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People
Program Administrators
Lydia Olander
Fellows
Hussain Alshammasi
I’m a 5th year student in the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas school of the Environment working on the economic costs of air pollution.
Axel Berky
I’m a third year student in the Nicholas School of the Environment working on the long term health effects of mixed metal exposures.
Alice Carter
I'm a 4th year student in the University Program in Ecology working on oxygen dynamics and element cycling in rivers.
Travis Dauwalter
I’m a 3rd year PhD student in Public Policy and Economics studying energy policy.
Kimberley Drouin
I’m a third year student in the Nicholas school working on the ocean surface circulation of the South Atlantic using observational data sets.
Jacqueline Gerson
I am a 4th year student in the University Program in Ecology working on the impacts of mining on trace element movement.
Kat Horvath
I’m a third year student in the Pratt School of Engineering studying Electrical and Computer Engineering working on designing and testing a portable, miniature mass spectrometer.
Brandon Hunter
I’m a 5th year student in the Pratt School of Engineering working on leveraging environmental engineering and science research to address environmental injustices.
Faye Koenigsmark
I'm a 5th year PhD student in Environmental Engineering focussing on mercury geochemistry and its implications for human exposure.
Anna Lewis
I’m a 3rd year student in the Pratt school working on aquatic organism exposure to plastic additives leaching from polyester fibers.
Reshma Nargund
I’m a second year student in the Nicholas school of the Environment working on the environmental and health effects of artisanal gold mining.
Anna Nordseth
I'm a second year in the University Program in Ecology studying tropical plant coexistence and how human disturbances disrupt these mechanisms.
Ekta Patel
I’m a third year student in the Nicholas and Sanford school working on global environmental governance and urban water politics.
Erika Smull
I am a first year PhD student in the Nicholas School working on water supply finance and management.
Maggie Swift
I’m a first year student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, working on biodiversity and global change in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Emily Ury
I am a 4th year student in the University Program in Ecology working on understanding coastal ecosystem response to sea level rise and salinization.

Michael Valerino
I am a 4th year PhD Student in Environmental Engineering in the Pratt School researching how dust and air pollution impact global solar energy production.
Paige Varner
I am a 3rd year student in Environmental Engineering working on utilizing bacterial horizontal gene transfer to enhance bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated sediments.
Dana Wright
I’m a 2nd year student in the Marine Science and Conservation program of the Nicholas School working on the ecology and conservation of the critically endangered eastern population of North Pacific right whale.