vary in their abundance: a few species are very common while many are

Sustainability Leadership Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: My research focuses on the changes in the functional structure of aquatic insect communities across altitudinal and latitudinal ranges (Tropics vs temperate zones). Functional structure

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary:I study the different strategies that grasses use to deal with drought. As soil dries, some grasses play it safe and close the

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary:As farmers face increasing drought in the West, we need to determine best practices to maintain yield, including irrigating when

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioagricultural and Pest Management Research Summary:I study how climate change affects plant disease in crops. Plant diseases cause a 10% reduction in food production each year, and these diseases are often

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research Summary:As a broadly trained conservation biologist, I study the science of sound in a landscape, known as soundscape ecology. Sounds are a fundamental property of

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship North America’s largest oil deposit is in Alberta’s oil sands region where mining extraction operations remove vast areas of forest and peatland wetlands. Traditional reclamation ignored peatlands

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics Research Summary: Trained broadly as a geographer, I use quantitative and qualitative data to better understand the challenges and opportunities to building a more sustainable and resilient