Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Yadian Wang
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Environmental Social Sciences
BioYadian Wang is a PhD Candidate in Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and an exchange research scholar at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability. She holds a BLA, MLA, and MPhil in Earth Sciences, and served as an HKU PhD Ambassador (2024–2025). Her research sits at the intersection of landscape architecture, environmental design, Earth and geosciences, and sustainability science, focusing on how global environmental change reshapes human–environment interactions, landscapes, communities, and governance.
Yadian’s research at Stanford Doerr School investigates how environmental change and coastal development reshape landscapes, communities, and commons governance. Her work combines longitudinal geospatial analysis with institutional and socioeconomic perspectives to trace coastal transformation in the Philippines, examining how changes in shorelines, ecosystems, settlements, and infrastructure intersect with property rights, resource access, and local governance. Through this approach, she seeks to understand why coastal communities experience different trajectories of environmental change and how these transformations affect the governance and sustainability of common-pool resources. -
Margaret Weng
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
BioMaggie Weng is a NASA postdoctoral fellow in the Dekas lab at Stanford University. Her research focuses on understanding molybdenum availability and uptake strategies at deep-sea methane seeps. She uses culture-independent techniques including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and stable isotope probing to understand whole-community dynamics. She earned her PhD from Georgetown University in 2024 with Dr. Sarah Stewart Johnson, where her research focused on microbes in hypersaline environments, and her bachelor's degree in 2019 from Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in microbial persistence at the edge of possibility, including extreme environments and polluted sites, and how microbial communities contribute to bioremediation and ecosystem stability. She always says yes to fieldwork and as a consequence has found herself in the Atacama Desert, Kerlingarfjöll, Iceland, and Western Australia as well as a commercial salt factory in San Diego, CA. When not in the lab she is an avid writer, hiker and knitter. Her fiction and nonfiction writing have appeared in The Los Angeles Review and Northern Woodlands magazine. When out in the woods, she appreciates a good biofilm almost as much as a good view.
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Mele Wheaton
Associate Director of Program Strategy, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director of Program Strategy (E-IPER)
