Senior Theses in Environmental Studies
2023
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Dara Albrecht ,
Caribou-ffet: The nutritional landscape of caribou at Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada ,
Advisor: Oswald Schmitz and Kristy Ferraro
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Khenzom Alling ,
Caring for Home and Homeland: Environmental Placemaking in Dharamshala and Tibet ,
Advisor: Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
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Sandra Amezcua Rocha ,
Fishing for Power: P´urhépecha Resistance in Lake Patzcuaro ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Sebastian Baez ,
(Em)Powering New York: Local Perspectives on the Champlain Hudson Power Express Project ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Holly Basile ,
The Impacts of a Human-Induced Landscape of Fear on Mesocarnivore Species in Makgadikgadi, Botswana ,
Advisor: Amy Vedder
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Konrad Collins ,
Regenerative Development: What It Is, Why It Is Essential, and How We Can Best Practice It In the Places We Build ,
Advisor: Melissa Kops
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Samantha Friborg ,
Heat Pump Pathways: Strategies for Accelerating Residential Electrification in Massachusetts ,
Advisor: Robert Klee
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Liam Galloway ,
The Locational Suitability of In-Stream Hydrokinetic Turbines (Regional Assessment) ,
Advisor: Robert Klee
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Marc Gonzalez ,
Maldita Sea, Otro Apagón”: A Historical, Decolonial Analysis of the Puerto Rican Power Grid and the Making of the Energy Crisis ,
Advisor: Jennifer Klein
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Bennett Hall ,
Deploying Clean Energy Capital Through a Newly Designed Federal Green Bank ,
Advisor: Robert Klee
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Bay Hanson ,
Different Oaks for Different Folks: The role of street tree planting and resident preferences in ecosystem services provision ,
Advisor: Kealoha Freidenburg
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Elizabeth Hopkinson ,
Dying in and out of place: The American hospital as a setting for end-of-life care ,
Advisor: Marcia Inhorn
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Brianna Jefferson ,
The Future of Urban Agriculture and Hydroponics to Address Environmental Justice Issues ,
Advisor: Mark Bomford
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Ellie Jose ,
Impact of gap partitioning and forest harvesting on understory regeneration and community development in southern New England ,
Advisor: Marlyse Duguid and Mark Ashton
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Saket Malhotra ,
Spatial and Temporal Variation in PM 2.5 Enhancements in New York City ,
Advisor: Drew Gentner
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Tai Michaels ,
The Role of Unconventional Urban Greenspace Groups in New York City ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Lola Picayo ,
Agroecology in Cuba: A History of Adaptation and Resistance ,
Advisor: Michael Dove
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Adin Ring ,
Harnessing Citizen Science and Collections Data for Invasive Plant Surveillance ,
Advisor: Walter Jetz
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Ren Robins ,
Bat-Friendly Maple? Analyzing Cultural Connotations, Ecological Relationships, and Best Management Practices ,
Advisor: Joe Orefice
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Isabella Rosado ,
The disturbance of soil carbon and nitrogen in big sagebrush ecosystems after mastication treatment ,
Advisor: Ingrid Burke
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Meredith Ryan ,
The Effects of the War on Agricultural Production in Ukraine Using Remote Sensing and Google Earth Engine ,
Advisor: Xuhui Lee
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Olivia Schlaepfer ,
Land and People in Rural Kansas: An exploration of community values, soil health, and environmental conflict ,
Advisor: Justin Farrell
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Richard Sturtevant ,
Development of Post-World War II Suburbs: The Idyllic Image of The Sun City Retirement Community ,
Advisor: Anthony Acciavatti
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Lucie Warga ,
What’s for Lunch? Assessing the political discourse around school nutrition standards in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Catherine Webb ,
The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers: Embodying Multispecies Care ,
Advisor: Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
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Lisa Younes ,
Drowning Nations: The Digital Future of Tuvalu & the Political Implications of Land Lost to Climate Change ,
Advisor: Douglas Kysar
2022
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Adoma Addo ,
Waste, Water, and Well-being: The Health and Justice Burdens of Sachet Water in Urban Ghana ,
Advisor: Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
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Anna B Albright ,
Decarbonization’s Enemy: Environmentalism? How Environmentalism is Appropriated to Block Decarbonization of America’s Electrical Grid ,
Advisor: Michael Oristaglio
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Sam Battles ,
Hawaiʻi’s Food Cultures: Gastronomic Multiculturalism and Avoidance of Colonial Histories ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Rachel Chang ,
Building a circular economy: plastics recycling in the United States ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Kelly Dolan ,
Power, Prototype, and Environmental Harm: Lifting the Veil Behind the Supermarket’s Shiny Round Tomato ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Helen Dugmore ,
Winds of Change: Insurance, Climate Science and the Moral Economy of Risk at the IBHS Research Center ,
Advisor: Deborah Coen
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Caroline Erickson ,
1,4-Dioxane: An Emerging Water Contaminant Explored ,
Advisor: Vasilis Vasiliou
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Eleanor Hewitt ,
Land and People in the Willamette Valley, Oregon:An exploration of community, agriculture, and land management strategy ,
Advisor: Michael Dove
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Nat Irwin ,
GROUNDED HEALING: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT ,
Advisor: Maria Trumpler
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Sean Johnson ,
An Analysis of Capital Flows within US Climate Tech Venture Capital ,
Advisor: Song Ma
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Sarah King ,
The Future is Floating: A comparison of direct emissions produced by offshore activities during fixed-bottom and floating offshore wind farm installation, O&M, and decommissioning ,
Advisor: Michael Oristaglio
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Katie King-Smith ,
CORAL REEF VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF CORAL REEF CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION IN THE WIDER CARIBBEAN ,
Advisor: Gordon Geballe
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Jane Li ,
The Beef with Meat Consumption: How Consumer Dietary Psychology Can Inform Plant-Based Meat Companies’ Communication Strategies ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Sophie Lieberman ,
The role of farmers associations in international forest restoration efforts: A case study in Panama’s Azuero Peninsula ,
Advisor: Michael Dove
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Danielle Losos ,
Weather satellites for wildfire tracking: Mapping burned area in near-real time using geostationary satellite data ,
Advisor: Xuhui Lee
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Adriana Macial Metal ,
Anti-Racist and Trauma Informed Environmental Education Pedagogy ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Caroline Magavern ,
Curators of Climate Change: Art Museums in the Anthropocene ,
Advisor: Michael Dove
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Nora Massie ,
“There is No Such Thing” Place (Un)making in Appalachian Fiction in the Fossil Fuel Era ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Diego Meucci ,
A Techno-Economic Analysis of Grid Enhancing Technologies: the Path Forward for America’s Energy Infrastructure ,
Advisor: Robert Klee
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Jon Michel ,
Developing and Extrapolating Allometric Models for Prediction of Wyoming Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis) Aboveground Biomass ,
Advisor: William Lauenroth
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Evan Parker ,
An Assessment of Geographic and Taxonomic Biases in Research on Climate Change-Related Range Shifts ,
Advisor: Walter Jetz
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Alaina Perry ,
Representations of Consumption: Desolation, Discomfort, and Empowerment in Late 20th Century Visual Art of Food and Dining ,
Advisor: Maria Trumpler
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Bea Pickett ,
Adrift in a changing ocean The relationship between environmental conditions and jellyfish ecology and the effect of temperature as a cue for the asexual reproduction of Cyanea sp., a Long Island Sound scyphozoan jellyfish. ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Paula Pineda ,
Superfund Site Cleanup and Environmental Injustice: A Comparative Analysis of Joint Base Cape Cod and the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Area ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Morgan Ross ,
‘Is Green the New King? An Analysis of Environmental Authoritarianism and Climate Change Governance’ ,
Advisor: Dorceta Taylor
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Catherine Rutherfurd ,
Eating East Harlem: How Fast Food Took Over a New York City Neighborhood ,
Advisor: Mark Bomford
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Carla Sanchez-Noya ,
Mental Wellbeing and Environmental Justice in New Haven and Bridgeport: Disproportionate Impact and Service Availability, Accessibility, and Utilization in Underserved Communities ,
Advisor: Suzi Ruhl
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Katie Schlick ,
Disaster, Human Mobility, & Networks of Care: How the U.S. government can mitigate the challenge of managing chronic disease and mental health in populations displaced by natural disaster ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Camden Smithtro ,
Regenerative Agriculture for Whom? Producing and Consuming Agricultural Knowledge at The Land Institute ,
Advisor: Mark Bomford
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Max Teirstein ,
An Index of Community Priorities to Inform Local Governance in New Haven ,
Advisor: Gerald Torres
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Soloman Thompson ,
Drought and Despair in New South Wales: How Drought Indices Affect Mental Health and Migration in Rural Australia ,
Advisor: Robert Mendelsohn
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Travis Tran ,
A Window for Transformational Change: Assessing the Use of Tactical and Biophilic Urbanism for Guiding New Haven’s Post-COVID19 Future ,
Advisor: Alan Plattus
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Les Welker ,
The Impact of the Mycorrhizal Association of Understory Plants on Soil Dynamics in Temperate Forests ,
Advisor: Mark Bradford
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Alex Wynn ,
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Caused by Electricity Usage in Healthcare: Case Studies of the Yale New Haven Health System ,
Advisor: Michael Oristaglio
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Sherry Xu ,
An Evaluative Assessment of 10 Carbon Neutral Companies in the Dairy, Meat, and Alcohol Sectors ,
Advisor: Noah Planavsky
2021
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Megan Ahern ,
Sustainability-Linked Bonds: The Impact of Innovation on Sustainable Business and Finance ,
Advisor: Daniel Esty
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Brandon Cobb ,
Iceland and the United States: How Do We Discuss Climate? ,
Advisor: Robert Klee
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Emma Desrochers ,
Microplastics & Human Health: A Synthesis of Microplastic Particle Accumulation and Impact in the Human Body ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Victoria Dombrowik ,
Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Ground-Level Ozone Formation in Four Cities ,
Advisor: Xuhui Lee
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Epongue Ekille ,
"Agriculture is a part of me”: A History and Personal Narratives of Farming in Cameroon ,
Advisor: Louisa Lombard
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Neehaar Gandhi ,
Understanding the Climate Change Discourse on Twitter Among the Political and Scientific Communities ,
Advisor: Jennifer Marlon
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Logan Howard ,
Heat Stress in Urban Environments: A Case Study of Heat Vulnerability in New Haven, CT ,
Advisor: Xuhui Lee
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Rebecca Ju ,
Developmental acclimation of Porites astreoides larvae enhances ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Kitty Kan ,
Insect Diversity in Neotropical Coffee & Cacao Agriculture: A Review of How Different Management Practices Affect Insect Richness and Abundance ,
Advisor: Marlyse Duguid
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Trinidad Kechkian ,
An Equitable Transition of the Energy System ,
Advisor: Robert Klee
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Lauren Kim ,
Precarious Infrastructure: An analysis of equity gaps in perceptions of and responses to extreme heat events & wildfires in California ,
Advisor: Jennifer Marlon
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Sophie Latham ,
Mitigation of Climate Change through Direct Air Capture of CO2: An Analysis of Three Plausible Scenarios in the United States ,
Advisor: Robert Klee
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Victoria Lim ,
THE DE- AND RE-POLITICIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IN SINGAPORE: UNDERSTANDING PRAGMATIC RESISTANCE & STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF TWO YOUTH CLIMATE GROUPS ,
Advisor: Yew Wei Lit
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Will Mukamal ,
The Environmental Costs of Energy Generation: An LCOE Analysis of ISO New England Generating Facilities ,
Advisor: Kenneth Gillingham
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Jacob Payne ,
THE JUNGLE GYM: An exploration of the potential for designing the biophilic playground ,
Advisor: George Knight
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Jordan Perry ,
The Human Health Experiment: US Endocrine-disrupting Chemical Policy and its Consequences ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Ethan Ross ,
U.S. Exports of Banned and Unregistered Pesticides: How Commercial and Private Interests Have Shaped U.S. Environmental Law ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Pete Ryan ,
Appalachian Pipe Dreams: Contextualizing the Conflict Over the Mountain Valley Pipeline within the Administrative History of the Appalachian Trail ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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T. Dorje Wu ,
Broadband Access and Deaths of Despair: Rural Communities ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Kenneth Xu ,
A Novel Approach to Modeling the Regional Acidification Impacts of Ocean Carbon Disposal: Case Study of the U.S. East Coast ,
Advisor: Robert Mendelsohn
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Amanda Zhang ,
Industrial Symbiosis & The Future of Food Understanding Resource Flows, Business Strategies, and Value Creation in Symbiotic Networks ,
Advisor: Marian Chertow
2020
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Sarah Adams ,
“Jappalachia”: Unlikely Connections Between Japan’s Shinetsu Trail and the Appalachian Trail ,
Advisor: Daniel Botsman
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Alanis Allen ,
The "Make Me" State: How Environmental Injustice Still Prevails in the Alabama Department of Environmental Management ,
Advisor: Marianne Engelman-Lado
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James Ash ,
Predicting Burn Severity Fire Effects in the Sierra Nevada: Relative Importance of Climate, Ecology, and Topography ,
Advisor: Natalie Schultz
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Selah Bell ,
The Politics of Risk & Catastrophe: Analyzing the Federal Regulation (or lack thereof) of Coal Combustion Wastes between 1973 and 2015 ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Yesenia Chavez ,
Envisioning Vieques, Puerto Rico’s Resilient Population as Food Secure and Energy Independent ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Adriana Colón Adorno ,
Analyzing Changes in Puerto Rican Mangroves and Local Conditions to Identify Restoration Opportunities ,
Advisor: Mark Ashton
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Bronwyn Davies ,
Scaling Algal Biofuels for the Renewable Energy Future ,
Advisor: Cary Krosinsky
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Alexander DeJesus ,
Environmental Justice in the Community and Home: Monitoring Indoor and Outdoor NO2 Pollution in Springfield ,
Advisor: Krystal Pollitt
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Isabel Del Toro Mijares ,
Responses to anthropogenic CO2 concentrations in the Carbon-isotope discrimination factor of South African grasses ,
Advisor: Carla Staver
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Natasha Feshbach ,
Women’s Rhetorical Strategies in Climate Change Communication on Social Media ,
Advisor: Maria Trumpler
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Tristan Furnary ,
Potential Role of Acetaminophen and Pesticides in the Developmental Origins of Autism Spectrum Disorder via In Silico and Stem Cell Models ,
Advisor: Vasilis Vasiliou
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Claire Grimmett ,
Defining Damage in Invasion Biology ,
Advisor: Alan Burdick
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Tsveta Ivanova ,
Implications of a Human Diet Shift, The Third Major Diet Transition and Sustainable Diets ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Chris Labella ,
Marine Protected Areas: A Comparative Study of the Legal Framework of the United States, United Kingdom, and France ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Tara Litjens ,
The Global Damage of the Battery Electric Vehicle: Why Driving One Does Not (Yet) Equate to Sustainability ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Addison Luck ,
Upholding Nature’s Rights in Ecuador: Identifying Problems and Providing Solutions ,
Advisor: Doug Kysar
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Jaye Mejía-Duwan ,
Unintended Consequences: How California's Clean Vehicle Rebate Project Exacerbates Environmental Justice Inequities Through Emissions Redistribution ,
Advisor: Amity Doolitte
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Melissa Mendizabal ,
Plant-Based Meat: Potential to Serve as a Sustainable Substitute to Conventional Meat and Overcoming Market Barriers to Entry ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Lucas Mobley ,
Integrated Kelp - Oyster Aquaculture: Addressing Oyster Larvae Death in Acidic Ecosystems Affected by Coastal Upwelling and Ocean Acidification ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Devin Moore ,
Land Acquisition, Displacement and Emergency Management: A History of Injustice in Michigan ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Alexandra Hope Newberry ,
Renewable Energy Deployment in Extreme Environments: Analysis and Plan for Alaska’s Transformation from a Petro to Clean Energy State ,
Advisor: Michael Oristaglio
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Jack Schleifer ,
A Guild-Based Assessment of the Impacts of Silvicultural Practices on Songbird Biodiversity ,
Advisor: Marlyse Duguid
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Jordan Schmolka ,
What’s Under the City? Constructing and Contesting the Natural in Settler Colonial New York ,
Advisor: Laura Barraclough
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Daniela Schulman ,
Scope 3 for a Sustainable Food System: An analysis of voluntary food & beverage processing corporate emissions reporting to CDP ,
Advisor: Gordon Geballe
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Yasamin Sharifi ,
Tracing the Environmental History of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon, 1949-1969: Material Manifestations of Inequality ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Gemma Shepherd ,
Using chitosan for future food packaging: An investigation into the effect of metal crosslinking on chitosan films’ mechanical, water barrier, and antimicrobial properties ,
Advisor: Julie Zimmerman
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Margaret Stover ,
Effects of the Block Island Wind Farm on Pelagic Fish Abundance ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Juliette Wallace ,
Go Outside and Play: Public Green Space Accessibility and Practicality in Portsmouth, Virgina ,
Advisor: Elihu Rubin
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Alexandra Weyerhaeuser ,
Planting the Seeds of Environmental Education: Historic and Philosophical Origins, Higher Education, and Primary and Secondary School ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Gwendolyn Wheeler ,
A Farm Grows in Brooklyn ,
Advisor: Gordan Geballe
2019
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Ashia Ajani ,
The Formation of Black and Indigenous Relationships and Identities Through Land Struggles in Oklahoma and Kansas from 1854-1930 ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Ellie Atkinson ,
Pollution Levels Below Ambient Air Quality Standards Correlate to Asthma-Related Emergency Room Visits in New Haven ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Jordan Boudreau ,
Living Space: Forging Ecological Civilization through a Reimagining of Our Cities ,
Advisor: John Grim
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Pascale Bronder ,
Renewable Energy Access and Resilience in Urban Developing Areas: Distributed Solar Networks and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading in Puerto Rico ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Skyler Chin ,
Legionnaire’s Disease in the Yale New Haven Health System: Investigating Weather and Surveillance as Factors Influencing the Recent Increase in Cases ,
Advisor: John Wargo & Rick Martinello
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Charlie Curti ,
Finding an Optimal Policy Framework for Reducing Carbon Emissions ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Franklin Eccher ,
The Hardier Fish: An Environmental History of Trout and Grayling Management in the Montana “Trout Paradise” ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Cayley Geffen ,
Monumental Conflict: The Role of Local and Regional Conflicts In the Opposition to Bears Ears National Monument ,
Advisor: Justin Farrell
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Caroline Heilbrun ,
Home is Where the Charge Is: The Current and Future Economics of Residential Battery Storage ,
Advisor: Gary Brudvig
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Russell Heller ,
Shifting Influence: The Evolving Role of the Private Sector on American Carbon Pricing Policy ,
Advisor: Cary Krosinsky and Michael Fotos
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Ian Ishmael Irungu ,
SUSTAINABILITY IN AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, A Case Study of Vision 2030 in Kenya ,
Advisor: John Wa’Njogu
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Lauren Kohler ,
From Pasture to Petri Dish: A Critical E¬¬xamination of the Cell-Based Meat Industry ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Kevin (Qian) Liang ,
Behind-the-Meter Solar Photovoltaic in Connecticut: Effects on Network Load Profile, and Lessons for Renewable Integration A Case Study on the United Illuminating Service Territory ,
Advisor: Kenneth T. Gillingham and Marten Ovaere
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Chenyu Ma ,
IN SEARCH OF A BRIGHT FUTURE: An Applied Corporate Finance Analysis on the Future M&A Potential of U.S. Solar Companies ,
Advisor: Cary Krosinsky
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Miela Mayer ,
US Cities’ Renewable Energy Targets, Rhetoric or Reality ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Marissa Medici ,
Injustice Atop Environmental Injustices: Ethical Questions Raised by Retainers Offered in Environmental Justice Communities ,
Advisor: Marianne Engelman-Lado
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Arwen Neski ,
Finning Frenzy: Reconsidering How We Address Global Shark Exploitation ,
Advisor: Kealoha Freidenberg
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Myles Odermann ,
The River of Dreams: The Garrison Diversion, Environmental Politics, and the End of the Reclamation Era ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Connor Reed ,
Engaging open-source precision viticulture to manage spatial heterogeneity and improve cover-cropping practice on an organic vineyard ,
Advisor: Mark Bradford
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Claire Rossi de Leon ,
Ranging and Behavior Patterns of Black and Gold Howler Monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in Formosa, Argentina ,
Advisor: Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
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Jake Schmidt ,
Environmental Assessment of the Cannabis Industry in the United States ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Arabelle Schoenberg ,
GROWING ROOTS: Strengthening Place-Attachment Through a Critical Pedagogy of Place ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje ,
The Promise of Land, The Hope of Home: Farm Dweller Livelihoods, Land Tenancy and Justice in uMgungundlovu, South Africa ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Roxie Trachtenberg ,
Exploring Commuter Exposure: Characterization and Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Manhattan Subway Microenvironment ,
Advisor: Drew Gentner
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Tien Tran ,
Mapping Heat Vulnerability of Homeless Residents and Accessibility to Cooling Centers in Los Angeles, California ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
2018
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Joel Abraham ,
Drought-Response Strategies of Savanna Herbivores ,
Advisor: Carla Staver
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Chase Ammon ,
Fleets, Oil, & Trade in a Melting Arctic ,
Advisor: Ian Johnson
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Katherine Anstreicher ,
What’s in the Wine: A Study of Sustainability in the Wine Industry ,
Advisor: Gordon Geballe
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Nicole Boardman ,
Glyphosate in Corn Products: Investigating Patterns and Risks of Residue Levels ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Christina Bui ,
Estimated Dietary Exposure to Bisphenol A and Maternal and Childhood Obesity in Samoa ,
Advisor: Nicole Dezeil
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Claire Chang ,
The Role of a Local Farmers’ Market Organization in Mitigating the Problems Associated with Food Deserts: A Case Study of the Fair Haven Neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Phoebe Chattfield ,
Solar for All: Low Income Access to Solar Power in Massachusetts and Connecticut ,
Advisor: Jeffrey ParK
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Sabrina Cleavenger ,
Projected Range Upslope Range Contraction of the American Pika in the high Sierra Nevada ,
Advisor: Os Schmidt
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Treston Codrington ,
A House Divided: The Meaning of Community Formation and Environmental Engagement for Effective Hurricane Recovery Efforts in Canarsie, Brooklyn ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Alan Diaz-Santana ,
Remembering the 1966 Melon Strike and March in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas ,
Advisor: Stephen Pitti
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Melissa Fairchild ,
Conflicts of Interest: A Look at the Effectiveness of the Adirondack Park Agency’s Land Management Strategies in the Adirondack Park ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Sophie Freeman ,
Finding Conservative Solutions to Climate Change and Building a Shared Vision of America’s Future ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Claire Gottsegen ,
Species delimitation of the Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, and its implications on U.S. conservation policy ,
Advisor: Thomas J. Near
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Sofia Gulaid ,
Unequal Urban Green Space: Barriers of access to urban green space for immigrants in Paris, France ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Maya Jenkins ,
Environmental Violence & Resistance while Incarcerated: An Exploration of Spatial Rupturing & Imaginations around New York Prison ,
Advisor: Laura Barroclough
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Anna Lifland ,
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the U.S. Food System ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Liliane Lindsay ,
Indonesia’s Burning Issue: Why Deforestation Continues to Decimate the Nation Despite Decades of Environmental Policy ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Shelby Mauchline ,
Urak Lawoi of the Adang Archipelago ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Amanda Mei ,
The Spirit that Moves Us: A study of the spiritual and sustainable development of intentional communities ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
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Jonathan Rutter ,
Other Fish in the Sea: The Impacts of Jellyfish on Bering Sea Fisheries ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Ella Schmidt ,
The Ribbit-ing World of Wood Frogs: Characteristics of Ephemeral Wetlands And Their Impacts on Rana sylvatica Larval Development ,
Advisor: Dave Skelly
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Brittany Wheeler ,
Vegetarianism At Yale:A Look into the Values and Customs of Vegetarians at Yale University ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Maddie Zimmerman ,
The Changing Fate of Thailand’s Elephants, But a Future Worth Fighting For: The Interplay of Culture and Ecology for Conservation ,
Advisor: Os Schmidt
2017
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Duane Bean ,
Climate Realism: An Environmental Justice Approach to Climate Fiction ,
Advisor: Millicent Marcus
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Sarah Brandt ,
Beyond the Bill: Broad Behavior Change in Yale's Carbon Charge Pilot Project ,
Advisor: Daniel Esty
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Abigail Cheskis ,
Food Frames for Climate Change Awareness and Action ,
Advisor: Anthony Leiserowitz
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Tasnim Elboute ,
Race and Gender on the Serving Line: Social Dynamics of Food Service at Yale ,
Advisor: Maria Trumpler
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Eric Esposito ,
Gridlocked: Institutional Barriers and the Quest to Modernize the US Electrical Grid ,
Advisor: Daniel Esty
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Alexandra Golden ,
"To Preserve Unimpaired": The Challenges of Climate Change Adaptation in Yellowstone National Park and Statue of Liberty National Monument ,
Advisor: Gordon Geballe
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Calvin Harrison ,
"If You Don't Protect The Companion of the Environment, There Won't Be an Environment": Naqab Bedouin and Sustainability at Wadi Attir ,
Advisor: James Scott
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Nathaniel Haslett ,
Offsetting the Cost of Emissions Reductions: Maine Forests and California's Cap-and-Trade Market ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Carol Lee ,
Gardens By The Bay: Biophilia and Prosperity in Singapore ,
Advisor: Michelle Addington
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Meredith Megarry ,
A New View of Sustainable Building: Materials and Embodied Energy ,
Advisor: Michelle Addington
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Katherine Nehyba ,
Ecological Niche Modeling of Fifteen Species of Treeshrews (Scandentia: Tupaiidae: Tupaia) ,
Advisor: Eric Sargis
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Emma Ryan ,
Community Engagement in City Climate Planning: A Case Study of the New Haven Climate and Sustainability Framework ,
Advisor: Robert Dubrow
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Victoria Shepherd ,
Health-Focused Lighting Design: Prioritizing Wellness in an Urbanizing World ,
Advisor: Michelle Addington
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Nate Sievert ,
Diversity and Inclusion in Environmental Education: Case Studies of Promising Organizational Change ,
Advisor: Gordon Geballe
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Grace Stonecipher ,
Participation in Ecosystem-Scale Research: A Case Study of the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
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Juliet Strauss ,
Finding the Truly Green Revolution: An enthnographic look at the development of sustainable agriculture in Mae Ta, Thailand ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
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Aaron Troncoso ,
Trouble in the Trees: Increasing Use Along the Appalachian Trail ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Chelsea Watson ,
Bakken Brine: Responses to Brine Spills on Tribal and Non-Tribal Land in the Bakken Region of North Dakota ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
2016
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Derwin Aikens ,
The Climate of the Debate: The Transition from Environmental Science to Communication Strategies ,
Advisor: Henry Cowles
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Yaa Oparebea Ampofo ,
Back to the Roots: Evaluating the Renaissance of a Traditional Herbal Healthcare System in Ghana ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Mitchell Barrows ,
Neoliberal Transformations, Environmental Racism, and the Fight for Water in Detroit ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Austin Bryniarski ,
The First Food Movement: A History of the Macrobiotic Diet, 1961-1977 ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Justine Cefalu ,
They Know in the Forest: An ethnography of forest guides in Andasibe, Madagascar ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
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Raymond Crouch ,
What Makes Green Tourism Green? Evaluating Costa Rica's Discourses on Sustainable Development and Tourism in two Pacific Coast Towns ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
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Paige Curtis ,
A Tale of Two Eco-Cities - Sino-Singapore to Serenbe: Toward Broader Eco-City Appraisal ,
Advisor: Elihu Rubin
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Monica DiLeo ,
Laudato Si': Transformative Shifts in Environmental Action ,
Advisor: Michael Fotos
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Rhydian Glass ,
If the Lights Go Out: The Electromagnetic Pulse Debate - a Low Risk, High Impact Event ,
Advisor: William Rankin
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Rachelle Graham ,
The Value of Community Gardens: Assessing the Productivity of New Haven Community Gardens ,
Advisor: Maria Trumpler
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Eamon Heberlein ,
Farmland Access Strategies for the Upper Midwest ,
Advisor: Bradford Gentry
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Nora Moraga-Lewy ,
Towards Responsible Stewardship in Southeast Asia's Palm Oil Industry: The potential of The Forest Trust's novel palm oil strategy to transform an industry after decades of ineffectual international efforts ,
Advisor: Benjamin Cashore
-
Jacqueline Raines ,
The Keystone XL Pipeline: A Litmus Test for Canada's Legacy as a Natural Resource Exporter ,
Advisor: Jeffrey Park
-
Patrick Reed ,
Chasing Fat Tails: Climate Economics with Catastrophic Tipping Points ,
Advisor: William Nordhaus
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Mimi Reichenbach ,
Toward a Renewable Energy Powered World: The Critical Role of Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage ,
Advisor: Daniel Esty
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Gabriel Roy Liguori ,
Blown Away: An analysis and discussion of the battle over Falmouth's public wind turbines ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Hannah Sassoon ,
Chasing the Agrarian Dream in Bells Bend, Tennessee ,
Advisor: Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Kelly Sherman ,
Estimating Parasitism by Cyzenis albicans (Diptera: Tachinidae) on Winter Moth (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) ,
Advisor: Marta Wells
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Andrea Grace Steig ,
Potatoes and Plastic: Breakdowns and Bulwarks Around Climate Change in an Andean Moral Economy ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Andres Valdivieso ,
A Real-World Jurassic Park? Evaluating the potential application of captive breeding programs for the Galápagos National Park through the design of breeding pairs for “extinct” lineages of the Galápagos Giant Tortoise ,
Advisor: Gisella Caccone
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Gracie White ,
Bren Smith's Ocean Farm: An Assessment of Ecosystem Services ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Anna Young ,
The Effect of Climate Change on Pollinators and the Implications for Global Agriculture ,
Advisor: Jeffrey Park
2015
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Ijeamaka Anyene ,
Children in Dangerous Locations: Mapping Environmental Hazards Near Pennsylvania Child Care Centers ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Justine Appel ,
Reimagining the Good Life: The Meaning of Back-to-the-Land in a Global Corporate Food Regime ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
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Brandon Blaesser ,
Considering the Welfare Implications of Residential Solar PV Subsidies in the State of Connecticut ,
Advisor: Ken Gillingham
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Jackson Blum ,
Entomophagy as a Global Practice, and Its Future in the Western World ,
Advisor: Marta Wells
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Elle Brunsdale ,
From "Use it or Lose it" to "Save it and Sell it": Incentivizing Water Conservation in Colorado through Water Banking ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Alice Buckley ,
The Waste, The Will and The Way: The Underlying Attitudes and Social and Material Context of Student Food Waste at Yale ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Patrick Cage ,
To Till It and Keep It: Ecological Theologies Rooted in Praxis ,
Advisor: John Grim
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Dalton Carr ,
Formulating Success: Dissecting Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) in both New York and Texas for Application in California ,
Advisor: Jay Ague
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Kira Garry ,
Ebola: Lessons from Our Past ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Margot Gerould ,
Feeding the Hill: Mapping the Creation of a Food Desert in the Hill Neighborhood of New Haven, CT ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Adam Goff ,
Priorities and Cultures and Classrooms: The Promise and Challenge of Improving Teaching at Yale ,
Advisor: Elizabeth Carroll
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Carlos Gould ,
Adoption and Abandonment of Improved Cookstoves: A Case Study of Proyecto Mirador's dos por tres Cookstove ,
Advisor: Robert Bailis
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Leah Hamner ,
Where Do You Go Hungry? An Analysis of Altitude as a Risk Factor for Food Insecurity in the Nossa Senhora da Vitoria Favela of Northeast Brazil ,
Advisor: Elizabeth Bradley
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Angie Hanawa ,
The Cost of Protecting the Peruvian Amazon: Opportunity Cost of REDD+ in Madre de Dios, Peru and its Policy Implications ,
Advisor: Robert Mendelsohn
-
Yumehiko Hoshijima ,
The Influence of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on US and Canadian Environmental Policies in the Arctic Ocean ,
Advisor: Graeme Auld
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Jordan Moore ,
The Trees on Which the Sun Never Sets: English Landscape Gardens in Britain's Colonial Territories ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
-
Viveca Morris ,
How Hampton Creek Foods is Cracking the Egg Industry - And Why It Matters ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Sonya Prasad ,
Mass Deworming: A Case Study for Poor Development Ethics ,
Advisor: Michael Cappello
-
Shizue RocheAdachi ,
Together and Apart: Stories of a Patchwork Farming Community in Southwest Wisconsin ,
Advisor: Karen Hebert
-
John Shively ,
Restoring the Parkway: Lessons for Management of the American River Parkway and Large Urban Parks ,
Advisor: Alexander Felson
-
Evelyn Steyer ,
Goldilocks and the Three Slaughterhouses: Examining Scale in the Meat Processing Industry ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Rae Taylor-Burns ,
Miracle of the Commons: Erosion and Land Loss on Massachusetts' Cape Cod National Seashore ,
Advisor: Richard Burroughs
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Sydney Treuer ,
Citizen Science in Beringia: Bilateral Collaboration between Citizens and Scientists in the Arctic ,
Advisor: Fred Strebeigh
-
Satya Twine ,
Powering Massachusetts' Renewable Energy Future: Identifying Barriers and Opportunities in Community Wind ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Lucille Wang ,
Analysis of Rural Livelihood and Energy Consumption on China's Grasslands: A Case Study of Inner Mongolia, China ,
Advisor: Eli Fenichel
-
Aily Zhang ,
Let a Thousand Rice Paddies Bloom: Social Eco-preneurs, Food Activism, and Market-driven Sustainable Food Movement in Guangzhou ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Vivenne Jiao Zhang ,
Dealing with Solar Spills: Shared Solar, an Alternative Way to Pay for Distributed Solar Energy in the Residential Sector ,
Advisor: Matthew Kotchen
2014
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Victoria Balta ,
Introduction of Wolbachia into Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes as a Biological Control Strategy for Combating Dengue ,
Advisor: Nicholas Robinson
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Anne Barry ,
The Style of Sustainability: Private Business Appropriation of an Environmental Movement ,
Advisor: Marian Chertow
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Abigail Bok ,
Organically Urban: Cultivating alternative landscapes of living in Guangzhou, China ,
Advisor: Helen Siu
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Liana Epstein ,
Saving the Ocean, Saving Ourselves: What Previous Mass Extinctions Can Reveal About the Next One ,
Advisor: Pincelli Hull
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Rachel Ett ,
Why Do People Eat the Superfood Quinoa? ,
Advisor: Karen Seto
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Cole Florey ,
A Fluid Ecology: The Environmental Implications of Modern Japanese Religion ,
Advisor: Mary Evelyn Tucker
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Natalia Garza ,
The Untold Side of Uranium: Using a Statistical Analysis of the Continuous NHANES to Explore the Decline in Reproductive Health of the Navjao Population ,
Advisor: Adrienne Ettinger
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Emily Hong ,
Race and Environment in the 21st Century: Digital Inequality in San Francisco's Chinatown ,
Advisor: Laura Barraclough
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Angela Hui ,
The Green in Trees: The Return on Investment of New Haven Street Trees, A Study on Species Differentiation ,
Advisor: Mark Ashton
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Jeremiah Kreisberg ,
The Effect of Climate Change on Agriculture in Syria and Iraq: Regional Productivity, Resiliency and Adaptation ,
Advisor: Harvey Weiss
-
Timothy Le ,
Exploration of Food Security Issues in New Haven CT with a Case Study of the West River Community ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Angela Lee ,
Dietary Transition of Korean-Americans ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Breanna Lujan ,
The Brazilian Forest Code: Evaluating the Vanguard of Forest Conservation ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Thomas Rokholt ,
Urban Energy Management: Strategies and Results in a Complex Environment ,
Advisor: Elihu Rubin
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Benedict Scheuer ,
Discovering Nature: An Understanding of Today's Nature-Connection Through Artistic Expression, Urban Youth, and Environmental Education ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
James Shirvell ,
Evaluating the Genetic Structure of the Leptospirosis Transmitting Rat Population of Salvador, Brazil ,
Advisor: Gisella Caccone
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Kerr Taubler ,
Powering the Future: The Market Competitiveness of Residential Solar Energy in California ,
Advisor: Garry Brewer
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Shiloh Tillemann-Dick ,
The Riddle of the Sphinx: On the Problems, Possibilities, and Opportunities for Development Along the Banks of the World's Longest River ,
Advisor: Chad Oliver
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James Underwood ,
Microclimate Determinants of Host Seeking Behavior in Nymphal Ixodes Scapularis Ticks and Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection Prevalence in New England, 2013 ,
Advisor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
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Sadie Weinberger ,
The Priceless Commodity: Long-Distance Trail Hiking in the American Wilderness ,
Advisor: Michael Dove
2013
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Mary Beth Barham ,
The Fracking Boom: Rise and Regulation ,
Advisor: Susan Rose-Ackerman
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Emily Billing ,
Unconventional Gas Drilling: Analysis of Air Quality Risks and Regulation ,
Advisor: Garry Brewer
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Catherine Chen ,
Growing Life in Arid Lands: A Story of Water and Irrigation in Tunisia ,
Advisor: Dana Tomlin
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Karmen Cheung ,
Moving Sustainability Forward in Higher Education Institutions: Using Yale as a Case-Study to Inform Campus Sustainability Efforts ,
Advisor: Robert Mendelsohn
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Katherine Eshel ,
A Predator in Paradise ,
Advisor: Ann Camp
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Madeleine Faucher ,
The Spiritual Science of Wine: Analyzing the Growth of Biodynamic Wine in the United States ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Anna Rose Gable ,
Practical Pedology: Soil, Sustainability and Agricultural Knowledge in the Georgia Piedmont ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
-
Philip Gross ,
A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of Ohio's Imminent Natural Gas Play ,
Advisor: Garry Brewer
-
Atid Kimelman ,
Shwei, Shwei: Sustainable Development, Indigeneity and NGO Politics in a Bedouin Village ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Nicholas Leingang ,
Like Oil and Water: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Environmental and Policy Challenges of Unconventional Extraction in North Dakota ,
Advisor: Ben Cashore
-
Eleanor Lewis ,
Dream Camp: A Case Study for Improving School Lunches ,
Advisor: Karen Hebert
-
Eli Mitchell-Larson ,
Taking the Long View: Learning from the Earth's Dramatic History of Climate Change ,
Advisor: Harvey Weiss
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Danielle Moncion ,
Militaristic Antropogenic Pollution and Water Quality: A Case Study on Canadian Air Forces Base Petawawa ,
Advisor: James Saiers
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Victoria Montanez ,
Food Waste: The Value of Knowledge-Based Campaigns in Environmental Protection ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
James Murphy ,
Urban Transit for a Healthy, Sustainable Future ,
Advisor: Elihu Rubin
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Aviva Musicus ,
The Role of the Law in Protecting Public Health in the Context of Addiction: The US Tobacco Litigation Model and the Future of Food Regulation ,
Advisor: Kelly Brownell
-
Hodiah Nemes ,
Its the Climate, Stupid: Bill Clinton's Change Rhetoric and the Ghost of Kyoto ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
-
Julia Osterman ,
Survival of the Fishes: Alewife Conservation and Effects of Alewife on Young-of-Year Bluegill ,
Advisor: David Post
-
Rebecca Poplawski ,
Urban Farming, Health and Food Security: A Case Study of the Long Bein Community in Hanoi, Vietnam ,
Advisor: Debbie Humphries
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Joshua Pugil ,
Understanding Public Perceptions of the Environmental Risks Posed by Natural Gas Fracking and their Relation to Regulation: A Case Study of Washington County, Pennsylvania ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Madison Sharp ,
Exploring the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic Among Nicaraguan Sugarcane Workers ,
Advisor: Garry Brewer
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Pamela Soto ,
Brazil's Polemic Belo Monte Dam: The Social and Environmental Costs of a Mega-Development Project in the Amazon ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Aliyya Swaby ,
Not a Fishing Net: Indigenous Influence on REDD+ in Peru ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
-
Anna Wade ,
A Quiet Unease in Southside: The Transformation of Tobacco Farming and Culture in Southern Virginia ,
Advisor: Karen Hebert
-
Coleman Wheeler ,
Big Coal in Small-Town Virginia: A Case Study of Environmental Justice and Racial Polarization in the Rural South ,
Advisor: Karen Hebert
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Andrea White ,
Strategizing Public Health Disaster Management: A Case Study of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Bhutan ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Seung Hyun (Lucia) Woo ,
The Air Our Children Breathe: PM 2.5 Pollution Survey of New Haven ,
Advisor: John Wargo
2012
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Chelsea Andreozzi ,
Building Trails and Growing Allies: Aboriginal Rights and the Environmental Movement in British Columbia ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Luke Aronson ,
Renewable Energy and Water Desalination ,
Advisor: Menachem Elimelech
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Amanda Bennett ,
Ecofficiency in the Ivy League: Using Energy Consumption as a Metric to Evaluate the Environmental Sustainability of Yale Dining ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Erin Carter ,
Artificial Turf: Institutional Decisions & Environmental Impacts ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Alyssa Cheung ,
What Grows Here? A Garden History of New Haven and Cultivating a New Form of Urbanism ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
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Claude de Jocas ,
Passive House on the Prairie: Passive Houses in Five Regions of the United States ,
Advisor: Naomi Darling
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Taylor Gregoire-Wright ,
The Crash and Conservation of the Cabo San Francisco Lobster Fishery ,
Advisor: Garry Brewer
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Hayes Hyde ,
Liquid Gold: A Tale of Two Rivers ,
Advisor: John Faragher
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Reid Magdanz ,
Cabins, Parks, and People: Subsistence and the National Park Service in Northwest Alaska ,
Advisor: Susan Clark
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Julia Naman ,
Atlanta's Growing Thirst: Facing Scarcity in a Land of Plenty ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Daniel Olson ,
Nor Any Drop to Drink: Mapping the Pollution Vulnerability of the Mountain Aquifer ,
Advisor: Shimon Anisfeld
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Jeannette Penniman ,
Minimal Housing as Urban Planning: Striking a Balance Between Environmental Control and Organic Development ,
Advisor: Alan Plattus
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Emmanuelle Pickett-Bortko ,
The Journey Toward Self-Determination: The Navajo Experience fro Livestock Reduction to Uranium Mining ,
Advisor: Jeffrey Park
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Daksha Rajagopalan ,
Trees in Contemporary Environmental Thought: A Case of Khmer Buddhist Tree Ordinations ,
Advisor: James Scott
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Holly Rippon-Butler ,
Moving Milk: Transportation and Commodification of Milk in New York State ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Rachel Shaffer ,
Ozone Pollution and Health in Atlanta: The Implications of a Presidential Decision ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
David Skophammer ,
The Process of Sustainable Building: A Yale Case Study ,
Advisor: Julie Newman
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Rachael Styer ,
Faith, Family and Farming: The Survival of Small and Mid-Sized Farms in Lancaster, PA throughout the Twentieth Century ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
-
Joy Sun ,
The Political Opportunity for Civic Participation in Environmental Issues in China: An Analysis through the Lens of People's Daily ,
Advisor: Deborah Davis
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Brian Tang ,
Managing Urban Landscapes for Water Quality ,
Advisor: Alexander Felson
-
Kaylee Weil ,
Bridging the Gap: A Case Study in Effective Environmental Education ,
Advisor: Gordon Geballe
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Michael Wysolmerski ,
The Fight for a Neighborhood: Flood Control and Race on the Anacostia Tributaries ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
2011
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Joanne Choi ,
The Bacterial Endosymbionents of Jellyfish ,
Advisor: Mary Beth Decker
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Frances Douglas ,
CITES and Caviar: Reducing Illegal Wildlife Trafficking ,
Advisor: Nicholas Robinson
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Andrew Eberle ,
Corporate Conservation: The Why and How of Environmental Partnerships ,
Advisor: Garry Brewer
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John Ela ,
Mythologizing Manifest Destiny: An Environmental History of the Davy Crockett Almanacs ,
Advisor: John Mack Faragher
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Hilary Faxon ,
(Image)ning the Southwest: Changing Perceptions of the Desert Environment in 70 Years of Survey Photographs, Tourist Propaganda, and High Art ,
Advisor: John Mack Faragher
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Reuben Fischer-Baum ,
Private Gardens, Public Streets: The Evolution of Istanbul's Urban Forest from 1922 to 2007 ,
Advisor: Elihu Rubin
-
George Haddad ,
A Way Forward: A Step-by-Step Approach to the Wicked Problem of Carbon Mitigation ,
Advisor: Susan Rose-Ackerman
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Ileana Lucos ,
New Haven Air Quality: A Study on the Variability of Particulate Matter ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Zachary Mulvihill ,
The Arthur Kill: Why the Restoration Efforts of the 1990s Failed & Recommendations for Future Restoration ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Caroline Nash ,
Geomorphic and Historical Classification of the Wood River, Oregon ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Nikita Pavlenko ,
A Tale of Two Grasses: Corn, Switchgrass, and the Carbon Debt ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Maclovia Quintana ,
Linking Permaculture and Traditional Farming: Reawakening a Sustainable Agriculture in Northern New Mexico ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
-
Matthew Ramlow ,
Strategies to Build Support for Voluntary Carbon Markets ,
Advisor: Benjamin Cashore
-
Leslie Roberson ,
Interpreting Changes in Coral Assemblages in Roatan, Honduras ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Kalani Rosell ,
Ethiopia vs. Starbucks: The Internatinal Trademark Battle that Reshaped the World Coffee Market ,
Advisor: Karen Hebert
-
Hazel Scher ,
Storm Water Management Using Vacant Lots in New Haven, Connecticut ,
Advisor: Jeffrey Park
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Cornelia (Lily) Twining ,
Changes in the Lakes: The Ecological History of Two Watersheds in South Central Connecticut ,
Advisor: David Post
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Kelvin Vu ,
The Connector to Nowhere: The Oak Street Connector and Urban-Suburban Opposition in New Haven, CT ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Kanglei Wang ,
We speak of Trees: Ecology as Approach in Tibetan Rights Discourse in China ,
Advisor: John Grim
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Simon Warren ,
Utilization of Life-Cycle Analysis for Minor Metals ,
Advisor: Thomas Graedel
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Charles Zhu ,
The Desire for Car Ownership in China ,
Advisor: Jeffrey Park
2010
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Brandon Berger ,
"Darle a las cabras para cuidar las lechugas:" The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Utiity Reform and Renewable Energy ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
John Good ,
Metropolitan Growth Patterns, Transit Oriented Development, and Transportation Alternatives in Denver and Kansas City ,
Advisor: Ellen Brennan-Galvin
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Rachel Harris ,
Seeing Through the Eyes of Miami21: A Contextual Perspective ,
Advisor: Alan Plattus
-
Kathy Hughes ,
Empirical Study of Habitat Complexity and Predator-Prey Interactions as it Informs Ecosystem Conservation ,
Advisor: Oswald Schmitz
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Wiles Kase ,
The Smart Voyager Ecolabel: A Study of Non-State, Market Driven Environmental and Social Certification of Tourism in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands ,
Advisor: Benjamin Cashore
-
Trygg Larson-Danforth ,
Stream Mitigation Banking: An Economic Solution to an Environmental Problem ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Julia Meisel ,
Planting the Seeds: Universities' Impact on Sustainable Food Systems ,
Advisor: Doug Gollin
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Jennifer Pan ,
An Analysis of Corn Ethanol to Guide Future Biofuel Development ,
Advisor: Paul Sabin
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Aaron Reiss ,
Eco Village at Ithaca; Reassessing the Suburban Model ,
Advisor: James Scott
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Thomas Schnitzer ,
Uncertain Power: Modeling the Impact of Carbon Price Uncertainty and Variation in the Cost of Natural Gas on Investment Decisions in the US Electricity Generation Industry ,
Advisor: William Nordhaus
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Christopher Shirley ,
Anthropology of the NYC Bike ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
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Denise Soesilo ,
An investigation into two mobile phone collection schemes and their effect on the efficiency of mobile phone recycling in Germany ,
Advisor: Thomas Graedel
-
Chun-Ying Wang ,
How Does Your Garden Grow? An Analysis of Three Community Garden Management Models in New York City ,
Advisor: Gordon Geballe
2009
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Berkeley Adrio ,
From Settlement to Seeds:How fire catalyzed native plants development on U.S. Public Lands ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Adedana Ashebir ,
Nemagon in Nicaragua: A Transnational Dilemma ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Ilya Byzov ,
When you build a highway: An analysis of linkages between automobile dependence and the suppression of public transit in the United States ,
Advisor: Jeffrey Park
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Kevin Currey ,
“We’re Iñupiat, We’re Hunters” Subsistence, Petroleum Development, and Cultural Identity in Nuiqsut, Alaska ,
Advisor: Susan Clark
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Christine Ellman ,
Opportunities and Challenges Under the Diversion Ban with Exceptions of the Great Lakes Compact: A Case Study of the City of Waukesha, Wisconsin ,
Advisor: Julie Zimmerman
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Bente Grinde ,
Imagining the North Shore: Perspectives on the Flathead Valley, Montana ,
Advisor: Carol Carpenter
-
Kevin Hickenbottom ,
Backcountry Permits in North Cascades National Park: Analysis and Justification ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Kathleen Knighton ,
Scenic Design and Management of the Blue Ridge Parkway ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Elyse LeeVan ,
Chagas disease: a comprehensive analysis of the factors facilitating disease transmission and integrated evaluation of control strategy efficacy in Argentina ,
Advisor: Maria Duik-Wasser
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Davis Lindsey ,
BioEnergy and Conservation: Sustainable BioEnergy from Grassland in the Conservation Reserve Program in Southeast Minnesota ,
Advisor: Robert Bailis
-
Ariel Patashnik ,
Decline and Conservation of Endangered Lost River and Shortnose Suckers in the Klamath Basin ,
Advisor: David Post
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Thomas Santoro ,
Plastics: Bisphenol A and Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate. Risk Assessment, Current Management Approaches, and Management Alternatives ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Irene Scher ,
Internationalization and the Canadian Boreal Campaign ,
Advisor: Ben Cashore
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Lauren Zatz ,
Marketing obesity: Needed changes to the regulation of television food marketing to American children ,
Advisor: John Wargo
2008
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Nathalie Alegre ,
Coping with Environmental Disaster in the High Andes: Social Aspects of Approaches Taken by the Peruvian Government in the Face of Heladas ,
Advisor: Michael Dove
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Kathryn Au ,
Wolves and Ranchers: Finding a Common Interest in the Southwest ,
Advisor: Susan Clark
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Emily Biesecker ,
Subsistence Management in Alaska: 364 Million Acres and No Common Ground? ,
Advisor: Susan Clark
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Sonia Cooke ,
The Convention on Migratory Species: U.S. Decision Not to Accede ,
Advisor: John Wargo
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Daniel Friedman ,
Market Barriers and Failures and Investment in Energy Efficient Technology: Research on Consumer Behavior and Discount Rates and Applications to Government and Utility Programs ,
Advisor: Robert Mendelsohn
-
Allison Guy ,
Profiting from Paradise: Maximizing the Value of Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve to Balance Business, Nature, and National Politics ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Angel Hertslet ,
Life on the Margins: An Ethnographic Study of Livelihood Strategies in Santo Tomas, Honduras ,
Advisor: Amity Doolittle
-
Margaret Howard ,
Can Housing be Green and Affordable? A Case Study of New Haven, Connecticut ,
Advisor: Stephen Kellert
-
Emily Jack-Scott ,
A Tale of Two Shore Towns: Avalon and Wildwood, New Jersey ,
Advisor: John Wargo
-
Xiadong (Jessica) Jiang ,
The DICE Model with Uncertainty: An Analysis of Global Climate Change Modeling ,
Advisor: Robert Mendelsohn
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Anna Johnson ,
Climate Change and Agriculture: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils ,
Advisor: Melinda Smith