Name

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Email

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Food Systems Graduate Program

Intersectionality, food systems, sustainable diets, food and nutrition security, community development

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Sustainable agriculture, environmental management, irrigation, spatial analysis and modeling

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Tropical forests, biodiversity, conservation, habitat disturbance, sustainable management

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Coffee agroecosystems in Mexico, Participatory Action Research (PAR), ecological economics, intersections of climate change, agriculture, and sustainable livelihoods in the Global South

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Climate change, inequality, ecological economics, macroeconomics, integrated assessment modeling, agent-based modeling

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics

Monetary theory, monetary systems, macroeconomics, sustainability

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Landscape ecology, conservation, ecosystem services, sustainable agriculture

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Hydrogeology, sustainable development, surface processes, geochronology, food-water-energy nexus, environmental justice

Name

Sam Bliss

Sam Bliss

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Degrowth, food systems, agroecology, political ecological economics; his future research will include estimating the climate impact of Trump's budget proposals.

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Forest soils, spatial analysis & modeling, biogeochemical weathering, the soil-regolith continuum

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Biodiversity conservation, forest ecology and carbon dynamics, climate change mitigation and adaptation; ecosystem services

 

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics

Family farming, sustainable agriculture, smallholders' development, seed value chain, food labels

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food systems, climate change, urban agriculture, agroecology, sustainability, well-being 

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Agroecology, food sovereignty, participatory action research (PAR), scholar activism

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Lake ecology, food-web dynamics, mysid ecology/behavior, climate change, modeling 

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

GIS, spatial analysis, data science, climate change, agriculture, land cover, human migration

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics

Ecological economics, degrowth, agroforestry, agroecology, environmental policy

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Food Systems Graduate Program

Emancipatory agroeocology, agroecological design, just transitions, political ecological economics, museum studies

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Science and Natural Resources

environmental justice, environmental humanities, plastic, waste, eco-thought, systems thinking

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Ecological economics, political ecology, just transition, computational text analysis

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Science and Natural Resources

Aquatic ecology, cyanobacteria blooms, food webs, environmental toxicology

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences

Marine ecosystems, phenotypic-plasticity, environmental change, adaptation

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Agroecology, food policy, climate change, ecological economics, public health

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Crop diversity, food policy, seed systems, rural development, climate change

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Community resilience, power systems, interdependent systems

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Crop domestication, drought resilience, plant-microbe interactions

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Machine learning, NLP, edge computing, data driven decision making, network science

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Food Systems Graduate Program

Food systems, gastronomy, computational social science

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Science and Natural Resources

Valuation and finance of natural capital, Ecological restoration of rainforest ecosystems, Sustainable Agriculture & Agroecology, Resilient Communities, private public partnerships, and social impact bonds, Justice and equity for sustainability and Water Sustainability

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Evolutionary computation, geostatistics, renewable energy, health care, happiness, and planetary health

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Human behavior, smart technology, utility demand side management, smart
grid

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Green New Deal, Energy Return On Investment (EROI), Biophysical and Ecological Economics, Ecological Finance, Climate Change

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Science and Natural Resources

Ecosystem restoration; sustainable management; biodiversity conservation; human behaviour; participatory methods; citizen science

Name

Gund Graduate Fellow Maya Moore

Maya Moore

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Smallholder farmers, tropical agriculture, deforestation, climate change, food security and sovereignty

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School for Environment and Natural Resources

Ecosystem services, human dimensions of natural resources, community-engaged research

Name

Liza Morse

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Conservation biology, avian ecology, forest ecology

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Nutrition and Food Sciences

consumer behaviour, sustainable diets, novel food adoption, neglected and underutilised species (NUS), community development and food security

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics

Agroecology, supply chain governance, political ecology, consumption, place-based pedagogies, post-development.

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Food Systems

Agroecology, Gender, Climate Change, Feminist Political Ecology, Participatory Action Research

Name

Mandy Nix

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Science and Natural Resources

environmental education and justice; social-ecological systems; science communications; STEM learning ecosystems; intersectional pedagogies; queer ecology; community science water-quality monitoring

Email

mnix@uvm.edu

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Science and Natural Resources

Email

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Science and Natural Resources

Forest ecology, disturbance ecology, forest-stream interactions, carbon storage, climate change

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Nutrient cycling, ecological engineering, sustainable agriculture, phosphorus recovery and reuse

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Ecological economics, environmental justice, participatory policy practices

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Human dimensions of natural resources, ecosystem services, environmental education

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, Complex Systems and Data Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Machine learning, NLP,  computational social science, security studies, cybercrime

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Agrobiodiversity, arthropod biodiversity, crop domestication, plant-arthropod interactions, sustainability 

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Adaptive silviculture, climate change impacts, forest ecology, GIS/spatial analysis, natural disturbance, forest modeling

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Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Decolonization, degrowth, ecological and behavioral economics, demilitarization and economic conversion, land-power relations, Indigenous resurgence and sovereignty, transformation of higher education, environmental humanities, slow scholarship, administrative ethics, post-activism, and participatory action research methods

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Food Systems Graduate Program

Food systems, landscape planning, agroecological resilience, ecosystem services, pollinator conservation

Name

Emma Spett

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Community Development and Applied Economics

Community resilience; data governance; community economic development; environmental management; collaborative governance; mixed-methods

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Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Competitive and sustainable value chains, food-health-planetary boundaries nexus, economic incentives, impact of culinary trends on producer/consumer behaviour, food waste, regenerative ag 

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

PAR, immigrant farming, quality of life, sustainability

Name

Jess Wikle

Jess Wikle

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Graduate Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Applied forest ecology, silviculture, forest management

 

Master's Students

Bren Cable, College of Arts and Sciences - Geography & Geosciences Department

Peyton Cavnar, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Cat Collins, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Niara Hicks, College of Arts and Sciences - Geography & Geosciences Department

Frances Hoag, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Sarah Hobson, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Halley Mastro, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Sarah Raimondi, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Eric Recchia, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Juliana Souza, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Sarah Tabor, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences - Complex Systems and Data Science

Victoria Treto, Department of Geology and Geosciences

Ayushi Vig, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Dakota Walker, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Daphne Zencey, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources