Dr. Melissa Keeley's research focuses on urban water resource management and lies at the intersection between urban ecology, engineering, and
environmental policy and planning. Her interests include watershed management, land use planning, and the environmental services provided by urban
vegetation, and her work contributes a comparative, transatlantic dimension to these topics. She previously worked as a stream restoration ecologist
in Philadelphia, and then at the Berlin Environmental Ministry and the Ecologic Institute of International and EU Environmental Policy. A fellow
of Columbia University's Earth Institute, she now also regularly consults governmental agencies such as the EPA and HUD, and advises decision-makers in
cities including Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Seattle. She has received numerous awards, including the National Science
Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship, and Fulbright Fellowship (declined). Keeley's studies have taken
her to the universities of Hamburg (in Germany) and Washington (in Seattle), Ohio State and Harvard; she received her doctorate in Environmental Engineering
from the Technical University of Berlin.
keeley@post.harvard.edu
