
STEP Fellows: Awarded 2007
Ning Lin, Ford Fellow

| Department: | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| STEP Topic: | Impact of climate change on hurricane-related risk and decision making. |
| STEP Adviser: | Michael Oppenheimer, Woodrow Wilson School |
| Thesis Topic: | Hurricane surface wind field and damanage analysis. |
| Thesis Adviser: | Erik Vanmarcke, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Christopher Little, Ford Fellow

| Department: | Geosciences |
| STEP Topic: | Constraining eustatic sea-level rise with a hierarchy. |
| STEP Adviser: | Michael Oppenheimer, Woodrow Wilson School |
| Thesis Topic: | Constraining ocean circulation and basal melting under ice shelves. |
| Thesis Adviser: | Anand Gnanadesikan, Geosciences |
Luke MacDonald, Perkins Fellow

| Department: | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| STEP Topic: | An effective, sustainable treatment strategy to halt the fluorosis endemic in rural villages of Jharkhand State, India. |
| STEP Adviser: | Burton H. Singer, Woodrow Wilson School |
| Thesis Topic: | The kinetics of microbially mediated iron reduction and an investigation of related plant-driven redox controls on arsenic and lead mobility in a contaminated wetland. |
| Thesis Adviser: | Peter Jaffe, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Yan Zhang, Kelley Fellow

| Department: | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| STEP Topic: | Impacts of atmospheric aerosols on weather and public health - science and policy of China's air quality |
| STEP Adviser: | Denise L. Mauzerall, Woodrow Wilson School |
| Thesis Topic: | Precipitation climatology in urban environment. |
| Thesis Adviser: | James A. Smith, Civil and Environmental Engineering |

