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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 />

4


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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13


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 />

15


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 />

18


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 />

19


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 />

representing 30 academic disciplines, are active with HMEI and<br />

contribute to the teaching of scientific, technical, policy, and human<br />

dimensions of environmental issues.<br />

HMEI serves as a center for environmental education, ideas, and<br />

dialogue through robust undergraduate and graduate teaching<br />

programs, research centers and initiatives, and public events<br />

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Since its inception, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary<br />

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and manage the biological world. Evolution is the theme that unites<br />

EEB, and theory and empiricism guides it. Faculty, postdoctoral<br />

researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students engage in<br />

innovative research that explores some of the most urgent societal<br />

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The department fosters a culture of intellectual openness, collegiality<br />

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scholarship and, overall, the continued advancement of the scientific<br />

field.<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 />

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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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Notes<br />

The cover and text pages of this program were<br />

printed on recycled post-consumer fiber paper.


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