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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%...
Principal Investigator
Kathleen Lange
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Western Tennessee Water Resources (Fall 2022)
Team: Lauren Webster (Project Lead), Elena Pilch, Michael Pazmino, Katera Lee
Summary: The Memphis Aquifer (MA) is located in the Mississippi Embayment that extends 250,000 square kilometers across nine states. Fayette and Haywood counties in West Tennessee are situated...
Principal Investigator
Brandy Nisbet-Wilcox
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Idaho Wildfires II (Fall 2022)
Team: Talissa Cota (Project Lead), Dana Drinkall, Ryan Healey, Tyler Morvant
Summary: The western United States has experienced twenty years of increased and prolonged drought, which has exacerbated wildfire hazards. These hazards jeopardize population centers through increased risks to ecosystem...
Principal Investigator
Carli Merrick
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Bryce Canyon Water Resources (Fall 2022)
Team: Aaron Carr (Project Lead), Mel Frost, Alissa Stark, Ashley Grinstead
Summary: Bryce Canyon National Park is home to groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) that are threatened by a multidecadal drought and increased groundwater extraction due to a spike in tourism...
Principal Investigator
Sarah Payne
Capacity Building Type
DEVELOP
Georgia Disasters (Fall 2022)
Team: Isabella Chittumuri (Project Lead), Nancee Uniyal, Nathan Tesfayi, Shakirah Rogers
Summary: In September 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in southern Georgia, causing severe flooding and widespread destruction. Disaster recovery programs were inaccessible for heirs' property owners due to title difficulties...