Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Climate change is severely impacting agricultural production systems that are under increasing demand to produce food. Further, as conventional agriculture

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship Research Summary: As a 4th-year doctoral candidate at Colorado State University, I am passionate about dryland restoration and ecology. My research focuses on finding ways to increase the

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Research Summary: I bridge the gap between soil ecology and the practicalities of agricultural operations. By applying ecological principles, I explore how soil science can provide insights

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: The metabolism of organisms has been demonstrated to play an underlying role in determining their behavior, life-history, and physiology. Therefore, understanding how

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: The way we think about climate change (CC) is psychologically complex with multiple understandings and interpretations. People often rely on media and

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics Research Summary: Debt-for-nature swaps were proposed in the 1980s to simultaneously address the debt crisis and forest loss. They aim to mitigate the ecological pressures arising from debt burdens by

Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2024-2025 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: The importance of precipitation on plant growth is well-established, especially in grasslands which are particularly sensitive to precipitation changes. Climate change has