Current Students & Research Topics

  • Armen Agopian: Intersection of land use planning and management for natural hazards under climate change

  • Alexander Carbaugh-Rutland: 

  • Mayra Cruz: Heat risk and adaptation

  • Jalyse Cuff: 

  • Karen Backe: Imagining climate futures: Mixed-methods exploratio of STEM and policy intervention mechanisms for interdisciplinary approaches to climate adaptation

  • John Hlavin: Trophic ecology and conservation of South Florida's sharks and rays

  • Ethan Prall: Assessing values and policies that can mitigate climate change impacts on animals, especially marine animals

  • Emily Yeager: Sub-tropical marine symbioses

  • Nkosi Muse: Examining heat exposure and adaptation across a diverse, subtropical region 

  • Carlos Carroza Meza: Social, political, and environmental factors influencing the Social License to Operate in the salmon industry in Chile

  • Vanessa Forbes-Pateman: Florida's resilience and adaptation policies, specifically in Miami-Dade County, examining procedural equity, governance frameworks, and risk management in implementing nature-based solutions projects that enhance ecosystem services that enhance ecosystem services to mitigate flooding and sea level rise

  • Katie Geddes: Impact of climate change on high seas fisheries and the communities that rely on them

  • Ayushi Jain: 

  • Adam Radpour: Natural Resource Damage Assessment policy governing oil spill restoration in U.S. waterways, and interactions between industry, regulators, researchers, and the public

  • Delaney Reynolds: Florida's renewable energy landscape, the environmental impacts on manmade climate change solutions, and homeowner perceptions of proposed government resilience measures

  • Aracelis Jimenez: Fisher perceptions of shark depradation across small-scale commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries in South Florida and the Caribbean

  • Spencer Roberts: Behavior, ecology, and conservation of marine fishes, focusing on endangered species like sharks and groupers

  • Gabriella Berman: 

  • Kevin Larson: 

  • Carmen Chavez: 

  • Christine Martin: Shark behavior and habitat use; public engagement and wildlife conservation

  • Brittany Mc Intyrei: Sargassum strandings in South Florida and the Caribbean and the adverse health risks associated with heavy metal accumulation in the sargassum and its sustainable uses

  • Jose Cunill: Stormwater pollutants from Miami’s historically redlined districts addressing these with zebrafish toxicological assessment and phytoremediation floating wetlands

  • Grace Hussain: Institutionalization of livestock production

  • Isabella Tavarez:

  • Guohaonan Zhang: Environmental communication: how AI chatbots can influence and change attitudes and behaviors in environmental communication

  • Sindhura Polepalli: Ocean governance and equity

  • Candy Real:

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