Student Projects

Current Projects:

• Effect of Drought in Two Watersheds in N. California - Colby Tucker - F&ES
• Mapping Informal Settlements: Mumbai, India - Peter Hirsch - F&ES
• Climate Resilience in Arid Ranchlands - Catherine Kuhn - F&ES
• Identifying Peer Effects in Landscape Usage in Phoenix - Jesse Burkhardt - F&ES
• Grey Infrastructure and the Salt Marsh - Simon Gore - F&ES
• Eco-epidemiology of Malaria at the Bhutan-India Border - Wan Nurul Naszeerah - Yale SPH
• Invasive Plant Distribution Modeling Under Climate Change - Jeffery Smith - F&ES
• A Century of Salt Marsh Migration in Long Island Sound - Jamie O’Connell - F&ES
• The rise of eukaryotes: Environmental controls - Ross Anderson - G&G
• Riverine CO₂ and CH₄ flux in the Salmon River Watershed - Kelly Aho - F&ES
• Effects of maternal exposure to ambient air pollution - Lan Jin - F&ES
• Assessing a Geographic Correlation: Spina Bifida and Malaria - Melissa Chapman - Yale College
• Ozone Depletion Impact on Phytoplankton Distribution - Zhemin Xuan - F&ES
• Geomorphology of the Central Patagonian Andes - Wendy DeWolf - G&G
• Remote Hydrological Time Series Analysis of the Ucross Ranch - Devin Routh - F&ES
• Ecosystem Services for Disaster Risk Reduction - Beth Tellman - F&ES
• Inter-annual Variability in Orographic Precipitation - Azusa Takeishi - G&G
• Assessing the Impact of Land-cover Changes on Hydrology - Ambika Khadka - F&ES
• Monitoring of Climate Change in Coromata, Bolivia - Ellen Arnstein - F&ES
• Spatial Correlations Between Urban Centers and Agriculture - Meredith Azevedo - F&ES
• Socio-economic, Institutional, and Ecological Indicators of Successful Tropical Forest Restoration Projects - Matthew Bare - F&ES
• Examining the Responses of Different Land Types to Drought - Yiqi Zheng - G&G
• Land Use Change, Forest Fragmentation and Riparian Ecosystems - Molly Roske - F&ES
• Local Climate Effects of Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia - Natalie Schultz - F&ES
• Remote Sensing to Measure Urban Exposure to Coastal Hazards - Lindsi Seegmiller - F&ES
• Reforestation in Haiti - Karen Tuddenham - F&ES
• Urban Spatial Form and Carbon Emissions - Kellie Stokes - F&ES
• Change Detection of Landuse in Leishan County, China - Jin Yin - F&ES
• Assessment of Algal Blooms in Lake Champlain - Sumana Serchan - F&ES
• Megacities and Urban Land Cover Change - Ester Rojas-Garcia - F&ES
• Change Detection in the Marcellus Shale - Madeline Yozwiak - Yale College
• Galcial Melting in the Himalayas - Sonam Choden - F&ES
• Babesia Risk Map of New England - Matthew Phelps - EEB
• Feather Survey - Teresa Feo - EEB
• Spill-over Effects of Public and Private Protected Areas - Judith Ament - F&ES
• Modeling Cougar Habitat in the Northeast - Henry Glick - F&ES
• Erythroxylaceae Diversity and Distribution - Sarah Federman - EEB
• Observing Observants Using Satellite Data to Measure Religiosity - Adi Greif - Political Science
• Irrigation and the Water Balance in the Jordan Valley - Catherine Chen - Environmental Studies
• Rift Valley Fever in South Africa - Rafael Lefkowitz - Public Health
• Detecting Degradation in Archaeological Sites - Andrew Womack - Anthropology
• Change Detection in the Mattole River Watershed - Daniel Hoshizaki - F&ES
• Urban Clusters in India: Regional Growth as a System of Cities - Chris Shughrue - F&ES
• Draining the Kathmandu Valley - Mingyuan Song - EVST / Anthropology
• Statistical Treatment of TEX-86 Calibration Dataset - Courtney Warren - G&G
• Scales of Environmental Association in East African Bird Species - KT Mertes - EEB
• Tropical Reforestation Dynamics in El Salvador - Jeff Chow - F&ES
• Quantifying Changes in Urban Metal Stock Via Nighttime Lights - Nedal Nasser - F&ES
• Landcover Change and Its Influence Kathmandu Valley, Nepal - Anobha Gurung - F&ES
• Effects of Humans on Tiger-Nilgai Interactions in India - Jennie Miller - F&ES
• Dai Holy Hills: Sanctuaries of Biodiversity in Xishuangbann - Lily Zeng - F&ES
• Constructing an Incision-Rate Map for the Olympic Mts., WA - Elizabeth Brown - G&G
• Atmospheric Physics and Surface Heat Budget - Lei Zhao - F&ES
• Tsetse GIS Mapping Across Africa - Emre Aksoy - EPH
• Vegetation Change in Long Island Sound Salt Marshes - Troy Hill - F&ES
• Tectonics of Southern Italy - Patrick Young - G&G
• The Timbuktu Expedition Project - Peter Coutros - Anthropology
• Glacial Erosion of the Andes in the N Patagonian Icefield - Keith Ma - G&G
• Communication Routes in the Classic Maya Kingdom of Copan - Carlos Chiriboga - Anthropology
• High Frequency Monitoring of CO2, O2 and Chl-a Exchange - Yong Zhao - F&ES
• Drought & Precipitation Patterns in the Gila National Forest - Mercedes Bravo - F&ES
• Identification of Prehistoric Cultivation in Northwest Colorado - Will Gardner - Anthropology
• Patterns of Forest Establishment in the Darhad valley, Mongolia - Tom James - F&ES

Past Projects:

• Exploring Seasonal Change in Arctic Sea Ice - Allegra Gordon - Yale College
• Time Series Vegetation Index Analysis - Noel Aloysius - F&ES
• Land Use and Air Pollution Impact on Asthma Severity - Keita Ebisu - F&ES
• Satellite Data for Environmental Measurement, Monitoring, and Decision-Making in China - Angel Hsu - F&ES
• Land Use and Land Tenure Change in Southern Costa Rica - Dana Graef - Anthropology/F&ES
• Phragmites australis Effects on Amphibians - Mary Rogalski - F&ES
• Role of Environmental Factors in Aedes aegypti Distribution - Meagan Fitzpatrick - EPH
• Genetic Differentiation Of Neotropical Avifauna - Jacob Berv - EEB
• Forest cover change in South India - Dan Summers - F&ES
• Assessing the Effects of Argentina’s 2009 Drought - Dea Doklestic - G&G
• Fragmented Forests & Forest Health in the CT Highlands - Stella Cousins - F&ES
• Classifying Small Pond Winter Surface Type at Yale-Myers - Steve Brady - F&ES
• Enhancing Landscape Connectivity in Southern Bahia: a Restoration Prioritization Model - Danielle Rappaport - F&ES
• Monitoring Urban Land Use Change in China - Ankur Garg - F&ES
• Quantifying biomass in a mixed-use landscape - Erin Raboin - F&ES
• Classifying Mesoproterozoic Geology of Southern Namibia - Jennifer Kasbohm - G&G
• Environmental Factors for Avian Influenza - Natalie Price - Public Health
• Analyzing Logging in James Bay, Quebec - Naomi Heindel - F&ES
• Detecting Landcover Type and Surface Flux by Remote Sensing - Xin Zhang - F&ES
• Old Growth Forest Research in Perucica, Bosnia & Herzegovina - Eli Mitchell-Larson - EVST
• The Social and Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Cultivation - Jenn Baka - F&ES
• Action for Cheetahs in Kenya - Mary Wykstra-Ross - F&ES
• Glacial Change on Baranof Island: Quantifying Local-level Impact of Climate Change - Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins - Yale College
• Spatial Planning for Renewable Energy Facilities Siting - Dan Constable - F&ES
• Modeling Fjord Oceanography in Kongsfjorden - Daksha Rajagopalan - Yale College
• Environmental Predictors of Mongolian Forest Productivity - Kendra Mack - F&ES
• The Effects of Climate on Aedes agypti in Colombia - Yao Fu - YSPM
• An Analysis of Ocean Measurements in the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre - Margaret McCall - Yale College
• Radiative Forcing of Land Use Changes on Regional Climate in the Pearl River Delta - Yang Tian - F&ES
• Sediment Fingerprinting in the Mara River - Christopher Dutton - F&ES
• Land Use Change Detection in Ladakh, India - Amy Higgins - F&ES
• Re-analysis of the Shoulder Girdle in Turtles - Tyler Lyson - G&G
• The Quiet Corner Initiative - Nathan Rutenbeck - F&ES
• Updating LAI Data in a GCM - Josh Pan - F&ES
• Assessing Carbon Stocks Pre- and Post-Burn in Northern Israel - David Ross - F&ES
• Estimating Forest Cover Loss in Playa del Carmen, Mexico - Jaime Severino - F&ES
• Mapping the Market Value of the Environment - Albert Wu - F&ES
• Planning Responses to Sea Level Rise in CT - Matthew Goldstein - F&ES/SOM
• Applying ASTER to the Study of the Landscape Surrounding Caballo Muerto, Peru - Jason Nesbitt - Anthropology
• Boundary Layer Pollution Estimate - Diana Connett - F&ES
• Modeling the Surface Energy Budget at Lake Taihu - Bin Deng - F&ES
• Land Use Change in Bangalore, India - Jacob Munger - F&ES
• Spatial Analysis of the Willamette River Basin - Seth Binder - F&ES
• Forest Classification in Northeastern China and the Russian Far East - Xuemei Han - F&ES
• Farming the Fouta Djallon - Stephen Wood - F&ES
• REDD_Feasibility Analysis in Peru - Ian Starr - F&ES
• Indigenous Community Lands Under a REDD Project Framework - Pablo Reed - F&ES
• Towards a Comprehensive Land Use Bbased REDD - A case study in Ghana and Peru - Giancarlo Raschio - F&ES
• Land-Cover Change in the Eastern Desert of Egypt - Pamela Labib - F&ES
• Characterizing the Environmental Drivers of 2 Dengue Vectors - Eliza Little - EPH and F&ES
• Policy and Ecology in a Highland Valley in Southwest China - Christine Trac - F&ES
• Hydrological Services of an Andean Amazon Cloud Forest - Manuel Mavila - F&ES
• Archaeological Remote Sensing in West Africa - Wade Campbell - Archeological Studies
• Land Cover Change on the Big Island of Hawaii - Kasey Jacobs - F&ES
• Measuring Snow Line Elevation in Patagonia Using Remote Sensing - Chelsea Willett - Yale College - G&G
• Tumbouze Excavations - Douglas Parks - Anthropology
• Changes in Terrestrial Carbon Storage in Russia - David Butman - F&ES
• Evaluating Chicago’s Urban Heat Island Policy - Chris Mackey - Architecture
• Effect of forest fragmentation on forest regeneration - Elaine Hooper - F&ES
• Fuelwood & land use in Honduras - Ian Cummins - F&ES
• Agricultural Expansion in the Fayoum, Egypt - David Kneas and Jessica Barnes - F&ES
• Social and Environmental Change in Post-War Cambodia - Jonathan Padwe - F&ES
• Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in Tropical Cyclones - Bryan Woods - G&G
• Lyme Disease Risk Map of Block Island - Molly Rosenberg - EPH
• Water_Quality_Perception - Lauren Adams - F&ES
• Drought feedback mechanism changes - Aaron Judah - G&G
• Land cover variables, Anopheles aquasalis breeding sites and malaria hot spots - Sarah Guagliardo - EPH
• Vegetation changes in the Lake Baringo, Kenya area - Emily Goble - Anthropology
• Urban Jungle: Urbanization and land use change in Amazonia - Iona Hawken - F&ES
• Satellite Contributions to Surface Heat Budget Estimates - Tamara Machac - G&G
• USVI_Coastal_Change - Marissa Matsler - F&ES
• Low-level atmospheric inversions using brightness temperature - Michele Trickey - G&G
• Paleogeography and Paleoecology of the New York Eurypterids - Kimberly Lau - Yale College
• Amazon Drought Green-Up Investigation - Martin Brouda - F&ES
• Climate Impacts on Electricity Use in Europe - Daniel Steinberg - F&ES
• Habitat use of spider monkeys in Manu National Park, Peru - Nicole Gibson - Anthropology
• Using ASTER to map sedimentary exposures - Faysal Bibi - G&G
• Assessing Stressor-Response Relationships in Aquatic Ecosystems - Tara Moberg - F&ES
• The Earliest Pterosaurs: CT-radiology of the oldest pterosaurs - Brian Andres - G&G
• The Effects of Lowered Flow on Stream Communities - Annika Walters - EEB
• Studying clouds in the Great Plains - Yanping Li - G&G
• Sacred Valley of Peru - Karina Yager - Anthropology
• Land use change in Cusuco National Park, Honduras - Laura Frye-Levine - F&ES
• Managing nitrogen flux to Long Island Sound - Rebecca Barnes - F&ES
• Decision support tool integration for natural resource management - Niccolai - F&ES
• Seasonal migration in western Iran - Tonoike - Anthropology
• Sustainable forest and rangeland management in Armenia - Parisa - F&ES
• Spatiotemporal distribution of fog precipitation in cloud forest fragments - Ponette - F&ES
• Interface of a hydrologic model with landscape management - Karwan - F&ES
• Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Palm Oil Plantations - Carlson - F&ES
• Analysis of Persistent Organochlorines in Alpine Environment - Oden - F&ES
• Modeling the Abundance of Robins in Connecticut - Davis-Boozer - EPH
• Examining water quality in the Chesapeake Bay from space - Ziegler - EVST
• Mountain micro-climate on Denali - Currey - EVST
• Impact of invasive liana on gorilla habitat in the D.R. Congo - Innocent Liengola - F&ES
• Modeling land cover change in peri-urban Areas of Quito - Vredeveld - F&ES
• Measuring coconut plantations in Dominica - Saxena - F&ES
• Neoproterozoic paleobiology, paleogeography, and geodynamics - Raub - G&G
• Tectonics and geobiology of the paleo- and mesoproterozoic - Raub - G&G
• Riparian Forests in the Oueme Basin - Ceperley - F&ES
• Landscape Characteristics and Entomological Risk for Human Lyme Disease - Lutzker - EPH
• Sardinia mosquito project - Cohnstaedt - EPH
• Affect of the Farakka Dam on siltation along the Hooghly River - Gangopadhyay - F&ES
• Environmental influences on urban mosquito distribution - Brown - EPH
• Measuring Water Quality in LI Sound & Chesapeake Bay - Enion - F&ES
• Carbon cycling dynamics in the Hudson River estuary - Griffith - F&ES
• Transportation and land use patterns in European cities - Berkeley - F&ES
• Application of Landsat for stand age mapping in interior Alaska - Cronan - F&ES
• Ceramic exchange and clay characterization - Diebold - Anthropology
• Vegetation mapping of Big Bend National Park - Poulos - F&ES
• Examining archaeological landscapes in Huánuco, Peru - Jason Nesbitt - Anthropology
• Collaborating with Carnivores in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - Anderson - F&ES
• Vegetation dynamics and changes in the hydrological balance
• Temporal-compositional trends in single eruptions of the Big Pine Volcanic Field, CA
• Implementation and evaluation of a rapid assessment technique for New England salt marshes
• Europe’s 2003 summer heatwave from space
• Examining land use and land cover change in the Adirondacks
• A spatial risk model for Ixodes scapularis-borne Borrelia
• Borneo peat carbon study
• MODIS GPP and the Ohio River watershed
• Sprawl from 1990-2000 in 15 US Cities
• Biodiversity impacts of logging and plantation conversion in Bornean dipterocarp forests
• Monitoring gas pipeline impacts and compliance
• Modeling conservation priorities
• Assessing the impacts of road development in Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador
• Road connection impacts - Darien, Colombia
• Change detection of mountaintop removal mining
• Analysis of land-use change in the Extractive Reserves of Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil
• Land use change in eastern Panama over different scales
• Comparing Southern CT Landcover Change with Social/Environmental Demographics
• Assessing Community Nature Resource Management
• Bamboo-Dominated Forests of the Amazon
• Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation on Mt. Moosilauke, NH and Camel’s Hump, VT
• Large Scale Mapping of the Tell Brak in Syria
• Characterization of Riparian Vegetation in Sub-Basins of the Panama Canal Watershed
• Examining changing land-use patterns and deforestation in extractive reserves in Acre, Brazil
• A Forest Management Plan for Crotona Park, Bronx
• Temperature Patterns in the Long Island Sound
• Expanding the RisQue Model of Forest Flammability in Amazonia
• Hemlock decline in the North Madison Cedar Swamp
• Land Use in Buffer Zones of La Amistad International Biosphere Reserve, Costa Rica
• Yale Meyers Forest Model
• Forest Changes in Ethiopia
• Temperature, Rainfall and Settlement in the Near East
• Landcover Classification of the Naugatuck River
• Comparative study of urban density development in two Chinese cities
• A Study of Forest Management in Maine
• Landscape changes in Connecticut and its impact on deer harvest rates
• Northern Belize Landuse Project
• Analysis of Evaporative Cooling from Vegetation
• Observing Western Sinai from Space
• Using MODIS Data to Study Sparse Vegetation
• Yale Glacier Analysis
• Mountain Induced Rainfall
• Temporal Investigation of Cultivation Within and Bordering Araguaia National Park, Brazil
• Investigation of West Nile Encephalitis in NYC
• Forest Stand Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle
• Identification of Livingstone’s Fruit Bat Roosting Sites in the Comoros Islands