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    Jake Seeley

    Jake Seeley

    Environmental Fellow: 2018-2021
    PhD Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

    Jake Seeley is an atmospheric physicist who studies the interactions between convection, clouds, radiation, and climate.... Read more about Jake Seeley

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    Jesse Jenkins

    HUCE Environmental Fellow: 2018-2019
    PhD Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Data Systems and Society
    Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

    Jesse Jenkins harnesses optimization methods and empirical data to improve planning, operations, regulation, and policy in the rapidly evolving electricity sector. He focuses in particular on two important trends: the transition to zero-carbon power systems and the proliferation of distributed energy resources.... Read more about Jesse Jenkins

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    Jemma Deer

    HUCE Environmental Fellow: 2018-2020
    PhD English, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
    Current Position: Researcher in Residence, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

    Jemma Deer works at the intersection of literary studies, deconstruction, and the environmental humanities. She is interested in the ways in which current ecological crises such as climate change, extinction, and biodiversity loss are working to transform the ways we understand the world and our place within it.... Read more about Jemma Deer

    Michael Ford

    Michael Ford

    French Environmental Fellow: 2017-2019
    PhD Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
    Current Position: Associate Laboratory Director for Engineering, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Michael Ford is an engineering and public policy scholar who examines the challenges and opportunities for nuclear energy in contributing to a low-carbon energy future.... Read more about Michael Ford

    Rebecca Musgrave

    Rebecca Musgrave

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2017-2019
    PhD Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bristol (UK)
    Current Position: Lecturer in Bioinorganic Chemistry, King's College London

    Rebecca Musgrave is a chemist and materials scientist interested in the synthesis of highly magnetic metal-containing polymers.... Read more about Rebecca Musgrave

    Anthony Medrano

    Anthony Medrano

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2017-2019
    PhD History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Yale-NUS College

    Anthony Medrano is a historian of the Asian marine environment who studies the interplay between people and fish, science and society, and technology and nature.... Read more about Anthony Medrano

    Kelvin Bates

    Kelvin Bates

    Kernan Brothers Environmental Fellow: 2017-2020
    PhD Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
    Current Position: Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University

    Kelvin Bates is an atmospheric chemist who investigates the interactions between biogenic and anthropogenic emissions and their contributions to smog formation.... Read more about Kelvin Bates

    Daniel Zizzamia

    Daniel Zizzamia

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2016-2018
    PhD History, Montana State University
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Montana State University, Bozeman

    Daniel Zizzamia is a historian of the American West interested in the intersection of history and the Earth sciences in environmental politics and natural resource policy.... Read more about Daniel Zizzamia

    Evan Hepler-Smith

    Evan Hepler-Smith

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2016-2018
    PhD History of Science, Princeton University
    Current Position: Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History, Duke University

    Evan Hepler-Smith is a historian of science who studies the management of data and information in the chemical sciences and chemical regulation.... Read more about Evan Hepler-Smith

    Gillian Osborne

    Gillian Osborne

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2015-2017
    PhD English, University of California, Berkeley
    Current Position: Lecturer, Harvard Extension School and Senior Curriculum Specialist, Poetry in America

    Gillian Osborne is a literary scholar whose research interests include American and Romantic literature, poetry and poetics, and the environmental humanities.... Read more about Gillian Osborne

    Brian Lander

    Brian Lander

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2015-2017
    PhD East Asian Languages and Literatures, Columbia University
    Current Position: Assistant Professor of Environment and Society & History, Brown University

    Brian Lander employs textual, archaeological and paleoecological sources to study the human impact on the environment in ancient China.... Read more about Brian Lander

    Melissa E. Kemp

    Melissa E. Kemp

    National Science Foundation Environmental Fellow: 2015-2017
    PhD Biology, Stanford University
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin

    Melissa Kemp is an evolutionary biologist who uses the fossil record and historical data to investigate species responses to global change phenomena.... Read more about Melissa E. Kemp

    Sebastian D. Eastham

    Sebastian D. Eastham

    NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellow: 2015-2017
    PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
    Current Position: Research Scientist, Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Sebastian David Eastham is an environmental scientist interested in the transport and impacts of pollutants and trace species over long distances through the atmosphere.... Read more about Sebastian D. Eastham

    Yige Zhang

    Yige Zhang

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2014-2016
    PhD Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University

    Yige Zhang is a geochemist interested in understanding how the Earth evolved chemically, and using various geochemical tools to study climate change of the geological past.... Read more about Yige Zhang

    Zoe Nyssa

    Zoe Nyssa

    Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2014-2016
    PhD Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, Anthropology/BRNG, Purdue University

    Zoe Nyssa studies the emergence and contemporary practices of conservation biology in order evaluate their impact globally on endangered species.... Read more about Zoe Nyssa

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