Hixon Fellows
The Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability engages and supports Yale students who are interested in conducting urban sustainability research that bridges science to practice. Every year, Hixon Fellows are chosen from a pool of competitive applicants based on the relevance of the research proposal to the Center's mission.
Design and the Built Environment
A Mountain by the Sea: Waste-scapes, Life-scapes and the Reinvention of Fresh Kills
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Climate Change and Air Pollution
Understanding Exposure to Traffic Related Air Pollution in Kathmandu, Nepal
![Photo of Anobha Gurung, looking off to the side.](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/anobha_gurung.jpg?h=10fa825a&itok=cB-7b6u1)
Effects of Urbanization on Wildlife
Neighborhoods as Urban Socio-ecological Patches:Building A Community Forestry Typology
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Socio-cultural and Ecological Interactions
Neighborhoods as Urban Socio-ecological Patches:Building A Community Forestry Typology
![Headshot of Dexter Locke.](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/locke_dexter_2012_photo.jpg?h=a7e6d17b&itok=hLC2D-Xj)
Urbanization and Land Use Change
A Model of Nonlinear Urbanization and Information Flows Across India
![Photo of Chris Shughrue, with a boat harbor in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/10624948_10204184309662000_8306993540341058357_n.jpg?h=cb03b2a8&itok=--M4bErC)
Water Quality and Hydrology
Examining the Efficacy of Connecticut Constructed Wetlands as an Urban Stormwater Best Management Practice
![Headshot of Lisa Weber.](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/337473_3249445602549_253828384_o.jpg?h=0dd5746f&itok=1kR_MwoL)
Trace metal fluxes between an urban salt marsh and Long Island Sound
![Photo of Troy Hill on site submerged in a water marsh.](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/hill_troy_2011_photo.jpg?h=0d054e74&itok=YpD8KHo_)
Control of Precipitation Events on Dynamics of Disinfection Byproduct Formation Potential
![Photo of Byungman Yoon accompanied with other people.](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/yoon_bryan_2011_photo_2.jpg?h=fb05373d&itok=wn0qavu1)
Polluted waters: the impacts of runoff on ephemeral wetlands across an urban gradient
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Urban Agriculture
Cultivating Commnity: Bulding Cohesion and Forging Identities in New Haven's Community Gardens
![Photo of Amy Coplen with blooming cherry blossoms nearby.](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/2e02e9b.jpg?h=2a479378&itok=zQ5YomAn)
Industrial Environmental Management
Life Cycle Assessment of a Land Management Project—the PlaNYC Reforestation
![Chen Qian](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_3x4_400x530/public/images/fellow/46445_111569792234951_2651293_n.jpg?h=cb5013c9&itok=PjXtpJVR)
Water Resources
Understand, Simulate, and Optimize the Water-Energy Nexus from a System Dynamics Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities
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