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Connections between research and policy, air quality and health, and interpersonal connections have driven Holloway throughout her career.

In her role with the Nelson Institute, Fletcher assists with onboarding, reimbursements, arranging travel for fieldwork and conferences, administrative policy, purchasing, arranging scientific conferences, and more.

Gibbs and her lab have completed pioneering work to track deforestation. Last year, Gibbs worked with the National Wildlife Federation to track outcomes from the Zero-Deforestation Commitments in the Brazilian Amazon using cattle movement and supply chain data. The series in Bloomberg highlights Gibbs’ research and expertise in deforestation and the impact cattle have on the deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil.

Barford, director of the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, contributed the article, “Stranded Assets — Conduits for Better Public Infrastructure Planning?” to the League of Women Voters Dane County website. The article addresses stranded assets and how basic planning for public infrastructure can minimize this issue.

Gibbs and her colleagues compared the rates of poverty across 36,311 villages over 18 years, specifically looking at the change in poverty rates before and after oil palm plantations were certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

The intersection of watershed management and tribal sovereignty is among the top research areas of Grace Bulltail, assistant professor of Native American environment, health and community. She has spent much of her career studying the impact of oil and gas extraction on water quality.

Nelson Institute / SAGE alum, Rachel Licker, Senior Climate Scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, will present a lunchtime discussion on the recent “Killer Heat” report from UCS.

The Gibbs Lab research tracking outcomes from the corporate Zero-Deforestation Commitments in the Brazilian Amazon was covered by a New York Times article that came out Oct 10, 2019.

SAGE alum, Valerie Stull, PhD gave a 3-minute flash task at the 3rd annual Planetary Health Conference, held last month at Stanford.

“Climate Change Best Case Scenario: Save Millions, Make Trillions”