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 | Course listing |
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Mark Ashton | F&ES | Silviculture (tropical, temperate, and boreal) | Ashton Lab | |
Gaboury Benoit | F&ES | Watershed biogeochemistry (freshwater, estuarine, and coastal) | F&ES Profile | Benoit Courses |
Graeme Berlyn |
F&ES |
Morphology and physiology of trees |
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Ben Cashore |
F&ES, EVST, PLSC |
Comparative environmental governance and policy |
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Carol Carpenter | F&ES, ANTH | Social science of conservation and development | F&ES Profile | |
Liza Comita | F&ES | Tropical forest dynamics and diversity | Comita Lab | Comita Courses |
Amity Doolittle | F&ES | Distribution and control of natural resources | F&ES Profile | Doolittle Courses |
Michael Dove | F&ES, ANTH, EVST | Environmental anthropology in South and Southeast Asia | F&ES Profile | Dove Courses |
Dan Esty | F&ES, LAW | Environmental law and policy; energy; trade | F&ES Profile | Esty Courses |
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque | ANTH, E&EB, EVST | Evolution of primate social systems | Research Site | Fernandez-Duque Courses |
Gordon Geballe | F&ES | Urban ecology; sustainable development | F&ES Profile | Geballe Courses |
Timothy Gregoire | F&ES | Statistical modeling for environmental data | F&ES Profile | Gregoire Courses |
Chadwick Oliver | F&ES | Silviculture; natural resource management | Research Site | Oliver Courses |
Simon Queenborough | F&ES, E&EB | Botanical ecology and evolution | Queenborough Lab | Queenborough Courses |
Alark Saxena | F&ES | Climate change resilience and poverty alleviation | F&ES Profile | Saxena Courses |
Karen Seto | F&ES | Urbanization, global change, and sustainability | Seto Lab | Seto Courses |
Oswald Schmitz | F&ES | Dynamics and structure of terrestrial food webs | Schmitz Lab | Schmitz Courses |