CURRENT PHD FELLOWS

Ph.D. Candidate | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, plant-microbe-soil interactions

Ph.D. Student | Geography | Human and environmental health impacts of extractivism, health geography, global health, participatory mapping

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Behavioral endocrinology, ecophysiology, tropical ecology, ornithology

Ph.D. Student | Sustainable Biomaterials | Circular economy, sustainable consumption & production, climate change, sustainable energy systems

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Trait adaptation, phylogenetic comparative methods, and macroevolutionary dynamics

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | The impacts of climate change, habitat loss and overfishing

Ph.D. Student | Entomology | Landscape ecology, disease ecology

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Disease ecology

Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Species interactions, community ecology, climate change, habitat fragmentation, functional traits

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Freshwater ecology, life history, animal behavior, response to anthropogenic habitat change

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Data analytics, remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, climate change, biodiversity conservation

Ph.D. Student | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Grassland ecology, community ecology, ecological restoration, botany

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Socio-ecological systems, natural resource use, indigenous and traditional communities, biodiversity conservation

Ph.D. Student | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Improving access to safe drinking water & sanitation for low resource settings, the intersection of environmental engineering & public health, rural drinking water systems

Ph.D. Student | Geosciences | Coastal land subsidence; implication for infrastructure and relative sea level rise

Ph.D. Student | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Soil biogeochemistry; soil organic matter and microbe dynamics; distribution and partitioning of soil organic matter through plant and microbial function

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Behavioral ecology, behavioral neurobiology, neuroendocrinology, ecophysiology

Ph.D. Student | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Co-management and community-based management of natural resources; use of common resources; local populations; protected areas

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Aquatic toxicology, biogeochemistry; ecosystem, restoration, and urban ecology; emerging contaminants of concern in freshwater systems

Ph.D. Student | Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences | Public Health, Environmental Health and Policy Making, Decarbonization, Renewable Energy Systems, Artificial Intelligence

Ph.D. Student | Planning, Governance, and Globalization | Policy innovations, responses, and processes for global challenges, including antimicrobial resistance and the renewable energy transition

Ph.D. Student | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Systems of systems modeling, hydrology, software framework, uncertainty, system dynamics, interdependencies

Ph.D. Student | Translational Biology, Medicine, & Health | Public health implementation science, immunology & infectious disease, health equity for diverse, under-engaged, & rural populations

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Freshwater ecology, phytoplankton, science communication

Ph.D. Student | Biological Systems Engineering | Drinking water quality, contaminants of emerging concern, private drinking water systems, public health

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Limnology, aquatic biogeochemistry, organic carbon cycling, drinking water quality

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Urban evolution, phylogenetic comparative methods, macroevolution, trait adaptation

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Freshwater ecosystems, population dynamics modeling

Ph.D. Student | Urban Affairs and Planning | Human-wildlife conflict; conservation social science, anti-poaching; cross-cultural research

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Infectious disease at the wildlife-human interface

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Species interactions, seed dispersal, global change ecology, restoration, conservation, science communication

Ph.D. Candidate | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Agroforestry in refugee settings, social dimensions of tree-based interventions, participatory mapping

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Infectious disease ecology, host-pathogen coevolution, wildlife and ecosystem health, heterogeneity in host susceptibility

Ph.D. Student | Geosciences | Geochemistry & geobiology; Neoproterozoic paleoenvironment reconstruction, co-evolution of life & environment through deep time

Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Freshwater ecology, nutrient cycling, and science communication

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Watershed biogeochemistry, greenhouse gasses, carbon cycling, disturbance impacts

Ph.D. Student | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Restoration ecology, fire ecology, endangered species management

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Evolutionary biology, behavior and coloration in birds, the evolution of sexual dimorphism and social signaling

Ph.D. Candidate | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Stream habitat management, landscape ecology, reproductive biology of fishes, watershed modeling, spatial modeling

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Aquatic toxicology, immunology, and ecology; effects of emerging contaminants of concern on freshwater ecosystems

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Ecotoxicology, ecophysiology, neuroendocrinology, ornithology

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Conservation social science, illegal wildlife trade, herpetology, conservation biology

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Ornithology, animal behavior, ecology, conservation biology, anthropogenic land use

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Population ecology, landscape ecology, ornithology, conservation

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Wildlife conservation and management, spatial ecology, population genetics

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Stream ecology, landscape ecology, land-use change

Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Impacts of habitat loss and climate change on avian species; the application of science to conservation, management, and public policy

Ph.D. Student | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, sensors for environmental contaminants, climate change, contaminated sites

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Bioacoustic monitoring, effects of climate change on freshwater organisms, applied conservation science

Ph.D. Student | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and atmospheric measurement techniques

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Migration and population genetics of Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum in the Amazon

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Conservation social science, ornithology, citizen science, socio-ecological interactions in bird feeding

Ph.D. Student | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Community-based conservation focusing on underrepresented groups, sustainable conservation, human-nature/wildlife interaction, participatory approaches

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Conservation biology, impact of habitat loss and climate change on endangered species, ornithology

Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Disease ecology, behavioral ecology, and microbiology

Ph.D. Student | Planning, Governance & Globalization | Water security, water policy and management, public education and engagement, science communication

Ph.D. Student | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Wildlife habitat and management, anthropogenic impacts on native communities

Ph.D. Student | Entomology | Aquatic macroinvertebrates responses to anthropogenic & environmental stressors, functional traits as predictors of environmental change

Ph.D. Student | Geosciences | Groundwater resource monitoring using radar remote sensing, poromechanical modelling of groundwater, satellite gravimetry, subsidence monitoring, geohazards, groundwater level prediction.

Ph.D. Candidate | Public and International Affairs | Environmental risk communication, environmental planning and policy, collaborative planning and decision-making, public participation, public dispute resolution

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Marine ecology; predator-prey dynamics; ecological role of sharks and the ecosystem consequences of their removal

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Stream ecology and biodiversity, landscape genetics, traits-based approaches, species interactions

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Microbial ecology, soil biogeochemistry, ecosystem science, pyrogenic carbon

Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Fisheries conservation and management, the impact of climate change on aquatic ecosystems

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Macroevolution, physiological evolution, evolution of thermal adaptations

Ph.D. Student | Biochemistry | Mosquito-plant interactions, entomology, behavioral ecology, ecophysiology

Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Behavioral ecology, urbanization, ornithology, ecophysiology, and conservation biology

Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Limnology, plankton dynamics, food web interactions, climate change, water quality