Theme: Coupled natural-human systems interactions
Climate-driven changes in human-wildlife interactions
Forecasting climate-driven changes in human-wildlife interactions.
Wildfire and carbon cycling in forests and grasslands
Using cutting-edge remote sensing data to examine the decadal-long effects of wildfires on vegetation biomass and carbon.
Post-fire revegetation in a Changing Climate
Assessing post-fire vegetation changes of western forests as a response to environmental variability due to climate change and human land management practices.
Addressing Shifting Phenology in High School Classrooms
Enhancing high school students' understanding of phenology (nature’s calendar), how climate change is causing shifts, and the subsequent impacts on people.
LASER (Life-cycle Assessment Synthesized with Ecosystems and Risk)
Enhancing the assessment of Forest-Natural Climate Solutions (fNCS) by developing a scalable, spatially-explicit method to evaluate their climate, ecosystem, and social impacts.
Multisectoral perspectives on water justice in Puerto Rico
Seeking to understand the conditions of water contamination and access in Puerto Rico through semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders. Building on research on exposure to metals in drinking water during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment in the PROTECT birth cohort, which focuses on environmental exposures and maternal and child health in Puerto Rico.