Netscape 3.0 or above. CTE reaches out to undergraduate and graduate students in biology, forestry, land use planning, economics, sociology, civil engineering, and other disciplines, and encourages them to examine how their collective skills may be applied to resolving environmental concerns in transportation. Students participating in CTE's education activities are considered among the best in their field of study. They are selected through a competitive process as either CTE Graduate Research Fellows or CTE Summer Scholars.
Students use their stipends to support their work on a year-long project of their choice.
Mr. Biasi's research will focus on the development and use of integrated multipurpose datasets for regional conservation planning and assessment. They represent a complete tessellation of the landscape across an entire region, thus forming the framework for a multipurpose ecological census. A variety of ecological attributes will be sampled and summarized for each block, which in turn can be rolled up into indices of biodiversity and viability. By incorporating the transportation network into the ecological inventory, ecoblocks can provide a meaningful way of assessing the biodiversity of the landscape. Before, During, and After Construction.