Theses/Dissertations from 2014
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
Shifting Identities: Analyzing the Effect of Non-Coercive Power on Karen Identity, Benjamin James McCormack
Information as a Tool for Invasive Plant Management: Targeting Phases of Invasion, Hannah Bernstein Mitchell
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
Climate Refugees: Evaluating and Re-purposing the Term in the Face of Modern Day Vulnerabilities, Anne Ngo
Finding a Balance for Man and Nature: A Study of Prespa National Park in Northern Greece, Wallis H. Pierce
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
Maine summertime blooms: Variability in populations of Gloeotrichia in three Maine lakes, Anabel Rose Schmelz
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
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
Depositional Setting and Deformation History of Central-Western Maine: Silurian Stratigraphic Revisions for the Newry-Gilead Region, Sula Q. Watermulder
Theses from 2013
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
Macroinvertebrate variability in Lake Sunapee tributaries in relation to abiotic metrics and land cover assessed at three spatial scales, Naomi Janet Crimm
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
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
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
Narratives of Place in Planning Documents: A Study of Lewiston’s Riverfront Island Master Plan, Hannah B. Kitchel
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
Campus Sustainable Food Movements: Bates College Case Study and Application, Anna C. McCabe
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
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
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
An Investigation of the Occurrence and Potential Public Health Implications of Cyanobacterial Toxins in Mane Lakes, Julie Jean Thomsen
The Need for Environmental Writing and Scientific Communication: An Analysis of Sources, Language and Bias in the Collected Works of Sandra Steingraber, Caroline Marie Ulwick
Interactive and Embodied Environmental Education: Connecting Nature and Culture through Place-Based Education at Auburn Land Lab in Auburn, ME, Abby Verney-Fink
The Effects of Storms on Stream water Chemistry and the Seasonal Patterns of Ions in Tributaries of Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, Caroline Watson
Tracking Seasonal and Storm Induced Recession of the Popham-Seawall Barrier Beach Complex, Phippsburg, Maine, Amanda Lee Wescott
Theses from 2012
CRETACEOUS UNROOFING HISTORY FROM APATITE FISSION-TRACK AGES, COG RAILROAD, MT. WASHINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, Brigit Anderson
The Characterization of Organic Carbon from Sedimentary Cores from Zostera marina beds, Maquoit Bay, Casco Bay, Maine, Elizabeth Emily Sonshine
Evaluation of the response and recovery of a forested watershed to human disturbances based on a multi-proxy analysis of sediments in Trout Pond, Lyme, NH, Ethan O. Yackulic and Timothy L. Cook