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Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Colorful Gardens and Empowerment: Black Resistance and Self-Determination through Urban Farming, Joakim Ethan Cohen

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Laying Foundations for the Future: The Tiny House Movement in Context, Katherine Anne Cook

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Refugees, Racialization, and Resistance: Examining Lewiston, Maine’s Farmers’ Market, Zsofia Duarte

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Hacia un Pueblo Visible: An Examination of Liberatory and Decolonial Educative Practices for the Mapuche People in Chile, Emma R. Egan

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Native Youth Contributions to Indigenous Sovereignty and Climate Justice in the #noDAPL Movement, Mary Rebecca Ferguson

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Apocalypse Rhetoric and Political Standstill: Towards a More Productive Discourse of the Climate Crisis, Courtney C. Foster

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Alternative Transfer Methods in Colorado: Innovations in Market-Based Water Sharing Agreements, Connor W. Gray

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The relationship between substrate characteristics and Japanese knotweed invasion along the Saco River, Maine and New Hampshire, Dacota F. Griffin

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Growling Skies over the San Juan Islands, Maya T. Haber

Lead Poisoning in Lewiston, Maine, Emily Halford

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An Investigation into the Sources and Sinks of Phosphorus in Townsend Brook Watershed, Lake Auburn, ME, Michaela Heffernan

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The Land Goes On: Avenues for Community-Engaged Farmland Conservation in Maine, Nell Rybeck Houde

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Do Black people care about solar panels, turbines whacking birds, Amazon clear cutting, the environment just because, and the planet being on fire?, Korbin K. Houston

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Planting the Seeds for the Future: An Analysis of School Gardens Attempts to Mitigate Food Insecurity Within Lewiston, Maine., Elisabeth Belle Hutchins

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Implementing Carbon Offsets to Increase Biomass Energy Production: A suggestion for forest management in Maine, Caitlin A. Keady

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Voices of Appalachia: Deconstructing the Polarizing Presence of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia Through Local Narratives and Pro-Coal Rhetoric, Theodore Slaff Levine

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The Empirical Impact of Renewable Generation on Electricity Prices via OLS and Vector Autoregressive Estimators, Matthew R. Marcus

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The Questions We Seek And The Stories We Tell: An Environmental Meditation of our Place in this World., Kawai G. Marin Mr.

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Permanent Agriculture (Permaculture): Why it Matters for Farmland Conservation in Maine, Madeline M. McGonagle

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The Impact of Dian Fossey on Mountain Gorilla Conservation and Tourism in Central Africa, Julia Christina Nemy

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Distinguishing Harms to Derive Commitments: Karen Warren and Aldo Leopold on Ecofeminism and Domination, Eileen A. O'Shea

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Climate Change: Defining Measuring and Building Resilience, Sadie Mae Palmatier

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Speaking in Code, Mental Time Travel and Mind Reading: an exploration of the study of animal intelligence, Drew S. Perlmutter

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Enhancing Sustainability and Justice in Urban Transportation: An Analysis of Equity Initiatives in Bikeshare, Matthew Reback

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Modeling Impacts of Light Absorbing Particles on Glacial Melt and Albedo: Construction, Quantified Impacts, and Simulations from the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Bria Riggs

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Building From the Ground Up: An Evaluation of Using Local Building Materials in Chile and Maine, Paula Catalina Robert

Destabilizing 'Nature': Exploring the Gendered and Racialized Management of Bodies and Spaces in US Environmental Discourse, Jennifer Kate Rosenfield

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The Scientific and Political Implications of Trump-Era Climate Science Censorship, Sarah H. Sachs

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Rethinking Environmentally Responsible Behavior and Curriculum Design for a Local Maine High School, Dylan R. Thombs

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An Oral Health Assessment of Migrant & Seasonal Farmworker Children of Maine and Child Residents of Lewiston Housing Authority – Hillview, Joseph R. Tulip

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Striving for Just Sustainability in Transit Systems: A Case Study of Complete Streets Policies in Lewiston, Maine, avery wolfe

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Al Gore, the Perfect Punching Bag: An Analysis of the Effect of Political Cartoons on the Opinions and Perceptions of Al Gore and the Environmental Movement, Jonathan C. Anderson

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Conservation Impact Analysis; Advocating for Intersectional Approaches for Wildlife Conservation Efforts and Management Plans, Misha Geronimo-Carson Copeland

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Women’s Labor Roles in the Mexican Lime Commodity Chain in La Luz, Oaxaca, Mexico: A Feminist Political Ecology Approach, Yarisamar Cortez

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Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) physiology at Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area in response to a pathogenic insect, hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), Isobel O. Curtis

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Parasitism in Storm Petrel MHC: Methodological Trials to Sequence Parasitic DNA Within Storm Petrel Blood Samples, Kathryn Louise Cuthbert Ms.

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Land Use History of the Lake Auburn Watershed, Auburn, Maine, Elise Samiha Emil

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A Critical Analysis of the Asian Development Bank's Rural Electrification Programs in Nepal, Brent Feldman

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The Theoretical Implications of Planned Obsolescence: A Multi-dimensional Analysis, Allison N. Hill

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Analysis of Sedimentation and Phosphorous Loading Within the Lake Auburn Watershed, Lake Auburn, Maine, William M. Hilton III

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Human Identities and Connection to Place in the Bears Ears: Discussion and Interpretation of Land Claims and Usage in Southeast Utah, Amy H. Katz

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The Effect of the Dispersion of Non-rewarding Flowers on Pollination by Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): A Lab Study, Emma J. Katz

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"Our Mothers' Gardens": Womanism, Other-mothering, and Homeplace in Oakland's Community Gardens, Dani Klein

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An Investigation of the Hypoxic Internal Loading Mechanisms of Phosphorus in Lake Auburn, Halie Lange

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Place-Based Education: An Overview and Lesson Plan for Whiting Farm, Emma Sage Marchetti

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Conceptions and Constructions of Rurality: A Case Study on Wind Power Development in Maine, Anna Lisa Marr

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The Framing of Health: An Interpretive Analysis of the Strength of Community Framing in ‘Cancer Alley’, Jack Martell

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Urban Water Sustainability: A Comparative Historical and Modern Analysis of Granada, Spain, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, John W. McReynolds III

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Not the Same River: A Marxist Environmental History of the Androscoggin River, Max WV Millslagle

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Analyzing Hydrologic Trends in Stream Discharge and Temperature along Elevation Gradients in the Western United States: A Comparative Analysis of USGS and Pacific Crest Trail Sites, Paul B. Pratt

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Spiritual-Environmental Responsibility: Emotional Connection to Nature as Seen in Avatar, Audrey H. Puleio

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The Social Benefits of Therapy Dogs in the Classroom for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elyse Rubchinuk

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The Market and Non-Market Values of Recreation in Maine Lakes: An Update, William D. Sadlo

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Notions of Sustainability: Tracing Framings of Sustainable Hydroelectricity in Bhutan to Reimagine a Contested Concept, Landon M. Smith

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Making the Grasses Greener: A Look at the Historic and Present Use of Pesticides at Bates College, Lewiston, ME, Nora RC Stoner

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The First World: Environmental Degradation and Reproductive Injustice, Katherine Leigh Traquina

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An investigation of the extent to which climate change induced factors have catalyzed the American Lobster’s (Homarus Americanus’) macroecological range shift northward in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, Jessica Wilson

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From Camera Obscura to Digital: How did the Kodak Camera Alter How Humans Portray Their Relation to the Environment?, Jacob Yudkin

Theses from 2016

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A Century of National Park Conflict: Class, Geography, and the Changing Values of Conservation Discourse in Maine, Adam R. Auerbach

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An investigation of the toxicity of Lake Auburn's Gloeotrichia echinulata, Ruth E. Baker

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Deep Ecology, the Individual, and the Power of Societal Influence, Emma Gale Blakeley

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Debunking De Facto: Insights on Fair Housing Law and Segregation in Lewiston, Maine, Olivia Grace Boueri

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Examining the Gap Between Pro­Environmental Beliefs and Behavior: A Study of Industrial Animal Agriculture, Emma Rose Conover

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Art in the Anthropocene: Confronting Global Environmental Change Through Aesthetic Platforms, Catherine DiPietro

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Here, There, and Everywhere : Reimagining the Spatiality of Environmentalism Through an Analysis of the South Portland Tar Sands Controversy, Nina Peck Doonan

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Water Markets and their Third-Party Effects, Phillip Dube

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Process and Design for Environmental Children's Books, Julia D. Dunn

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Behind the Light Switch: Why we should care about Utilities and the Grid in Massachusetts, Thomas William Fitzgerald

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Investigating Greenwashing in the NHL, Caitrin M. Griffin

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“Saving” the Elephants: Human-Elephant Conflict in Northeast India through a Religious, Western and Local Lens on Conservation Initiatives, Ali Haymes

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Going Back to the Land: An Analysis of the American Cultural Imaginary Pertaining to Farming, Rural Life, and Nature, Elizabeth Annie Horstmeyer

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Effects of the Gorilla Tourism Industry on Peacebuilding in Rwanda: An Evaluation of Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts through a Multifaceted Positive Peace Paradigm, Clara Powell Jessup

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Student Laundry Methods at Bates College: Bacterial Growth Inhibition of Three Normal Microbiota Species, James K. Jhun

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Determining a Procedure to Measure Dissolved Ammonia in Freshwater, Kristen Kelliher

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On the Shores of Merrymeeting Bay, Grace Kenney

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Measuring Trace Concentrations of Phosphorus in Lake Auburn, ME using UV-Visible Spectrophotometry and Chemiluminescence, Hannah Brody Kiesler

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The Cape Wind Project: 15 Years Later, Dane Salvatore Lamendola II

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Silver Spoon: A Study of Food and Place, Kei Angela Matsunami

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Organic Agriculture in the Northeast: Decentralized Food and Healthy Local Communities, George Merrill

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Tracks Written in Sand: A Story of the Ancient Sea Turtle, Her Disease, and the Oceans Plagued by Us, Bianca B. Sanchez

Unprecedented Uncertainty, The Story of a Boy and Santa Barbara's Drought, Tyler Schleich

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The Price of Stability: Consumption-Based Fixed Rate Billing for Water Utilities, Amy Thyng Schmidt

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Reframing the Food System Through an Exploration of the Diverse Economies of Food in Lewiston, Maine, Nina D. Sevilla

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Social Capital in Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Revitalizing Communities of the Lower Ninth Ward, Suzannah O'Hara Smith

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Climate Change In The Canadian Arctic, Sarah S. Stanley

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Abundance of toxic Gloeotrichia echinulata with respect to other limnoplankton in Lake Auburn, Ana Urbina

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Buddha Popcorn: The Dark Underbelly Of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan, Sacha Joseph Zabotin

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Phylogenetic Analysis fails to sort MHC Class II B Exon 2 Alleles by Locus in the Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor), Yaa Asantewaa Agyare

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"The Interrupted Idyll: The Changing Identities of Farming Through the Lens of Art and Literature, Hanna M. Allerton

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Biopiracy and the Ethics Surrounding Global Application of Western Intellectual Property Law, Jesse Bercaw

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Place-Based Education: An In-Depth Analysis of PBE in Lewiston Middle School, Nicole C. Brill

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Developing a Protocol to Measure Trace Concentrations of Phosphorus in Oligo-mesotrophic Lake Surface Waters using UV-Vis Spectrophotometry and Colorimetry, Gwyn Ivy Browning

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The Future of Open Space: A Comparison of Conservation Techniques in the United States, Caroline Grace Caldwell

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Towards Two-Eyed Seeing: Mi’kmaq Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change, Teika Marie Carlson

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The Conservation Controversy, Rebecca Mai Culp

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No Man is an Island: The Penobscot Nation v. The State of Maine, Nicole Michelle Danser

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Maine: Farm-to-Fork, Jeynaba Leigh Diallo

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An Intellectual History of Eugenics Ideals within the Garden City Movement, Aine Rois Marion Fitzgerald Coleman

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Biodiesel at Bates? A Feasibility Study for the Implementation of Biodiesel in Bates College Fleet Vehicles, Nicholas JH Ford

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Natural Rhythms and Cosmic Connections: An Examination of Biodynamic Farms that Cultivate Social Change, Hallie Grossman