Fellows

Climate Change and Air Pollution

  • Daivie Ghosh, 2022, Transboundary Commuting Emissions and their Implications on the Mobility-related Emissions Mitigation Targets of NYC
  • Qinrui Xiahou, 2020, The Effect of Foreign Investment on Asian Coal Power Plants
  • Lucien Swetschinski, 2019, Interrelationships between asthma-associated air pollution and economic mobility: considering childhood health as a channel for the transmission of social class
  • Yichen Yang, 2019, Evaluating the Role of Microclimate Change in Urban Heat Island using Mobile Measurement
  • Chen Chen, 2018, Change in Air Pollution Exposure and Related Health Impact under Climate Change in U.S. Urban Centers
  • Ibrahim Amidu, 2015, Estimating Economic Cost of Sea Level Rise on Low-Lying Coastal Properties in Accra, Ghana
  • Kate Hagemann, 2013, Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change: Rebuilding a Living Coastline
  • Esther Rojas-Garcia, 2013, Global vs. Local Net Climate Impacts of 10 Top Megacities
  • Anobha Gurung, 2012, Understanding Exposure to Traffic Related Air Pollution in Kathmandu, Nepal
  • David Henry, 2010, Do Trades Worsen Damages? Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Urban Areas
  • Amy Shatzkin, 2004, Sprawling Towards Climate Change: Connecting U.S. Patterns of Land Development to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Design and the Built Environment

  • Zander Pellegrino, 2019, Participatory Climate Adaptation in New York City and Cairo: consequences for residents and limits of participation
  • Jen Shin, 2019, THE BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF URBAN ECOLOGY: a primer for design professionals
  • Yanin Kramsky, 2016, Youth Taking the Reins: Empowering At-Risk Students to Shape Environmental Challenges with Design
  • Jiani Yang, 2015, Evaluating Afforestation Effects on Urban Resilience in Kissena Corridor Community of New York City
  • Molly Greene, 2012, A Mountain by the Sea: Waste-scapes, Life-scapes and the Reinvention of Fresh Kills
  • Kristin Pene, 2010, Greening Main Street: Integrating Extensive Vegetated Roofs and Economic Revitalization in Washington, D.C.
  • Nicole Rousmaniere, 2005, Project for Public Spaces NY
  • Javier González-Campaña, 2002, From Promenade Plantée to the New York High Line

Effects of Urbanization on Wildlife

  • Elizabeth Nowlin, 2023, Assessing how historical variation in urban neighborhood housing and greenspace development is linked to contemporary mammal biodiversity in New Haven, CT
  • Gabriel Gadsen, 2022, Residential Energy Efficiency Effects on Philadelphian Indoor Rodent Exposure
  • Emily Zink, 2014, Human-Wildlife Cohabitation in an Urban Context: Managing Urban Spaces to Increase Habitat Connectivity and Decrease Wildlife Vehicle Collisions in Calgary, AB
  • Max Lambert, 2012, Neighborhoods as Urban Socio-ecological Patches:Building A Community Forestry Typology
  • Helen McMillan, 2008, Urbanization of New England Wetlands: Evaluating the Effects on Pond Breeding Amphibians
  • Steven Brady, 2007, The relationship between an emerging infectious disease and final host distribution across an urbanization gradient
  • Manja Holland, 2006, Urbanization and Emerging Disease in Amphibians
  • Rachel Gruzen, 2005, Shrimp Aquaculture and Urban Growth in Madagascar: Sustaining Societies and Conserving Coasts?
  • Manja Holland, 2005, Urbanization and the Impact of Emerging Disease in Amphibians
  • Adrian Camacho, 2001, Using Epigaeic Insect Fauna to Evaluate Small-scale Urban Sites for Conservation Value

Environment and Public Health

  • Rory Stewart, 2023, Temporal Trends of the Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality Relationship in Representative US States: Understanding Changing Health Disparities Across Population Characteristics by level of Urbanicity
  • Tyler Stotland, 2022, A Space-Time Analysis of Electricity-Based Adaptive Capacity to Extreme Heat in Urban Nepal
  • Weixi Wu, 2022, Urban Air Pollution Exposure of Children Living in the Dwight Neighborhood in New Haven, CT
  • Hayon Michelle Choi, 2021, Effect modification of greenness on the association between heat and mortality: a multi-city multi-country study
  • Amruta Nori-Sarma, 2017, Air Pollution and Human Health Burden in Urban India
  • Katherine Wolf, 2016, Residential Racial Segregation and Fine Particulate Matter Component Levels in the United States
  • Lan Jin, 2015, Traffic Pollution and Congenital Heart Defects in Lanzhou city, China: A Land Use Regression Modeling Study
  • Ali Senauer, 2007, Urban Habitat and Health: Understanding Children's Exposure to their Outdoor Physical Environment in Urban Areas
  • Vic Edgerton, 2002, The Newhall Health Study: Community-Based Participatory Research in Environmental Health
  • Alexis Dinno, 2000, Community Health and Urban Residential Lot Study
  • Leigh Shemitz, 2000, Drawing upon the Lessons of Lead Poisoning to Build a Paradigm for Understanding Environmental Health: A Study of the History, Science and Policy of Lead Poisoning

Industrial Environmental Management

  • Perry Leung, 2018, Advancing Urban Metabolism Studies in NYC
  • Chen Qian, 2011, Life Cycle Assessment of a Land Management Project—the PlaNYC Reforestation
  • Thomas Chase, 2010, A systems dynamics model to foster urban building materials resuse in New Haven
  • Shannon Siart, 2009, How environmental policy can encourage sustainable industry behaviors
  • Noria Takaki Jr. , 2008, The Political Economy of Recycling in Brasília
  • Rita Lohani, 2005, Institutionalizing Eco-Industrial Development Concepts for Philippine Economic Zones

Land Use Planning and Management

  • Alice Gerow, 2023, Street Tree Communities in Selected Residential Areas of Nairobi, Kenya
  • Tristan Irwin, 2023, Exploring Tree Diversity and the 10-20-30 “Rule” of Urban Forestry in Raleigh, NC
  • Brandon Wilson Radcliffe, 2023, Urban Silviculture Training
  • Les Welker, 2023, Understanding Urban Forest Dynamics Through Patch Analysis
  • Kieren Rudge, 2021, Participatory climate adaptation planning in New York City: Analyzing the role of community-based organizations
  • Sally Donovan, 2020, Historical agriculture increases nuisance species abundance in urban forests via carbon controls on nitrogen cycling
  • Anelise Zimmer, 2020, Using ArcMaps to Select Sites Climate-Resilient Coral Restoration in Maunalua Bay, Hawai‘i
  • Danica Doroski, 2018, Forest patch size predicts seed bank composition in urban areas
  • Yasha Magarik, 2017, Urban Forest Mensuration
  • Natalie Schultz, 2017, High resolution remote sensing using UAS technology
  • Elisabeth Ward, 2017, Impacts of Invasive Woody Vines on Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Forested Urban Natural Areas: Implications for Ecology and Management
  • Danica Doroski, 2016, Factors Driving Woody Plant Recruitment in a Planted Urban Forest
  • Caitlin Feehan, 2013, A Survey of Green Infrastructure Maintenance Programs in the United States
  • Emily Stevenson, 2010, Closing the Loop: A Proposal for Alternative Land Management Practices at Yale
  • Tim Kramer, 2009, Exploring the impacts of Microstegium vimineum invasion on forest soil carbon stocs across an urbanization gradient
  • Emily Scott, 2009, Study of urban reforestation strategy - bare root plantings
  • Cindy Kushner, 2003, Starting a Community Forestry Project in Greater Boston
  • Laura Wooley, 2003, The Price You Pay: Negotiating for Permanence in the Lake Catherine Community of New Orleans
  • Austin Zeiderman, 2003, Community Forestry in the Urban Environment
  • Olivia Carpenter, 2002, Rainbows in the Puddles: A Covenant of Hope in Manifest Neglect
  • Brian Goldberg, 2002, Partnerships to Create Successful Urban Open Spaces in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Alicia Pascasio, 2002, Towards Determining Common Interest: Mapping Social Context in Order to Develop Largescale Watershed Planning and Management Policies.
  • Neal Etre, 2001, Finding Room to Grow: Tracking Vacant Properties in America's Cities
  • Kim Thurlow, 2001, The Roseau Botanical Gardens and Peripheral Link Project

Socio-cultural and Ecological Interactions

  • Leilani Danning, 2022, Going Zero Waste: Motivations of Pro-environmental Behaviors and Development of Sustainable Lifestyle Community in urban China
  • Liana Smale, 2022, Exploring co-governance structures of public parks in the Bronx, New York City
  • Vivian Bi, 2021, Energy Cultures in Peri-urban Beijing
  • Gabe LePage, 2021, Urban Ecology and Faith Practices at Stillmeadow Community Fellowship Church
  • Rosie Derong Li, 2021, Food, Rumor, and Otherness: An Ethnographic Study in Chinatown Wet Market in Lower Manhattan, New York City
  • Julian Macrone, 2021, The Public Realm and Public Reason: Environmental Justice and Its Public Grounds
  • Shoko Yamada, 2021, Industrial Legacies and Remediation Work in Urban Japan
  • Erin Eck, 2020, Departing from the Norm: diversity, representation, and community-building in outdoor recreation
  • Ashley Stewart, 2020, Black. Women. Environment. Connecticut: Study of Black Female Environmental Leadership in Urban Connecticut
  • Zach Garcia, 2018, Indo-Caribbean Hindu Religious Ecologies in Queens, New York: Reinterpreting Environmental Stewardship through Spiritual Devotion
  • Brittany Thomas, 2017, Ecosystem of Waste: Exploring the Connections between Consumerism, Street Vending, and Waste Management during Carnaval in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
  • Amber Collett, 2016, Urban re-greening, community identity, and perceptions of wellbeing in Harlem Park, West Baltimore
  • Will Klein, 2016, The Nature of Nature: Do perceptions of nature vary among neighborhoods in Baltimore? If so, how?
  • Dana Baker, 2014, Environmental Stewardship in New York City Parks and Natural Areas: assessing barriers, creating opportunities, and proposing a new way forward
  • Dexter Locke, 2012, Neighborhoods as Urban Socio-ecological Patches:Building A Community Forestry Typology
  • Meg Arenberg, 2008, Motivations for Urban Ecological Stewardship at the Neighborhood Scale, A Baltimore Case Study
  • Haley Gilbert, 2008, East Rock Park: Inside and Out—Translating Paper into Product
  • Mohamad Chakaki, 2005, Can Tears and Blood Sprout Olive Trees?
  • Tomas Delgado, 2005, Is a Sustainable Urbanism Possible In 21st Century America?
  • Amy Kimball, 2004, If They Don’t Count, You Don’t Count
  • Carlos Linares, 2003, Institutions and the Urban Environment in Developing Countries: Challenges, Trends, and Transitions
  • Bill Finnegan, 2002, Assessment of Hands-on Multi-media Environmental Education for Urban Adolescents in New Haven, Connecticut
  • Lianne Fisman, 2001, Child’s Play: An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between the Physical Form of Schoolyards and Children's Behavior

Urban Agriculture

  • Lilly Fillwalk, 2023, Understanding carbon sequestration and food access in NYC green roofs
  • Tess McNamara, 2016, Crisis of Urban Agriculture Case Studies in Cuba
  • Yesenia Gallardo, 2014, Latino perceptions: A Portland, Oregon study on how Latina women conceptualize alternative foods
  • Amy Coplen, 2011, Cultivating Commnity: Bulding Cohesion and Forging Identities in New Haven's Community Gardens
  • Justin Freiberg, 2009, Urban Foodshed Collaborative
  • Raji Dhital, 2003, Rural Urban Agriculture Market System: Challenges and Opportunities, A Case Study: Eastern Nepal
  • Margarita Fernandez, 2003, Cultivating Community, Food, and Empowerment: Urban Gardens in New York City
  • Christopher Menone, 2002, Council on the Environment of New York City: relationship of demographics, stewardship and effects of community gardens.

Urbanization and Land Use Change

  • Erin Shives, 2023, A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Compound Hazards in Urban Areas across California
  • Matthew Duyst, 2022, Urban-Methane Transfers: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Atmospheric Emissions Along the YRD
  • Xinyi Li, 2019, Big Data Analysis on Montane Geography and Urban Development in Nepal
  • Bhartendu Pandey, 2018, Urban Infrastructure Inequalities in India
  • Kangning (Ken) Huang, 2017, Forecasting urban land expansion and heat island intensification globally through 2050
  • Meredith Azevedo, 2013, Spatial Linkages between the Growth of Urban Centers and Major Global Cropping Areas: Historical Relationships and Contemporary Conditions
  • Chris Shughrue, 2012, A Model of Nonlinear Urbanization and Information Flows Across India
  • Peter Christensen, 2009, The Form of Change: Inter-Annual Analysis of Urban Expansion using Landscape Metrics
  • Jennifer Lewis, 2007, The Invisible Periphery: Legalization of Peri-Urban Zones in Xalapa, Veracruz
  • Brenna Vredeveld, 2007, Modeling Land Cover Change in Peri-urban Areas of Quito, Ecuador
  • Daniel Stonington, 2004, Essay on the Federal Role in Advancing Smart Growth
  • Jennifer Wells, 2000, Development in Ringwood

Water Quality and Hydrology

  • Alexandra Morrison, 2021, Variation of Microplastic Concentrations in Urban Stormwater with Rainfall Events
  • Allison Adams, 2019, Municipal Monitoring of Stormwater: A Comparison of Stormwater Runoff Nutrient Analysis to Permit-Required Testing
  • Kevin Dahms, 2017, Short-term Sediment Dynamics of Urban Estuaries under Altered Tidal Conditions
  • Kelsey Semrod, 2015, Monitoring hydrologic and water quality data of Green Infrastructure (GI) treatments to understand effectiveness of GI to reduce peak flows and to remove pollution associated with stormwater runoff
  • Katherine Weber, 2015, Nutrient and Sediment Modeling in Watersheds across an Urban-Rural Gradient
  • Jamie O'Connell, 2014, A Century of Salt Marsh Migration in Long Island Sound: Understanding Migration into Upland Habitats
  • Zulimar Lucena, 2013, Factors Controlling Biogeochemical Removal of Nitrogen in Constructed Wetlands
  • Lisa Weber, 2012, Examining the Efficacy of Connecticut Constructed Wetlands as an Urban Stormwater Best Management Practice
  • Troy Hill, 2011, Trace metal fluxes between an urban salt marsh and Long Island Sound
  • Byungman Yoon, 2011, Control of Precipitation Events on Dynamics of Disinfection Byproduct Formation Potential
  • Steven Brady, 2010, Polluted waters: the impacts of runoff on ephemeral wetlands across an urban gradient
  • Lauren Brooks, 2010, Validation of genetic markers and application to detect fecal contamination at beaches in New Haven County, Connecticut
  • Saalem Adera, 2009, Evaluation of a filter for nps phosphorus removal in the Lake Champlain watershed.
  • Lauren Adams, 2008, Perception versus Reality in Urban Water Quality
  • Gerald Bright, 2007, Modeling the Hydraulic Effects of Instream Habitat Restoration
  • James McConaghie, 2006, Nitrogen Sources in Urbanized New Haven Watersheds
  • Joel Creswell, 2005, Mercury Concentrations in an Urbanized Watershed
  • Elena Traister, 2004, Surface Water Bacterial Fluctuation in the Upper Hoosic River Watershed
  • Catherine Ashcraft, 2001, Water Quality in Sodom Brook

Water Resources

  • Lav Kanoi, 2020, Writing on the Waters: The Changing Waterscape of India’s Thirsty Capital City
  • Leana Weissberg, 2016, Closing the Water Budget in an Experimental Urban Watershed: A Comparative Assessment of Methods for Estimating Evapotranspiration
  • Uma Bhandaram, 2014, GIS and Green Infrastructure: Case Study in the Alley Creek Watershed and Sewershed, Queens, New York
  • Dawn Henning, 2014, Social Dynamics of Stormwater Management: Private Lands in the Alley Creek Watershed
  • David Jaeckel, 2014, Water Resource Management & Drought: What can LA learn from Australia's Millenium Drought?
  • Selena Pang, 2014, Influence of Plant Community and Media Composition on the Water Budgets of Coastal Rain Gardens
  • Sayd Randle , 2013, Water Recycling in Urban Southern California: Politics, Practices, and Pragmatics
  • Ranran Wang, 2011, Understand, Simulate, and Optimize the Water-Energy Nexus from a System Dynamics Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Shi Han, 2006, Patterns of Household Water Consumptions and Their Underlying Determining Factors in Bejing
  • Katrina Jessoe, 2006, Does Public Information Disclosure Reduce Drinking Water Violations?
  • Kate Neville, 2006, Public Sector and Public-Private Partnerships in the Urban Water Sector
  • Kate Hamilton, 2005, When Value Flows Upstream:Urban Payments for Watershed Services
  • Robyn Meeks, 2005, Water Governance Programme United Nations Development Programme
  • Marni Burns, 2003, Analysis of Ecologically Guided Development Practices & Case Studies: Application of the Blue Code
  • Terrence Miller, 2002, Urban Rainwater: From Pollution Source to Resource Via Value-Added Design
  • Abdalla Shah, 2002, Value of Improvements in Water Supply Reliability in Zanzibar Town
  • Shane Rosenthal, 2001, The Manila Water Concessions and Their Impact on the Poor