Graduate Fellows
NANCY FALXA SONTI
PSE Graduate Fellow Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture University of Maryland Nancy Falxa Sonti is an Ecologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station. She is based at the Baltimore Field Station, where she works as an interdisciplinary researcher studying urban social-ecological systems. Nancy works to build collaboration between academics, community groups, and government agencies in order to support the research activities of the Baltimore Field Station. Her current research interests include evaluating and monitoring the health of urban forests by examining urban tree ecophysiology and processes of forest restoration and regeneration. She is also involved in research examining the motivations for engagement with urban green spaces such as community gardens and forest patches. Nancy has a Masters in Conservation Biology from Columbia University and is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
AMANDA DEWEY
PSE Graduate Fellow Department of Sociology University of Maryland Amanda Dewey is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland – College Park and a Graduate Fellow at the Program for Society and the Environment. Her research interests include environmental stewardship, environmental attitudes and values, and human-wildlife relationships. |