Former Fellows

Daniel A. Barber is an architectural historian analyzing affinities between the history of architecture and the emergence of environmentalism in the 20^th century.

Gil Bohrer is an atmospheric physicist who focuses on atmosphere-biosphere-hydrosphere interactions.

Susan Cameron is an ecologist and conservation biologist who studies how climate change shapes patterns of biodiversity.

Joseph Cullen is an economist who studies the interaction between government regulation, business decisions, and the environment.

Emily V. Fischer is an atmospheric chemist interested in how air pollutants are transported around the globe and how the atmosphere’s self-cleansing capacity will respond to climate change.

Garth Heutel is an economist who studies the dynamic interactions between environmental policies and economic issues.

Valeriy Ivanov is a hydrologist interested in how climate and topography affect water, energy, and vegetation dynamics in natural landscapes. In September 2007, Valeriy joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor.

Alex Johnson is a physicist who will use his experimental and theoretical skills to design, build, and test a new generation of fuel cells that might be used to power portable electronics or cars.

Jacob Krich is a theoretical condensed matter physicist interested in the quantum mechanical properties of materials at the nanoscale, and especially on applications of these properties to clean energy science.

Francis Ludlow is a historical climatologist studying the long neglected documentary record of annalistic and chronicle sources compiled in Ireland from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries AD, with respect to their rich evidence for the occurrence of historic meteorological extremes, natural hazards and their impacts upon medieval Irish society and the biosphere.

Esther Mwangi, a native of Kenya, is a political scientist whose broad research interests concern the role of institutions (particularly property rights) in fostering sustainable natural resource management and improving local livelihoods.

David Romps is a string theorist with a deeper interest in global climate change.

Eduardo Souza Rodrigues is an economist interested in the causes of the deforestation in the Amazon and in the costs and effectiveness of policies that promote conservation.

Jenny Suckale is a geophysicist who studies the dynamics of multiphase flow in natural systems ranging from glacial beds to volcanic conduits.

Rich Wildman is an environmental engineer who is interested in the movement and chemical reaction of contaminants in drinking water supplies, especially those that pass through reservoirs.

Alex Wissner-Gross is a condensed matter physicist whose broad research interests concern the science and technology of programmable media, with a recent focus on the intersection of computation, energy, and the environment.

Ling Zhang is a historian studying the environmental and economic history of medieval northern China, with particular emphasis on the environmental problems associated with natural disasters and economic decline in traditional agricultural society.