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Health Assessments and Antibiotoc Resistance of Free-Ranging Atlantic Sharpnose (Phizoprionodon terrae novae) and Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo) Sharls off the Coasts of Florida and Georgia
Katherine Haman (Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine)
A Timely Evaluation of the Environmental Benefits Index
Laura Hartz (Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy)
Tracking Cholera Outbreaks Using Remote Sensing
Antarpreet S. Jutla (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Towards Ecological Sustainability: Understanding Habitat Size Requirements for Declining Grassland Birds
Alexander Keyel (Department of Biology)
Cryptic Vectors, Lurking Pathogens, and Novel Chemistry: Culturable Microbes Associated with a Native and Invasive Wasp Species
Anne Madden (Department of Biology)
Biofuels and its Implications on Food Security and climate Change: A Case Study of Nepal
Shailee Pradhan (The Fletcher School)
2008-2009 TIE Fellows (click title for poster)
Linking Declines in Marsh Birds to Urbanization: An Evaluation of Potential Mechanisms
Brian G. Tavernia (School of Arts and Sciences) Click here to view report
Advancing Central America's Development Through the Carbon Market: An Assessment of the Barriers and Policy Recommendations to Overcome Them
Abby Lindsay (The Fletcher School and the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning) Click here to view report
Determining the Mechanism of Action by which Atrazine Affects Organ Development in Amphibians
Jenny Lenkowski (School of Arts and Sciences) Click here to view report
Herring Gulls, Larus argentatus, as Vectors of Pathogenic Escherichia coli in Coastal Environments
Karen Alroy (Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine) Click here to view report
Estimation of Climatic and Anthropogenic Influences on Freshwater Availability
Yu-shiou Tsai (Tufts University School of Engineering)
Graduate Student Grants
Evaluation of a Novel Water Recreation Area as an Effective Tool for the Reduction of Schistosomiasis in Rural Ghana
Karen Claire Kosinski (School of Engineering)
Using PCR Technology for the Rapid and Definitive Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium avium in Cattle and Buffalo Populations of Chitwan District, Nepal
Sujata Desai (Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine)
Traffic Pollution and Systemic Inflammation: Do genetic variability and pre-existing conditions (diabetes, hypertension, and obesity) mediate the inflammatory response to traffic pollution for older residents living in close proximity to major highways in Boston, Lowell, and Lawrence, Massachusetts?
Christine Rioux (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program)
The EU and Global Climate Leadership
Cristiana Pasca (The Fletcher School)
Water Resource Management and Social-Ecological Resilience in Samunge, Tanzania
Ayron Strauch (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Biology)
Geochemical Controls on Uranium Mobility to Inform Human Health Exposure Assessment in the Church Rock Mining District: Navajo Nation, NM.
Jamie deLemos (School of Engineering)
Asthma in Connecticut Schools Study: An Examination of Proximity to Environmental Triggers at School and Prevalence of Asthma
Kevin Lane (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning)
Overcoming Political Obstacles to Mitigating Air Pollution in Tehran
A. Nicholas Gossen (The Fletcher School)
Undergraduate Student Grants
Design and Construction of a Novel Water Play Structure to Control Schistosomiasis in Rural Ghana
Alaina McGillivray, Jessica Pransky, Andrew Swanton and Jesus Sanchez (School of Engineering)
Nerd Girls Solar Car Project
Courtney Mario, Alexandra McGourty, Nicole Ng, Alexandra Ross and Brittany Wright (School of Engineering)
2006-2007 TIE Fellows (click title for report)
Graduate Student Grants
The Externalized Cost of Corporate Hog Production
Elanor Starmer (School of Nutrition/The Fletcher School)
Establishing Biological Corridors in the Trifinio Region
Nathan Frey (The Fletcher School)
Environmental Justice and Dalit Women: Using Sanitation Technology to Improve Human Rights in Gujarat, India
Melissa Rosen (School of Nutrition, Agriculture, Food, and the Environment)
Property Rights Regimes and Plant Genetic Resources in Cuba, India, and the U.S.
Meghan Morris (The Fletcher School)
Household Water Security in Mauritania
Rachel Bingham (The Fletcher School, Center for International Environment and Resources Policy)
Environmental Technology and Policy Development in a Regional System: Transboundary Water Management and Pollution Prevention in Southeastern Europe
Christi Electris (The Fletcher School, Center for International Environment and Resources Policy)
Post-Disaster Sustainable Project Design: Mangrove Rehabilitation in Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Nicole Guanzon (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning)
Conservation Genetics of the Black (Diceros bicorni) and White (Ceratotherium simum) Rhinoceros
Lindsey Nielsen (Veterinary School)
Managing Carbon Emissions Using Massachusetts Forests
Minda Berbeco (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Biology)
Distribution of Gastrointestinal Parasites of Grevy's Zebras, Plains Zebras, Other Wildlife Species, and Livestock in the Samburu Landscape, Kenya
Emi Knafo (Veterinary School)
Undergraduate Student Grants
Analyzing the Sustainability of Microfinance in Tulear, Madagascar, through Environmenatal, Economic and Gendered Indicators
Amanda Fencl (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of International Relations/Environmental Studies)
Urban Governance Regimes and their Correlation with Sustainability
Zachary Cuttler (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Political Science)
2005-2006 TIE Fellows (click title for report)
Using Jasmonates to Enhance Long-Term Sequestration of Atmospheric Carbon
Benjamin Babst (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Biology)
Sustainable Development and Public Participation in Policymaking in Latin America
Melissa Birch (The Fletcher School, Center for International Environment and Resources Policy)
Healthy Land, Healthy People: Supporting Native American Reservations in Montana through Sustainable Agriculture
Benjamin Bowell, Colleen Matts, Syrah Merkow, Monique Mikhail, Aimee Witteman (School of Nutrition, Agriculture, Food, and the Environment)
Glucocorticoids as Indicators of Ecosystem Health
Nicole Cyr (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Biology)
Measuring Environmental Costs of Urbanization is Small Island States: The Case of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Caleb McClennen (The Fletcher School, Center for International Environment and Resources Policy)
Participatory Conservation: A Community Based Ethnobotanical Evaluation of Useful Plants and their Conservation Status in Parc du "W", Niger
Jocelyn Muller (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Biology)
Engendering a sense of watershed identity: case studies of tools and techniques
Sarah Reich (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning)
How Many Dollars are Melting Away? Valuing the Services of the Tropical Glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca in Peru
Edward Spang (The Fletcher School, Center for International Environment and Resources Policy)
2004-2005 TIE Fellows (click title for report)
Environmental Planning Grants
Sustainable landscapes and environmental education at Tufts
Faculty: Richard Vogel (School of Engineering), Michael Reed (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Biology), and Jeff Licht (School of Arts and Sciences, University College of Citizenship and Public Service), Students: Duncan Cheung and Alexander Sherman (School of Arts and Sciences)
Graduate Student Grants
An integrated assessment of regional wastewater treatment options in Jamaica using systems analysis
Ana Martha Fernandes (School of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Organic and Fair Trade: Revaluing peasant livelihoods and Mexican coffee in the midst of crisis
Muriel Calo (School of Nutrition, Food Policy and Applied Nutrition Program)
Developing policy incentives to promote green building practices in Boston
Michelle Mondazzi (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning)
Ecological study of endocrine disease in MA
Bindu Panikkar (School of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Multi-Objective optimization model for the examination of water reuse potential in Lebanon
Patrick Ray (School of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
The first accurate census of the endangered Hawaiian Moorhen
David DesRoches (School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Biology)
The influence of stormwater and BMP planning on stormwater management in the Aberjona River Watershed
Drew Shelton (School of Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Survey of important parasitic and infectious diseases shared by elephants and livestock in Dimbangombe, Zimbabwe
Karin Hamilton and James Desmond (School of Veterinary Medicine)
2003-2004 TIE Fellows (click title for report)
Environmental Education Grants
New Seminar: Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology
J. Michael Reed, Department of Biology
Tropical Ecology and Conservation
Colin Orians, Department of Biology
Environmental Planning Grants
Modeling optimal wetland design for multiple endangered Hawaiian waterbirdsStudent: Nina Fefferman (Dept. of Biology). Faculty: Michael Reed (Dept. of Biology), Rich Vogel (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Investigating the impacts of disease on conservation at the ecosystem level: A multi dimensional challenge in Chitwan Nepal and Nazenga, Burkina Faso
Student: Lisa Naples (Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine). Faculty and Staff: Gretchen Kaufman, Peter Daszak, Christine Jost, and Colin Gillen (Dept. of Environmental and Population Health, TUSVM); Denise Castronovo (Academic Technology); and Mark Woodin (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Graduate Student Grants
Glucocorticoid analysis as a potential biomarker of chronic contaminant exposure in wildlife
Melinda Franceschini (Dept. of Biology)
The effects of human-elephant conflict on elephant health and conservation in Nepal
Karin Hamilton and Jennifer Zambriski (Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine)
Sustainable energy as a long term university strateg.
Heather Barnes Kirkpatrick (Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning).Heather Barnes Kirkpatrick (Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning)
Caribbean coral reef health and communities: The effects of global climate change on butterflyfish feeding ecology and associated coral response
Randi Rotjan (Dept. of Biology)
Urbanization, resource management, and the environment: Historical perspective from vegetable production in early-modern Japan
Kayo Tajima (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program)
