MEM
Specialization

Urban

Faculty

Specialization Coordinator

Karen Seto portrait

Karen Seto

Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science. An urban and land change scientist, she is one of the world's leading experts on contemporary urbanization and global change. Her research focus is how urbanization will affect the planet. She has pioneered methods to reconstruct urban land use with satellite imagery and has developed novel methods to forecast urban expansion. She has conducted urbanization research in China for twenty years and in India for more than ten. Her research has generated insights on the links between urbanization and land use, food systems, biodiversity, and climate change.

Teaching Faculty

Faculty who are currently teaching courses within this specialization.

Margie Alt

Lecturer

Shimon C. Anisfeld

Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Water Resources and Environmental Chemistry

Jessica Bacher

Lecturer

Gaboury Benoit

Grinstein Class of 1954 Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Co-Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology

Mark Bradford

Professor, Soils and Ecosystem Ecology

Susan G. Clark

Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy Sciences

Sinead Crotty

Project Manager - Carbon Containment Lab

Andre de Ruyter

Lecturer

Amity Doolittle

Senior Lecturer

Michael R. Dove

Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology; Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Anthropology Peabody Museum; Co-Coordinator, Joint YSE/Anthropology Doctoral Program; Chair Council on Southeast A

Bradford S. Gentry

Senior Associate Dean of Professional Practice; Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy; Co-Director of the Center for Business & the Environment

Timothy G. Gregoire

J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Professor of Forest Management

Nancy Grimm

Visiting Lecturer

Morgan Grove

Lecturer

David Kooris

Lecturer

Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

Visiting Lecturer

Xuhui Lee

Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Meteorology

Sparkle Malone

Assistant Professor

Alessio Miatto

Postdoctoral Associate

Adam Millard-Ball

Visiting Professor

Anastasia O’Rourke

Managing Director, Yale Carbon Containment Lab

Narasimha Rao

Associate Professor of Energy Systems

James E. Saiers

Clifton R. Musser Professor of Hydrology

Karen C. Seto

Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science

Dorceta Taylor

Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Professor of Environmental Justice

Charles Dana Tomlin

Professor (Adjunct)

Gerald Torres

Professor of Environmental Justice