Fulbright US Student Program Edition
Julia Meinhardt is studying the regional impacts of Indonesia’s new capital city of Ibu Kota Nusantara alongside her counterparts at Institut Teknologi Kalimantan in Balikpapan. She is interested in how rapid urbanization is spatialized in predominately forested areas and how urban planners and designers can develop and implement more effective, sustainable, place-based, and regional-scale planning.. Read More.
David Fernando Bachrach is a doctoral candidate in the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Geography. His project studies the on-the-ground impacts of the Chinese Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, a joint Indonesian and Chinese project. By undertaking a long-term, qualitative study, his project will provide a nuanced account of this crucial infrastructure project. In particular, it will.. Read More.
Trey Spadone is a Fulbright US Student Researcher affiliated with Universitas Gadjah Mada. Alongside Dr. Dyah Rahmawati Hizbaron, Trey is studying public perceptions of two active volcanoes, Mount Merapi and Mount Agung, with densely populated communities living on and around them. His primary goals are to explore how local communities perceive volcanoes and their effects.. Read More.
Fulbright Student Researcher Grace B. Wivell is a farm girl turned English teacher turned linguist. She is currently a PhD candidate in Stony Brook University’s Linguistics department. For her present research, Grace is working to document better the language of Lio, an understudied Austronesian language spoken in Central Flores, intending to complete a morpho-syntactic sketch.. Read More.
US Fulbright Student Researcher Marria Peduto is working with researchers at Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha in the Aquatic Resources Department. Her research concerns the Indonesian Coral Reef Garden project on Bali to better understand the impact of reef restoration on local livelihoods, namely small-scale fishing. She hopes to engage with various stakeholders on the island to.. Read More.
Amelia Cole is a graduate of Michigan State University who studies disease ecology at the intersection between domestic animal and wildlife health. As a Fulbright US Student Researcher, Amelia works with Dr. Muhammad Agil, DVM of Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB University), and wildlife veterinarian Kurnia Khairani to examine tick-borne disease risks to the Javan Rhinoceros… Read More.
Fulbright Student Researcher Sophie Wulfing came from Washington State but graduated with a bachelor’s in ecology and a mathematics minor from Colorado College. This May, she graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a master’s in biology, but her focus is on quantitative ecology. Her background is primarily in applying mathematical analyses to small-scale.. Read More.
Sam O’Brien is a public health researcher and a recent graduate of Dartmouth College. After his senior year of high school, Sam first came to Indonesia through the U.S. State Department’s National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), a full scholarship for immersive learning of languages not taught in American high schools. After his first.. Read More.
Ben Moy is an independent researcher from Massachusetts. His research titled “Understanding Socioeconomics of Shark Fishers in Tanjung Luar Village” analyzes the potential impacts of shark regulation and conservation measures on local fishers. He will collect quantitative survey data from Tanjung Luar village on the island of Lombok. This research aims to provide a broader.. Read More.
Erich Eberhard is an ecologist who studies the disturbance and resilience dynamics of tropical forests. His research seeks to elucidate the persisting, indirect effects of disturbance on forest system structure and how such disturbance legacies shape forest ecosystem functioning and service provisioning. As a Fulbright U.S. Student Researcher in Indonesia, Erich and his collaborators at.. Read More.
