Rosanne

Hoyem

Renewable Energy and New Technologies Specialist

I completed my capstone project for the MRP program at Cornell University as part of a collaborative research project spearheaded by my adviser. As part of a class, we organized into research teams, collected data and explored the literature for three different polycentric regions; the Bay Area in California, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and the Randstad in the Netherlands. I used the collective results to complete a research paper focused on factors affecting immigrant housing choice in polycentric regions. My adviser and I then presented this paper at the ACSP-AESOP and he also presented it at the North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International.

These maps explore the correlation between city size and percent foreign-born population in the Bay Area, California and in the Randstad, Netherlands.

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In 2007 I was part of a Cornell group that spent five weeks engaging with Kenyan youth groups from two different slums in Nairobi. We helped facilitate a research process that sought to help these young adults identify areas of need in their communities. Three projects were identified at two different sites. After completing this work, we presented our results at the World Social Forum held that year in the Kenyan capital.

These are outreach materials I created as part of my Solar Ombudsman responsibilities with the NYC Solar America City Partnership.

New York City was designated a Solar America City in June 2007 under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar America City Initiative. The NYC Solar America City Partnership, led by Sustainable CUNY, is comprised of the City University of New York, the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability. The Partnership has been working together with key stakeholders such as Con Edison, the Department of Buildings, the New York Power Authority and NYSERDA to support large-scale solar energy market growth in NYC.

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I created these posters as part of my Solar Ombudsman responsibilities for this year’s NYC Solar Summit.

The NYC Solar Summit is coordinated by Sustainable CUNY with support from the NYC Solar America City Partnership. The NYC Solar America City Partnership is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and is comprised of the City University of New York, the NYC Economic Development Corporation and the Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability. Since 2007 CUNY has hosted the NYC Solar Summit- a high level working summit that convenes the solar stakeholders in NYC. As we build on the momentum, the sponsors of the 2011 NYC Solar Summit (June 16th), can play a critical supporting role as together we build a sustainable future in New York City.

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As a graduate student, I was hired by Yael Levitte to assist with her work looking at the dispersion of artists throughout several metropolitan regions. She was interested in what social and economic factors influenced where creatives choose to live. This was part of her larger body of work dealing with economic development and the Creative Class.

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My responsibilities as a research assistant with the Institute for Resources Information Sciences included working on a project investigating how to better identify risk areas for aquifer contamination. We collected data from various local, regional and national sources, then created a model to synthesize the information. We presented our results at the North East Certified Crop Advisor Training. The final product will be a package of data and maps useful to local planners in decision making.

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