There are many avenues by which graduate and undergraduate students may pursue tropical studies at Yale. Course offerings shift from year to year, but here is a list of faculty who work across a variety of disciplines and departments pertaining to the tropics.
Name |
Department |
Focus |
Lab/personal site |
| Mark Ashton | YSE | Silviculture (tropical, temperate, and boreal) | Ashton Lab |
| Michelle Bell | YSE, SPH | Effects of atmospheric systems on human health (epidemiology, biostatistics, and environmental engineering) | Bell Lab |
| Paulo Brando | YSE | Ecological thresholds and boundaries in forest and agricultural systems (global change, land use, sustainability, ecosystem resilience) | Brando Lab |
| Liza Comita | YSE, E&EB | Tropical forest ecology (biodiversity, species distributions, and forest dynamics in pristine and human-altered landscapes) | Comita Lab |
| Amity Doolittle | YSE | Property rights and natural resource governance (land access, social inequities, historical and interdisciplinary approaches, Southeast Asia and urban landscapes) | |
| Michael Dove | YSE, ANTH, EVST | Human ecology and environmental anthropology (Southeast Asia, climate change, natural hazards, resource management, and indigenous environmental knowledge) | Dove Lab |
| Marlyse Duguid | YSE | Plant diversity and composition in understory communities (forest management, landscape ecology, biodiversity) | Duguid Lab |
| Dan Esty | YSE, LAW | Sustainability, law, and policy (climate change, corporate strategy, environmental law, and global trade) | Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy |
| Justin Farrell | YSE, SOC | How land and belief shape American life (culture, environment, and social change) | The American West at Yale: Culture, Policy, and Ecosystems |
| Eduardo Fernandez-Duque | ANTH, E&EB, EVST | Primate behavior and conservation (monogamy, mating systems, socioecology, and field-based conservation in South America) | Research Page |
| Eva Garen | YSE | Conservation and development in the tropics (social-ecological systems, forest management, and community-based restoration) | Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) |
| Ken Gillingham | YSE | Energy and environmental economics (applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, industrial organization, climate policy, and integrated assessment modeling) | Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group (ENRE) |
| Nyeema Harris | YSE | Wildlife and land conservation (biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and human–environment interactions) | |
| Xuhui Lee | YSE | Terrestrial–atmosphere interactions (field observations, modeling, and remote sensing of biosphere–atmosphere processes) | Lee Lab |
| Anthony Leiserowitz | YSE | Climate perception and decision making (risk perception, behavior, policy support, and public engagement on climate change) | Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) |
| Sparkle L. Malone | YSE | Carbon dynamics and ecosystem function (natural climate solutions, biodiversity, and human–environment benefits) | Malone Lab |
| Simon Queenborough | YSE | Botanical ecology and evolution (species coexistence, reproductive trade-offs, defense traits, and population dynamics) | Queenborough Lab |
| Narasimha Rao | YSE | Energy systems and human well-being (climate policy, sustainable development, and global energy transitions) | Energy, Climate and Well-Being Lab |
| Luke Sanford | YSE | Environmental policy and governance (political institutions, natural resource management, remote sensing, and causal inference) | |
| Karen Seto | YSE | Urbanization and environmental impacts (land-use change, urban growth dynamics, environmental consequences, and forecasting) | Seto Lab |
| Oswald Schmitz | YSE | Dynamics and structure of terrestrial food webs (biodiversity, species functional identity, ecosystem processes, and responses to environmental disturbances) | Schmitz Lab |
| Dorceta Taylor | YSE | Environmental sociology and justice (diversity, inequality, and power in conservation and environmental movements) | |
| Gerald Torres | YSE, LAW | Tribal law and environmental governance (resource use, social movements, and climate law) | Yale Center for Environmental Justice |