Achievement

Two of the Trainees co-authored a proposal titled "Addressing Sustainable Development in Haiti through Collaborative Environmental Management" for the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity Graduate Student Fellowship at Columbia University. The proposal is for an interdisciplinary research project in Southwestern Haiti. The primary goal is to learn about community management structures for hydrologic monitoring networks in southwestern Haiti in order to evaluate community involvement in environmental monitoring systems, and examine ways that such systems could be both managed and useful to a community during and post-foreign intervention. The two Trainees combined their research expertise in social science and engineering in development of the collaborative project, which fundamentally aims to understand best practices for community management of environmental monitoring systems, using Haiti as a test-bed.