As part of the Broad Lab, students come from all around the globe to dive head first into today's most convoluted and cryptic environmental problems. Our doctoral students are free range and organic. We solve problems and look good doing it.

CURRENT STUDENTS

Radpour, Adam

Adam is a first-year Ph.D. student at the Abess Center.

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forbes, vanessa

Vanessa is a Museum Person, Curator, Conservator, Numismatist, Diver, and Extreme Weather Enthusiast.

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ALUMNI

Carrère, Alizé

Alizé is a recent graduate who reads a lot of sci-fi.

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Rahimi, Shireen

After graduating from Abess, Shireen started an underwater video production company called Lightpalace Productions, where she makes documentaries about the human dimensions of ocean conservation for environmental organizations, television networks, and major brands. In other words, she really sold out.

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Augustin, Caitlin

Caitlin studied carbon capture and storage technologies and some of the risks associated with the technology. As the energy sector evolved, so did Caitlin's career, and she now puts her analytical skills to use leading technology for social impact work.

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Brett, annie

Annie is interested in exploration science. As in she has a sailboat and takes it out all the time. For science. When people ask why we're scientists, we just show pictures of us on her boat. Question. Answered. The margaritas are for science, too.

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Welch, Aaron

Aaron’s dissertation research focuses on the interaction between large-scale aquaculture and the environment, as well as the political economy of fishing and aquaculture. Aaron’s current field work includes an environmental monitoring project at a large, offshore aquaculture facility in central America.

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Callwood, karlisa

Karlisa's research involves lobsters in the Caribbean, I think. She doesn't really talk to us much, but I know it involves lobsters because it was lobsters that ate her toes. 

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MACDONALD, CATHERINE

Catherine's research interests include diverse aspects of human-environment interaction, with a particular emphasis on tropical marine systems and attendant human communities.

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WESTER, JULIA

Julia applies social psychology and behavioral economics research findings to decisions about water recycling. She is specifically interested in the role of emotional disgust and its interaction with ideas of morality and normative behavior. 

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AGUILERA, STACY

Stacy’s research focused on small-scale fisheries in California, where she applied a social-ecological systems analysis to the Monterey Bay wetfish (Pacific sardine, northern anchovy, and market squid) fisheries. Stacy is now the Ocean Policy Specialist at the U.S. National Science Foundation in Washington D.C.

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carter, andrew

Andrew studies the development of, and interactions between, mercury science and policy. He is particularly interested in how policymakers, scientists, and the general public perceive and act upon risk and uncertainty concerning mercury.

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Treuer, Galen

Galen studied governments and property owners struggle to make decisions about climate change in South Florida. He thought he could do better so he joined the government. Bureaucracy is real and a bunch of techies moved to Miami, so he pivoted to climate tech and now recruits the private sector to help out.

crosley, Katie

Katie's research utilizes urban ecology, anthropology, and education theory to understand the multi-scale interactions and outcomes of informal environmental education in urban settings. She is particularly interested in how different experiences shape learners' worldviews about the human-nature relationship and how these experiences can be leveraged to advance solutions to social and environmental problems. 

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Bolson, Jessica

Jessica’s research primarily focuses on the intersection of environmental governance and climate science, with particular emphasis on water resource decision-making under uncertain climate conditions.  She is especially interested in the co-production of scientific information and policy within the hydroclimate context, including the roles of integrated models, stakeholder-scientist interactions, and climate information use in decision-making.  

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