Principal Investigator

Julianne Liu

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Milwaukee Urban Development II (Fall 2022)

Team: Nash Keyes (Project Lead), caleigh McLaren, Nati Phan, Dalia Vazques

Summary: Milwaukee’s neighborhoods experience increased social, health, and ecological stress from the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect due to changing land cover and climate. Extreme urban heat disproportionately...

Principal Investigator

Caroline Williams

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Southeast US Climate (Fall 2022)

Team: Heidi Rogers (Project Lead), Mistaya Smith, Maggie Mason, Anish Holla

Summary: Deforestation, a significant contributor to carbon emissions, is a major driver of climate change. To best inform climate mitigation, decision-makers must have accurate estimations of carbon emitted during...

Principal Investigator

Kathryn Caruso

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Gatlinburg & Beatty Wildfires (Fall 2022)

Team: Kelli Roberts (Project Lead), William Hadley, Daniel Littleton

Summary: Wildfire potential monitoring, which is increasingly vital under climate change-induced droughts, could be improved by incorporating remotely-sensed soil moisture data. To better understand the connections between soil moisture and...

Principal Investigator

Brianne Kendall

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Guatemala & Panama Urban Development (Fall 2022)

Team: Jennifer Ruiz (Project Lead), Coral Del Mar Valle Rodríguez; Viviana Lademan; Aaron Whittemore

Summary: Central America is experiencing rapid and unregulated urban expansion, which is contributing to an increase in socioeconomic and environmental risks, including inequities in...

Principal Investigator

Brianne Kendall

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Mesoamerica Ecological Forecasting (Fall 2022)

Team: Hanna Jung (Deliverables Lead), Ross Kalter (Technical Lead), Ameilia Untiedt, Cristina Villalobos-Heredia

Summary: In 1992, Central America and Mexico drew up an agreement to establish the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC) which defines natural corridors to connect nearly 600 protected...

Principal Investigator

Tyler Pantle

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Kansas City Disasters II (Fall 2022)

Team: Nora Carmody (Project Lead), Dain Kim, Kameron Lloyd, Ruby Nagelberg

Summary: In pluvial flood events, stormwater runoff can pollute ground and surface water, posing a threat long after the rain has ceased. In Wyandotte County, Kansas, this contamination...

Principal Investigator

Tyler Pantle

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Gulf of Maine Water Resources (Fall 2022)

Team: Suhani Dalal (Project Lead), Lily Gray, Yixuan Li, Jane Zugarek

Summary: The Gulf of Maine has a history of harmful algal blooms (HABs) that have increased in frequency and intensity in recent years, raising concerns in the...

Principal Investigator

Olivia Landry

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Youngstown & Warren Disasters (Fall 2022)

Team: Lauren Mahoney (Project Lead), David Henriques, Nada Haddad, Thomas Ferrell

Summary: Both pluvial and fluvial flooding events pose direct challenges to urban infrastructure and communities across the United States. Heavy rainfall events oversaturate the ground, overflow waterbodies, and...

Principal Investigator

Olivia Landry

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Keweenaw Bay Water Resources (Fall 2022)

Team: Khaim Syed-Raza (Project Lead), Sofia Vahutinsky, Lisa Siewart, Nora Whitelaw-McDonald

Summary: The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) has a shoreline south of Lake Superior that is contaminated with copper stamp sands from legacy mining. The stamp sands have...

Principal Investigator

Kathleen Lange

Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP

Gulf of Mexico Health & Air Quality II (Fall 2022)

Team: Ben Dahan (Project Lead), Melodi Hess, Rene Castillo, Vanessa Machuca

Summary: Offshore oil and gas production in the United States is a significant source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for nearly 30%...