Graduate Students

 


Hasan Ahmed (He/Him/His)

Ph.D. Student
(Dr. Matthew E. Fagan)

hahmed4@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Active and Passive Remote Sensing, Mapping Deforestation, Mapping and Monitoring Forest Degradation, Land Use and Land Cover Change Modeling, Forest Carbon Modeling

 

 



Zachary Banham (He/Him)

M.S. Student
(Dr. Matthew E. Baker)

zbanham1@umbc.edu

Research Interests:

Forest Ecology, Phenology, Ecological Response to Urbanization/Urban Environments, Remote Sensing

 


Anna Mothersole (She/Her)

Ph.D. Candidate
(Dr. Christopher Swan)

amother1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Aquatic Ecology, Functional Traits


Laura Torres-Vargas

Ph.D. Student
(Dr. Dena Aufseeser, Dr. Yolanda Valencia)

ltorres2@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Human Geography, Women’s Studies, Women’s Migration, Latin American Studies, and Violence



Valerie Navarro Pasión (She/Her/Ella)

Ph.D. Candidate
(Dr. Margaret B. Holland)

vpasion1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Human Geography; Anticolonial Feminisms; Land Rights; Conservation


Anisha Jayadevan

Ph.D. Student
(Dr. Matthew E. Fagan)

anishaj1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Land-Use Change, Habitat Fragmentation, Forests, Open Natural Ecosystems



Leah Staub

M.S. Student
(Dr. Matthew E. Fagan)

lestaub1@umbc.edu/

Research Interests: GIS, Riparian Forest Canopy Gaps and Their Effect on the Health of the Riparian Zone


Tyrah Cobb-Davis (She/Her)

M.S. Student,
Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) Trainee
(Dr. Matthew E. Baker, Dr. Andrew J. Miller)

tyrahc1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Stormwater, Urban Forests, Urban Flooding, Social Equity


Tanja Crk

Ph.D. Student
Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program
(Dr. Margaret B. Holland)

tcrk@umd.edu

Research Interests: Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Ecosystems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelle Katoski

k119@umbc.edu


Erin Hamner (She/Her)

M.S. Student

Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) Trainee
(Dr. Matthew E. Baker, Dr. Andrew J. Miller)

ehamner1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Stormwater Management, BMP Monitoring, Urban atersheds, urban planning, watershed conservation


Adriana DiSilvestro (She/Her)

Ph.D.
(Dr. David Lansing, Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi)

adisilv2@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Political Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Geographies of Resource Extraction, Environmental Governance, Science Studies & Politics of Knowledge, Environmental Justice, Critical GIS


Meagan Fairfield-Peak (She/Her)

M.S. Student
(Dr. Matthew E. Fagan)

meaganf1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Landscape Management and Monitoring through GIS and Remote Sensing




Felipe Saad


Ph.D. Student
(Dr. Matthew E. Fagan)

fsaad1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Preservation and Conservation of the Environment


Gemma Feild

(She/Her)

Ph.D. Student
(Dr. Christopher Swan)

gfeild1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Snake ecology; Herpetology; Urban ecosystems; Community ecology; Conservation



Amy Chance

Ph.D. Candidate

(Dr. Christopher Swan)

apfarr1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Aquatic Ecology, Community and Meta-Community Ecology, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Biodiversity, Watershed Conservation

 



Samantha DiNatale (she/her)

M.S. Student, Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) Trainee

(Dr. Dena Aufseeser)

sdinata1@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Gender, care work, urban historical geography, environmental and social justice, health (in)equality, archival methods



Taylor Garbowski

M.S. Student

(Dr. Dawn Biehler)

g213@umbc.edu

Research Interests: Disabled Spatialities, Neuro-Affirmative Pedagogy, Qualitative Research Methods, Geographies of Higher Education, Epistemic Injustice & Academic Undercommons/Counterpublics, Digital Geographies, Multimodal Science Communication, Autoethnography & Storytelling, Library & Information Science



Sarah Beyers

(she/they)

sbeyers1@umbc.edu

Research interests:

Political ecology, participatory research, critical GIS, environmental justice, racial capitalism, Black geographies, feminist geographies, community well-being



Sahaadat N. Hammed-Owens

(she/her/hers)

shammed1@umbc.edu

M.S. Student

(Dr. Dawn Biehler and Dr. Ellen Kohl)

Research Interest:

Human Geography, Environmental Justice, and Racial Capitalism