Doctoral Dissertation Titles
A list of in-progress and recently completed dissertation titles demonstrates the breadth of the research conducted by doctoral candidates at YSE.
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| Dissertation Title | Student Name | Committee Chair |
|---|---|---|
| Essays in Natural Resource Economics | Ethan Addicott | Eli Fenichel |
| Cold Adaptation and Freeze Tolerance in a Changing Climate | Yara Alshwairikh | David Skelly |
| Evolutionary dynamics of rapid, microgeographic adaptation in a vernal pool amphibian metapopulation | Andis Arietta | David Skelly |
| Migratory Mammals and Biogocemical Cycles: The Impact of Caribou on Nutrient Cycles | Kristy Ferraro | Os Schmitz, Mark Bradford |
| Ecosystem Structure and Function in Drylands: An Evaluation of Aboveground and Belowground Processes and their Limitations by Water and Nitrogen in Western North America | Christopher Beltz | Indy Burke |
| Food, Fabulation, and Futurity: Expert Knowledge and the Global Food System | Samara Brock | Justin Farrell, Lisa Messeri |
| The Influence of Human Activities and Land Use on Apex Predator Species in the Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem | Mary Burak | Os Schmitz |
| Ecologies of Belonging: The Cultural Politics of Nature and Nation in North America’s Great Basin | Paul Burow | Justin Farrell, K. Sivaramakrishnan |
| The Biophysical Impacts of Aerosols on Surface Climate | Tirthankar Chakraborty | Xuhui Lee |
| Disparity of temperature-mortality relationship among socio-economic and environmental factors | Hayon Michelle Choi | Michelle Bell |
| Plant vascular system (xylem and phloem) structure and function under stresses: Vascular-limited bacterial infections and drought | Ana Fanton Borges | Craig Brodersen |
| Living with Snow Leopards: The Quest for Human-Wildlife Coexistence on the Tibetan Plateau | Yufang Gao | Michael Dove, K. Sivaramakrishnan |
| Information as Invisible Infrastructure: Data, Institutions, and the Environment in Developing Countries | Matthew Gordon | Marian Chertow |
| Energy Ideas and the Politics of Development in Equador | Christopher Hebdon | Douglas Rogers, Michael Dove |
| Indian Urban Residential Buildings: Energy Demand, Emissions and Future | Aishwarya Iyer | Narasimha Rao |
| Does soil organic carbon support climate resilient agricultural systems? Searching for evidence and developing new measurement tools | Dan Kane | Mark Bradford |
| The Changing Waterscape of India’s Thirsty Capital City | Lav Kanoi | Michael Dove, K. Sivaramakrishnan |
| Reclaiming Land: The Creation of Land in Singapore | Vanessa Koh | Michael Dove |
| Beyond the Curve: Stories of Science, Population, and Reproduction in the Climate Crisis | Manon Lefevre | Michael Dove, Louisa Lombard |
| Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in a Large Temperate River | Laura Logozzo | Peter Raymond |
| Wildfires, Housing Access, and Human Mobility | Kathryn McConnell | Justin Farrell |
| The Biogeochemical Legacy of the Landscape of Fear: Pumas, Vicuñas, Condors, and Nutrient Cycling in the High Andes | Julia Monk | Os Schmitz |
| Social-ecological landscape: Incorporating human behaviour and attitudes towards wildlife into landscape modelling between the Makgadikgadi National Park and Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana | Kaggie Orrick | Os Schmitz |
| Linking Fern Ecophysiology, From a Species to a Phylogeny: Vasuclar Structure, Function, Integration, and Stomatal Behavior | Kyra Prats | Craig Brodersen |
| Advancing methods of contaminant-source attribution in regions of rapid unconventional oil and gas development: Investigation into shallow groundwater quality in the northern Appalachian Basin | Helen Siegel | James Saiers |
| Biodiversity and human health in an urban era | Rohan Simkin | Karen Seto |
| The evolutionary ecology of ecosystem function through the stoichiometric phenotype | Nathalie Sommer | Os Schmitz |
| Facets of vulnerability, risk, and uncertainty in the subsurface environment: Investigating the impacts of unconventional oil and gas development on groundwater resources | Mario Soriano | James Saiers |
| Impacts of selective logging on abiotic and biotic factors that determine seedling regeneration and recruitment in a Congo Basin tropical forest | Megan Sullivan | Liza Comita |
| The Diversity and Distribution of Herbaceous Plants along a Rainfall Gradient in the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests of the Western Ghats, India | Harikrishnan Venugopalan Nair Radhamoni | Liza Comita |
| Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of the Relationships between Disturbance, Plant Invasions, and Soil Nutrient Availability in Managed Hardwood Forests | Elisabeth Ward | Mark Bradford |
| The Effects of Urbanization on Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Quantity, Quality, and Nitrogen Concentrations Post-Storm Events in the Connecticut River Watershed | Lisa Weber | Peter Raymond |
| Successional trajectories of Dipterocarp forest fragments in the human-dominated landscapes of southern Sri Lanka | David Woodbury | Mark Ashton, Kate Armstrong (NYBG) |
| The Impact of Urbanization and Local Climate on Wet-Bulb Temperatures and Urban Heat Islands | Keer Zhang | Xuhui Lee |
| The new concessionary regimes of Gabon, Central Africa | Wen Zhou | Michael Dove, Luisa Lombard |