Student Projects

Current Projects:

• Phragmites australis effects on amphibians - Roaglski - F&ES
• Time series vegetation index analysis - Aloysius - F&ES
• High Frequency Monitoring of CO2, O2 and Chl-a Exchange - Zhao - F&ES
• Drought & Precipitation Patterns in the Gila National Forest - Bravo - F&ES
• Designing a National Forest Inventory for Bhutan - Myint - F&ES
• Identification of prehistoric cultivation in northwest Colorado - Gardner - Anthropology
• Land use and air pollution impact on asthma severity - Ebisu - F&ES
• Modeling the Abundance of Robins in Connecticut - Davis-Boozer - EPH
• Climate Impacts on Electricity Use in Europe - Steinberg - F&ES
• Assessing Stressor-Response Relationships in Aquatic Ecosystems - Moberg - F&ES
• Habitat use of spider monkeys in Manu National Park, Peru - Gibson - Anthropology
• Land use change in Cusuco National Park, Honduras - Frye-Levine - F&ES
• Mountain micro-climate on Denali - Currey - EVST
• Impact of invasive liana on gorilla habitat in the D.R. Congo - Liengola - F&ES
• Patterns of forest establishment in the Darhad valley, Mongolia - James - F&ES
• Modeling land cover change in peri-urban Areas of Quito - Vredeveld - F&ES
• Measuring coconut plantations in Dominica - Saxena - F&ES
• Forest classification in Northeastern China and the Russian Far East - Han - F&ES
• Riparian Forests in the Oueme Basin - Ceperley - F&ES
• Examining water quality in the Chesapeake Bay from space - Ziegler - EVST
• Applying ASTER to the Study of the Landscape Surrounding Caballo Muerto, Peru - Nesbitt - Anthropology
• Sustainable forest and rangeland management in Armenia - Parisa - F&ES
• Analysis of Persistent Organochlorines in Alpine Environment - Oden - F&ES
• Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Palm Oil Plantations - Carlson - F&ES
• Social and Environmental Change in Post-War Cambodia - Padwe - F&ES
• Landscape Characteristics and Entomological Risk for Human Lyme Disease - Lutzker - EPH
• Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in Tropical Cyclones - Woods - G&G
• Vegetation changes in the Lake Baringo, Kenya area - Goble - Anthropology
• Classifying small pond winter surface type at Yale-Myers - Brady - F&ES
• Urban Jungle: Urbanization and land use change in Amazonia - Hawken - F&ES
• Managing nitrogen flux to Long Island Sound - Barnes - F&ES
• Decision support tool integration for natural resource management - Niccolai - F&ES
• Seasonal migration in western Iran - Tonoike - Anthropology
• Changes in terrestrial carbon storage in Russia - Butman - F&ES
• Using ASTER to map sedimentary exposures - Bibi - G&G
• Sardinia mosquito project - Cohnstaedt - EPH
• Studying clouds in the Great Plains - Li - G&G
• Spatiotemporal distribution of fog precipitation in cloud forest fragments - Ponette - F&ES
• Neoproterozoic paleobiology, paleogeography, and geodynamics - Raub - G&G
• Tectonics and geobiology of the paleo- and mesoproterozoic - Raub - G&G
• Interface of a hydrologic model with landscape management - Karwan - F&ES
• Sacred Valley of Peru - Yager - Anthropology

Completed Projects:

• Affect of the Farakka Dam on siltation along the Hooghly River - Gangopadhyay - F&ES
• Environmental influences on urban mosquito distribution - Brown - EPH
• Measuring Water Quality in LI Sound & Chesapeake Bay - Enion - F&ES
• Carbon cycling dynamics in the Hudson River estuary - Griffith - F&ES
• Transportation and land use patterns in European cities - Berkeley - F&ES
• Application of Landsat for stand age mapping in interior Alaska - Cronan - F&ES
• Ceramic exchange and clay characterization - Diebold - Anthropology
• Vegetation mapping of Big Bend National Park - Poulos - F&ES
• Examining archaeological landscapes in Huánuco, Peru - Nesbitt - Anthropology
• Collaborating with Carnivores in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - Anderson - F&ES
• Vegetation dynamics and changes in the hydrological balance
• Temporal-compositional trends in single eruptions of the Big Pine Volcanic Field, CA
• Implementation and evaluation of a rapid assessment technique for New England salt marshes
• Europe's 2003 summer heatwave from space
• Examining land use and land cover change in the Adirondacks
• A spatial risk model for Ixodes scapularis-borne Borrelia
• Borneo peat carbon study
• MODIS GPP and the Ohio River watershed
• Sprawl from 1990-2000 in 15 US Cities
• Biodiversity impacts of logging and plantation conversion in Bornean dipterocarp forests
• Monitoring gas pipeline impacts and compliance
• Modeling conservation priorities
• Assessing the impacts of road development in Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador
• Road connection impacts - Darien, Colombia
• Change detection of mountaintop removal mining
• Analysis of land-use change in the Extractive Reserves of Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil
• Land use change in eastern Panama over different scales
• Comparing Southern CT Landcover Change with Social/Environmental Demographics
• Assessing Community Nature Resource Management
• Bamboo-Dominated Forests of the Amazon
• Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation on Mt. Moosilauke, NH and Camel's Hump, VT
• Large Scale Mapping of the Tell Brak in Syria
• Characterization of Riparian Vegetation in Sub-Basins of the Panama Canal Watershed
• Examining changing land-use patterns and deforestation in extractive reserves in Acre, Brazil
• A Forest Management Plan for Crotona Park, Bronx
• Temperature Patterns in the Long Island Sound
• Expanding the RisQue Model of Forest Flammability in Amazonia
• Hemlock decline in the North Madison Cedar Swamp
• Land Use in Buffer Zones of La Amistad International Biosphere Reserve, Costa Rica
• Yale Meyers Forest Model
• Forest Changes in Ethiopia
• Temperature, Rainfall and Settlement in the Near East
• Landcover Classification of the Naugatuck River
• Comparative study of urban density development in two Chinese cities
• A Study of Forest Management in Maine
• Landscape changes in Connecticut and its impact on deer harvest rates
• Northern Belize Landuse Project
• Analysis of Evaporative Cooling from Vegetation
• Observing Western Sinai from Space
• Using MODIS Data to Study Sparse Vegetation
• Yale Glacier Analysis
• Mountain Induced Rainfall
• Temporal Investigation of Cultivation Within and Bordering Araguaia National Park, Brazil
• Investigation of West Nile Encephalitis in NYC
• Forest Stand Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle
• Identification of Livingstone's Fruit Bat Roosting Sites in the Comoros Islands

25 March 2008