Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A Sustainability Assessment of Bioenergy as a Potential Primary Energy Source for Maine and Bates College, Catherine Elizabeth Dioli
An Evaluation of the Ecological Effects of Wind-Powered Facilities on Bat Fatalities in the United States, Rakey Drammeh
Monitoring Sedimentation Patterns and Inlet Migration at Popham, Seawall and Small Point Beaches, Phippsburg, Maine, Sara May El Assaad
Family Planning and Democratization: The Employment and Impact of Foreign Intervention in Kenya, Laura M. Entwisle
The Power to Envision Change: Art as Environmental Activism, Sonja Raven Favaloro
The Anthropology of Think Tanks: Democracy Promotion in Egypt after the 2011 Uprisings, Sabina Erika Lee Frizell
A Wooden Alternative: Examining the Environmental Impact of the Production of Surfboards, Tyler H. Grees
A Study of Matter-Wave Diffraction in Bose-Einstein Condensates for Atom Interferometry Applications, Yang Guo
A Physical and Mineralogical Analysis of Late Holocene Sand Deposits: A Case Study of Little Ice Age Coastal Change in the Shetland Islands, UK, Christopher Trent Halsted
Assessing the Landscape: In Search of a Coherent Value Theory for Environmental Ethics, Alex J. Hamilton
Assessing the Landscape: In Search of a Coherent Value Theory for Environmental Ethics, Alex J. Hamilton
Using LiDAR to Map the Geomorphology of the Swift River Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Cameron A. Held
Abstracting Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe's White Rose and River Paintings, Daniel Edward Huston
The role of the Local in Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the United States: A Case Study of the proposed Cape Wind project in Massachusetts, Sarah Elizabeth Jacobson
Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Service Losses Associated With Mangrove Conversion Due to Shrimp Aquaculture, Rohan K. Jaffrey
Edward Abbey’s Indirect Affect on National Park Service Ideology: Abbey’s Literature as “Media” in Parallel with National Park Service “Media”, Gretchen Flora Kaija
Water Quality and Phosphorus Budget of Lake Auburn in Auburn, Maine, Megan L. Kearns
I Protest!: A Look into Causes of Protest Responses in Contingent Valuation Surveys, Bo Ra Kim
Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Water Supply and Sanitation: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment in the Context of Africa and Tanzania, Adelaide Sayi Makwaia
Do Reentrant Processes Facilitate Feature Binding?, Mariya E. Manahova
Shifting Identities: Analyzing the Effect of Non-Coercive Power on Karen Identity, Benjamin James McCormack
The More the Merrier: Exploring the Efficacy of Foreign Supernatural Agents as Mechanisms of Compensatory Control, Mary Alice Millard
El poder de la emoción en una marcha sin fin: Un diálogo con los académicos, la prensa internacional y las palabras de las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Hannah A. Miller
Information as a Tool for Invasive Plant Management: Targeting Phases of Invasion, Hannah Bernstein Mitchell
Design and construction of multi-dimensional optical lattices for 87 Rb Bose-Einstein condensates, Edward Russell Moan
Critical Speed Analysis of Railcars and Wheelsets on Curved and Straight Track, Joanna Charlotte Moody
The Ainu Speak of Famine: How Oral Traditions Reflect and Inform Historical Analysis of Changing Food Practices and Trade Relations in Early Modern Period Hokkaido (1603-1868), Joanna Charlotte Moody
Transplanting Culture Back into Agriculture, Matthew R. Mosca
The Strategies of Environmental Non Governmental Organizations to Better the Environment in Face of the Laws Restricting NGOs, Kristian Benbow Muldoon Mr.
Ecopoetry: Evolution and Practice, Kathryn Mulholland
Education from the Ground Up: Benefits of School Garden Strategies, Derek William Murphy
Legal Hybridity: Rule of Law under Authoritarianism, Aung Phone Myint
Climate Refugees: Evaluating and Re-purposing the Term in the Face of Modern Day Vulnerabilities, Anne Ngo
The Tropical Eigenvalue-Vector Problem from Algebraic, Graphical, and Computational Perspectives, Alex William Nowak
The Biopolitics of Marriage and Motherhood: Understanding the Transformative Role of White Middle-Class Women in the American Eugenics Movement 1900-1930, Emma Barrett Perkinson
Finding a Balance for Man and Nature: A Study of Prespa National Park in Northern Greece, Wallis H. Pierce
The Reign of “King Henequen”: The Rise and Fall of Yucatán’s Export Crop from the Pre-Columbian Era through 1930, Nyle Lucien Rioux
Heritage Tourism and Local Identity in Greenville, Maine, Anne K. Rockwell
Right to Know GMO: MOFGA's Campaign in Support of LD718 and its Potential for Replication Beyond Maine, Carole Judith Rosenberg
Managing Risk in Modernity: An analysis of modern technological risks and risk management techniques, Eric Ruta
How the Mind Refigures Memory: The Role of Social Construction and Fallibility in the Fictions of Faulkner, Woolf, and Nabokov, Rebecca H. Salzman-Fiske
Maine summertime blooms: Variability in populations of Gloeotrichia in three Maine lakes, Anabel Rose Schmelz
Chilean University Students’ Understandings of Dating Violence: A Qualitative Study, Simone H. Schriger
Religion and the Postmodern in Contemporary North American Fiction, Alexandra T. Sentner
Human exploitation may not be the cause for the declining size of Patella vulgata (Common limpet): A comparison between the Late Norse and the modern populations of Patella vulgata at Sandwick Bay, Unst, Shetland Islands, UK, Sarah Mae Brennan Silverberg
The Politics of the Gate: Byzantine City Walls and the Urban Negotiation of Imperial Authority, Samuel Aldred Slattery
Sex Scandals in Victorian Britain: Moral Codes and National Reputation in Crisis, Rachel Spence
"Another Landscape, Another Tongue:" The Queer Language of Silence in Virginia Woolf's Fiction, Sarah Streat
LiDAR as a Tool for Lineament Mapping and the Reevaluation of Bedrock and Glacial Geology: Examples from the Mount Moosilauke Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Joshua T. Sturtevant
LiDAR as a Tool for Lineament Mapping and the Reevaluation of Bedrock and Glacial Geology: Examples from the Mount Moosilauke Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Joshua T. Sturtevant
The Education of ELL Students in Lewiston, Maine, Malia K G Taggart
Tribe (™): An Investigation of Ethnic Agency in Sebei, Uganda, Devin Tatro
Giant in the Hillside: Hip-hop and Copyright Law, Benjamin L. Vanasse
Depositional Setting and Deformation History of Central-Western Maine: Silurian Stratigraphic Revisions for the Newry-Gilead Region, Sula Q. Watermulder
Control of Digital Information: Why Privacy Violations Reduce Our Freedom, Stephanie J. Wesson
Theses from 2013
Social Anxiety and Memory Conformity in Eyewitnesses, Alexandra Abry
Satire and the Necessity of Locale: Genealogical Readings in Max Beerbohm and Karl Kraus, Matthew Joseph Bettles
Regulatory Focus Theory and Reactions to Anti-Egalitarian Humor, Stephanie Boyle
Synthesis and Antioxidant Activity of Phenylpropanoid Glycoside Analogs, Jennifer C. Brown
Assessing the impact of marine-derived nutrient on nitrogen cycling in Nequasset Lake in reponse to the 2012 migration of anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoherangus), Chester Chiao, Beverly Johnson, Philip Dostie, and Theodore V. Willis
Classical Music Education: a transcontinental comparative study of classical music for today’s youth, Jessica Diana Cooper
Macroinvertebrate variability in Lake Sunapee tributaries in relation to abiotic metrics and land cover assessed at three spatial scales, Naomi Janet Crimm
Thymic Morphology and Increased Apoptotic Rates in Juvenile and Adult Female Mice Following Exposure to Low Levels of Arsenic Early in Development, Isabelle Lane Curran
Meta-affective processing and its relationship to serotonin and BDNF systems, Lauren A. Demers
Integrating Environmental Education into China's Compulsory Moral Curriculum, Carrie S. Dillaway
600 Years of Late Holocene Climate Variability Inferred from a Varved Proglacial Sediment Record Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Colin W. Dowey and Michael J. Retelle
Transparency in Maine Lakes: Response of Secchi Depth to Precipitation, James R. Epstein
A Geomorphic and Sedimentological Study of the Periglacial Processes and Environments, Vardeborgsletta, Western Spitsbergen Svalbard, Lauren Brett Farnsworth
Towards Global Justice: Reconciling Rawlsian Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism in an Interconnected World, Kate L. Fetrow
How to Maintain One-Party Control: A Case Study of the Political Strategies Used by New Hampshire Republicans, Mikayla Clara Foster
An Ecological Survey of the David Rancourt River Preserve and A Plan for Community Engagement, Ellen Louise Gawarkiewicz
Analysis of brittle Paleogene structures in the Svea region, eastern Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Amanda LaFarge Goss
Economic Analysis of FERC Hydroelectric Licenses: examining license duration, value, and surrendering of licenses between 1990 and 2010, Geoffrey C. Groner
Turkey's Gender Equality Puzzle: Navigating the difference between policy and practice, Nora M. Hanagan
A geochemical investigation of Late Holocene lake sediment cores from Pyramid Lake, Fiordland, New Zealand, David J. Harning
Why Divestment? A Theoretical Analysis of the Emergence of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement, Grady Fitzgerald Hogan
From Modernization and Development to Neoliberal Democracy: A History of the Ford Foundation in Latin America 1959-2000, Jacquelyn Marie Holmes
Hamd and Naat: Muslim Women Singers in Pakistan, Amna Ilyas
Requiem Mass for Chamber Orchestra and Choir, Miles C. Isacke
Diversity and characterization of songs in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort population of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) during their annual spring migration, 2011, Hansen Dalmasse Johnson
Narratives of Place in Planning Documents: A Study of Lewiston’s Riverfront Island Master Plan, Hannah B. Kitchel
Dominant and subordinate male odors elicit different patterns of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity in accessory olfactory bulb mitral cells of female mice, Samantha Marie Landino
Disengagement from the Local: An Examination of the Applications of Stakeholder Theory in the Wadden Sea Transboundary Conservation Area, Christopher M. Lane
Growth Variability and Mineralogy of M. margaritifera from Karpelva, Norway, Stephanie R. LaRosa
Thoreauvian Environmentalism: Utilizing Henry David Thoreau in Campaigns for the Proposed Maine Woods National Park, Emmelyn L. Leung
Variations in hypoxia and productivity along the Oregon Margin during the Younger Dryas and Early Holocene, Conor M. Maginn, Beverly Johnson, Jennifer L. McKay, Jesse M. Muratli, and Alan C. Mix
Peripheral Levels of Oxytocin and Affective Processing in Relation to Schizotypy, Laura Kolker Max
Campus Sustainable Food Movements: Bates College Case Study and Application, Anna C. McCabe
Protecting Life: A Metaphorical Analysis of the Pro-Life Abortion Movement and the Conservation Movement, Holly W. McLaughlin Ms.
Constructing The Prophet: Steve Jobs and the Messianic Myth of Apple, Scott Forsyth MIckey
Microfinance as Ambivalence: Kilimanjaro Women Experiences of Capitalist Development, Desmond Mushi
Place, Class, and Culture: A Case Study of Pollution Debates in Lewiston, Maine, 1953-1955, Taryn A. O'Connell
An Environmental Assessment of Energy Biomass for Bates College and Environmental Implementation Recommendations, Katrina T. Orlov
Statistical Methods of Wavelet Analysis with Applications to Ecological Time-Series, Daniel J. Peach
The Fallacy of Pristine Nature: Implications of Environmental Dualism for the Serengeti Highway Debate, Eliza Perry
Maine's blue carbon: estimating carbon stocks in Maine saltmarshes, Margaret Alice Pickoff
Getting Away With Murder: Why States Deny Past Atrocities, Cameron Ashleigh Sheldon
Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Stakeholder Engagement Analysis, Patrick Ryan Siebenlist
Implications of the Rising Sea Level on the Coast of North Carolina: An Analysis of the Political and Rhetorical Responses, Camille K. Smith