Monitoring Protocols for the Marcellus Shale

…agriculture and tourism. Cornell researchers are developing procedures and protocols as the groundwork for programs to monitor air and water quality in the Marcellus Shale region. The project promises to…

Erika Styger

…same time regenerate soils, reduce agro-chemical use, and save water by 50% leading to reduced methane emissions. She is technical lead for the RICOWAS project, to scale-up SRI in 13…

Ellie Goud (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

…plant metabolism and its role in structuring ecological communities. SBF funding will allow Ellie to test whether variation in water availability sustains plant metabolic diversity in a successional old field…

Benjamin Johnson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

…understand the mechanisms that promote and constrain species’ adaptations to different environments. He is currently studying the influence of genetics and morphology in shaping metabolic and water balance physiology of…

James Knighton (Biological and Environmental Engineering)

…reframing riverine flooding risk from an atmospheric perspective, determining how changes in plant composition can influence flooding risk, and describing unsaturated zone dynamics through simulation of stable water isotopes. James…

Alyssa Kaganer (Natural Resources & the Environment)

There’s Something in the Water! Improving Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance With Environmental RNA Alyssa Kaganer is a postdoctoral associate working with Dr. Krysten Schuler at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab…

Algal Bioreactors for Biofuel Production

Aquatic microalgae offer several features that make them an attractive prospect for biofuel production, including rapid growth and the ability to thrive on marginal land and in brackish water. Despite…

Research

…policies, practices and products that allow people in rural communities to benefit from producing food, energy and water for urban areas and cities to reduce resource consumption. “Food, energy, climate,…

Transition Finance for Regenerative Agriculture Systems

Jennifer Haverkamp

…Representative for Environment and Water Resources in the U.S. Department of State. In 2016 she led the Department’s successful negotiations of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase…