• Royce Fellowship
Elizabeth
Forsyth

Concentration 

Environmental Science

Award Year 

2005
The Role of Natural Disturbance in Influencing Forest Structure of Taiwan

Faculty Sponsor: Steven Hamburg

Elizabeth conducted research in three Taiwanese forests to expand the understanding of how various disturbance regimes, specifically typhoons and monsoons, affect forest structure in the Northwest Pacific.

Elizabeth is a Beagle Fellow and a member of the litigation team in the San Francisco office of the National Resources Defense Council. Elizabeth previously clerked for Judge Thomas Zilly on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. She received her undergraduate degree in environmental science from Brown and her law degree from Harvard, where she served as a managing editor on the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Prior to law school, Elizabeth spent two years at EPA working on waste management and recycling on tribal land.