Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Notions of Sustainability: Tracing Framings of Sustainable Hydroelectricity in Bhutan to Reimagine a Contested Concept, Landon M. Smith
Assessing the effectiveness of using Typha as a proxy for estimating seasonal methane emissions on Maine’s southeastern salt marshes, Daniel Stames
Making the Grasses Greener: A Look at the Historic and Present Use of Pesticides at Bates College, Lewiston, ME, Nora RC Stoner
Stable Isotopic Evidence for Nutrient Cycling at Two Zostera marina Meadows in Cape Cod, MA, Yacine Sylla
The First World: Environmental Degradation and Reproductive Injustice, Katherine Leigh Traquina
Paleoenviromental Reconstruction from the Sediment Record of the Varved Proglacial Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic, Gwenyth Williams
From Camera Obscura to Digital: How did the Kodak Camera Alter How Humans Portray Their Relation to the Environment?, Jacob Yudkin
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
An investigation of the toxicity of Lake Auburn's Gloeotrichia echinulata, Ruth E. Baker
Deep Ecology, the Individual, and the Power of Societal Influence, Emma Gale Blakeley
Debunking De Facto: Insights on Fair Housing Law and Segregation in Lewiston, Maine, Olivia Grace Boueri
Monitoring the Effects of Marine Derived Nitrogen due to an Alewife Migration at Nequasset Lake, Woolwich, Me, Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum
Examining the Gap Between ProEnvironmental Beliefs and Behavior: A Study of Industrial Animal Agriculture, Emma Rose Conover
Recent Changes To The Dynamic Sandy Beach System At The Mouth Of The Kennebec River, Mid-Coast Maine, Nicole Marie Cueli
Art in the Anthropocene: Confronting Global Environmental Change Through Aesthetic Platforms, Catherine DiPietro
Here, There, and Everywhere : Reimagining the Spatiality of Environmentalism Through an Analysis of the South Portland Tar Sands Controversy, Nina Peck Doonan
Water Markets and their Third-Party Effects, Phillip Dube
Process and Design for Environmental Children's Books, Julia D. Dunn
Behind the Light Switch: Why we should care about Utilities and the Grid in Massachusetts, Thomas William Fitzgerald
Investigating Greenwashing in the NHL, Caitrin M. Griffin
Going Back to the Land: An Analysis of the American Cultural Imaginary Pertaining to Farming, Rural Life, and Nature, Elizabeth Annie Horstmeyer
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
Student Laundry Methods at Bates College: Bacterial Growth Inhibition of Three Normal Microbiota Species, James K. Jhun
Determining a Procedure to Measure Dissolved Ammonia in Freshwater, Kristen Kelliher
On the Shores of Merrymeeting Bay, Grace Kenney
Measuring Trace Concentrations of Phosphorus in Lake Auburn, ME using UV-Visible Spectrophotometry and Chemiluminescence, Hannah Brody Kiesler
Applications of LiDAR in the study of landscape geomorphology, Sandwich Range, White Mountain National Forest, Sarah G. Koe
The Cape Wind Project: 15 Years Later, Dane Salvatore Lamendola II
Hydrothermal oxide and nontronite deposits at Seamount 3, Wolf-Darwin lineament, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador, Megan J. Lubetkin, Steven Carey, and Genevieve Robert
Silver Spoon: A Study of Food and Place, Kei Angela Matsunami
Organic Agriculture in the Northeast: Decentralized Food and Healthy Local Communities, George Merrill
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
The Price of Stability: Consumption-Based Fixed Rate Billing for Water Utilities, Amy Thyng Schmidt
Reframing the Food System Through an Exploration of the Diverse Economies of Food in Lewiston, Maine, Nina D. Sevilla
The Effect of Na:K Ratio on Melt Viscosity within the SiO2-NaAlSiO4-KAlSiO4 System, Rebecca Anne Smith
Social Capital in Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Revitalizing Communities of the Lower Ninth Ward, Suzannah O'Hara Smith
Climate Change In The Canadian Arctic, Sarah S. Stanley
Abundance of toxic Gloeotrichia echinulata with respect to other limnoplankton in Lake Auburn, Ana Urbina
Buddha Popcorn: The Dark Underbelly Of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan, Sacha Joseph Zabotin
Theses from 2015
You Are Where You Eat: A Gendered Analysis of Dining Commons at Bates College, Alexandra Adolph
Phylogenetic Analysis fails to sort MHC Class II B Exon 2 Alleles by Locus in the Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor), Yaa Asantewaa Agyare
"The Interrupted Idyll: The Changing Identities of Farming Through the Lens of Art and Literature, Hanna M. Allerton
Biopiracy and the Ethics Surrounding Global Application of Western Intellectual Property Law, Jesse Bercaw
Mobilization of Metals by Fungi in Historic Cemeteries, Eleanor D. Briggs
Place-Based Education: An In-Depth Analysis of PBE in Lewiston Middle School, Nicole C. Brill
Developing a Protocol to Measure Trace Concentrations of Phosphorus in Oligo-mesotrophic Lake Surface Waters using UV-Vis Spectrophotometry and Colorimetry, Gwyn Ivy Browning
The Future of Open Space: A Comparison of Conservation Techniques in the United States, Caroline Grace Caldwell
A Paleolimnological Study Reconstructing Organic Carbon Accumulation and Climate History; Mealy Mountains, Labrador, Canada, Timothy D. Campbell
Towards Two-Eyed Seeing: Mi’kmaq Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change, Teika Marie Carlson
The Conservation Controversy, Rebecca Mai Culp
No Man is an Island: The Penobscot Nation v. The State of Maine, Nicole Michelle Danser
Maine: Farm-to-Fork, Jeynaba Leigh Diallo
Analysis and Comparison of Physical Properties and Morphology of Impact Melt Flows on Venus and the Moon to Determine Atmospheric Controls, Christine Elizabeth Dong
Reconstruction of the Post-Glacial Formation of the Peddocks Island Salt Marsh, Hull, MA, Sean W. Enos
An Intellectual History of Eugenics Ideals within the Garden City Movement, Aine Rois Marion Fitzgerald Coleman
Biodiesel at Bates? A Feasibility Study for the Implementation of Biodiesel in Bates College Fleet Vehicles, Nicholas JH Ford
Natural Rhythms and Cosmic Connections: An Examination of Biodynamic Farms that Cultivate Social Change, Hallie Grossman
Sustainable Urban Development in the Model of Freiburg, Germany, Horace Fuller Henriques IV
Managing The Breach at Old Inlet, Fire Island: An Eco-Political Discourse, David Spencer Kurey
Biomass: Ancient Fuel Reignited, Bryan D. Lehrer
No Man Is An Island: The Penobscot Nation v. the State of Maine, Gunnar Christopher Manchester
The North Woods and the New National Park, Mark R. McCauley
Paleoclimatic implication of lake sediment geochemistry in Linnévatnet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Benjamin Gray Merkert
Collective Action within an Authoritarian State: The Emergence of an Anti-Mining Movement in Tibetan Regions of the PRC, Tenzin Namdol
Shaping the Possible: Stories of the resistance and power of community farmers in Maine, Ashleen E. O'Brien
Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Recommendations for a Case Study in Lewiston, ME, Kate B. Paladin
Mindful Urban Walking, Benjamin F. Pardee
Conserving the Endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly: An Analysis of Animals' Place in Society Which Determines tts Importance, Kathy Polanco
The Transformative Power of Social Entrepreneurship, Kathryn E. Polio
The Consequences of Plan Colombia: Domestic Drug Policies in Colombia, Brittany T. Reid
Interpreting Innocence: Romantic Thought in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Rachel S. Ryan
Apocalyptic Simplification as Human Renewal: Examining the Tropes of Hope found in Post-Apocalyptic American Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Elizabeth Frieda Sangree
Aging in Japan: An analysis of the growing vulnerability of the elderly in the context of the Tohoku Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011, Hannah T. Siegel
Tourist or Traveler? An Examination of Local-Outsider Relations in Patagonia, Lucy Kaplan Triedman
"The Way We Gaze On A Loved One": Lessons in Ecological Consciousness from American Science Fiction, Shana AvRutick Wallace
Analysis of Sediment Traps in Linnévatnet, Svalbard for Reconstruction of Annual Sediment Flux and Lacustrine Processes, Tess L. Walther
Bedrock Geology of the Mt. Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Sarah Mei Xiao and J. Dykstra Eusden
The Gentrification of Munjoy Hill, Felix Xie
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Microbial Isolates on Waiting Room Toys in Two Maine Pediatric Clinics, Zachary D. Abbott
A Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Linnédalen, Svalbard using Geochemical and Productivity Proxies, Alexandra Michelle Balter
The Use of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in a Baseline Characterization of the Input Streams of Lake Auburn, Jordan J. Buetow
A Chemical Method for Testing Total Phosphorus, Bridgette Krishna Chandhoke
Detroit's Development of a Rebellion: Understanding the 12th Street Rebellion in a Spatial Framework, Jedd Daniel Countey
Nutrient dynamics of an alewife migration in Nequasset Lake: Evidence and modeling efforts, Wells Tanner Cunningham
In the Interest of Coexisting: Evaluating Industrial Agriculture Using Paul Taylor's Theory of Environmental Ethics, Caroline Serena Daniels
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
A Wooden Alternative: Examining the Environmental Impact of the Production of Surfboards, Tyler H. Grees
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