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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Gaboury Benoit | YSE | Watershed biogeochemistry (freshwater, estuarine, and coastal) | YSE Profile | Benoit Courses |
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Graeme Berlyn |
YSE |
Morphology and physiology of trees |
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| Carol Carpenter | YSE, ANTH | Social science of conservation and development | YSE Profile | |
| Liza Comita | YSE, E&EB | Tropical forest dynamics and diversity | Comita Lab | Comita Courses |
| Amity Doolittle | YSE | Distribution and control of natural resources | YSE Profile | Doolittle Courses |
| Michael Dove | YSE, ANTH, EVST | Environmental anthropology in South and Southeast Asia | YSE Profile | Dove Courses |
| Marlyse Duguid | YSE | Understanding patterns of plant diversity and composition in understory plant communities, especially in managed landscapes | YSE Profile | |
| Dan Esty | YSE, LAW | Environmental law and policy; energy; trade | YSE Profile | Esty Courses |
| Eduardo Fernandez-Duque | ANTH, E&EB, EVST | Evolution of primate social systems | Research Site | Fernandez-Duque Courses |
| Gordon Geballe | YSE | Urban ecology; sustainable development | F&ES Profile | Geballe Courses |
| Ken Gillingham | YSE | Applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, industrial organization, and integrated assessment modeling of climate change | Gillingham Lab | |
| Timothy Gregoire | YSE | Statistical modeling for environmental data | F&ES Profile | Gregoire Courses |
| Simon Queenborough | YSE | Botanical ecology and evolution | Queenborough Lab | Queenborough Courses |
| Narasimha Rao | YSE | Relationships between energy systems, human development and climate change | YSE Profile | |
| Karen Seto | YSE | Urbanization, global change, and sustainability | Seto Lab | Seto Courses |
| Oswald Schmitz | YSE | Dynamics and structure of terrestrial food webs | Schmitz Lab | Schmitz Courses |
| Carla Staver | E&EB | Empirical and theoretical approaches to explore the dynamics and distributions of biomes | Staver Lab |