Current & Past Summer Research Grant Recipients
The Center gratefully acknowledges Bertram Cohn for his generous support of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund. Please also acknowledge the support of the Thomas B. AB 1943 and Joan Herzfeld HUCE Undergraduate Summer Research Fund.
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2023 Award Recipients
The Center offered 11 awards for independent research and 15 research assistantships with Harvard faculty to undergraduate concentrators in Chemistry, Environmental Science and Engineering, Computer Science, English, Neuroscience, Sociology, Statistics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Bioengineering, Microbial Sciences, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, and Environmental Science and Public Policy.
Independent Research Projects
- Hannah Adler ’25, “Science Communication and Conservation Field Research in the Karingani Game Reserve” with Professor Andrew Davies (FAS)
- Andrew Chu ’26, “Multilateral Methane Border Adjustment Fees for the US and EU” with Professor Catherine Wolfram (HKS)
- Eddie Dai ’25, “Humans, Nature, and Boundaries Through Ethnographic Film” with Professor Lucien Castaing-Taylor (FAS)
- Seychelle Doyley ’24, “Drying without Dying” with Professor George Church (HMS)
- Tim Fargiano ’24, “Using Satellite Data to Analyze Climate and Farming in the Sahel” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS)
- Harmony Fisher ’26, “Investigating MethaneAIR Datasets to Determine Rates and Spatial Distributions of Methane Emissions” with Professor Steven C. Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
- Izzy Goodchild-Michelman ’24, “Engineering a Photosynthetic Microbial Co-culture System for Carbon-Capture” with Professor George Church (HMS)
- Hailey Hurd ’25, “Characterizing Phase Transitions of Barocaloric Materials in Liquid Mediums” with Professor Jarad Mason (FAS)
- Lillian Krcmar ’25, “An Analysis of Microbial Methane Production within Wetland Ecosystems” with Professor Ann Pearson and Professor Jerome Blewett (FAS)
- Agustín León-Sáenz ’25, “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Heavy Metal Concentrations in Northeast Drinking Water” with Professor Elsie Sunderland (SEAS)
- Alex Oort Alonso ’26, “Using the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) Model to Assess the Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Methane Emissions” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
Research Assistantship Projects
- Cory Beizer ’24, “Stories of Ecological Devastation, Mental Illness, and Inequality” with Professor Karen Thornber (FAS)
- Christian Chiu ’25, “Data-Driven Placement of PM2.5 Air Quality Sensors in the United States: An Approach to Target Urban Environmental Injustice” with Professor Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
- Ashley Dawn ’25, “Plant Responses to Soil and Atmospheric Drought” with Professor Missy Holbrook (FAS)
- Abby Fennelly ’24, “Strengthening Communities for Changing Energy Systems” with Professor Diane Davis (GSD)
- Saskia Fisher ’24, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution and Heat Waves” with Professor David Jones (FAS, HMS)
- Alyson Harvey ’25, “Cell Fusion for Repopulation & De-extinction” with Professor George Church (HMS)
- Uzma Issa ’25, “Optimizing Environmentally Responsible Health Care” with Professor Ann-Christine Duhaime (HMS)
- Ellie Klibaner-Schiff ’26, “Climate Health and the Immune System: A Hot Topic” with Professor Kari Nadeau (HSPH)
- Ee Jenn Lee ’25, “From Kyoto to Paris: The Evolution of International Climate Cooperation” with Professor Gunnar Trumbull (HBS)
- Alice Liu, ’26, “MethaneSAT/MethaneAIR Image Analysis and Methane Emission Determination” with Professor Steven C. Wofsy (SEAS)
- Tomoki Matsuno ’25, “Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Executive-Branch Policymaking” with Professor Daniel Carpenter (FAS)
- Elisabeth Ngo ’26, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution and Heat Waves” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
- Max Park ’26, “Shape-Morphing Liquid Droplets for Smart Windows & Zero-Energy Buildings” with Professor Joanna Aizenberg (SEAS)
- Genevieve Raushenbush ’24, “Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa” with Professor M. Cammett (FAS, HSPH)
- Tali Wong ’25, “Environmental Sensors Project (Healthy Cities Lab)” with Professor Gary Adamkiewicz (HSPH)
2022 Award Recipients
The Center offered 15 awards for independent research and 16 research assistantships with Harvard faculty to undergraduate concentrators in Chemistry, Environmental Science and Engineering, Computer Science, English, Religion, Social Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Government, Physics, Integrative Biology, Applied Mathematics, Economics, and Environmental Science and Public Policy.
Independent Research Projects:
- Nick Daley ‘23, “Exploring the Effects of Siberian Alder Expansion on Plant Communities in the Alaskan Arctic” with Professor Ben Taylor (FAS)
- Devin Guevara ‘25, “Modeling the Changing Carbon Flux of the Alaskan North Slope” with Professor Steve Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
- Klara Kuemmerle ‘24, “Analyzing the Effect of CO2 Emissions Reductions on Levels of Atmospheric NO2” with Professor Frank Keutsch (SEAS)
- Gabe LeBlanc ‘25, “Increasing Gas Solubility Through Permanent Porosity in Liquids” with Professor Jarad Mason (FAS)
- Bella Nesti ‘24, “Atmospheric Chemical Interactions With Flora” with Professor Frank Keutsch (SEAS)
- Sarah Packman ‘25, “Analyzing Recent Trends in Anthropogenic and Biogenic CO2 Fluxes in the Boston Area ” with Professor Steve Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
- Alexandra Fogel ‘23, “Relocation in the Wake of Natural Disaster: A Case Study of Rockaway, New York” with Professor Diane Davis (GSD)
- Marco Hansel ‘25, “Optimizing Silicalite-2 Zeolite Nanoparticles for Microporous Water Applications” with Professor Jarad Mason (FAS)
- Madi Howard ‘23, “In the Place That Had Been Elsewhere: v.S. Naipaul’s Representations of Rural England” with Professor Homi Bhabha (FAS)
- Hana Kiros ‘23, “40 Million City Trees: The Relation of Race and Income to Spatial Clustering, Biodiversity, and Climate Effects in Urban Forests” with Professor Andrew Berry (FAS)
- Maryna Macdonald ‘23, “A Plan to Decarbonize the Electrical Grid in Canada” with Professor David Keith (SEAS)
- Em Murdock ‘23, “Changes in Temperature, Soil Moisture and Radiative Variance, and Their Implications for Food Security” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS, SEAS)
- Maddy Ranalli ‘23, “Lawn Chair Environmentalism: The Persistence of High-Emissions Land Use Policy in Suburban America” with Professor Dustin Tingley (FAS)
- Devinder Sarai ‘25, “Cequest: Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Production via Seawater Electrolysis” with Professor Daniel Schrag (FAS)
- Lisa Wang ‘23, “Decarbonization, Decentralization, and Digitalization of the Electric Grid” with Professor Jim Stock (HKS)
Research Assistantship Projects:
- Davit Antonyan ‘23, “Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Executive-branch Policymaking” with Professor Daniel Carpenter (FAS)
- Kayla Baker ‘23, “Investigating the Mold Resiliency of Buildings in Future Climates” with Professor Holly Samuelson (GSD)
- Nicki Bugliosi ‘24, “Climate Dynamics” with Professor Eli Tziperman (FAS, SEAS)
- Sameer Das ‘24, “Climate Dynamics” with Professor Eli Tziperman (FAS, SEAS)
- Tim Fargiano ‘24, “Optimizing Placement of Air Quality Sensors across the United States and in Selected Cities” with Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
- Robert Greene ‘24, “Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Executive-branch Policymaking” with Professor Daniel Carpenter (FAS)
- Alayna Jenkins ‘23, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
- Sanjna Kedia ‘25, “Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
- Grace Kim ‘25, “Designs for Environmentally Responsible Health Care Facilities” with Professor Ann-Christine Duhaime (HMS)
- Cooper Knarr ‘25, “Research and Fact Checking for Book Chapter about Global Adaptation and Managed Retreat” with Professor Susan Crawford (HLS)
- Julia Mansfield ‘25, “Constraining Mercury Burial in Marine Sediment” with Professor Elsie Sunderland (SEAS)
- Daniel Pinckney ‘24, “Urban Futures” with Professor Bruno Carvalho (GSD)
- Da’Vion Tatum ‘25, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
- Claire Wigglesworth ‘24, “Urban Futures” with Professor Bruno Carvalho (GSD)
- Kaitlyn Zhou ‘25, “Wild African Elephant Social Behavior and Conservation” with Professor Caitlin O'Connell (HMS)
2021 Award Recipients
The Center offered 8 awards for independent research and 19 research assistantships with Harvard faculty to undergraduate concentrators in Chemistry, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Human Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Government, Integrative Biology, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, and Environmental Science and Public Policy.
Independent Research Projects:
- Charlotte Dyvik Henke ‘22, “Arctic Sea Ice Variability and Comparisons with CMIP6 Model Simulations” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS, SEAS)
- John Ferguson ‘22, “China’s Mega Transmission Lines: Lessons Learned from State Grid” with Professor William Alford (HLS)
- Noah Jones ‘22, “High-Altitude Long-Endurance Solar Powered Aircraft” with Professor Jim Anderson (SEAS)
- DJ Kranchalk ‘23, “Rural Nitrogen Oxide Emissions at Harvard Forest” with Professor Steve Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
- Roy Mugobi ‘22, “A Comparative Study of the Artisanal Mining in Zimbabwe with Emphasis on the Role the Government Plays” with Professor John Shaw (FAS)
- Daniel Shen ‘24, “Improving Sentinel-2 Methane Retrievals over Heterogeneous Terrain” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
- Lincoln Sorscher ‘22, “Humor as an Effective Climate Change Communicator” with Professor Daniel Schrag (FAS)
- Natural Taylor ‘24, “Air Quality in the DC Metro System as Measured by Particle Count, Date and Time, and Station” with Professor Steve Wofsy and Professor Elsie Sunderland (SEAS)
Research Assistantship Projects:
- Raisha Rahman ‘22, “Case Studies about the Future in Historical Perspective” with Professor Bruno Carvalho (GSD)
- Alessio Pignatelli ‘23, “Wild African Elephant Behavior and Conservation” with Professors Caitlin O'Connell (HMS)
- Lewis McAllister ‘21, “Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
- Nirupama Roka Magar ‘24, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
- Kathleen Downey ‘24, “Designs for Environmentally Responsible Health Care Facilities” with Professor Tina Duhaime (HMS)
- Layla Seaver ‘24, “Legal, Social, and Political Correlates of Water Conservation in Mexico: Environmental Negotiation as a Tool for Mitigating Climate-change Induced Drought” with Professor Diane Davis (GSD)
- Paul Curran ‘23, “Energy Infrastructure Siting” with Professor Henry Lee (HKS)
- Charles Hua ‘22, “Renewable Hydrogen” with Professor Henry Lee (HKS)
- Idabelle Paterson ‘22, “Amazonian Deforestation and Archaeological Landscapes” with Professor Jason Ur (FAS)
- Alison Kim ‘22, “Taking the Fingerprints of Sea Level Change” with Professor Jerry Mitrovica (FAS, SEAS)
- Matej Cerman ‘23, “Low-carbon Standards and Green Technology Policy” with Professor Jim Stock (HKS)
- Samuel Lin ‘24, “Investigations of Air Quality” with Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
- Maggie Vallejo ‘23, “Investigations of Air Quality” with Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
- Madeline Kitch ‘21, “Case Studies on Climate Adaptation” with Professor Susan Crawford (HLS)
- Jason Jorge ‘23, “Resolving Soil Moisture of Small-Scale Farms using SMAP Remote Sensing” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS, SEAS)
- Kevin Luo ‘24, “Improving Inverse Modeling Setups for Optimizing Methane Emissions” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
- Gabriel Maxemin ‘24, “Using AIRS-MLS Data to Identify Convective Impacts on Stratospheric Water Vapor Levels” with Professor Jim Anderson (SEAS)
- Emma Zuckerman ‘24, “Solar Powered Aircraft for Climate Observing” with Professor Jim Anderson (SEAS)
2020 Award Recipients
The Center offered 8 awards for independent research and 84 research assistantships with Harvard faculty to undergraduate concentrators in Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Visual and Environmental Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, English, and Environmental Science and Public Policy.
This year, we expanded the program in response to the pandemic to help a much larger group of students, many of whom found themselves without many of the opportunities that they had planned on.
We would like to thank our faculty who stepped forward to help mentor our students, and in many cases, helped with funding. Programs who helped: Harvard College Research Program (HCRP), Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE), Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP), Oceanography Committee, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Nutrition. Our donors: Bert and Barbara Cohn, Robert Ziff, and the Diker Family Fund for Energy and Environment.
Independent Reseach Projects:
- Aidan Gibbons ‘21, “An Analysis of Pm25 Levels across the United States through a Socioeconomic Lens” with Professor Natesh Pillai (FAS)
- Daniel Sherman ‘21, “Financial and Policy Techniques to Advance Land Conservation and Natural GHG Sequestration” with Professor Randolph Wentworth (HKS)
- Fraser Darling ‘22, Technical Editorial Assistant for Energy Textbook, Professor Mike Aziz (SEAS)
- Kent Toshima ‘21, “Use of Machine Learning to Improve Detection of Smoke Plumes and Fire Sources in Satellite Data Over North America” with Professor Loretta J. Mickley (SEAS)
- Lincoln Sorscher ‘22, “Humor as an Effective Climate Change Communicator” with Professor Daniel Schrag (FAS)
- Raymond Song ‘21, “Investigating the prospect of China’s low-carbon energy system in 2050” with Professor Mike McElroy (FAS, SEAS)
- Robert Powell ‘21, “Australian Indigenous Prescribed Burning Regimes and Wildfire Risk: A Comparative Analysis” with Professor Kaighin McColl (FAS, SEAS)
- Woojin Lim ‘22, “The Ethical and Political Dimensions or Solar Geoengineering” with Professor Lucas Stanczyk (FAS)
Research Assistantship Projects:
- Alison Hu ‘23, “Climate Change Polling Visualization and Analytics” with Professor Dustin Tingley (FAS)
- Henry Marshal ‘22, Faith Rugut ‘23, “Appalachia Case Study” with Professors Stephen Ansolabehere and Dustin Tingley (FAS)
- William Schrepferman ‘23, “Survey Research on Climate Policy” with Professors Stephen Ansolabehere and Dustin Tingley (FAS)
- Oliver York ‘21 “Assessing the Effects of Rooftop Solar Programs” with Professor James Stock (HKS)
- Andrew Huang ‘21, David Zhang ‘23, “Chinese Initiatives to Tackle Climate Change Beyond Its Borders” with Professor Mark Wu (HLS)
- Emily Murdock ‘22, Connor McRobert ‘21, Charles Hua ‘22, Michael Chen ‘22, “Climate-related Economic Stimulus” with Professor Joe Aldy (HKS)
- Sammer Marzouk ‘23, Ishan Bhatt ‘23, Frederick Horne ‘22, “Creation of a Geo-database of Climate Events and Climatic Change” with Professor Michael McCormick (FAS)
- Araceli Marcial ‘21, “Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx)” with Professor Frank Keutsch (SEAS)
- Gregory Valtierra ‘21, Weimer Macuri-Espinoza ‘21, “Tropospheric Chemistry” with Professor Frank Keutsch (SEAS)
- Yash Kumbhat ‘21, Caty Vigil ‘21, “Antarctic Research” with HUCE Fellow Marissa Grunes (HUCE, FAS)
- Lara Zeng ‘23, Fatima Mbaye ‘21, “The Future of Lightning in a Warming World” with HUCE Fellow Jake Seeley (HUCE, FAS)
- Amelia Roth-Dishy ‘22, Adrian Hackney ‘23, Andres Triana ‘23, “Case Studies about the Future in Historical Perspective” with Professor Bruno Carvalho (FAS, GSD)
- Anaga Dinesh ‘22, “Leaves in Trouble: The Challenge of Managing High Frequency Transpiration Dynamics in a Warming World” with Professor Missy Holbrook (FAS)
- Laila Tauqeer ‘21, “The Possible Garden: Arid Landscape Morphologies and the Islamic Agronomic Tradition” with Professor Pablo Pérez-Ramos (GSD)
- Jozef Soja ‘21, “Predicting Madagascar's Agricultural Yields” with Professors Peter Hybers and Angela Rigden (FAS, SEAS)
- Maycee Wieczorek ‘23, Nathan Oalican ‘21, “Trees and Carbon Sequestration” with Professor Missy Holbrook (FAS)
- Jocelyn Wang ‘22, “Orchids and orchid bees: a model system to investigate how to prioritize pollinator protection” with Professor Naomi Pierce (AFS)
- Madelyn Mauro ‘23, Joyce Zhou ‘22, Saher Siddiqui ‘21, Brammy Rajakumar ‘23, “Designs for Environmentally Responsible Health Care Facilities” with Professor Tina Duhaime (HMS)
- Esmé Wheeler ‘23, Bhushan Patel ‘22, “Sustainable Energy Analysis” with Professor Dan Nocera and HUCE Fellow Agnes Thorarinsdottir (HUCE, SEAS)
- William Wu ‘22, Phoebe Fallon ‘23, Derek Zheng ‘23, Henry Austin ‘23, Carina Peng ‘23, “Environment and Natural Resources Program Research” with Professor Henry Lee (HKS)
- Christina Janulis ‘21, Andrew Van Camp ‘23, “Computational Analysis of Adaptation and Immunity in Avian Genomes” with Professor Scott Edwards (FAS)
- Fiker Nagesh ‘23, “Stories of Contagion” with HUCE Fellow Jemma Deer (HUCE, FAS)
- Annelisa Kingsbury Lee ‘23, “Land Use Requirements for Utility-Scale Renewable Energy” with Professor Naomi Oreskes (FAS)
- Andrew Kim ‘22, Tarun Timalsina ‘22, “A Summer of Supervised Independent Research in Environmental Economics and Policy” with Professor Robert Stavins (HKS)
- Wyatt Hurt ‘21, Maria Keselj ‘23, Nicholas Nocita ‘23, Samantha Schmitz ‘22, Jacob Jimenez ‘23, Ashley Wang ‘23, “Sustainable Development: Linking Theory and Practice” with Professor Bill Clark and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Alicia Harley (HKS)
- Emilly Fan ‘22, “Global Projections of Future Air Conditioning Demand in General Circulation Models” with Professor Mike McElroy (FAS)
- Jonathan D’Souza ‘23, Tuzo Mulunda ‘23, “Investigating the Effect of Coronavirus Pandemic on Air Quality and Associated Human Health in India” with Professor Mike McElroy (FAS)
- Caroline Ko ‘21, “Aging, Housing, Neighborhoods, and Climate Change” with Professor Ann Forsyth (FAS)
- Shayna Grossman ‘23, Ivan Specht ‘23 “Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
- Ariel Silverman ‘22, “Case Studies on Climate Adaptation” with Professor Susan Crawford (HLS)
- Finn Bamber ‘22, Sam Lincoln ‘21, Ammara Vaid ‘22, “Designing with Darkness” with Professor Gareth Doherty (FAS)
- Griffin Andrea ‘21, Eva Gildea ‘21, Sinead Danagher ‘21, “Cities, Climate, Color” with Professor Gareth Doherty (FAS)
- Annie Miall ‘22, Eva Rosenfeld ‘21, Bjarni Atlason ‘22, Wonoula Obasa ‘23, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
- Kaitlyn Degroot ‘21, “Sustainable Practices in a Historic Urban Landscape and Garden” with Professor Ned Friedman (FAS)
- Miah Caine ‘23, “Atmospheric Modeling” with Professor Loretta J. Mickley (SEAS)
- Diana Zhu ‘23, Sarah King ‘21, “Climate Dynamics” with Professor Eli Tziperman (FAS, SEAS)
- Ashley Chou ‘23, “Learning about Climate Change through Immersive Virtual Experience” with Professor Jack Spengler (HSPH)
- Erica Wu ‘22, “Research Assistantship to Work in an Exciting and Impactful Project Focused on Healthy and Sustainable Built Environment” with Professor Joseph Allen (HSPH)
- Guillaume Bouchard ‘23, “Create Learning Modules on the New Harvard LabXchange Platform” with Professors Wendy Purcell and Jack Spengler (HSPH)
- Dasha Metropolitansky ‘22, Robert McKenzie ‘22, Maegon Jong ‘23, Derek Walsh, Nathaniel Alemanyahu ‘23, Elizabeth Pachus ‘22, “VerEatTas” with Stacy Blondin and Professors Eric Rimm and Walter Willett (HMS)
2019 Award Recipients
The Center offered 16 awards for independent research and 6 research assistantships with Harvard faculty to undergraduate concentrators in Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Visual and Environmental Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, African American Studies, English, and Environmental Science and Public Policy.
- Maria Altshuller, ‘20, "Instrument Development for Measurement of Stratospheric Ozone and Free Radicals" with Professor James Anderson (SEAS)
- Aiden Crawford, ‘20, will partner with Professor David Keith to contribute to the “Hurricane Formation in the Future Climate and its Applications in Climate Engineering” project (SEAS)
- Diana Ding, ‘20, will partner with Professor Dustin Tingley to contribute to the “Public Opinion and the Environment” project (FAS)
- Kalia Firester, ‘19, “The World at 50C: A VES Honors Film Thesis” with Professor Matthew Saunders (FAS)
- William Flanagan, ‘20, “Investigating Conduit Paths in Glaciers Using Seismology and Seismological Tools" with Professor Marine Denolle and Professor Brad Lipovsky (FAS)
- Mario Gutierrez-Rodriguez, ‘20, “Societal Awareness Regarding the Impact of Baitfish Feeding in Tuna Aquaculture” with Professor Robert Paarlberg (HKS)
- Karissa Huang, ‘21, “Effects of Malnutrition on Infectious Disease Outcomes in Children” with Professor Caroline Buckee (HSPH)
- Andrei Iliescu, ‘20, “Air Separation and Oxygen Cycling under Mild Conditions with Molecular Copper Complexes” with Professor Ted Betley (FAS)
- Isabel Levin, ‘22, “Synthesizing Porous Liquids” with Professor Jarad Mason
- Graham Macklin, ‘21, will partner with Professor Joseph Aldy to contribute to the “Climate Trade-offs: The Impacts of Emission Mitigation Policies on Climate Change Adaptation” project (HKS)
- Luis Malik, ‘20, “The Fire Never Dies: Wildfires and Autonomous Mutual Aid Disaster Relief in California” with Professor Vincent Brown (FAS)
- Ethan Manninen, ‘20, “Data Science Investigation of the Carbon Cycle” with Professor Steven Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
- Cecil Myers, ‘21, will partner with Professor Elsie Sunderland to contribute to the “Plastics and Microplastics in the Ocean” project (SEAS)
- Cameron Reaves, ‘21, will partner with Professor Joe Allen to contribute to the “Healthy Buildings” project (HSPH)
- Caleb Schwartz, ‘20, “Youth Climate Activists and Knowledge-Making” with Professor Sheila Jasanoff (HKS)
- Vladislav Sevostianov, ‘19, “Photoionization Detector for Volatile Organic Compound Biogenic Emission Measurements” with Professor Scot Martin (FAS)
- Jaelithe Virgin-Downey, ‘20, “The Science and Politics of Florida's Red Tide (Harmful Algal Blooms)” with Professor Sheila Jasanoff (HKS)
- Satish Wasti, ‘21, will partner with Professor Rohini Pande to contribute to the “Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) Environment Internship” project (HKS)
- Kendra Wilkinson, ‘21, “Sea Level Change and Early Human Migration” with Professor Jerry Mitrovica (SEAS)
- Joseph Winters, ‘20, “Determining the Relationship between Elevated CO2, Pollen Protein Composition, and Consequences for the Global Food System” with Professor James Crall and Professor Ann Pearson (FAS)
- Selena Zhang, ‘22, “Investigation of Metal-Organiz Phase-Change Materials' Potential for Thermal Energy Storage” with Professor Jarad Mason (FAS)
2018 Award Recipients
The Center offered twelve awards for independent research and five research assistantships with Harvard faculty to undergraduate concentrators in Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science & Engineering, Environmental Science & Public Policy, History of Science, Integrative Biology, Social Anthropology, and Statistics.
- Debbie Chan, ‘20, will partner with Professor Joseph Allen to contribute to the continuing “Building Healthy Cities” project (HSPH)
- Julie Chung, ‘20, “Environmental Justice Activism and Reparations in Los Angeles”
- Rebecca Cleveland Stout, ‘19, “Modeling and Identifying Preservation Bias in Sea Level Proxy Records” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS, SEAS)
- Mary Katherine DeWane, ‘20, “Assessment of Drought-Induced Plant Stress Using SIF and Thermal Remote Sensing Data” with Professor Paul Moorcroft (FAS)
- Ayanna Dunmore, ‘19, will do independent research under the guidance of Professor Sheila Jasanoff on “Differences in Hurricane Recovery Efforts from an Environmental Justice Perspective” (HKS)
- Olivia Giaquinto, ‘20, “Energy and Air Quality Optimization for a Prototype Green Children’s Hospital” with Professor Tina Duhaime (HMS)
- Darrin Gilkerson, ‘20, will contribute to Professor Dustin Tingley’s research on “Public Opinion and the Environment” (FAS)
- Jackie Ho, ‘19, “Influence of Drought Legacy Effects on Semi-Arid Ecosystem Structure and Composition” with Professor Paul Moorcroft (FAS)
- Matthew Hoisch, ‘19, will do independent research on “100% Renewable Cities in Texas: How Georgetown and Denton Led the Way” with Professor Sheila Jasanoff (HKS)
- Bryn Huxley-Reicher, ‘19, “Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment” with Professor David Keith (SEAS)
- Anthony Kuno-Lewis, ‘19, will examine “The Environmental History of the Pacific Oyster” under the mentorship of Professor Ian Miller (FAS)
- Molly Leavens, ‘19, “Commercialization of Cacao Waste Products”
- Maria Park, ‘19, “Carbohydrate Transport Patterns of Woody Trees: Studies on Loading Type, Sink Removal, and Drought Effects” with Professor Missy Holbrook (FAS)
- Diana Perez, ‘19, will contribute to Professor Frank Keutsch’s study on the “Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds (OVOCs)” (SEAS)
- Margaret Powell, ‘19, “Quantifying Methane Surface Enhancements from the Arctic Ocean” with Professor Steven Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
- Keshav Rastogi, ‘21, will help to develop a “Corporate Sustainability Harvard Business School Library Case” with Professor Michael Toffel (HBS)
- Molly Wieringa, ‘19, “Quantifying Modern and Past Precipitation Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Relationship to Regional Climatic Influences” under the mentorship of Professor Peter Huybers (HKS)
2017 Award Recipients
The Center offered 14 assistantships for research with Harvard faculty and 9 awards for independent research to undergraduate concentrators in Chemical and Physical Biology, Chemistry and Physics, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Economics, Environmental Science & Engineering, Environmental Science & Public Policy, History, Integrative Biology, Mathematics, Physics, and Visual and Environmental Studies.
- Naomi Asimow, ‘18, will partner with Professor Dan Nocera to study “Iron Hydride Porphyrins as Nucleophiles for Carbon Dioxide Reduction”
- Hannah Byrne, ‘18, “An Investigation into the Nature of Induced Seismicity in Tectonically Active Regions: A case study in the Los Angeles Basin, California”
- Katherine Culbertson, ‘18, “Invasion, Competition, and Niche Evolution: An Investigation of Inter-Specific Interactions of Anolis carolinensis and Anoles sager”
- Sabrina Devereaux, ‘18, will work with Professor James McCarthy to assess the effectiveness of fisheries management regimes in rural Madagascar
- Andre Dupuis, ‘18, will study “Catalytic Ozone Depletion in the U.S. from Halogen Radicals” under the mentorship of Professor James Anderson
- Kali Firester, ‘19, “A General Strategy to Construct Small Molecule Biosensors for the Production of Designer Biofuels in Yeast”
- Beverly Ge, ‘20, will partner with Professor Elsie Sunderland to examine “Using Feather Archives to Explore Past Exposure of Songbirds to Methyl Mercury”
- Catherine Le, ‘18, will work with Professor Joseph Allen to study the relationship between green buildings and health
- Bruno Moguel Gallegos, ‘18, will study the cultural and environmental impacts of fabric dyeing in eastern Indonesia under the guidance of Professor John Stilgoe
- Nina Morales, ‘18, will examine the question “Do Behavioral Changes of A. sagrei in the Presence of L. carinatus Impact A. sagrei Diet and Greater Trophic Cascades?” with Professor Jonathan Losos
- Barra Peak, ‘18, will study “Ice Age Sea Level in the Red Sea Region” under the mentorship of Professor Jerry Mitrovica
- Vladislav Sevostianov, ‘19, “Effect of Premelt Nanofilms on Glacial Flow and Seismicity”
- Vikram Sundar, ‘18, will work with Professor Alan Aspuru-Guzik on “Force Field Development for Molecular Mechanics”
- Daniel Um, ‘19, will study the conversion of PET, polyurethane, and styrene into valuable biomolecules by engineered Pseudomonas putida with Professor Peter Girguis
- Alvaro Valle, ‘18, will partner with Professor Michael Aziz to research “Synthesis and Characterization of Chemicals for Use in Redox Flow Batteries”
- Tiffany Zhang, ‘19, will study “Environmental Clearances in India” under the mentorship of Professor Rohini Pande
2016 Award Recipients
The Center offered 14 assistantships for research with Harvard faculty and 9 awards for independent research to undergraduate concentrators in Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Chemistry & Physics, Environmental Science & Engineering, Environmental Science & Public Policy, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Government, Integrative Biology, Neurobiology, and Social Studies.
- Melissa Balding ‘17, “Urban Sustainability Lessons from Innovative Street Design in Portland, Oregon”
- Ezekiel Benshirim ‘19, will research hydraulic limits to carbohydrate transport in trees with Professor Noel Michele (Missy) Holbrook
- Govind Bindra ‘18, “Low Cost Agricultural Diagnostics”
- Juliet Bramante ‘18, will research the efficiency, environmental, and fiscal implications of wind power policies with Professor Joseph Aldy
- Garrett Burk ‘18, will work with Professor Peter Rogers on the project “Water Supply Conservation and Demand Management in the Water Scarce Countries of the Middle East”
- Savannah Butler ‘17, “Isoprene Measurement and Instrument Design”
- Eamon Corbett ‘17, “Biogeography, Genetics, and Conservation of Birds in Northeastern Brazil”
- Abby Duker ‘18/19, will work with Professor Ann Forsyth on “Health and Places Initiative: Looking back on the Healthy Cities Program”
- Mayukha Karnam ‘19, will study “COP21: Gap between assessments and action” with Professor Graham Allison
- Jack Kelly ‘17, “Increasing Rates of Arctic Ice Loss and the Effect on Melting Methane Clathrates and Permafrosts around the Arctic Basin”
- Ari Korotkin ‘17, will partner with Professors Elizabeth Wolkovich and Elizabeth Forrestel to study “From Plant Traits to Winegrapes”
- Forrest Lewis ‘17, “Quantifying the Magnitude of the Kok Effect through the Growing Season for Dominant Species in a Temperate Forest”
- Ashton Macfarlane ‘17, will work with Professor William (Ned) Friedman on the project “Linking Plant Phenology and Climate Change through Development”
- Ann Opel ‘17, “The Effect of Coral Outplant Sites on Local Fish Communities”
- Adrienne Propp ‘17, will study “The CH4Sat OSSE Project: Motivating satellite observations of methane emissions from oil and gas production” with Professor Steven Wofsy
- John Rahill ‘18, will study capacitive deionization with carbon nanotubes with Professor Chad Vecitis
- Alvaro Valle ‘18, will study the performance of redox flow batteries (RFBs) with Professor Michael Aziz
- Deng-Tung Wang ‘17, “Green Children’s Hospital: Evaluating a synthesis between the green building and the hospital”
- Miles Wang ‘19, will study “Reactive Atmospheric Chemistry Investigated by the Harvard Environmental Chamber” with Professor Scot Martin
- Guozhen (Garrett) Wen ‘18, “Investigating the Discrepancy Between Empirically Predicted and PILS (Particle into Liquid Sampler) Measured Aerosol Formic Acid in the Atmosphere”
- Emma Wheeler ‘17, will partner with Professor Dustin Tingley to research “What Drives Public and Elite Opinion on Climate Change Politics?”
- Michael Wong ‘18, will work under the mentorship of Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik to design new photovoltaic materials using machine learning and high-performance computation
- Sohyun (Kate) Yoon ‘18, will work with Professor Pierre Belanger on the project “Extraction Empire: Sourcing the scales, systems, and states of Canada’s global resource empire”
2015 Award Recipients
The Center offered 13 assistantships for research with Harvard faculty and 12 awards for independent research to undergraduate concentrators in Chemistry, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Engineering Sciences, Social Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Computer Science, Government, Integrative Biology, Physics, Economics, Chemistry and Physics, and East Asian Studies.
- Tyler Barringer ‘16, will research green buildings and cities with Professor Na Li
- Savannah Butler ‘17, “Understanding the Behavior of Various Trace Gases within a Forest Canopy”
- Patrick Dowling ‘16, “Analyzing Anthropogenic Methane Emission: Comparing EDGAR, CALGEM and EPA-based Inventories”
- Louise Eisenach ‘16, “The Characterization and Analysis of Membranes for Applications in a Redox Flow Battery”
- Jessica Ewald ‘16, “Ecological Risk Assessment of a Dilbit Spill in the Douglas Channel”
- Harold Eyster ‘16, “Plant Invasion Ecology Research in Europe”
- Sabrina Ghouse ‘15, “A Changing Sphere: Visual Representations in Environmental Discourse”
- Samuel Goldberg ‘16, will work with Professor Jerry Mitrovica to examine tropical sea-level records to constrain ice melting histories between different continental ice sheets, including the compilation of a global sea-level database to refine Ice Age sea level models.
- Alexander Hem ‘16, will work with Professor Jerry Mitrovica on “Holocene Equatorial Sea-level Highstands”
- Claudia Huang ‘18, “The Development of a 3D Molecular Visualization for the Clean Energy Project Database”
- Nomin-Erdene Jagdagdorj ‘17, will study social housing in Mexico with Professor Ann Forsyth.
- Jung Jae (Jason) Kwon ‘16, will study the political and social responses to environmental problems with Professors Steven Ansolabehere and Dustin Tingley
- Matthew Luongo ‘17, will work with Professor Steve Wofsy on the project, “Analysis of Eddy-Flux and Aircraft Concentration Measurements of Carbon Dioxide and Methane on the North Slope of Alaska”
- Mattea Mrkusic ‘17, will begin her senior thesis work to explore ethical resettlement solutions for low-lying Pacific island nations who are anticipated to have displaced populations as a result of climate change
- Carolyn O’Connor ‘18, will work with Professor Lizzie Wolkovich to study “Predicting future North-eastern landscapes: Building from traits to species and communities”
- Woojin Park ‘17, will work on the project “Housing as an Effect Modifier of Air Pollution and Health Risk” under the mentorship of Professor Gary Adamkiewicz
- Dhruv Pillai ‘17, will work with Professor Michael Aziz on the project, “Investigation of Redox-Active Organic Molecules in Pseudocapacitors”
- Ellen Robo ‘16, “Building a model of clouds associated with the Hadley Circulation and testing their climate feedbacks”
- Evan Sandhoefner ‘17, “Climate Change, Labor Productivity, and Global Poverty; Temperature Stress and Academic Performance in NYC High Schools”
- Emma Schwartz ‘18, will work with Professor Chad Vecitis on “Oxidative Analysis of AFFF Precursor Compounds in Cape Cod Groundwater by GC/MS/MS”
- Claire Stolz ‘16, will study growth limitation in New England forest trees with Professor Andrew Richardson
- Alvaro Valle ‘18, will work on the project “Separator Development for Organic Molecule-based Flow Battery” with Professor Michael Aziz
- Wendy Woodin ‘17, will work with Professor Alan Aspuru-Guzik on “Development of tools to facilitate interaction with the database of the Clean Energy Project”
- Sohyun (Kate) Yoon ‘18, will partner with Professor Diane Davis to study the role of political leadership in transforming urban transportation
- Reylon Yount ‘16, “Exploring Optimal Economic and Legal Conditions for Green Social Enterprises in China”
HUCE awarded 11 research assistantships with Harvard faculty and 8 independent research projects to undergraduate concentrators in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, History of Science, Environmental Science & Public Policy, Social Studies, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Engineering Sciences, Economics, American History and Literature, and Chemistry.
- Oludamilola Aladesanmi ‘15, “Environmentally-Informed Policy Approaches to the Elimination of Malaria in the American South from 1930 to 1951”
- Florence Chen ‘15, “Using Clumped Isotope Thermometry to Understand Historical Climate Change”
- Brian Chang ‘17, will work with Professor Diane Davis (Graduate School of Design) on “Transforming Urban Transport: The Role of Political Leadership (South Korea Case)”
- Michelle Chang ‘15, “BedZED: A Case Study in Sustainable ‘Eco-City’ Community Development in the UK”
- Laura Clerx ‘16, will work with Professor Missy Holbrook (Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) on “The Hydraulic Limits to Carbohydrate Transport in Trees”
- Victoria Elliott ‘16, will work with Professor John Spengler (Harvard School of Public Health) on “China Health and Places Initiative (CHPI)”
- Lydia Gaby ‘15, will work with Professor Ann Forsyth (Graduate School of Design) on “Sustainable Cities: Strengthening Urban and Housing Policy in Mexico”
- Sally Gee ‘16, will work with Professor Elizabeth Wolkovich (Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) on “Trees, Traits and the Future of North American Forests with Climate Change”
- Emily Kraemer ‘15, “Sustainable Groundwater Use in the Bahamas: Evaluating Direct Surface Aquifer Recharge”
- Rachel Moon ‘16, will work with Jonathan Losos (Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) on “The Effects of Anthropogenic Habitat Change on Territorial Behavior in the Brown Anole Lizard (Anolis sagrei)."
- Joanne Nghiem ‘15, will work with Professor Chad Vecitis (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) on “Conductive CNT-PVDF Membrane for Capacitive Biological Fouling Reduction”
- Ekta Patel ‘15, “Urban Population Vulnerabilities, Climate Variability, and Environmental Governance: Surat, India”
- Matthew Ricotta ‘15, will work with Professors Kiel Moe and Jane Hutton (Graduate School of Design) on the energy history project “Plot: Excavating Central Park and the Empire State Building”
- Ellen Robo ‘16, will work with Professor Dustin Tingley (Dept.of Government) on the project “Politicians Talking Science”
- Anna Santoleri ‘14, “Conserving America’s Youth: An Examination of Nature, Education, and Class in the Civilian Conservation Corps”
- Tyler VanValkenburg ‘16, will work with Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Dept. of Chemistry) on the project “Molecular Orbital Analysis of the Best Organic Research Solar Cells”
- Deng-Tung Wang ‘17, will work with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences) on the project “Modeling Surface Ozone Measurements from Meteorological Factors”
- Sophia Watkins ‘15, “Deconstructing the Role of Finance in the Deforestation of the Amazon: An Analysis of the Brazilian Beef Sector”
- Canyon Woodward ‘15, “We Must, Therefore We Can: Student Divestment Movements at Harvard”
2013 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment offered 9 research assistantships and 12 research awards to undergraduate concentrators in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Science & Public Policy, Social Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Anthropology, Slavic Languages, Environmental Health, Physics, Neurobiology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Applied Mathematics.
- Iananna Carter ‘14, “Insect Herbivore Community of Hawaiian Lobeliads”
- Jung (Daniel) Dong ‘16, “Economic and Environmental Incentives and Capacity of Solar Infrastructures and Investments in China”
- Claire Flintoff ‘15, “Salting the Earth: A Documentary Film on the Impact of the Aral Sea disaster on Kazakh Farmers”
- Marissa Grenon ‘14, “Designing the Urban Public Realm to Promote Social and Psychological Wealth: An Examination of Three Thriving Regions”
- Jose Rodrigo Leal ‘16, will work with Professor James Anderson (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology) on “Multi-Regional Scale Aircraft Observations of CH4/CO2 Isotopic Fluxes in the Arctic.”
- Won (Ryan) Ik Lee ‘14, will work with Professor Eli Tziperman (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) on “Deep Ocean Stratification: Observational Fit and Theoretical Exploration of Possible Models.”
- Emma Lucken ‘14, “Lessons from Copenhagen and Muenster, Germany for Boston’s Bike System”
- Hannah Morrill ‘14, “Needs Assessment of Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh”
- Megan Murdock ‘14, “Biofuel Collection Analysis at Makerere University Biological Field Station at Kibale National Park (Uganda)”
- Li Eleanor Murphy ‘15, will work with Professor Chensheng (Alex) Lu (Harvard School of Public Health) on “Honeybee Health and the Eco-politics of CCD.”
- Ekta Jayantilal Patel ‘15, will work with Professor Chad Vecitis (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) on “Water Treatment Technologies: Electrochemical Filtration.”
- Jun Shepard ‘14, will work with Professor Michael McElroy (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences / Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) on “The Use of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells as a Primary Energy Source in the United States.”
- Joseph Wall ‘14, “Public Markets, Supermarkets, and Local Agriculture in Rural Mexico”
- Kate Wetstone ‘15, will work with Professor Chad Vecitis (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) on “Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies.”
- Kristen Wraith ‘14, “The Peruvian GMO Ban: The Importance of the Ayllu as an Ecological System for Change”
- Didi Xie ‘14, will work with Professor Michael McElroy (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences / Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) on “Reducing Chinese CO2 Emissions Through Effective Use of Wind.”
- Howard Zhang ‘15, will work with Professor Joseph Aldy (Harvard Kennedy School) on “The Economic Returns to Investment in Clean Energy.”
The Harvard University Center for the Environment offered 14 research assistantships and 8 research awards to undergraduate concentrators in Computer Science, Earth & Planetary Sciences, History of Science, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science & Public Policy, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, Physics, and Economics.
- Jasmine Casart ‘13, "Native Hawaiian and European Agricultural Approaches in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century in Hawaii"
- Aidan Daly ‘13, "Applying quantum computation and advanced genetic algorithm techniques to screening potential high-effiiciency photovoltaic polymers"
- Charles Gertler ‘13, "Potential for Solar-Generated Electricity in China"
- Laila Kasuri ‘13, "Hydrological Modeling for Flood Management"
- Courtland Kelly ‘13, "Climate Change in Concord, MA"
- Alexander Kim ‘13, "From the Gulf of Guinea to the Bridge of the World: Transoceanic dispersal and human-mediated invasion in two pantropical genera of freshwater prawns"
- Amy Lorber ‘15, "Scarce Energy Metals"
- Min Lee ‘14, "Modeling How Forests Respond to Climate Change"
- Samita Mohanasundaram ‘13, "Effect of Agricultural Pesticides (mancozeb and pirimicarb) on Hematopoietic stem cells"
- Sarah Moon ‘15, "Politics Surrounding the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)"
- Ariana Saxby ‘13, "Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies"
- Laszio Seress ‘14, "Harvard Clean Energy Project: Towards designing efficient organic solar cells using computational chemistry"
- Joseph Shaeffer ‘15, "Developing Fuel Cell Catalysts"
- Upasna Sharma ‘15, "Testing Climate Models by Comparing behaviour of El Niño in Global Warming and Pre-Industrial Scenario Using Feedback Mechanisms"
- Kendall Sherman ‘15, "Storm Contamination of the Kensico Reservoir of the NYC Water Supply"
- Ian Shields ‘13, "The Role of Behavior in Adaptation to Climate"
- Richard Stanley ‘12, "Effects of Habitat Disturbance on a Cloud Forest Bird Community"
- Tanner Strickland ‘14, "Interactions between Tropical Lizard Species"
- Francis Thumpasery ‘13, "The Role of Fertilizer Subsidies on Indian Agricultural Choices"
- Nick Waldo ‘13, "Advanced Water Treatment Technology"
- Luchen Wang ‘12, "Climate Change Policy"
- Allison Welton ‘15, "Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment"
2011 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment offered 10 research assistantships and 8 research awards to undergraduate concentrators in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Human Evolutionary Biology, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Social Studies.
- Chris Anderson ‘12, "Characterization of the Interactions between Basidiomycete Mushrooms and Dipteran and Coleopteran Insects in High-altitude, Montane Environments"
- Julia Carvalho ‘14, "Development of Composite Membranes for Water/Wastewater Treatment"
- Aidan C. Daly ‘13, "Creating Statistical Tools for Screening and Designing Potential High-Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Polymers"
- Sarah Farrell ‘13, "Nanotechnology in Water Treatment"
- Ainsley Faux ‘13, "Microbial Approach to the Extraction and Recovery of Tellurium"
- Molly Griffin ‘12, "Researching the Genes of A.ferrooxidans for Carbon Sequestration and as a possible Biofuel Source"
- Ryan Heffrin ‘13, "China Water Project"
- Alexander Kim ‘13, "A Phylogenetic Survey of Panamanian Freshwater Prawns: Invasion at the Crossroads of the Two Americas"
- Patricia Levi ‘12, "Measuring Greenhouse Gases and Pollutants in the Urban Dome
- Ling Lin ‘12, "Environmental Management to Minimize Risk of Natural Disaster in Brazil"
- Hannah Lyons-Galante ‘12, "Thesis Research on Abundance of Invasive Plant Species on Tropical Land Uses"
- Caroline McHugh ‘12, "Thesis Research: Changes in Human Valuation and Perceptions of their Land Throughout Time"
- Matthew Mulroy ‘12, "Urban Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Measurements in Southern California"
- Jordan D. Peart ‘12, "Comparative Analyses of Emerging Infectious Diseases"
- Hanny E. Rivera ‘12, "Effects of Micro-Grazing Invertebrates on the Larval Recruitment and Success of a Brooding Coral"
- Adeline Rolnick ‘12, "Attitudes towards Agricultural Technology in Contemporary India: The Case of Bt Brinjal"
- Paul VanMiddlesworth ‘13, "Character Displacement in Anolis carolinensis"
- Isabella Wechsler ‘13, "A Case Study at EPA: Why Recent Graduates Don't Take Jobs in Science-based Federal Agencies and What to Do About It"
2010 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment offered 6 research assistantships and 9 research awards to undergraduate concentrators in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Social Studies.
- Grace Charles ‘11, "Interactive Effects of Large-mammal Extinction and Climate Change: Experimental Approaches"
- Andrew Chen ‘11, "Invasive Species Ecology of M. laetum"
- Hannah Horowitz ‘11, "Atmospheric Mercury Data Analysis: Seasonal Cycle, Biosphere Interactions, and Model Evaluation"
- Jennifer Levye ‘11, "Water Usage in Arecaceae along a Successional Gradient"
- Molly Strauss ‘11, "Participation and Non-Participation in Climate-Change Collective Action"
- Max Brondfield ‘11, "Urban Metabolism: Quantifying Methane Sources for the Boston Metropolitan Area"
- Marianna Linz ‘11, "Flourescence of Model Organic Aerosol"
- Lillian Margolin ‘11, "ESPP Thesis Research"
- Parijat Samant ‘13, "The Reception and Portrayal of Cap-and-Trade in the Media"
- John Mussman ‘12, to assist Christoph Reinhart (Graduate School of Design) with "Predicting Occupant Alertness Levels in Daylit Buildings."
- Torin O'Brien ‘12, to assist Paul Hoffman (Earth & Planetary Sciences) with a Research Assistantship on Earth History in Namibia.
- Mark Piana ‘11, to assist Eli Tziperman (Earth & Planetary Sciences) with "Ecocene's Warm Climate Research and Outreach."
- Richard Stanley ‘12, to assist Jonathan Losos (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) with "Invasive Species Biology."
- Paul VanMiddlesworth ‘13, to assist Richard Forman (Graduate School of Design) with "Landscape Ecology."
- Douwe Yntema ‘11, to assist Joyce Chaplin (History).
2009 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment made 9 research awards and 13 summer research positions with nine faculty in May 2009 to undergraduate concentrators in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Physics, and Social Studies.
- Max Brondfield ‘11, "Statistical Analysis of North American Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
- Rupak Chakraborty ‘10, to assist Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Chemistry and Chemical Biology) with "Renewable Energy Materials Research."
- Laura Dale ‘10, to assist Peter Rogers (SEAS) on "Sustainable Cities: New Approaches to Water Management."
- Lee Dietterich ‘10, to assist Noel Michele Holbrook (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) with "Calcium Deficiency and Whole Plant Water Relations in Sugar Maple Marsh."
- Liya Eijvertinya ‘09, "Motivations for Participating in the Voluntary Carbon Market"
- Aryeh Gold-Parker ‘12, to assist Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Chemistry and Chemical Biology) with "Renewable Energy Materials Research."
- Daniel Koll ‘10, "Atmospheres of Equable Climates"
- Erica Lin ‘10, to assist Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Chemistry and Chemical Biology) with "Renewable Energy Materials Research."
- Hannah Lyons-Galante ‘12, to assist Jonathan Losos (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) with "Field Research on Lizard Biology in Florida."
- Rachel Mak ‘10, "Examining the Scientific and Legislative Potential to Increase Renewable Energy Use in the U.S."
- Lilli Margolin ‘11, to assist Ariel Pakes (Economics) on the "Wind Power Project."
- Karen McKinnon ‘10, "Assessing Climate Sensitivity through Frequency Analysis"
- Ben Miller ‘10, to assist Daniel Jacob (SEAS, EPS) with "Environmental Modeling (Bromine Radicals)."
- Mark Piana ‘11, to assist Peter Rogers (SEAS) on "Sustainable Cities: New Approaches to Water Management."
- Caitlin Rotman ‘10, "Influence of Glacial History on the Development of Boston: A Photographic Exploration"
- Jennie Peterson ‘10, "Drought Policy Hawai'i"
- Nivedita Sarnath ‘12, to assist Daniel Jacob (SEAS) with "Environmental Modeling."
- Kathryn Sierks ‘12, to assist Daniel Schrag (EPS, SEAS) with study of the limitations on methane production and release from terrestrial wetlands.
- Cassandra Snow ‘10, "The Future of Holistic Resource Management in the U.S."
- Tim Treuer ‘10, "Land Use Impacts on Tropical Insect Biodiversity"
- Katharine Walter ‘10, to assist Susan Cameron and Scott Edwards (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) with "Modeling Climate Change Impacts on North American Birds."
- Daniel Werb ‘10, to assist John Spengler (HSPH) with preparing written and visual material concerning environmental case studies.
2008 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment made 16 research awards in the late spring of 2008 to undergraduate concentrators in Biology (5), Environmental Science and Public Policy (9), joint concentration EPS/ESPP (1), and joint concentration Romance Languages and Literatures/Biology (1).
- Christine Barron ‘09, "Asian Air Quality and Its Effects on Human Health"
- Megan Bartlett ‘09, "The Effects of Climate on the Evolution of High Biodiversity in the Tropics"
- Heather Carmichael ‘09, "Urban Poverty and Environmental Risk Factors for Health in Accra, Ghana"
- Adam Clark ‘11, "Study of Ants as an Indicator of Human Impact on Local Ecology"
- Spring Greeney ‘09, "Institutional Ecology and Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Possibilities and Cultural Barriers"
- Josephine Henderson-Frost ‘09, "Analysis of Correlation of Enterotoxigenic E. coli from Environmental Samples and Patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh"
- Daniel Jacobson ‘11, "Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling"
- Daniel L. Jones ‘09, "The Charles River Plankton Composition"
- William Jones ‘09, "Charles River Aquatic Community Structure: Biotic Interactions between Fish and Zooplankton"
- Robert Kirkham ‘10, "The Effects of Interspecific Competition on Nestling Survival Rates"
- David W. McCahill ‘09, "Research/Analysis of the Austrian Environmental Sustainability Transformation, 1955-Present"
- Francisco Perese ‘09, "Mobilizing Savings to Mitigate Houshold Vulnerability to Natural Disaster"
- Alison Ravenscraft ‘09, "Evaluation of the Acoustic Niche Hypothesis: A Quantitative Analysis and Comparison of Sound Spectrum Partitioning in Tropical and Temperate Communities"
- Katherine Sancken ‘09, "Pesticide Exposure and Health Hazards in Latin American Workers"
- Julie T. Shapiro ‘10, "Labor Rights in the Brazilian Fuel Industry"
- Elizabeth Shope ‘09, "Implementing Environmental Education in Montessori Schools for Nursery through 3rd Grade"
- Nora A. Sluzas ‘09, "GIS Modeling of China's Wind Energy Potential"
2007 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment made 11 research awards in the late spring of 2007 to undergraduate concentrators in Biology (1), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2), Environmental Engineering (1), Environmental Science and Public Policy (5), Social Studies (1), and Undecided (1).
- Rachel Banay ‘08, a Social Studies concentrator will study “Applications of Environmental Ethics to Environmental Justice”
- Simi Bhat ‘08, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator will study “Environmental Identity in Internally Displaced Peoples of Kashmir Origin”
- Cara E. Ferrentino ‘08, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator will conduct “Research on Bioenergy Policy with Global Bioenergy Partnership, UN Food and Agricultural Organization”
- Andrew L. Fleeter ‘09, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator will conduct “Research on Industry Best Practices Regarding Climate Changes with the Climate Group's Business Leadership Program”
- Alicia G. Harley ‘08, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator will study “Critical Analysis of Egyptian Policy Addressing Environmental Impacts of Urbanization in Cairo”
- Amy P. Heinzerling ‘08, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator will study “Covering the Costs of Hardrock Mining Cleanup: Bonding Policy in the Western U.S.”
- Stephanie Madden ‘08, a Biology concentrator will research “The Carabid Beetles of the Boston Harbor Islands: Effects of Geography on Diversity”
- Julie Shapiro ‘08, will study “Effects of Ecotourism on Macaw Behavior at Clay Licks”
- Jeremy Tchou ‘08, an EPS & Economics concentrator will study “Consequences of Regulatory and Environmental Conditions in Offshore Wind Farm Developments”
- Jonathon F. Wofsy ‘08, an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator will study “Using Mid-Latitude Convection to Explain High Latitude Warmth of the Ecocene”
- Jessica M. Yeager ‘08, an Environmental Engineering concentrator will research “Engineering Environmental Metrics for Brazilian Sugar Cane Based Ethanol”
2006 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment made 15 research awards in the late spring of 2006 to undergraduate concentrators in Computer Science (1), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3), Environmental Science and Public Policy (10), and Environmental Engineering and Sciences, S.B.(1).
- Patrick Francis Baur ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will conduct field research on the interaction between indigenous Mapuche communities and Chile's National Forest Corporation.
- Clara Blattler ‘08, an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, will examine magnesium isotopes as an implication of changing chemical composition of seawater in the Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography at Harvard.
- Laura K. Chappell-Campbell ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will study recent air quality legislation in North Carolina and the social and political forces influencing its passage, with a particular focus on the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act.
- Jennifer Chung ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will examine environmental contributors to health heterogeneity across geographic regions in Boston, focusing mainly on the incidence of chronic disease such as asthma, obesity and diabetes within the studied regions.
- Henry M. Cowles ‘08, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will conduct a comprehensive study of selected writings of Charles Darwin and Andrew Wallace, in search of different patterns of observation that might shed light on the fame disparity between the two today.
- Julia K. Forgie ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will study the DDT/DDE and PCB contamination of the Channel Islands and its effects on eagles, falcons and brown pelicans and analyze current policy of the restoration program for the area.
- Rachel E.E. Garwin ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will conduct a case study in the process and effects of dam removal at the Edwards Dam in Augusta, Maine.
- Jaclyn Anne Hatala ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will model the spread of Canada Thistle in Yellowstone National Park using remote sensing data and ground observations.
- Samuel D.G. Jacoby ‘08, a Computer Science concentrator, will examine better water management through technology, focusing on improving irrigation efficiency through real-time assimilation of remote-sensed data. His research will be conducted on the Calleguas Creek watershed in Ventura County, California.
- Anjali Lohani ‘08, an Environmental Engineering and Sciences, S.B. concentrator, will identify indices of sustainability for the economic and environmental systems of nine cities, including Washington, DC, New Delhi, Beijing, New York, Mumbai, Shanghai, Phoenix, Hyderabad and Chengdu.
- Scot M. Miller ‘07, an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, will model regional and continental scale emissions of carbon monoxide from both anthropogenic and biomass burning sources using tall radio tower and aircraft atmospheric measurements in combination with the Stochastic Time Inverted Lagrangian Transport Model (STILT).
- Naabia Ofosu-Amaah ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will examine the potential of ecotourism as a sustainable development tool by studying ecotourism from Harvard and in Ghana and contributing to the planning of the new ecotourism project in Mozambique.
- Frederick A.W.L. Reppun ‘07, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will study environmental education in Chengdu, China.
- Kevin Wecht ‘07, and Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, will research the energetics of indirect coal-to-liquid transformation through the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) process and constrain current estimates of the "carton cost" of burning F-T derived liquid fuels.
- Michael T. Wilson ‘08, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will examine the challenges confronting the development of the Athabasca Oil Sands in Northern Alberta, Canada.
2005 Award Recipients
The Harvard University Center for the Environment made 14 research awards in the late spring of 2005 to undergraduate concentrators in Biochemistry (1), Biology (1), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2), Environmental Science and Public Policy (5), History and Science (1), Social Studies (3), and a joint concentrator from Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Public Policy.
- John Keith Ames ‘06, a Social Studies concentrator, will determine the viability of significant incentives for increased environmental regulation of energy markets; with the intent of encouraging the emergence of cleaner, renewable forms of energy.
- Brandon Geller ‘08, a Biochemistry concentrator, will travel to the Dominican Republic to study the Scolytid Bark Beetle, to see if it exhibits an unusual mating habit first documented by B.H. Jordal where a female is able to asexually produce haploid sons and mate with them in the absence of other males.
- Macdonald Brooke Halsey ‘06, a Biology concentrator, will work with the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center to study population dynamics of coyotes in the park by collecting data on den sites and comparing to data since the 1995 reintroduction of the coyote.
- Pien Huang ‘06, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will assess the composition of an anthropogenically altered plot of secondary forest in Singapore's Bukit Timah National Reserve, specifically its "hyperdynamism," in which trees exhibit accelerated growth, recruitment, and mortality.
- Yi-Chen Stacy Huang ‘06, an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, will use GIS software to track and model the global emissions of isoprene, a volatile organic compound that because of its relatively short lifetime, has previously been difficult to track in a precise manner.
- Savanna Lyons ‘06, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will travel to Brazil to study the ideological dynamics of the grassroots socialist group Movimento Sem Terra, seeking to understand how the group's ideology affects its choices in sustainable agricultural technology.
- Amanda Martin ‘06, a History and Science concentrator, will examine how irrigation technology and water rights legislation for the Rio Grande has affected people's conception of themselves in relation to nature and the river.
- Summer Montacute ‘06, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will investigate the failure of protective policy on Chile's endangered alerce tree, and the resulting black market exports from Chile to the United States.
- Frances Moore ‘06, an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, will analyze a sequence of several hundred samples of carbonate rocks from Italy, modeling the changes in the oxygen isotopes, which can show changes in the redox state of the ocean as well as changing sulfate input fluxes to the ocean.
- Whitney Satin ‘06, a Social Studies concentrator, will study how environmental policy and the perceptions of the health consequences of pollution affect the voting behavior of cancer patients in the industrial area of South Louisiana informally known as "Cancer Alley."
- Michelle Sonia ‘06, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will investigate the degree to which environmental issues are part of the discourse surrounding the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.
- Elizabeth Sturges ‘06, a joint concentrator in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Public Policy, will examine spatial and temporal trends in atmospheric mercury, correlations with other chemicals, and comparison among sites around the world.
- Laurence Tai ‘06, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will conduct a critical analysis of the technical, economic, and political obstacles hindering the widespread introduction of sustainable electricity in the United States.
- Charles Worthington ‘06, a Social Studies concentrator, will construct a model for predicting industrial "over-compliance" with environmental regulations in international climate change agreements.
2004 Award Recipients
The HUCE made 8 summer research awards to students in the late spring of 2004 to concentrators from Biology (2), Environmental Engineering (1), Environmental Science and Public Policy (4), and a joint concentrator from Environmental Science and Public Policy and Latin American Studies.
- Leah J. Aylward ‘05, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator, will research the role of agricultural institutions of higher education (specifically the EARTH University model in Costa Rica) in addressing economic, social, and environmental challenges of sustainable development.
- Daniel Curran ‘05, an Environmental Engineering concentrator, will examine the effects of sunlight on the decay of coarse woody debris in a northern temperate forest, focusing on the implications of this decay towards the global carbon budget.
- Arin C. Hotz ‘05, will examine the process by which biotechnology has been introduced into South Africa and the effects that it has had on society since its acceptance.
- Zachary Liscow ‘05, will study the political mechanisms through which a developing countries' increased willingness to pay for environmental amenities translates into environmental protection.
- Matthew Moon ‘05, will conduct a critical analysis of the political, economic, and environmental factors of regulating and developing the Arctic Ocean as a commercial shipping route through a potential international regime.
- Andrew Ng ‘05, will investigate how bacterial symbionts are transmitted within a population of hydrothermal vent mussels, giving insight into the cooperation and survival of life under harsh and toxic conditions.
- Michal Joey Pakes ‘05, will examine the soft coral, Plexaura flexuosa , determining the fertilization rates, settlement rates, and reproductive cycle of gorgians at the edge of their distributional range.
- Senovio Shish ‘05, will carry out a comparative study of governmental and non-governmental drinking water programs in El Salvador and how they are influenced by international organizations.
2003 Award Recipients
The HUCE made nine summer research awards to students in the late spring of 2003 to concentrators from Biology (2), Chemistry and Physics (1), Environmental Science and Public Policy (4), Environmental Studies (1), and Social Studies (1).
- Iris Ahronowitz ‘03, a Social Studies concentrator, will be conducting a comparative study of two Massachusetts nonprofit organizations working on urban agriculture to understand how this form of community development operates.
- Adeline Boatin ‘04, an Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP) concentrator, will travel to Africa to investigate the changes to farming practices and environmental management in Rwanda as a consequence of the 1994 genocide.
- Herng-Yu Chang ‘04, an ESPP concentrator, will study a model youth leadership and involvement program in Roxbury with respect to urban asthma issues and its efficacy in reducing indoor air pollution.
- Caitlin Frame ‘04, a Biology concentrator, will be determining the kinetic isotopic effect of Form IA RubisCO from two types of cyanobacteria: IA RubisCO is important as a source of carbon fixation in oceans and this study has implications for greenhouse gas predictions.
- Mervyn Han ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, will study the political dynamics of an American Indian community in Northern Canada with respect to sovereignty, and environmental concerns and alliances.
- Zachary Liscow ‘05, an ESPP concentrator, will evaluate how the impact of a selective harvest on the aboveground carbon storage pools in a northern temperate forest changes with time, with broader implications for U.S. carbon budgets.
- Shanshan Mou ‘04, a Biology concentrator, will study a distinctive form of RubrisCO in a vesicomyid-chemoautotroph (clam and bacteria) symbiosis, to gain greater understanding of this special symbiosis and stable carbon isotope data in general.
- Gregory Santoni ‘04, a Chemistry and Physics concentrator, will study landscape-level forest demography in the Brazilian Amazon Basin.
- Katherine Widland ‘04, an Environmental Studies special concentrator, will examine the incentive programs that the federal government has created to encourage the privatization of endangered species work, as well as those private individuals who become involved without public aid.
2002 Award Recipients
The HUCE made 12 summer research awards to students in the late spring of 2002 to concentrators from Environmental Science and Public Policy (9), Earth and Planetary Sciences (1), Comparative Religion (1), and History and Literature (1).
- Sheila Baynes ‘03, a History and Literature concentrator, examined the current controversy over Lake Powell from a historical context.
- Ting Chen ‘03, an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator, characterized East Asian pollution sources.
- Sarah Cove ‘03, an Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP) concentrator, investigated how climate change affects high-altitude montane regions.
- Elizabeth Hagan ‘02, a Comparative Religion concentrator, surveyed the relationship of the sacred nature of landscape to native peoples of the Northern Yukon and Northeastern Alaska.
- Kristin Hoelting ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, compared the use of forestland by two groups of native Eskimos.
- John Hsu ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, compared tree ring composition to elucidate past climates.
- Wendy Liu ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, measured the effects of forest management on a New England forest carbon budget.
- Meghan Scheding ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, examined sustainable development practices and eco-tourism projects in a park in Costa Rica.
- Sarah Szurpicki ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, compared public participation strategies in environmental planning processes in New England and Great Britain.
- Morgan Tingley ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, investigated the social and environmental impacts of urban sprawl.
- Emma Wendt ‘03, an ESPP concentrator, conducted an environmental assessment of green initiatives at a ski resort in Vermont.
- Ethan Yeh ‘03, and ESPP concentrator, analyzed the health problems related to indoor air pollution generated by biomass fuels in developing countries.