Agriculture

Adam Hanbury-Brown

MS, PhD
Adam is a PhD focused on ecosystem modeling and remote sensing. His research aims to improve the representation of ecological processes, particularly forest regeneration, in Earth System Models (ESMs).

Elizabeth Dreier

MA

Opportunities for North American Development Bank Investment in Air Quality Improvement Along the U.S.-Mexico Border (’02 M.A.)

Alex Dolginow

MA, MS
Alex Dolginow is a Master’s degree candidate interested in understanding appropriate design and conditions for ‘environmental markets,’ such as trading of carbon, water, and conserved land.

Cora Cliburn

MS
Cora is a second-year master’s student focused on climate adaptation and water in the West.

Asa Bradman

MS

A Pilot Study Investigating the Association Between Lead in Children’s Blood and Lead in Drinking Water and a Review of Lead Policy Concerning Drinking Water (89 MS)

William Boyd

MA, PhD

Uncle in the Valley: State Capacity and Rural Restructuring in the Tennessee Valley (’94 M.A.) New South, New Nature: Regional Industrialization and Environmental Change in the Post-New Deal American South (’02 Ph.D.)

Barton Blum

MA

Organic Waste Recovery in the San Francisco Bay Area: Changing Regulatory and Market Conditions (90 MA)

Elena Bell

MS
Elena is a 2024 MS graduate interested in equitable natural resource management relating to agriculture and forestry.

Richard Barnes

PhD

Algorithms for, and Applications of, Global Terrain Analysis (PhD ’20) Richard applies computational and mathematical techniques to better understand the complex interface of society and the environment. His work includes developing (a) in silico models to exlore ecoevolutionary interactions over long time scales and (b) high-speed algorithms for understanding landscape use and evolution. A recipient of both the DOE CSGF and the NSF GRFP fellowships, he holds a M.S. in Ecology, B.S. in Physics, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota.

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Rachel Ward

MS, PhD
Rachel is interested in the social, ecological, and geophysical dynamics of agro-forestry coffee and cacao systems in the tropics.