ES Senior Thesis Titles

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May 2007

AL-ABDULRAZZAK, Dalal, May 2007, The Distribution of Marine Protected Areas in the United States Across Levels of Protection: A New Tool for Classification. Advisor: Steven Trombulak (ES Program Office)

DINSHAW, Ayesha, May 2007, The Quest of Environmental Travel Literature: nature and self in modern travel narratives. Advisors: Daniel Brayton and John Elder (ES Program Office)

FRANKLIN, Lindsey, May 2007, Eco-theology, Environmental Consciousness and Action within the Middlebury Faith Community. Advisor: Rebecca Gould (ES Program Office)

May 2006

BATES, William, May 2006, Framing the Climate Change Movement – Religion, Spirituality, and Social Change. Advisors: Jonathan Isham and William McKibben (ES Program Office)

LEIBACH, Patrick, May 2006, A National Renewable Portfolio Standard: Lessons from Nevada and Pennsylvania. Advisor: Jonathan Isham (ES Program Office)

January 2006

BURNS-BURG, Asher, January 2006, Empowering Environmentalism: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Energy Consumption; Awareness, Attitudes and Actions in Vermont. Advisor: Jonathan Isham (ES Program Office)

May 2005

BECK, Alison, May 2005, An Exploration of the Relationship Between Humans and Healing Plants: Designing an educational garden for the Middlebury College Campus. Advisor: Andrea Lloyd (ES Program office)

GROHOSKI, Nicole, May 2005, Sequential Chemical Extraction: Determination of Reagent Selectivity On Eight Mineral Standards. Advisor: Peter Ryan (ES Program office)

LONG, Caitlyn, May 2005, Acid Precipitation and Nutrient Cycling: Analysis of a Watershed in the Breadloaf Area of Ripton, VT. Advisor: Peter Ryan (ES Program office)

OWEN, Emily, May 2005, A Meta-analysis of Rapid Biodiversity Assessments as a Conservation Tool: The Evolution and Effectiveness of Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program and The Nature Conservancy's Rapid Ecological Assessments. Advisor: Steve Trombulak (ES Program office)

CLOAK, Trevor, May 2005, Sequential Chemical Extraction of Costa Rican and Green Mountain Soils: A Quantitative and Qualitative Examination of the SCE Procedure. Advisor: Peter Ryan (ES Program office)

HELWIG, Mandy, May 2004, Conserving a 'Living Fossil' Charting a Sustainable Management Policy for the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Fishery in Delaware Bay, 173p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

HOLSMAN, Erika, May 2004, Destructive Fishing Practices in the Sulu-Celebes Sea Region: Comparing National Management Strategies for Sustainable Reef Fisheries, 156p. Advisor: Prof. David Rosenberg (ES Program office)

SMITH, Sara Elizabeth Smiley, May 2004, The Many Roads to Remediation: Differing Motivations for Communities Facing Toxic Contamination, 91p. Advisor: Prof. Kathryn Morse (ES Program office)

THROOP, Lauren, May 2004, A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Wind Energy at Middlebury College's Worth Mountain, 156p. Advisor: Rich Wolfson (ES Program office)

WINEMAN, Ayala, May 2004, Migration Strategies and Stopover Ecology of Blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla)In Eilat, Israel (Special Collections)

January 2004

ROUSH, William M., January 2004, Envisioning a Changing Alpine Environment Through Repeat Photography in Glacier National Park, Montana, 85p. Advisor: Prof. Jeff Munroe (ES Program office)

May 2003

CHISOLM, Rob, May 2003, Drawing the Line: Informal Property Rights in a Nova Scotian Lobster Fishery, 132p. Advisors: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza and Prof. Jon Isham (ES Program office)

COX, Dalton, May 2003, Modeling the Relationship Between Sediment Loading and Native Plant Species Recovery in Vermont Lakes, Advisor: Prof. Sallie Sheldon (ES Program office)

GREGG, Kaitlin, May 2003, Peace on Earth and With Earth: Stories of the Earth Charter and Vermont Activism, 119p. (ES Program office)

OLDS, Jr., Glenn R., May 2003, Suburban Sublime: A Parents Guide to Reconnecting with Your Children Through Your Backyard, 91p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

May 2002

CALVI, Benjamin Lightfoot, Stories of Home: A Seasonal exploration of Family and Place, 125p. Advisors: Prof. John Elder and Prof. Andrea Olsen (ES Program office)

MARLOW, Jennifer Jane, May 2003, Science and "Women's Ways of Knowing:" Jane Goodall, Vandana Shiva, and Rachel Carson, 88p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

SINSHEIMER, Gus, May 2002, Reviewing the Last 21,000 Years: Paleoclimate Reconstructions and a Search for Modern Berugian Analogs in Northern Mongolia, 53p. Advisor: Prof. Steven B. Young (ES Program office)

STERN, Jacob, May 2003, Not Another Starbucks! The Effects of Post-Rent Control Era Gentrification in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 70p. Advisor: Prof. David Stoll (ES Program office)

February and January 2002

KIEVES, Nicola K., February 2002, A Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Six Vermont Bird Species, Advisor: Prof. Steve Trombulak (ES Program office)

OLINGER, Sarah, February 2002, Managing Growth in a Rural Environment: How the Ideal Image of the Green Mountain State is Shaped by the Ski Industry and the People of Vermont, 79 p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

SMITH, Leda, January 2002, Paleoecology of Northern Beringia Reconstruction Based on Macrofossil Plant Remains from Zhocov Island, Siberia, 44p. Advisor: Dr. Steven B. Young (Center for Northern Studies) (ES Program office)

May 2001

DIGGORY, Ariel, May 2001, The succession of woody vegetation in abandoned floodplain hay fields along Otter Creek in Addison County, Vermont, 54p. Advisor: Prof. Mary Gaudette (ES Program office)

JERVEY, Ben, May 2001, Lessons of Curitiba, and other tales of urban ecological salvation, 90p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

February 2001

BILLS, Corey B., February 2001, The Divine Sickness: Christianity and Exile Among the Karen, 115p. Advisor: Prof. David Stoll (ES Program office)

YELTON, Lourie, February 2001, Use of immunocontraception for the management of white-tailed deer and feral horses, 66p. Advisor: Prof. Steve Trombulak (ES Program office)

May 2000

BERDOULAY, Genevieve, May 2000, "If Art Could Tell…" Language and Nature in the Poetry of Milton, Wordsworth, and Frost, 90p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

GREENWOOD, Allison, May 2000, Environmental Justice as a Result of Urban Environmental Education, 94p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

KAUTZ, Michael Quist, May 2000, Seasons – Poems and Stories of New England (ES Program office)

PHILIPPS, David Nathaniel, May 2000, A Mountain Year – The holistic history of Mount Rosa, 146p. Advisor: Kathy Skubikowski (ES Program office)

SCHICK, Katharine R., May 2000, Patterns and implications of porcupine (Erithizon dorsatum) herbivory of white spruce (Picea glacua) at tree-line on the Seward Peninsula, 36 p. Advisors: Prof. Andrea Lloyd and Prof. Chris Fastie (ES Program office)

STOLL, Alison P., May 2000, The Role of Public Environmental Education Programs for Endangered Species, 78p. Advisor: Prof. Judith Layzer (ES Program office)

TURNER, Catherine, May 2000, Stewardship in C.S. Lewis and Wendell Berry: A Christian Environmental Vision, 121p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

WITHINGTON, Cynthia L., May 2000, Fire and Vegetation History Inferred from Stratigraphic Records of Soil Charcoal and Plant Macrofossils on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 50p. Advisors: Prof. Andrea Lloyd and Prof. Christopher Fastie (ES Program office)

February 2000

SIGMAN, Jenna, February 2000, Running Back to Milkweed Valley, 110p. (ES Program office)

SNIDER, Elise Apple, February 2000, Starting with a Feather: Natural History and Scale, 86p. (ES Program office)

May 1999

BONESS, Melissa M., May 1999, Whale Watching: An Evaluation of Current Regulatory Efforts and their Consistency with Available Scientific Information, 52p. Advisor: Prof. Judith Layzer (ES Program office)

GAWNE, Nina, May 1999, Building a Teaching Landscape for Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 50p. (ES Program office)

LOHAN, Tara, May 1999, Water Thinking, 101p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

Fall 1998

TUFF, Nic, Fall 1998, A Prayer For the Wild (video) (ES Program office)

May 1998

CARPENTER, Madelyn, May 1998, A Study of the Ecological Effects of Wildfire and Prescribed Burning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, 51p. Advisor: Prof. Steve Trombulak (ES Program office)

MELLO, Jessica, May 1998, Bermuda's Diverse Landscape: A Walking Guide to Bermuda's Nature and Culture along the Railway Trail, 98p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

NICHOLS, Sarah Langille, May 1998, Forging Connections: Interdisciplinary, Place-based, Environmental Education for the First Grade, 75p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

SANDSTEAD, Martha, May 1998, Teachers, Wild and Friends Community-Based Environmental Education, 98p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

February 1998

HINDLE, Jill Lindley, February 1998, Weybridge, Vermont: Meditations on the Ecology of a Community, 157p. (ES Program office)

May 1997

ARVOLD, Virginia H., May 1997, Tracing the Lake: A Landscape of Memory, 57p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

AYERS, Tai, May 1997, Basket Stories, 49p. Advisors: Prof. Robert Pack and Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

BALCH, Graham, May 1997, The Republican's Environmental Policy, 104p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

FLANDERS, Amy A., May 1997, The Call of the Wild: The Restoration of Adirondack Wolves, 151p. Advisor: Prof. Steve Trombulak (ES Program office)

HORNER, Amy L., May 1997, Property, Freedom and the Environment in America: an Exploration of the Regulatory Takings Debate, 79p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

JOHNSON, Pete, May 1997, Middlebury College Solar Greenhouse, 30p. Advisor: Prof. Andrea Lloyd (ES Program office)

LEE, Alexander Putnam, May 1997, The Complex Task of Living Simply, 128p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

LEWIS, Hannah, May 1997, Agricultural Education: Broadening the Context and Goals, 53p. Advisor: Prof. Gary Nielsen (ES Program office)

January 1997

VYNNE, Carly, January 1997, Upholding the Mandate: Olympic National Park & Restoration Management, 165p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

WENTZELL, J. Bryan, January 1997, Western Science and an Alaskan Eskimo Village: Assessing the Impact of Wildlife Research Campus on Chevak, Alaska, 45p. Advisor: Nick Flanders (ES Program office)

May 1996

ALLARD, Nicole A., May 1996, Forest Roundtables in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, 38p. (ES Program office)

EDSELL, Jennifer, May 1996, Whose Woods These Are: Managing the Northern Forest as an Ecosystem in spite of Political Boundaries, 138p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

GREENE, Nicole Joy, May 1996, Saying Thou To The Land: An Educational Journey to Wholeness, 129p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

POZATEK, Kristine Alison, May 1996, Scars in the Kenyan Landscape: Moving Beyond the World Bank's Paradigm of Development, 121p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

January 1996

KERWIN, Sean, January 1996, Creating an Environmental Center at Middlebury College, 100p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

Fall 1995

HAZEN, Jen, Fall 1995, Religious Influence on International Population Policy, 80p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

SPARLING, Erik, Fall 1995, Hierba Buena, 110p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder

May 1995

AIKENHEAD, Emily Kristen, May 1995, From Hoover Dam to James Bay: An examination of the societal changes affecting the building of large dams and hydro-electric projects, 62p. (ES Program office)

ELLERBROOK, Mark, May 1995, Tanzanian National Parks: A Western Ideal in an African Reality, 93p. Advisor: Prof. Spencer (ES Program office)

SPANGLER, Kristen, May 1995, Ana Analysis of Angler Influence and Salmonid Fisheries Management in Vermont, 63p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

STEWART, Roberta J., May 1995, Marked by the Sun A Series of Essays, 58p. Advisor: David Bain (ES Program office)

SUNG, Sarah, May 1995, Industry Advantage? Political Action Committees and the Fate of Environmental Legislation, 67p. Advisor: Prof. Chris McGrory Klyza (ES Program office)

February 1995

ELLIOTT, Tricia, February 1995, Autumn Cadence a natural history of faith, 101p. (ES Program office)

HIPPLE, Annika S., February 1995, Crisis and Conservation: Environmental Issues and Awareness in Ecuador, 138p. Advisor: David Andrews (ES Program office)

December 1994

SMITH, Megan A., December 1994, Obtaining the Goals of Environmental Education: A Joint-Effort Proposal for Environmental Education Centers and Public Schools, 47p. (ES Program office)

May 1994

THOMAS, Tara, May 1994, Returning to the Field: The Growth of My Ideas on Nature and Education, 49p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

WILLIAMS, Jesse, May 1994, Experiential Learning and the Development of Ecological Literacy, 59p. (ES Program office)

January and February 1994

ALEXANDER, Mash, January 1994, Hunting for Bones in the Soul – moments of clarity, 80p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder, (ES Program office)

GALLISTEL, Beth Andrea, February 1994, Advertising the Lure of Vermont: The Selling of the Rural Landscape, 1860 to 1940, 81p. (ES Program office)

ZIEBARTH, Christopher A., February 1994, Fire in the Forests: A History of American Attitudes Concerning Forest Fires and Wilderness, 79p. (ES Program office)

May 1993

STOKES, Sarah, May 1993, Inheriting Home: Migrations to Mountain Water – Journeys through the San Luis Valley, Colorado, 50p. Advisor: Prof. John Elder (ES Program office)

January 1984

PARKHURST, Kleyton L. January 1984, An Alternative Benefit/Cost Analysis of Proposed Key Biscayne, Florida Beach Renourishment Project, 122p. (ES Program office)

February 1979

TODD, Anne C. February 1979, Revitalization of a Waterfront: Burlington, Vermont, 102p. Advisor: Prof. Howard E. Woodin (ES Program Office)

May 1977

LEATHERS, David, May 1977, The Effects of Oil Poolution on the Marine Environment, 70p. (ES Program office)

January 1977

FRIES, Janet A. January 1977, The Vascular Flora of Nunivak Island, Alaska, 57p. Advisor: S.B. Young (ES Program office)