Researchers

Linda is currently a 2nd year MCP student and is continuing her research work in Southern Florida, looking at how the potential impacts of climate change will influence strategic habitat conservation efforts and land use planning. Prior to MIT, she worked in landscape architecture and planning offices in Amsterdam, New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. She brings an interest in local knowledge and civic engagement from working at StoryCorps; which is a non-profit oral history project. She has worked with environmental artists and scientists on how climate change will affect settlement patterns in Britain.

Tyler received his B.A. from Williams College, where he majored in Geosciences and completed the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies semester program. Since college he has taught English in China, worked as a native language tutor in Colorado public schools, and conducted conservation easement monitoring for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado.

Kim has lived in Boston for the last 12 years. In that time she has worked on an international tobacco control treaty, co-coordinated a bi-national network of worker rights organizations, and helped found a center to support progressive organizing. Kim has been active in the World Social Forum process, as a member of two Boston WSF delegations, and serving on the central organizing team of the Boston Social Forum. Most recently before coming to DUSP, Kim was Acting Director of Bikes Not Bombs, a non-profit engaged in youth and community development and bicycle advocacy in Boston and the Global South.

Sarah's professional experience includes environmental consulting, environmental education, and international aid. She returns to school to pursue environmental policy and planning. She is particularly interested in implementation challenges of urban sustainability initiatives, the influences of connectivity and community on people's behavior, and creating spaces and opportunities for healthier choices. Sarah spent this past summer completing New York City's greenhouse gas inventory for Mayor Bloomberg's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. 

Chris worked in law and architecture before coming to MIT. Since starting at DUSP, he has studied the externalities of the coal industry in Appalachia and is currently working on a project in South Florida to develop alternative futures for long-term strategic land conservation and management.

Beaudry has professional experience in exploration geology, mine water remediation, and more recently in water resources management and policy. He is currently working towards a doctorate at MIT's department of Urban Studies and Planning. Beaudry's dissertation will focus on using computer modeling to simulate individual behavior in relation to water quality trading markets, with the goal of testing ideas on more sustainable water management in large regional water systems. This work is sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation, and is centered on a field site in the Lower Arkansas Basin of Colorado. Currently, Beaudry is working with a number of other Federal agencies to synthesize research on social and economic dynamics under climate change to help identify areas of uncertainty for future water planning.

Deborah has worked in the field of Canadian water policy, studying both community-led and government-led source water protection activities. Over the course of her Master's degree, Deborah hopes to explore the ways in which collaborative processes in watershed management can bridge sectors and spatial scales.

Stephen spent the last three years at Ecotrust, a non-profit based in Portland, OR, where he worked as a GIS Specialist in support of projects that enable economic, social, and environmental prosperity. His work revolved primarily around marine planning processes in California and Oregon and salmon conservation issues throughout the North Pacific.

Tijs has worked with the University of Amsterdam and the city of Amsterdam to set up the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies. He interned at the Consensus Building Institute and the Office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. At DUSP, he has worked with federal agencies like the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey to develop new methods of combining a participatory decision-making process with robust scientific input in public disputes. Currently, he is working on water management issues, ecosystem restoration, and stakeholder participation in the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana. He is collaborating with TNO, a Dutch research organization, to do research on stakeholder participation and the use of scientific information in river basin management in the European Union.

Amanda studied environmental history and plant biology for her B.A. in History and Science at Harvard College. She has worked with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Carson City, Nevada.  She has also served as an environmental and garden educator.  She is interested in community involvement in urban environmental issues.

He hasworked at America Speaks from 2005-2008 managing large-scale participatory projects on issues ranging from the New Orleans recovery planning to collaborative action on climate change. From 1999 to 2004, he led clean energy and forest protection campaigns for Environment California and Forest Ethics.

Todd has an MCP from MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His professional experience includes working with both civil servants and non-governmental organizations across Central and Eastern Europe on governance for sustainability and capacity building projects. In the course of his Masters work, Todd looked at climate change adaptation planning in both South Africa and China. Todd worked with the Consensus Building Institute on various projects, including the development of a course on facilitating climate adaptation planning.  As part of the MUSIC program, Todd is working with and funded by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). He is working on the nascent Cities and Climate Change project.