Ecology / Environmental Science

D. Asher Ghertner

MA, PhD

Shifting Environmental Trends: A Life-Cycle, Consumption-Based Approach to Environmental Indicators (’04 MA) Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi (’10 PhD)

Dimitry Gershenson

MS
Dimitry currently works as a Program Manager on Facebook’s Global Impact Partnerships Team.

Nancy Freitas

At ERG, Nancy research focuses on identifying existing gaps in climate science and decision-making. In her master’s research, she used a combination of fieldwork, lab work, and data science to determine the potential contribution of greenhouse gases from Arctic lakes to the atmosphere.

Lindsey Fransen

MS

Common Resources, Private Benefits: Shifting Access in Mexico’s Community Forests (’08 MS)

Sasha Figel

MS
Sasha graduated with her Master’s in 2024, and she is interested in land and resource management. Her research is focused on how various groups value natural resources, how the value can be quantified, and how that information can be used to design successful and cost-effective restoration projects.

Michael Dwyer

MS, PhD

Seeing Like a Sagebrush – Measuring and mapping spatial heterogeneity, self-similarity and local vegetation structure (’03 MS) Territorial Affairs: Turning Battlefields into Marketplaces in Postwar Laos (’11 PhD)

Jennifer Dunne

PhD

Climate Change Impacts on Community and Ecosystem Properties: Integrating Manipulations and Gradient Studies in Montane Meadows (’00 Ph.D.)

Hasmik Djoulakian

MS
Hasmik Djoulakian (she/her) is a Master’s student in the Energy Resources Group. Her research interests involve applying frameworks of feminist political ecology, cultural geography, and environmental justice to examine the potential for food sovereignty in California and Armenia.

Manish Desai

MS

Towards Developing Agroforestry Systems for Smallholders: a Case Study from the Sarapiquí Canton, Costa Rica (MS ’99)

Nicholas Depsky

MS, PhD
Nick’s primary research focus is on the impacts of climate change on human migration and displacement. Specific focus areas include droughts in Central America, hurricanes in the Caribbean and sea level rise and coastal retreat globally.