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Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Kabul University, Master’s in Agriculture, and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology of Japan. Akhundzadah conduct research on groundwater resources investigation, climate change impacts on water resources, climate change mitigation...

Professor Thonney passed away on April 23, 2021 following a short illness. He was a very popular teacher and highly dedicated to students. He reinvented the Cornell Sheep Program, established a dairy sheep flock on campus, and launched projects related to the use of sheep to manage vegetation in solar installation sites. These projects continue...

Anne Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on rural landscapes, particularly landscapes of extraction, production and conservation, as urgent sites of design in the context of climate change. Prior to Cornell, she worked at SCAPE Landscape Architecture on a range of...

Jennifer Birkeland is a licensed landscape architect in the state of New York, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a LEED accredited professional. She is the co-founder of the design practice, op-AL, a multidisciplinary studio in Brooklyn, New York, and studies the relationships between optics, landscape and architecture in their work...

Nathan is an Assistant Professor in the Cornell University Department of Communication, where he leads CAT Lab. He works with social media companies, news organizations, and online communities to test ideas for a flourishing internet and evaluate the social impact of online platforms. Nathan developed CAT Lab as part of his PhD at the MIT Media Lab...

About Tess Pendergrast is a sociologist of inequality who studies civil and human rights, politics of economic development, and social movements. Her research on environmental justice movements in the Southeastern U.S. highlights ongoing struggles for local democracy. She also studies opportunities and barriers for postsecondary education for...

Rebecca Schneider’s program focuses on integrated, watershed-based, and sustainable water resource management in the face of climate change. Her research, extension, and teaching all revolve around different facets of this topic. Currently, her primary research program is focused on how networks of roadside ditches that criss-cross watersheds...

About John Zinda studies how people and environments make and remake each other. His research and teaching examine how state policy initiatives come into landscapes and converge with the individual and collective practices of people in those landscapes. In the United States, he studies how people in flood-affected communities confront risk. How do...

As the State Fresh Market Vegetable Specialist, my research focuses on innovative crop and soil management that balances triple-bottom line goals for growers and society. I also direct the Cornell Small Farms Program, with the mission to help farmers get expert assistance at all phases of business development, from start-up to growth to maturity.

Matt joined the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment in 2007. He graduated from College of the Atlantic with a BA in Human Ecology, earned a MS in zoology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a PhD in genetics at the University of Georgia. His graduate training in evolutionary and conservation genetics connected his field...