Previous Storymakers Fellows
2023
Dr. Ben Halpern, University of California, Santa Barbara. Ben’s research focuses on the interface of marine ecology and conservation planing.
Dr. Doug Bessette, Michigan State. Doug’s research focuses on sustainable energy, energy transitions, and community energy development.
Dr. Heather Leslie, University of Maine. Heather’s research focuses on the ecology, policy, and management of coastal marine ecosystems.
Dr. Holly Bik, University of Georgia. Holly’s research focuses on the interface between biology and computer science to explore broad patterns in marine microbes.
Dr. Jacqueline Padilla-Gamiño, University of Washington. Jacqueline’s research focuses on the ecophysiology and reproductive biology of marine organisms in a changing environment.
Dr. Jessica Hellmann, University of Minnesota. Jessica’s research focuses on the impacts of climate change on natural systems and strategies to reduce those impacts through adaptation and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Dr. Madhur Anand, University of Guelph. Madhur’s research focuses on global ecological changes in ecosystems of regional and global scales and their implications for human-environment sustainability.
Dr. Nick Haddad, Michigan State. Nick’s research focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem service conservation in the face of global changes such as agriculture, habitat loss, and climate change.
Dr. Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, University of Hawai’i Mānoa. Noa’s research focuses on the nexus of environment, agriculture, and society in the past and the present.
Dr. Rosie ‘Anolani Alegado, University of Hawai’i Mānoa. Rosie’s research focuses on systems biology, microbial oceanography, and historical ecology to understand the influence and impact of individuals embedded in larger systems.
2022
Dr. Joe Árvai, USC. Joe’s research focuses on how people form opinions and make decisions about things that have social and environmental consequences.
Dr. Elena Bennett, McGill University. Elena’s research focuses on the role of people’s relationships to one another and to nature in building a better future.
Dr. William Deverell, USC. Bill’s research focuses on the history of wildfire in the American West and the wildfire management methods used by Indigenous peoples.
Dr. Simon Donner, University of British Columbia. Simon’s research focuses on climate and how it interacts with coral reef ecology.
Dr. Ambika Kamath, University of Colorado Boulder. Ambika’s research focuses on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution.
Dr. Neil Lewis, Jr., Cornell University. Neil’s research is based in the behavioral sciences and focuses on disparities in environmental impacts and how they affect people’s health.
Dr. Vernon Morris, Arizona State University. Vernon’s research focuses on atmospheric sciences and their intersection with climate and air quality issues.
Dr. Suzanne Pierre, California Academies of Science. Suzanne’s research focuses on how climate affects plant-microbe interactions.
Dr. Chelsie Romulo, University of Northern Colorado. Chelsie’s research focuses on the management of non-timber natural resources.
Dr. Merritt Turetsky, University of Colorado Boulder. Merritt’s research focuses on ecosystem ecology, carbon cycling, permafrost science, and fire ecology.