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…

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…

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…

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…

Mollie J. Lipp (MBA ’26, SC Johnson College of Business)

…sustainability leader in the B2B water, hygiene, and sanitation space. She is infinitely curious and enjoys yoga, reading, and travel and believes that these activities make us better global citizens….

Mai Ichihara (Ph.D. ’28, Global Development)

…and the Great Lakes Watershed. By integrating insights from collective action and behavioral theory, network analysis, critical agroecology, soil ecology, and integrated watershed management, she explores how diverse food system…

Mahmoud Aboelkheir (Ph.D. ’26, Fiber Science)

Mahmoud Aboelkheir is a Ph.D. candidate in Fiber Science at Cornell University, where his research focuses on developing bio-based adsorbent materials for water and air remediation. His work integrates principles…

Paul Simonin (Natural Resources)

…studying how changing gradients in the abiotic environment of lakes (e.g., water temperature) affect fish distribution patterns and subsequent trophic relationships. Paul is also interested in how these spatial community…