Back to top Tammee Albrecht, Sophia Borgias and Stephanie Doerries selected as 2018 Environment & Society Fellows

The Environment & Society Graduate Fellows Program provides support of up to $5,000 to currently enrolled UA graduate students from any degree-granting program whose work is focused on the nexus of environmental research and decision making. Fellowship  projects must incorporate some aspect of environmental research. Examples include: developing informational or decision-support tools, generating outreach activities based on environmental research, examining societal impacts of environmental change, analyzing the vulnerability and resilience of people and/or ecosystems, and conducting environmental science research for specific stakeholder needs. 

2017 Carson Scholar and Institute of the Environment Fellow, Tamee Albrecht is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Geography and Development. Her research focuses on adaptation to changing groundwater availability in Himalayan mountain communities.

2018 Carson Scholar and Agnese Nelms Haury Fellow, Sophia Borgias is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Geography and Development. Her research focuses on water conflicts sovereignty in Owens Valley, California.

2015 Carson Scholar and Institute of the Environment Fellow, Stephanie Doerries is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment and her research is studying the effects of human activity on the behavior, physiology, survival, and recruitment of the endangered Sonoran pronghorn.

The Environment & Society Fellows Program is funded by the UA Office of Research, Discovery and Innovation and CLIMAS. While CLIMAS conducts research mostly in the southwestern U.S., this fellowship is open to students conducting research anywhere in the world. To learn more, visit http://www.climas.arizona.edu/education/fellowship-program.