Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Urban ecology, green infrastructure, biogeochemistry, ecosystem services, social-ecological systems
Current Lab Members
Graduate Students




Emily Keener, MS Candidate, Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland
My interests are in urban soil ecology and hydrology, ecosystem services, and environmental justice. I am working on evaluating the impact of soil amendment practices on soil quality properties that best support urban tree growth in vacant lots in Baltimore, MD.
Lab Alumni
Hannah Boone, MS, Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland
Thesis: Evaluating the effectiveness and uptake of riparian buffer restoration practices
Hannah is interested in the nexus of ecosystem health and natural resource management with a focus on ecological restoration. She is working on a project to improve regional outreach and outcomes of riparian forest buffers in the Chesapeake watershed, looking at outreach methods that improve landowner adoption of natural filters practices alongside an evaluation of the ecological outcomes of those restored buffers

Emma Giese, MS, Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland
Darin Kopp, PhD candidate in Watershed Management and Ecohydrology, currently graduate student at ASU
Angela Knerl – MS in Watershed Management and Ecohydrology – Thesis: Conceptual modeling and quantification of green infrastructure in drylands for the improvement and design of ecosystem services– currently research technician with US-EPA
Moira Hough – MS in Watershed Management & Ecohydrology – Thesis: Tracing environmental change from plant traits to social-ecological systems on the San Pedro River – currently PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
David Chan – MS in Watershed Management and Ecohydrology – Thesis: Using ecosystem services to understand the impact of land cover change: a case study of the upper San Pedro watershed – currently GIS technician for
Kentucky DEQ

Former Undergraduate Researchers
Chelsea Stern, REU from SUNY-ESF
Rafael Chávez, REU from Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Ben Bossler, Honors Students from University of Arizona
Catie DeMets, REU from Lawrence University
Sophia Liu, REU from Wellesley College
Melissa McKinley, REU from Northern Arizona University
Sara Kovachich, REU from University of Florida
Genna Gallas, Honors Student from University of Arizona
Christine Sookhdeo, REU from RIder University