Current Students

Climate change education, civic ecology practices in areas threatened by sea level rise, online learning

Impact of community-based agroforestry on rural community development and livelihood in Haiti.

Valuing the ecosystem services of avian populations for use in benefit transfer applications in the realm of environmental policy.

Using native plant indicators to understand and monitor impacts of invasive species and their management

Spatial ecology and early life-history of coregonine fishes in Lake Ontario

 I am interested in urban ecology, ecological design, and methods for promoting biodiversity within cities.

Designing educational experiences that ultimately impact personal behaviors, particularly for online course and MOOC participants. 
 

I am interested in understanding how the many environmental systems in our world interact with one another, including the human system, and in how to shift human behavior toward a more environmentally conscious and proactive model.

Catherine is interested in food justice and food sovereignty as they relate to community programming and residential opportunity. By dovetailing important social justice issues, like food and housing access, with the arts and natural resources, we can create community programming that is both relevant and empowering while also expanding access

My research focuses on the ecology of Great Lakes crustacean zooplankton and meiofauna with a particular interest in exotic species introductions.

Concepts and limitations of forest gardening as a solution for climate breakdown, both urban and rural. 

Hemlock woolly adelgid and its biological control predators

Civic Ecology Practices. Civic Ecology Education. Children’s participation in community environmental stewardship and 
and its relation to their learning.

My research interests lie in conservation, movement ecology, and population biology of migratory organisms, especially birds. In particular, I am interested in understanding how seasonal interactions influence population dynamics, movement, and behavior between different periods of the annual cycle.

Examining amphibian biodiversity in wildlife corridors within the Hudson River valley.

Using passive acoustic technology to monitor African forest elephant distribution and abundance in response to anthropogenic activities

Great Lakes, lower trophic level dynamics, spatial dynamics, climate change, and public policy

Predator-prey population dynamics in Lake Ontario.

My main areas of interest are focusing on sustainable forest management, deforestation & land conversion, human-wildlife conflicts, and climate change. I will be conducting spatial risk mapping in Ecuador as a tool to plan and implement human-Andean bear conflict mitigation measures.
 

I am interested in ways we can create sustainable, just food systems with a focus on waste reduction and education.

Intended and unintended impacts of payment for ecosystem service projects on biodiversity conservation and local livelihoods in areas with high poverty and weak governance

Defining the hybrid zone of Atlantic surf clams to inform both conservation management and aquaculture practices, and studying larval development in other bivalves. 

I research sediment biogeochemistry and sediment-seagrass interactions in New England coastal ecosystems.

My research examines the impacts of nitrogen pollution on whole ecosystem biogeochemistry and eelgrass habitat quality in a shallow estuary on Cape Cod.

Sampling, status, and population dynamics of Mysis diliuviana.

Civic ecology practices in coastal communities, environmental education, the political ecology of plastics, citizen science and participatory observatories for microplastic pollution in coastal zones of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean systems.

Human dimensions of natural resources management, comparative energy transitions, stakeholder engagement, information transfer and solutions sharing 

Daler completed his BA at American University of Central Asia, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) majoring in the Environmental Management and Sustainability and minoring in Anthropology. His BA thesis is on community resilience and commodification of nature... SEE MORE

Conservation of central african rainforest. Study of movement patterns and population densities of forest elephants throughout their range, and the connection between forest elephants and other wildlife, using passive acoustic monitoring and camera traps.

Nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems, watershed nutrient management, and water quality. 

I am investigating the northern United States tallgrass prairie region, as well as adjacent agricultural land, for an extensive suite of physical, chemical, biological and microbial soil properties. These data will be used to establish a landmark, comprehensive soil health profile for relict, natural tall grass prairies and a consequent set of targets for grassland... SEE MORE
 

Critical environmental policy and institutional analysis, environmental governance, science and technology studies.

 My research is on cascading impacts of plant-insect interactions and their implications for management of invasive species with a focus on biocontrol. I am also interested in how genetic and phenotypic variation across plant growth and defense traits can influence invasiveness and thereby impact management decisions.

Patterns of habitat use by tropical resident and migratory bird species in regenerating pasture landscapes in Guatemala

Nutrient cycling and limitation in northern hardwood ecosystems.

The application of genomic tools in fisheries management and conservation

I am interested in generating information that contributes to the conservation of large mammals and influences how species and landscapes are managed by governmental and non-governmental organizations. I am interested to understand how spatial patterns and processes... SEE MORE

The bulk of my research has been focusing on the Oneida Lake parasitic copepod fauna & planktonic zooplankton fauna of the Great Lakes.

My research examines how message framing effects can influence wildlife conservation-related policy and decision making. I do empirical research to study how messages about biodiversity and conservation are received by key stakeholders, and test which messages and frames are most effective at potentially influencing key public policy actions and different personal behaviors.
 

I focus on songbird competitions, in which wild birds are trapped and sold to sing for human amusement. My proposed research uses bioacoustic and cultural data to investigate how birds win singing competitions based on human and natural definitions of vocal fitness... SEE MORE

Population dynamics and spatio-temporal ecology, with an emphasis on marine fisheries and ecosystems.

My research seeks to understand individuals' engagement in pro-environmental behaviors. I am currently exploring the role of identity, social norms, and cultural values in predicting Latinx environmentalism within the United States. 

Effectiveness of public and private conservation interventions on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being in the Amazon.
 

My research interests include environmental sociology, natural resource dependent communities, energy transitions, and social class dynamics. 

Marine mammal ecology, passive acoustic monitoring, identifying and conserving vital habitats
 

Interested in identifying drivers of human leopard conflict across rural-urban gradient in human dominated regions of South Asia for developing sustainable mitigation solutions. 

My research interests relate to multiple stressors affecting forest health - invasive species, deer overabundance, and climate change - as well as outcome monitoring to evaluate whether management actions achieve desired objectives.

Molecular study of wildlife.

Socio-economic impacts of rural landscape policies in developing countries

Environmental governance; regional stability; transboundary policies and politics related to surface and groundwater management ranging from local to international scales.  Ongoing research is focused on the role of roadside ditches (a public/private interface) and resulting infrastructure and water quality management challenges in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Ecology, biogeochemistry, and management of water chestnut. Broadly interested in biological invasions and their impacts on ecological interactions and nutrient cycling. 

I research computational hydrology and ecohydrology at the Soil and Water lab. Broadly, I'm interested in learning how vegetative form and function determines water budget and hydrogeochemistry, and how invasive species and land use changes transform them

I am intensely interested in evolutionary genomics and in using techniques from this field to both describe patterns of evolution – particularly those of adaptive radiations – and to solve conservation and management issues in polar and temperate fisheries.

Conservation ecology, ornithology, GIS/remote sensing, American Indian sovereignty and environmental justice

Nutrient limitations of algal in streams and lakes. The nutrients I am interested in include: nitrogen, phosphorus, and thiamine (vitamin B1). 

I am interested in the conservation, restoration, and recovery of our native plant biodiversity. Of particular interest to me are species and communities endemic to marginal and fragile habitats that are especially vulnerable to the effects of a shifting climate.

I am interested in the business model of environmental education organizations.

My primary research interest is in roles and environmental education of campus environmental groups, especially campus environmental clubs in China.

The civic role of NGO and domestic communities in responding social environmental issues;
conservation governance; community mobilization