Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Many trees do not produce seeds every year. Rather, populations synchronously erupt in episodic years of abundant seed

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Without pollinators, global food systems will collapse. This relationship is traditionally studied from an agricultural perspective, but are

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Animal Science Research Summary: Ruminant animals, such as beef cattle, help maintain healthy grasslands, healthy soils, and are important to the livelihoods of billions of people across the globe. My research

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: I study interactions of small molecules called cryoprotectants with living plant cells. Cryoprotectants protect cells from temperatures below freezing when they are cryopreserved. Cryopreservation is used in a

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science Research Summary: Colorado peaches receive the highest price per lb in the country due to their high quality production. However, as demand grows, available orchard land is restricted due

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: Due to climate change, modern fire regimes are characterized by more frequent, higher severity fires that occur over a longer burning season. My research focuses on the impacts

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Soils do so much for society. They help grow our food, clean our water, and even help fight

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geosciences Research Summary: I use remote sensing and modeling techniques to map the evolution of glacial lakes in Alaska. Lakes form, grow, and drain as glaciers thin and retreat. Glacial lake

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2021-2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: My research focus is to develop chemical methods for recycling plastic waste into valuable materials. Specifically, I work on re-designing the chemical building blocks that plastics are made