2013 - Bursaries have been awarded to the following MESPOM students;

Juliette Dixon to work in South Africa.

Sarah Beckham Hooff to work in Aegean.

Elisa Manase to work in Tanzania.

2012

Mauro Ciriminna - is from Italy and has a BSc in economic development and international cooperation.and worked on development projects in Romania, Spain, Croatia and Ecuador before undertaking the MESPOM course. His project concerned sustainable forest management practices in Peru.

Zelalem Abate - is from Ethiopia where he obtained BSc in biology and MSc in dryland biodiversity before joining the MESPOM course. His project concerned the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on amphibians in the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

Saee Haldule - is from India and obtained a BSc in social sciences from Ritsumeikan University, Japan before joining MESPOM. Her research concerned seed networks in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Lisa Lamb - is from the USA and obtained a BSc in biological sciences from University of California, Riverside, before joining MESPOM. Her research concerned seed rain assesment as part of long-term reforestation monitoing at the Cloud forest School, Monteverde, Costa Rica.

 

2011

Emily Charlotte Dowding-Smith

Emily is from New Zealand and studied for a Masters in Environmental Science, Policy and Management (MESPOM) at Central European; Lund and Aegean Universities.

Emily has always had a strong interest in Latin America and for her project she travelled to Cuba to undertake a case study on the role that seeds play for urban gardeners and growers in the country.

For more information on Emily’s project click here.

Emma Nicholson

Emma undertook this project when a third year undergraduate in Earth Science, at Oxford University.

Emma investigated the eruptive behavior at Soufriere Hills Volcano on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean. The aim of her project was to simultaneously compare seismic data with proxies for eruptive activity at both shallow levels and at depth within the conduit.

For more information on Emma’s project click here.

Eva Kopataki

Eva studied for a Masters in Environmental Science, Policy and Management (MESPOM) at the Central European University in Hungary. She is also concurrently studied for a Masters in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at Copenhagen University.

Eva studied the environmental impacts on running water quality as a result of the sludge that was released from the depository of the Ajka Aluminium plant in Hungary.

For more information on Eva’s project click here.

Rebecca Colvin

Rebecca studied for a Masters in Environmental Science, Policy and Management (MESPOM) at Central European University, Budapest. She also has a BSc in Geography.

Rebecca investigated and assessed the current levels of soil contamination at selected sites proximate to Akja Aluminium plant via ICP-MS. She planned to determine the potential for leachate/metals mobilization from the soils, and the resultant effects this could have on groundwater quality via sequential extraction.

For more information on Rebecca’s project click here.

To view Rebecca's detailed powerpoint presentation on her project click here.

2010

Akua Addo-Boadu

Akua is from Zambia and studied Biology and Botany in Ghana, and studied the MESPOM course at CEU, Budapest.

For her project she studied human-wildlife conflict in Ghana in relation to proposed ecotourism development by rural communities fringing national parks.

For more information on Akua’s project click here.

Monica Coll Besa

Monica Coll Besa from Spain studied environmental sciences in Spain and Norway and studied on the MESPOM course at CEU, Budapest.

For her project she studied local attitudes to dealing with climate change in rural Tanzania.

For more information on Monica’s project click here.

Alvin Chandra

Alvin studied environmental science in Fiji, Australia and the USA and studied on the MESPOM course in Budapest.

For his project Alvin studied governance issues in adaptation for climate change by small island developing states, using the Nadi River Basin (and its recent catastrophic flooding) in Fiji as a case study.

For more information on Alvin’s project click here.

Jesse Eckert

Jesse from Canada studied at the University of British Colombia and was a MESPOM student based in Lund.

For his project Jesse studied the concept of RPT (Rural Premium feed-in Tariff) in developing electricity supply to rural areas of Tanzania.

For more information on Jesse’s project click here.

Pragya Shrestha

Pragya from Nepal studied environmental science and management in Nepal and studied on the MESPOM course based in Manchester.

For her project Pragya studied Multiple Use Water Services (MUS); their cost-effectiveness, sustainability and contribution to poverty reduction in Nepal.

For more information on Pragya’s project click here.

2009

Dalia Bastyté

Dalia is from Lithuania and has a BSc in Biology and MSc in Ecology from Vilnius University. She studied for an MSc in Environmental Science, Policy & Management (MESPOM) at The Central European and Manchester Universities.

For her project she went to Papua New Guinea and investigated the value of local biodiversity to communities in the Madang Province.

For more information on Dalia’s project click here.

To view Dalia's recent publication of her project click here.

Caitlin Burbage

Caitlin studied Geography at St Peter’s College, Oxford.

In 2009 Caitlin went to Ghana and worked in village schools in order to study the effectiveness of the UNICEF Curriculum.

For more information on Caitlin’s project click here.

Daniel Frost & Stefan Lachowycz

Daniel and Stefan both studied Earth Science at Oxford University.

For their project they went to Mexico to work as field assistants with the Colima Volcanic Observatory in order to study the volcano’s activity.

For more information on Daniel and Stefan’s project click here.

Huang He

Huang is a graduate in Environmental Science from Fudan University, China. He studied for the Master of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) at the Central European University in Budapest, but is now based in Manchester.

Huang visited rural villages in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of Western China to analyze opportunities and barriers to bio-energy development.

For more information on Huang’s project click here.

Naomi Morris

Naomi worked for NGOs in Latin America before gaining a BSc in Earth Science at The University of Portsmouth. She studied for a PhD at Portsmouth and lectures in remote sensing at The University of Hertford.

She is a GIS volunteer for the charity MapAction and for her project she went to Papua New Guinea to look at the developing geohazard vulnerability and risk mapping procedures.

For more information on Naomi’s project click here.

Kuttappan Vijayakumar

Vijay is from Southern India, has a BSc in Forestry from Kerala Agricultural University and studied for an MSc in Environmental Sciences, Policy & Management (MESPOM) at The Central European & Manchester Universities.

For his project Vijay investigated the value of the impact of Jatropha cultivation for bio-fuel in India.

For more information on Vijay’s project click here.

Nicky Young

Nicky studied Earth Science at St Peter’s College, Oxford.

For her project she studied the earthquake history and mechanisms around L’Aquila in Italy in the aftermarth of the disastrous event there.

For more information on Nicky’s project click here.