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Principal Investigator
Katie Lange
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Western Sonoran Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Anne Britton (Project Lead), Deirdre An, Seamus Geraty, Charles Nixon
Summary: Ephemeral freshwater rock pools, known as tinajas, have great biologic and cultural importance as sources of surface water in the western Sonoran Desert (WSD). Tinaja flooding and...
Principal Investigator
Caroline Williams
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Maipo River Valley Agriculture (Summer 2022)
Team: Benjamin Goffin (Project Lead), Duncan Srsic, Rishudh, Sarah Carlos
Summary: Agriculture is the primary use of water in the Maipo River basin of Central Chile, accounting for ~ 75% of the total demand. Assessment of irrigation needs for...
Principal Investigator
Nicole Ramberg-Pihl
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Maine Ecological Forecasting III (Summer 2022)
Team: Jonathan Falciani (Project Lead), Colin Hogan, Linda Mitchell, Makario Sarsozo
Summary: Shifting patterns in land use and land cover (LULC), temperature, and precipitation have exacerbated a rapid decline in Federally Endangered wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations. The...
Principal Investigator
Sarah Hettema
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Black Hills Wildfires (Summer 2022)
Team: Casey Menick (Project Lead), Haley Stuckmeyer, Heidi Rogers, Yeshey Seldon
Summary: The 2000 Jasper Fire in the Black Hills of South Dakota was the largest wildfire to date in the region, burning over 83,000 acres of ponderosa pine forest...
Principal Investigator
Ryan Hammock
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Hawai'i Island Climate (Summer 2022)
Team: Lisa Tanh (Project Lead), Ian Lee, Connor Racette, Matilda Anokye
Summary: Climate-induced sea level rise poses a risk to coastal areas on the Island of Hawai'i, and many of the island’s historic cultural lands are in danger of becoming...
Principal Investigator
Britnay Beaudry
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
New York Ecological Forecasting (Summer 2022)
Team: Liam Megraw (Project Lead), Stefanie Dimayuga Mendoza, Jesse Carlson, Samantha Kelly
Summary: Since their first sightings in the U.S. in 2002, emerald ash borer beetles (Agrilus planipennis; EAB) have killed millions of native ash (Fraxinus...
Principal Investigator
Britnay Beaudry
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
FLORIDA Water Resources (Summer 2022)
Team: Koya Oki, Emily Heltzel, Kyle Stark, Samuel Perrello
Summary: Intensifying weather events, sea level rise, and extensive coastal development in Southwestern Florida are escalating the need for Florida’s mangrove conservation. These mangroves are imperative for coastline stabilization, habitat provision...
Principal Investigator
Marco Vallejos
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Environmental Justice Needs Assessment for Health & Air Quality (Spring 2022)
Team: Elizabeth Duran (Project Lead), Paige Aldenberg, Sadie Murray, Thomas Schindelman
Summary: Health and air quality are concerns in environmental justice (EJ) work, as air contaminants and their adverse health effects inequitably impact communities that are often...
Principal Investigator
Marco Vallejos
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Environmental Justice Needs Assessment for Disasters (Spring 2022)
Team: Julianne Liu (Project Lead), Emma Cooper, Natasha Johnson-Griffin, Keegan Kessler
Summary: Natural disasters pose an increasing risk to communities worldwide. Marginalized populations, in particular, experience compounding vulnerabilities that contribute to unequal burdens of natural hazards as a result of...
Principal Investigator
Caroline Williams
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
UHEAT Urban Development (Spring 2022)
Team: Akshay Agrawal (Project Lead), Myung Sik Cho, Zainab Farid, Vanessa Machuca
Summary: Extreme heat is a leading weather-related cause of death in the United States. Given that vulnerability to extreme heat is strongly related to heat exposure and socioeconomic...