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APRIL 30, <strong>2024</strong><br />
<strong>Discovery</strong> <strong>Day</strong> <strong>2024</strong>
<strong>Discovery</strong> <strong>Day</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, <strong>2024</strong><br />
11:30AM - 1:30PM<br />
FRICK CHEMISTRY LAB ATRIUM<br />
Joanna Shoubaki ’23 (left) discusses her research on chemical signatures<br />
of reproduction and nestmate identity in Sweat Bees with Guillaume<br />
Falmagne, HMEI Postdoctoral Research Associate (right).<br />
(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)<br />
Cover<br />
(Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
High Meadows Environmental Institute<br />
(HMEI) is pleased to host the tenth annual<br />
<strong>Discovery</strong> <strong>Day</strong> event – a multidisciplinary<br />
poster show celebrating student research on<br />
environmental topics.<br />
The event provides an opportunity for<br />
students to display and discuss their<br />
research methodologies and results, to<br />
exchange perspectives and to identify<br />
potential solutions to pressing<br />
environmental challenges.<br />
This year, 100 students from 22 academic<br />
departments, mentored by 80 faculty<br />
advisers, are presenting their work.<br />
Please join us in offering congratulations to<br />
the students and heartfelt appreciation to<br />
the many people who have encouraged and<br />
supported their research endeavors.<br />
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For display purposes, student posters are organized into groupings by<br />
focal themes. A graphic showing the location of the groupings appears<br />
on pages 12-13.<br />
Biodiversity and Conservation ..................... [A]<br />
Climate and Environmental Science. ................ [B]<br />
Environmental Policy and Society .................. [C]<br />
Health and Disease. .............................. [D]<br />
New Energy Future. .............................. [E]<br />
Sustainable Agriculture. .......................... [F]<br />
Urban Planning and Sustainable Communities........ [G]<br />
Water and the Environment. ....................... [H]<br />
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Student Projects<br />
Students presenting their work are listed alphabetically by student<br />
last name. Unless otherwise noted, students are seniors in the Class of<br />
<strong>2024</strong>. An asterisk denotes graduate student.<br />
KAILA AVENT<br />
ANT [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
RYO MORIMOTO<br />
Seeds as Possibility: Rethinking Knowledge,<br />
Kinship, and Resilience Amid Climate Crisis<br />
TEMILOLUWA AYENI<br />
SOC [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
FILIZ GARIP<br />
From Dr. Seuss to Greta Thunberg: The<br />
Relationship Between Significant Life<br />
Experience and Environmental Activism<br />
Observed in Young Adults<br />
KOJO BAIDOO<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CHRISTINA RIEHL<br />
Agonistic Interactions and Tail-cocking<br />
Posture in the Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)<br />
OWEN BARTHEL<br />
POL [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
NOLAN MCCARTY<br />
The Impact of Climate Disasters on Working<br />
Class Voter Turnout: The Mobilization of the<br />
American Working Class Immediately After<br />
Hurricane Sandy<br />
LUKE BAXTER<br />
ECO [E]<br />
READER:<br />
CORINA TARNITA<br />
Assessing Future Energy Consumption<br />
of Bitcoin Mining: The Need for Transition<br />
Towards a Greener Blockchain<br />
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LIBBY BLAZES<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
C. JESSICA METCALF<br />
Measles in Madagascar: Assessing the State of<br />
Immunity and Disease Surveillance in the<br />
Post-COVID-19 World<br />
KATHERINE<br />
BRUBAKER<br />
SPIA [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
MARTIN FLAHERTY<br />
Upholding International Law and Fighting<br />
Environmental Degradation: A Multilateral<br />
Approach to Responsible Management in the<br />
South China Sea (SCS)<br />
HARLOWE<br />
BRUMETT-DUNN<br />
ANT [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ONUR GÜNAY<br />
Unveiling Environmental Warfare: Carbon<br />
Capture, Racial Injustice, and Artistic<br />
Resistance<br />
HELEN BRUSH<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
CORINA TARNITA;<br />
MERLIJN STAPS<br />
Thinking Like A Shrub: A Modeling Framework<br />
for Arctic Plant Phenology<br />
MEERA BURGHARDT<br />
SPIA [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ETHAN KAPSTEIN<br />
Pastoral Violence and Climate Change in<br />
Kenya<br />
CASEY BURTON<br />
EEB [B]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ROB PRINGLE<br />
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Responses to<br />
Disturbances in Savanna Ecosystems<br />
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ALEX CHAUNCEY-HEINE<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SHANE<br />
CAMPBELL-STATON<br />
Flapping in the Storm: Tradeoffs Between<br />
Dewlaps and Hurricane Adaptation in Anolis<br />
sagrei<br />
ZHAORAN CHEN<br />
ARC [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
MARIO GANDELSONAS<br />
Aesthetics of Authenticity: Categorizing the<br />
Language of Redevelopment and Land-use in<br />
Beijing’s Hutongs<br />
MIRAE CHOI<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
BRYAN GRENFELL<br />
Forecasting Intra-host HIV-1 Evolutionary<br />
Dynamics in Antiretroviral Therapyexperienced<br />
People: A Systematic Review of<br />
Longitudinal Clinical Studies<br />
MAYA CHUNG*<br />
AOS [B]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
BRYAN GRENFELL;<br />
C. JESSICA METCALF;<br />
GABRIEL VECCHI<br />
Intersecting Memories of Immunity and<br />
Climate: Potential Multiyear Impacts of the<br />
El Niño - Southern Oscillation on Infectious<br />
Disease Spread<br />
RACHAEL UWADA<br />
CLIFFORD*<br />
ENG [H]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
SIMON GIKANDI;<br />
WILLIAM GLEASON;<br />
ROB NIXON<br />
The Poetics of Water in Nineteenth- and<br />
Twentieth-century Caribbean Writing<br />
JESSICA CUI<br />
CEE [F]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
AMILCARE PORPORATO<br />
Biochar for Reduction of Agricultural<br />
Water Strain<br />
5
MAGDELY MICHELLE<br />
DIAZ DE-LEON<br />
ANT [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ<br />
HERNANDEZ<br />
Empowering Environmental Equity:<br />
Casa Pueblo’s Role in Fostering Community<br />
Resilience in Post-disaster Puerto Rico<br />
APRIL DONG<br />
ARC [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
FORREST MEGGERS<br />
What’s the Buzz About Biophilia?<br />
Lessons from the Hive and Biophilic<br />
Architecture<br />
DANIEL DUNCAN<br />
EEB [F]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SIMON LEVIN<br />
Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and<br />
Challenges for Sustainable Food Systems<br />
SARAH DUNTLEY<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CHRISTINA RIEHL<br />
The Rain Never Bothered Me Anyway:<br />
Timing of Greater Ani Egg Laying as a<br />
Function of Rainfall<br />
ELENA EVNIN<br />
HIS [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
MARGOT CANADAY<br />
A Thick Film of Dust Settles on the Screen:<br />
Ecocinema of the Dust Bowl<br />
COLIN FREER<br />
SPIA [E]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ANDREW BUHER<br />
Scaling Solar Energy in New Jersey (NJ):<br />
Benefits, Barriers, and Recommendations to<br />
NJ Solar Deployment<br />
6
LUCAS FRYE*<br />
CHM [H]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
JOHN GROVES;<br />
MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER<br />
Groundwater, Labor, and Migration in the<br />
Great Plains<br />
CATHERINE GARRETT<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CHRISTINA RIEHL<br />
The Effects of Manganese and Zinc on Growth,<br />
Photosynthetic Health, and Resilience in Reef<br />
building corals (Orbicella faveolata)<br />
THEO GIBBS*<br />
QCB [A]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
SIMON LEVIN;<br />
JONATHAN LEVINE<br />
Detecting Higher-order Interactions in<br />
Water-limited Annual Plant Communities<br />
FINOTE GIJSMAN*<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ROB PRINGLE<br />
Collapse of Dung Beetle Communities in the<br />
Elephant-free African Savannas<br />
JULIAN GOTTFRIED<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
BRIDGETT VONHOLDT<br />
Single-cell Exploration for Improved Pinniped<br />
Healthcare<br />
MAX GOTTS<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
STEPHEN PACALA<br />
Heterogeneous Adaptation and Bioacoustic<br />
Speciation in a Poison-dart Frog<br />
7
CHRISTIAN GRAY*<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
LARS HEDIN<br />
Tradeoffs in Belowground Plant Strategies<br />
in the Fynbos<br />
JACK GREEN<br />
SPIA [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ELKE WEBER<br />
Small Buildings, Large Impact: Advancing<br />
Residential Decarbonization Through<br />
Building Performance Standards<br />
for Rental and Small Multifamily Housing<br />
KELVIN GREEN<br />
CEE [E]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
JASON REN;<br />
HOWARD STONE<br />
Towards Continuous Flow Microfluidics for<br />
Selective Lithium Recovery<br />
JAMES HARTLEY<br />
ARC [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CHRISTINE BOYER<br />
Transit City Development: Japan’s Unique<br />
Approach to Train Station Design<br />
YAASHREE<br />
HIMATSINGKA<br />
HIS [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
DIVYA CHERIAN<br />
Governing Spirits: Mahua, Morality, and<br />
Mysticism in Middle India<br />
DEREK JOHNSTON<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
C. JESSICA METCALF<br />
A Guide to the Genus Cordyceps and Potential<br />
Future Host Jump Possibilities<br />
8
EVA JORDAN<br />
CEE [B]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
AMILCARE PORPORATO<br />
Modeling Mangrove Establishment with Ocean<br />
Wave Energy as a Central Limiting Mechanism<br />
to Seedling Survival<br />
KATE JOYCE<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ROB PRINGLE<br />
Ultraviolet and Visible Light Differences<br />
in the Plumage Coloration of Male and<br />
Female Florida Scrub-jays<br />
(Aphelocoma coerulescens)<br />
JORDAN KAPLAN<br />
EEB [F]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SIMON LEVIN<br />
The Influence of Treatment and Location on<br />
Arthropod Distribution and Crop Yield in<br />
Minimum Tillage Farms in Israel<br />
MAE KENNEDY<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
LARS HEDIN<br />
Commercial Pine Invasion of South African<br />
Fynbos: A Belowground Perspective<br />
ALEXANDER KIM<br />
MAE [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
FORREST MEGGERS<br />
Beyond the Thermostat: A Tripartite<br />
Investigation of Convective and Radiaant Heat<br />
Transfer in Building Systems<br />
CARIS KIM<br />
SOC [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
LYNN CHANCER<br />
Food for Thought: How Princeton<br />
Undergraduate Students Navigate Food<br />
Choices and Eating<br />
9
CHLOE KIM<br />
HIS [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
KEITH WAILOO<br />
African American Herbal Healing 1850s-1930s<br />
Amidst an Environment of Connection, Refuge,<br />
and Spirituality<br />
SPENCER KOONIN<br />
CHM [B]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SATISH MYNENI<br />
Eon-ic Bonds: Geochemical Investigation into<br />
Volcanic Heating and Gas Production During<br />
the End-cretaceous Mass Extinction 66 mya<br />
LUCY KOVEN<br />
POL [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CORRINE<br />
MCCONNAUGHY<br />
When Faced with the Challenge of Coastal<br />
Resilience, Some Cities Rise Above<br />
CHARLOTTE KUNESH<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
ANDREA GRAHAM;<br />
SAM PHILLIPS<br />
The Disease Down Under: Therapeutic<br />
Vaccination Against Koala Chlamydia,<br />
Immune Responses and Microbiome<br />
Differences<br />
DINA KUSSAINOVA*<br />
CBE [H]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ATHANASSIOS<br />
PANAGIOTOPOULOS<br />
Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of<br />
Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions from Machine<br />
Learning Models<br />
MADELEINE LAUSTED<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SHANE<br />
CAMPBELL-STATON<br />
Investigating Craniofacial Abnormalities<br />
in Tuskless Elephants: A Geometric<br />
Morphometric Approach<br />
10
MEGAN LEINENBACH<br />
EEB [D]<br />
Changes in the Urinary Microbiome with Age<br />
ADVISER:<br />
BRIDGETT VONHOLDT<br />
AMÉLIE LEMAY<br />
CEE [H]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
IAN BOURG<br />
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)<br />
Form Lateral and Longitudinal Interactions at<br />
the Water-air Interface<br />
BING LIN*<br />
SPIA [H]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
DAVID WILCOVE<br />
Key Drivers of Unsustainable Tourist<br />
Behaviors on Coral Reefs in Southeast Asia<br />
CAMILA<br />
LLERENA-OLIVERA*<br />
CEE [H]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
PETER JAFFÉ<br />
Finding the Ideal Microbial Electrolysis Cell<br />
Conditions with Acidimicrobium sp. Strain A6<br />
to Enhance Ammonium Oxidation and PFAS<br />
Defluorination in Wastewater<br />
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD*<br />
GEO [C]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
NING LIN;<br />
MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER<br />
Socioeconomic Distributional Impacts of<br />
Evaluating Flood Mitigation Activities Using<br />
Equity-weighted Benefit-cost Analysis<br />
YERALDI LOERA*<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SHANE<br />
CAMPBELL-STATON<br />
Evolution to Pollution: Genomic Regulatory<br />
Signatures of Selection in Pesticide-exposed<br />
Morelet’s Crocodiles from Belize<br />
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Biodiversity and Conservation ..................... [A]<br />
Climate and Environmental Science. ................ [B]<br />
Environmental Policy and Society .................. [C]<br />
Health and Disease. .............................. [D]<br />
New Energy Future. .............................. [E]<br />
Sustainable Agriculture. .......................... [F]<br />
Urban Planning and Sustainable Communities........ [G]<br />
Water and the Environment. ....................... [H]<br />
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FIONA<br />
LOGAN-SANKEY<br />
MOL [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
DANIEL RUBENSTEIN<br />
Impact of Cattle Grazing Regimes on Zebra<br />
Movements in an African Savanna Ecosystem<br />
ARIA LUPO<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
JULIEN AYROLES;<br />
CELESTE NELSON<br />
Stress Ball Morphogenesis in the Lungs of<br />
Gecko Lizards<br />
JASPER LYDON<br />
SPIA [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ANASTASIA MANN<br />
Grass-roof Homes as Grassroots Hubs:<br />
Intentional Communities on the Frontlines<br />
of Sustainability Policy in the United States<br />
and Canada<br />
ETHAN MAGISTRO<br />
PHI [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ANNA STILZ<br />
The Moral Legitimacy of Celestial Resource<br />
Sovereignty<br />
CORDI MAHONY<br />
POL [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
RAFAELA DANCYGIER<br />
Fridays for Future or Mondays for Economy?<br />
Climate Activism and the Response and the<br />
Radical Right<br />
FIONA MAX<br />
SOC [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
BENJAMIN BRADLOW<br />
Ugler I Mosen: Demand-side Climate<br />
Initiatives in a Petro-state<br />
14
COLBY MCARTHUR<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
BRIDGETT VONHOLDT<br />
DNA Methylation and Hibernation Timing<br />
in Yellow-bellied Marmots<br />
CLAIRE MIDDLETON<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SHANE<br />
CAMPBELL-STATON<br />
How Did the Cliff Swallow Cross the Road?<br />
A Genomic Study of Wing Length Variation<br />
Under Traffic-mediated Selection in a<br />
Highway Nesting Bird<br />
JAHIR MORRIS<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
SARAH KOCHER;<br />
MICHELLE WHITE<br />
Computer Vision Enables Rapid Identification<br />
of Wild Bee Species Using Wing Venation<br />
Patterns<br />
TOBIAS NGUYEN<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
IDRA NOVEY;<br />
MARY (CASSIE)<br />
STODDARD<br />
To the Beetles in My Body: An Educational<br />
Novella<br />
LOGAN OYAMA<br />
PSY [F]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
LARS HEDIN;<br />
JULIE TIERNEY<br />
Fungal Food and Fire Mitigation: Growing<br />
Edible Oyster Mushrooms to Protect Forests<br />
and Feed Communities<br />
JINHEE PARK*<br />
CEE [B]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
PETER JAFFÉ;<br />
BRUCE KOEL<br />
Exploring Optimal Iron Oxides as Electron<br />
Acceptors for Anaerobic Ammonium-oxidizing<br />
Bacteria Capable of Degrading Perfluoroalkyl<br />
Carboxylic Acids<br />
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ERIN PHILLIPS*<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
ROB PRINGLE;<br />
DAVID WILCOVE<br />
When Conservation Gets Controversial:<br />
Socio-political Barriers to Species<br />
Reintroductions<br />
OSCAR BENJAMIN<br />
WU PLATT<br />
ARC [G]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
PAUL LEWIS<br />
Materials Matter: Lessons from Eelgrass and<br />
the Danish Vernacular<br />
LILLITH PRICE-WHARFF<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CHRISTINA RIEHL<br />
Echoes in the Dark: Unraveling the Influence of<br />
Artificial Light on Bat Activity in the Panama<br />
Canal Zone<br />
KENNEDY PRIMUS<br />
AAM [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
JOSHUA GUILD<br />
Still Waters Run Deep: Enslaved Resistance<br />
Within the North Atlantic, 1600-1860<br />
WILSON RICKS*<br />
MAE [C]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
ALEX GLASER;<br />
JESSE JENKINS<br />
Careful What You Subsidize: Emissions<br />
Implications of the Clean Hydrogen Production<br />
Tax Credit<br />
KENYA RIPLEY-DUNLAP<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
STEPHEN GAUGHRAN;<br />
ANDREA GRAHAM<br />
Assessing Immune Response to Parasitic<br />
Lungworm in Northern Elephant Seals<br />
16
ISADORA RIVERA-JANER<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
C. JESSICA METCALF<br />
Characterizing Zoonotic and Vector-borne<br />
Disease Presence in Contexts of Displacement<br />
and Weather Events<br />
JOSHUA ROGERS<br />
POL [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CHRIS GRIEG<br />
Transmitting Consensus: A Political Guide to<br />
Transmission Reform in the United States<br />
KATIE ROHRBAUGH<br />
HIS [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
EMMANUEL KREIKE<br />
The History of Mpala Research Centre and Its<br />
Impact on Science and Local Communities<br />
ERIK ROLL<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ANDY DOBSON<br />
Forest Communities in a Wildfire-destabilized<br />
Subarctic Dune Ecosystem: Upper Tanana<br />
Valley, Alaska<br />
MICHAEL SALAMA<br />
HIS [C]<br />
Political Hydrology of the Poopó Basin<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ISADORA MOTA<br />
TYLER SANDOVAL<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
JULIEN AYROLES<br />
The Silent Struggle: Behavioral Changes from<br />
Psychosocial Comorbidities in Patients with<br />
Physical Trauma<br />
17
BRIDGETTE SCHAFER<br />
POL [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
KRISTOPHER RAMSAY<br />
Caught in Conflict: Weaving a Political<br />
Framework of Understanding for Modern<br />
Fishery Conflicts<br />
MATEJ SEKULIC<br />
POL [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
LAYNA MOSLEY<br />
Securing Social Legitimacy: The Essential Role<br />
of Community Engagement in Lithium Mining<br />
SAKHI SHAH<br />
CBE [F]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
JONATHAN CONWAY<br />
Improving Okra Seed Oil Content Through<br />
Breeding and Genome-wide Identification of<br />
Genetic Variants Associated with Grapevine<br />
Phenotypes<br />
HUGH SHIELDS<br />
GEO [E]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
LUC DEIKE<br />
Predicting Global Wave Conditions via<br />
Convolutional Neural Network<br />
DANIEL SIMONE<br />
ECE [E]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
MINJIE CHEN;<br />
SHARAD MALIK<br />
Design of a Universal Compact Low Voltage<br />
Vehicle Control Unit for Formula Electric<br />
Vehicles<br />
DREW SOMERVILLE<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
LINDY MCBRIDE<br />
The Bonheur Zoo: An Ecological Exploration of<br />
Rosa Bonheur’s Animal Oeuvre<br />
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SOPHIA STEWART<br />
SPIA [F]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
RAMON CRUZ DIAZ<br />
A Policymaker’s Guide to Regenerative<br />
Agriculture; Overcoming Barriers to a<br />
Sustainable Future<br />
MAIA SUNG<br />
SPIA [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ZHAO LI<br />
How Lobbying in the United States and<br />
European Union Appealed to Domestic Politics<br />
Allowing Unregulated Atlantic Shortfin Mako<br />
Shark Bycatch in International Commission<br />
for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)<br />
NATALIE SWOPE<br />
ECO [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ALLAN HSIAO<br />
To Conserve or to Cultivate: The Effect of USDA<br />
Loan <strong>Program</strong>s on Conservation Reserve<br />
<strong>Program</strong> Enrollment<br />
MELISSA TIER*<br />
SPIA [C]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER;<br />
ELKE WEBER<br />
Urban Residents’ Justice Preferences in the<br />
Design of Climate Adaptation Flood Policy<br />
KIM TRAN<br />
MOL [D]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
SHRUTHI MAHALINGAIAH;<br />
JOAN RUDERMAN<br />
Silent Toxins: Examining the Association<br />
Between Pesticide Exposure and<br />
Endometriosis Incidence<br />
CHIOMA UGWONALI<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ANDY DOBSON<br />
Outdoor Air Pollution and COVID-19<br />
Mortality Across the United States<br />
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KRISTEN UMBRIAC<br />
MAE [A]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
LUIGI MARTINELLI;<br />
KIM WILLIAMS-GUILLÉN<br />
The InvestEggator: A GPS-enabled Replica Sea<br />
Turtle Egg for Tracking Central American<br />
Poachers<br />
SAMANTHA VOICHECK<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
ANDY DOBSON;<br />
NICOLE GOTTDENKER<br />
Sick as a Dog: Cytokine Profile of Domestic<br />
Panamanian Canines<br />
M. SHAHARYAR WANI*<br />
MAE [H]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
CRAIG ARNOLD<br />
Ultralightweight Graphitic Aerogel for Water<br />
Purification<br />
DELAINEY WHELAN<br />
SOC [C]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
SANYU MOJOLA<br />
Content Analysis of Religious and Political<br />
Media Across the Evangelical Divide in<br />
Canada and the United States<br />
MARQUEZ WHITE<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
DAVID WILCOVE<br />
Factors Influencing Rehabilitation Outcomes of<br />
Amazonian Manatees (Trichechus inunguis) in<br />
the Peruvian Amazon<br />
MAX WIDMANN<br />
HIS [E]<br />
ADVISERS:<br />
ALLISON CARRUTH;<br />
NATHANIEL OTJEN;<br />
JUAN MANUEL RUBIO<br />
Mining for the Climate: Addressing Critical<br />
Mineral Extraction Through Place-based<br />
Storytelling<br />
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ISAAC YI<br />
EEB [D]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ANDREA GRAHAM<br />
Antibiotic Alternative: The Effects of<br />
Purinergic Signaling Modulators on<br />
Macrophage Internalization of<br />
K. Pneumoniae<br />
JESSENIA<br />
YUPANGUI YUPA<br />
EEB [A]<br />
ADVISER:<br />
ROB PRINGLE<br />
The Co-occurrence of Mesopredators at<br />
Carcass Sites in Gorongosa National Park<br />
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The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton<br />
University advances understanding of the Earth as a complex system<br />
influenced by human activities and informs solutions to local and<br />
global challenges by conducting groundbreaking research across<br />
disciplines and by preparing future leaders in diverse fields to impact<br />
a world increasingly shaped by climate change.<br />
HMEI functions as a vibrant central resource for faculty, postdocs,<br />
students, alumni, and others with an interest in environmental topics<br />
and research. More than 140 members of the Princeton faculty,<br />
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contribute to the teaching of scientific, technical, policy, and human<br />
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HMEI serves as a center for environmental education, ideas, and<br />
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Since its inception, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary<br />
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The department fosters a culture of intellectual openness, collegiality<br />
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SUPPORT FOR<br />
INDEPENDENT<br />
FIELD-RESEARCH<br />
PROJECTS AND<br />
HMEI GRADUATE<br />
FELLOWSHIPS HAS<br />
BEEN GENEROUSLY<br />
PROVIDED BY<br />
THE FOLLOWING<br />
FRIENDS:<br />
The Barron Family Fund for Innovations in<br />
Environmental Studies<br />
John Bonner Senior Thesis Fund<br />
Becky Colvin ’95 Memorial Research Fund<br />
The Charles W. H. Dodge ’51 Fund<br />
Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Senior Thesis Fund in<br />
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<br />
William Clay Ford, Jr. ’79 and Lisa Vanderzee<br />
Ford ’82 Graduate Fellowship Fund<br />
Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Award for Water<br />
and the Environment<br />
H. Hamilton Hackney ’53 Senior Thesis<br />
Research Fund<br />
Edmund Hayes, Sr. ’18 Fund<br />
The High Meadows Environmental Institute<br />
Fund<br />
Leslie K. Johnson Senior Thesis Fund<br />
William N. Kelley ’40 and William N. Kelley ’66<br />
Graduate Fellowship Fund<br />
Mountain Lake Field Research Fund<br />
Newton Family HMEI Scholars Fund<br />
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SUPPORT FOR<br />
INDEPENDENT<br />
FIELD-RESEARCH<br />
PROJECTS AND<br />
HMEI GRADUATE<br />
FELLOWSHIPS HAS<br />
BEEN GENEROUSLY<br />
PROVIDED BY<br />
THE FOLLOWING<br />
FRIENDS:<br />
(CONT’D)<br />
Thomas Jefferson Perkins Class of 1894<br />
Graduate Fellowship Fund<br />
Porter ’52 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<br />
Research Fund<br />
Bob and Cathy Solomon Undergraduate<br />
Research Fund<br />
John H. T. Wilson ’56 and Sandra W. Wilson<br />
Fund<br />
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