The BRiDGE Coordinating Committee is composed of Nigel Golden, Nadia Fernandez, Elsa Cousins, Brooke Burrows, RoseAnn Vik and Mariela Garcia Arredondo. BRiDGE logos and graphics were designed by Lian Guo.
BRIDGE is supported by the UMass Campus Climate Improvement Grant, Office of Professional Development, Office of the Associate Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion, the College of Natural Science, the School of Earth and Sustainability, and the NSF Graduate Fellowship Learning Community.
My research applies genomic tools to understand populations of wildlife species. I study the Golden Dorado (Salminus brasiliensis), using genomic approaches to investigate their contemporary and historical population structure.
I study how different modes of communication influence individual, group, and societal-level change within both collective action and conflict reconciliation processes.
Applied research in agronomy focusing on grazing and cover crops.
My research focus is on how context (e.g., socioeconomic status, racism/discrimination, family conflict) influences families’ mental health in marginalized communities.
My research is centered on the development of children’s racial social cognition, specifically the awareness of racism and race and how that impacts children’s cognitions and behaviors.
I study how anadromous fish populations (fishes that live in the ocean and spawn in freshwater) may respond to changes in climate as a result of changes to their migration and reproductive patterns. Learning more about this will help us better understand how fisheries and the people who rely on them for food, jobs, and community can adjust as our world changes.
I study the neural underpinnings of locomotion and how genetic disruption leads to motor and locomotor disorders.
My research investigates the sourcing and transport of dissolved manganese in Massachusetts groundwaters to better understand the presence of manganese in glacial aquifer systems.
I study domestication and evolution of microbes associated with food systems, using comparative genomics and bioinformatics to assess taxonomic and functional changes in the microbial community.
I study how people navigate new contexts and relationships and the process of acculturation and host community attitudes among resettled communities of refugee populations.
My research is working towards understanding the controls on the production of N2 and N2O gas in subsurface shale environments.
My research focuses on elucidation of the role of key enzymes involved in arsenic metabolism and phytoremediation of arsenic.
My research is in the psychosocial and contextual factors (e.g., chronic stress) that affect risk of cognitive decline and dementia for racial/ethnic minority populations, with an emphasis in Black populations.
I study Chlamydia & 'Chlamydia like organisms' - specifically their role in the progression of epitheliocystis disease in marine and freshwater fish - to better understand the vast health, economic and societal impacts that this incredible group of microbial pathogens are implicated in.
As an architect and landscape architect, I want to build designs that entails and celebrates diverse cultures and communities; And as a tech savvy person, I am researching the role of AR and VR in the field of Design.
My research focuses on understanding how the midzone is formed and how the behavior of these microtubules is regulated.
I work on biofortification in maize to increase the iron levels in kernels by the overexpression of endogenous genes.
I study the inhibitory mechanisms underlying the process of filtering out sensory information which allows for us to properly focus.
I study the causes and consequences of tree mortality from invasive insects.
BRiDGE Alumni
The founding BRiDGE Coordinating Committee was composed of Benjamin Keisling, Raquel Bryant, Nadia Fernandez, Nigel Golden, and Mariela Garcia Arredondo.
My research focuses on identifying the causes of ice-sheet fluctuations during the last few million years and understanding the climatic consequences of ice-sheet collapse.
I use microfossils called foraminifera to study how ancient oceans responded to and recovered from intervals of environmental change like rapid warming.
I study microbe-mineral interactions and biogenic rock and mineral transformations, catalyzed by high-temperature microbes called hyperthermophilic iron reducers that live in hot springs and deep sea hydrothermal vents.
I study how bacteria interact with plants on the surface of leaves in order to understand if we can utilize these relationships to support sustainable farming practices.
I seek to understand how environmental changes will impact arctic adapted-species like the Arctic Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus parryii) and develop models that will predict shifts in their abundance and distribution.
I use field observations, synchrotron spectroscopy, and laboratory investigations to understand how root weathering affects carbon loss and accrual in soils.
I study how family systems and context promote or inhibit early social-cognitive development.
I study the interaction of plants and global change, particularly the evolution of defense chemicals at the edges of non-native plant range expansion.
I study the community dynamics of vertebrates at different spatial and temporal scales using fieldwork, theory, and quantitative methods with a focus on mammalian carnivores.
I study how soil carbon and minerals interact in floodplain ecosystems that experience drastic floods and droughts, which will help us predict whether soils will store or release carbon under climate change.
I study the ways that the assessment and diagnosis of ADHD in early childhood vary as a function of family factors, specifically culture and race, and other contextual factors that influence externalizing behaviors including parenting and schools.
I am interested about how anthropogenic influences on climate change affects urban bird physiology.
I study hormones and social behavior in rodents. In particular, I am interested in the neural mechanisms that mediate behavioral differences between closely related social and non-social species.
I study wild bees and the fitness consequences from common practices in agriculture, such as the use of neonicotinoids, landscape simplification and scarcity of floral resources among others.
I investigate how mycobacteria, an important and unique group of bacteria, make, edit and coordinate the synthesis of their cell envelope.
My research examines the evolution and development of specialized plant tissues in the grasses.
I study coastal flooding and erosion hazards, and my projects have ranged from developing statistical techniques to model flood hazard in regions with large tides, to investigating mechanisms of sediment delivery to New England salt marshes.