Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: My research aims to understand what chemical compounds are in wildfire smoke, how they change as the smoke travels downwind, and what effects these chemicals have on

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Research Summary: Soils contain vast amounts of carbon and nutrients that contribute to plant growth and regulate exchange of greenhouse gases

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: My work focuses on soil health, and how to build or maintain it with different farm management practices.

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: My research informs the sustainable and equitable management of natural resources by focusing on capacity building tools for

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Aquaculture is a rapidly expanding industry with the potential to efficiently provide a protein source for a growing

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Urban Water Systems Research Summary: Water is intimately connected with the food and energy systems in the cities. However, climate change combined with the effects of

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Research Summary: I study how dengue, a tropical virus, makes people sick. Dengue virus, like all viruses, completely depends on the cell that it infects in order

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Nearly half the world’s population uses inefficient cookstoves that burn solid fuels (e.g., wood, charcoal, coal) to cook their meals and heat their homes. About 3 million

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2019-2020 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management & Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Research Summary: Defense responses to pathogens are energetically costly to plants. In many plant species, constitutive and systemic activation