Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Conflicts between humans and wildlife driven by rapid urbanization now threaten wildlife populations, ecosystem services, and the

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Student , Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: For my Ph.D., I am investigating how 1) bird populations respond to changes in human land

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: I research Earth’s tropical climate using computer simulations of the atmosphere. In particular, I study an important feature of the tropics called the “Madden-Julian oscillation”, which affects

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Broadly, I am interested in a signal-to-noise problem. The signal is climate change. The noise is weather and/or natural variability. My research intends to disentangle the two

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Poor air quality causes millions of premature deaths worldwide. Many regions of the world, however, have few air quality monitors, making it difficult to quantify people’s exposure

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: Air pollution is the fifth leading human health risk factor globally and it has impacts on visibility and climate, directly and indirectly.

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Research Summary: What if you could take a pill that made your blood toxic to mosquitoes? That’s exactly what happens when you take ivermectin. When mosquitoes ingest

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: I research lithium ion batteries, like in a smartphone. These batteries need lithium to move back and forth during charging. Eventually batteries die, and one reason is the

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Climate change is melting the ice caps, raising sea levels, and putting land underwater. But what is often overlooked in this

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2020-2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: I study how scientists communicate about, perceive, and implement citizen science. Citizen science is any way that members of the public