Advisor: Dr. David Kaplan
ESSIE/Environmental Engineering Sciences

Trey received his Bachelor´s and Master´s degrees in Civil Engineering, with emphasis in water resources and hydrology, from the University of Wyoming. His research interest is in ecohydrological modeling, sustainable hydraulic design and adaptive environmental assessment and watershed management.

Advisor: Dr. Timothy Fik and Dr. David Kaplan
Geography

Roberta De Carvalho has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, and a Master’s in Management of Natural Resources and Local Development in the Amazon, from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil, in Belém, her hometown. Her research interest focuses in environmental issues in urban areas in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2012, she was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University and used remote sensing to provide data for her Master’s theses on green coverage in Belem.

View Roberta’s dissertation: Amazons within the Amazon: A Multiscale Assessment of Urbanization

Advisors: Dr. Denis Valle and Dr. Stephanie Bohlman
School of Forest Resources and Conservation

Jacy Hyde earned her Bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Biology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She has four years of experience conducting field ecology research across a wide variety of taxa and ecosystems. Most notably, Jacy spent a year in Kenya managing disease and landscape ecology projects for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She joined the Water Institute as a PhD student in the labs of Dr. Valle and Dr. Bohlman in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation. Her research addressed the effects of dam infrastructure development on forest structure in the Brazilian Amazon.

View Jacy’s dissertation: Environmental Impacts of Transmission Lines and Open Data Standards for Infrastructure Projects in the Brazilian Amazon

Advisor: Dr. Kai Lorenzen
School of Natural Resources and the Environment

May is from Bremen, Germany, where she received a degree in Environmental Engineering. She graduated from the University of Florida with an MS in Environmental Engineering Science. For her thesis, she conducted an environmental economics analysis of tourism in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. May worked on various aquatic and ecological monitoring projects in Florida. As a WIGF student, May worked with Dr. Kai Lorenzen exploring human dimensions of fisheries impacts of large dams and possible strategies for minimizing negative effects of displacement for people and fish.

Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Simmons
Geography

Alexandra earned a B.A. in Latin American Studies and Spanish from the College of Charleston and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona. Her thesis focused on the socio-environmental impacts of two hydroelectric dams on rural settlement communities in Porto Velho, Brazil. Working with Dr. Cynthia Simmons, her research at the University of Florida followed a similar trajectory with a focus on land conflict and social contention in the wake of large dam projects in the Amazon basin. Her research interests also include GIS, climate change governance, and forced displacement.

Advisor: Dr. Stephanie Bohlman
School of Forest Resources and Conservation

Christine has a Master’s in Biology from University of Central Florida and a Master’s of Art in Teaching and a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with focus in Computational Sciences, Life Sciences, and Environmental Studies from the same institution. Her doctoral research focused on the links between altered hydrology and changes in riparian forest habitats in the Brazilian cerrado using remote sensing and geospatial analysis.