Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science Research Summary: Our contemporary political moment is rife with governmental antipathy for systemic problems. There are countless intractable structural obstacles and an equal number of politically unpalatable solutions. There are

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics Research Summary: My research focuses on valuing ecosystem services as an input into fishery production. I examine the relationship between water quality indicators (oxygen saturation and nutrient loads) and the productivity

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology Research Summary: My postdoctoral research uses genetic information from museum specimens and contemporary samples of the willow flycatcher, a federally endangered migratory bird, to study migratory patterns and adaptation to climate

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Research Summary: My research involves a multidisciplinary approach involving omics, biochemistry, and pre-clinical study to gain an understanding of the relationships between different crop cultivars and their bioactive

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Cell & Molecular Biology Research Summary: In modern agriculture, cover crops are plants utilized to benefit soil health by increasing carbon and nitrogen content, suppressing weeds and

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics Research Summary: Substantial microlevel evidence indicates that, due to unpaid care responsibilities in the household and underpaid opportunities in a segmented job market, women in Latin America (and elsewhere) suffer intense

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Ph.D. Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: My research will determine the effects of different urban expansion scenarios on the provision of ecosystem services related to water

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Ph.D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Science Research Summary: I’m researching how aerosol particles influence the clouds near Antarctica. I study rare aerosols called Ice Nucleating Particles (INPs), which cause water droplets to freeze in clouds. Cloud

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology and Biology Research Summary: I am a disease ecologist and a veterinarian, and I study how vertebrate hosts respond and adapt to infectious diseases. At CSU, I am

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2022-2023 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: I study how humans impact grasslands. With the rise of industrial agriculture, nitrogen fertilization has altered ecosystems across the world. In addition, climate