Summer Environmental Fellowships 2007

Berkeley Adrio, Environmental Studies‘09,

Faculty Advisor - Oswald Schmitz (F&ES): The Zululand Tree Project: Acacia population structure and landscape dynamics in Hluhluwe iMfolozi park. [9 weeks, South Africa]

Nathalie Alegre, Environmental Studies’08,

Faculty Advisor - John Wargo (F&ES and Political Science): Elements of usage and sustainability in assessing the impact of infrastructure-building by national public development programs in the Peruvian Andes. [6 weeks, Peru]

Adedana Ashebir, Environmental Studies ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - Lillian Guerra (History): The New Haven/Leon Sister City Project: Agriculture and Public Health. [8 weeks, Nicaragua]

Kathryn Au, Environmental Studies ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Susan Clark (F&ES) : The Perspectives of Local Residents and the Policy Process behind the  Mexican Wolf Recovery Project. [4 weeks, New Mexico and Arizona]

Emily Biesecker, Environmental Studies ‘08, Faculty Advisor - John Wargo (F&ES and Political Science): Subsistence Resource Use and Alaska’s National Parks. [8 weeks, Anchorage, Alaska]

Eric Bloom, Architecture ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Alan Plattus (Architecture): Environmental Mapping Internship: Commission for Environmental Protection, Montreal, Canada. [8 weeks, Montreal, Canada]

Adam Bouland, Mathematics ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - William Mitch (Environmental Engineering): Yale Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders: Water Project in KikooCameroon. [2 weeks, Kikoo, Cameroon]

Constance Bowen, Architecture–Urban Studies ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Sophia Gruzdys (Architecture): Urban Forest: Forces of Regrowth and Responsibility in Baltimore, Maryland. [Baltimore, Maryland]

Gideon Bradburd, Biology ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Adalgisa Caccone (EEB): Conservation of the Harlequin Toad. [11 weeks, Costa Rica]

Sonia Cooke, Environmental Studies ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - John Wargo (F&ES and Political Science): US Response to the Convention of Migratory Species: A Case Study in US Failure to Accede to a Major International Wildlife Treaty. [5 weeks, Bonn, Germany]

Andrew Delman, Geology and Geophysics ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - Jay Ague (G&G): Restoring Native Vegetation and Establishing Sustainable Models for Farming. [6 weeks, San Cristóbal Island, Galapágos Islands, Ecuador]

Nicholas Del Vecchio, Mechanical Engineering ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - William Mitch (Environmental Engineering): Yale Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders: Water Project in Kikoo, Cameroon. [2 weeks, Kikoo, Cameroon]

Brent Godfrey, History ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - Stuart Schwartz (History): Historical Perspectives on Ethanol Energy in Brazil. [8 weeks, Brazil]

Allison Guy, Environmental Studies ‘08, Faculty Advisor - John Wargo (F&ES and Political Science): Why No One Visits Paradise: Tour Guide Usage of Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve in Belize. [10 weeks, Ambergris Caye, Belize]

Lauren Hallett, Ecology and Environmental Biology ‘08, Faculty Advisor - Melinda Smith (EEB): Understanding the Effect of Climate Change on Relative Growth Rates of Two Dominant Tall, Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas. [12 weeks, Manhattan, Kansas]

Angel Hertslet, Environmental Studies ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Amity Doolittle (F&ES), : Perceptions and Community Dynamics in Relation to Cusuco National Park, Honduras with NGO Op. Wallace. [8 weeks, Honduras]

Allison Hoyt, Geology and Geophysics ’09,

Faculty Advisor - William Mitch (Environmental Engineering): Yale Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders: Water Project in Kikoo, Cameroon. [2 weeks, Kikoo, Cameroon]

Emily Jack-Scott, Environmental Studies ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - John Wargo (F&ES and Political Science): Wetlands Institute Coastal Conservation Research Project: Variance in Beach Degradation Across Socioeconomic Level in Coastal Communities. [12 weeks, Stone Harbor, New Jersey]

Jessica Jeffers, Economics and Mathematics ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - William Mitch (Enviornmental Engineering): Yale Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders: Water Project in Kikoo, Cameroon. [2 weeks, Kikoo, Cameroon]

Xiaodong (Jessica) Jiang, Economics ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Robert Mendelsohn (F&ES): Economics of Climate Change: A Foray into Uncertainty. [8 weeks, New Haven, Conn.]

Anna Johnson, Environmental Studies ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Melinda Smith (EEB): How is carbon sequestration in agricultural soils affected by agricultural practices? A research internship at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, North Carolina State University. [8 weeks, Raleigh, North Carolina]

Danielle Kehl, ‘10,

Faculty Advisor - Derek Briggs (G&G): Conservation of Coastal Diversity and Threatened Marine Turtles in Bahia Magdalena, Mexico, with the School for Field Studies. [Four weeks, Bahia Magdalena, Mexico]

David Kohn, ‘10,

Faculty Advisor - Alessandro Gomez (Mechanical Engineering): Water Desalination and Policy Implications in Israel. [8 weeks, Israel]

Evan McCartney-Melstad, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology ‘08,

Faculty Advisor - Thomas Near (EEB): Ontogeny and the generation of biodiversity: an empirical study of centrarchid fishes. [14 weeks, New Haven, Conn.]

Arvind Nagarajan, Economics and Political Science ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - Benjamin Cashore (F&ES):Economic Sustainability Research at the Congal Biomarine Reserve. [8 weeks, Ecuador]

Nicholas Olsen, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - David Post (EEB): Influences of Light and Flow Rate Disturbances on Stream Insect Ecology, Yale Myers Forest. [12 weeks, North-Western Conn.]

Sean Pool, Environmental Engineering ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - Julie Newman (Office of Sustainability): Sustainability Research Exchange at Australia National University in Canberra. [8 weeks, Canberra, Australia]

Thomas Santoro, Environmental Studies ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - John Wargo (F&ES and Political Science): Plastics - Bisphenol A and Phthalates: State of the Science, and Strategies to Minimize Exposures; Student Intern and Research Assistant, Environment and Human Health, Inc. [10 weeks, North Haven, Conn.]

Kelly Yamashita, Anthropology ‘09,

Faculty Advisor - Helen Siu (Anthropology): An exploration of fundraising efforts to support environmental conservation in China, an Internship with Nature Conservancy’s Hong Kong Office. [10 weeks, Hong Kong, China]