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.
Water Quality and Hydrology
Validation of genetic markers and application to detect fecal contamination at beaches in New Haven County, Connecticut
Evaluation of a filter for nps phosphorus removal in the Lake Champlain watershed.
Perception versus Reality in Urban Water Quality
Industrial Environmental Management
A systems dynamics model to foster urban building materials resuse in New Haven
How environmental policy can encourage sustainable industry behaviors
Climate Change and Air Pollution
Do Trades Worsen Damages? Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Urban Areas
Design and the Built Environment
Greening Main Street: Integrating Extensive Vegetated Roofs and Economic Revitalization in Washington, D.C.
Land Use Planning and Management
Closing the Loop: A Proposal for Alternative Land Management Practices at Yale
Exploring the impacts of Microstegium vimineum invasion on forest soil carbon stocs across an urbanization gradient
Study of urban reforestation strategy - bare root plantings
Urbanization and Land Use Change
The Form of Change: Inter-Annual Analysis of Urban Expansion using Landscape Metrics
Urban Agriculture
Urban Foodshed Collaborative
