Healthy Soil + Fertile Land + Food Security

…social equity. The collaborative program will improve food security and nutrition, increase soil health, and build healthy, resilient rural communities. Investigators: Rachel Bezner Kerr, Laurie Drinkwater, David Wolfe, Sera Young…

Jasmine Star Peters (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Jasmine S. Peters is a PhD student in Dr. Alison Power’s lab in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Jasmine’s work integrates applied ecological and social science methods. Her…

Charles Tebbutt (Natural Resources & the Environment)

Developing Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Evaluate Agroforestry’s Impacts on Bird Biodiversity in the Colombian Amazon Advisor: Stephen Morreale Tebbutt’s research examines the social-ecological impacts of agroforestry systems in the post-conflict…

2025 Climate Week NYC | Climate Threats, Building Loss, and Heritage – Decision Makers at a Crossroads

Margaret Swift

…Veterinary fencing crisscrosses much of southern Africa, protecting livestock from disease transfer but preventing wild mammals from migrating seasonally to access grazing and water resources. This project will use advanced…

Design & Testing of Wave Energy Converter Farms to Meet Grid-scale Electricity Demands

Energy derived from water waves is a potential new form of clean energy, but it requires the development of wave energy converters (WECs) in order to apply it for grid-scale…

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…

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…