Honors Projects

Nathan Eliott '09, Environmental correlates of seedling recruitment on Kent Island (New Brunswick, Canada) and resulting management implications

Jacqueline Li '09, Accounting for Ranforet, Carbon, & Livelihoods: The Challenges to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries

Bennett Haynes '08, Cultivating Alternatives: A Thai Fair Trade Rice Farmers' Movement and Transnational Network

John Masland '08, Conceptualizing the Precautionary Principle: The Case for a New Model of Environmental Decision Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty

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Whitney Hogan '07
, Cultivating Mayaness: Social Conflict and Political Struggles over Land Tenure in Southern Belize

Luke McKay '07, No Man's Garden: The Changing Nature of the Wilderness Idea in Maine

Rose Teng '07, Preserving "the Way Life Should Be": Controlling Sprawl in Southern Maine

Vanessa Wishard '07, Rethinking the Western Range: The Case for Public Grazing Land Reform

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Drew Fulton '06
, Everglades Imagery: Intimate Detail of a Vast Landscape

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Adrienne Heflich '05, The Greenway Movement in Context

Sue Kim '05, Winds of Change: A Prospectus on Reconciling Environmental and Economic Priorities in China's Electricity Sector

Deborah Schaeffer '05, Restoring Access to Small Boats through Area Management: A Path to Sustainability in the Gulf of Maine Ground-fishery

Nancy Van Dyke '05, The Potential for Compost-based Disease Control within the National Organic Program: A Closer Look at Potato-Fungal Pathogen Systems on Maine Farms

Grace Ha Cho '05, Saving the Waterfront, Saving a Way of Life: The Battle over Portland's Waterfront, 1850-1992 [History]

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Ryan Davis '04, NO COMMON GROUND: Management, Politics, and Compromise in the Gulf of Maine (A Documentary)

Alison Ashley Rau '04, Public Values on Private Lands: Conservation Easements in Maine and Wildlife Conservation Leases in Kenya

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Sarah Beth Liponoga '03, Managing Oil and Nature in Eden: Transculuration and Resistance among the Huaorani of Eastern Ecuador

Michelle Weaver '03, Carbon Credits and Carbon Guilt: Terrestrial Sinks as a case study of the United States' Moral Responsibility for Climate Change

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Trevor Peterson '01
, Effects of Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) browsing and recruitment of conifers on Kent Island, NB

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Alice Liddell '99
, The Wells, Maine Experiment: A Promising Approach to Superfund

Payton Deeks '99, Learning Landscapes: An Environmental History of Bowdoin's Coastal Studies Center, Orr's Island, Maine

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Nicholas Livesay '98
, Ozone Transport in the Northeast: Problems and Policies

Mary Wicklund '98, Impact of Land Use and Geology on Water Quality and Hydrologic Response of Two Watersheds in Brunswick, Maine (A joint ES/Geology project

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Nicole Robillard '97
, Mobilizing Global Public Opinion: Greenpeace's Campaign Against French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific

Caroline Good '97, Reactive Management Practices in Regulating Human Interactions with Marine Mammals: Problems and Issues

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Jennifer Champagne '96
, An Environmental Analysis of Fishing Activities in Block Island Sound, Rhode Island: A Study of the Geology of the Continental Shelf, Side-Scan Sonar Interpretations, Fisheries Data, and the Impacts of Trawling and Dredging on Benthic Environments

Cornelia Holden '96, Maine's Penobscot and the Atlantic Salmon's Struggle: A Photodocumentary

Lindsey Oswald '96, The Birth of the Bomb: An Analysis of Nuclear Testing at the Nevada Test Site

Ethan Winter '96, Atlantic Salmon Restoration and Hydropower Development: A Study of Historical and Current Conflicts in the Penobscot River Basin

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Laura Armstrong '95
, An Historical Biological Survey of Land Trust Properties Located in Brunswick, Maine, Using Image Analysis and Aerial Photographs

Luis Oliver Dorta Fernandez '95, A Spatial Analysis and Comparision of Mixed-Use Streets in Three Urban Centers

Laurel Matey '95, The Green Revolution: The Deepening Criticism

Alexandra Walsh '95, Towards a New Approach to Managing the New England Groundfish Fishery: Lessons from the Past, and a Proposal for the Future

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Luciana Castro '94
, Maritime Management in the North Sea: A Development in Regional International Organizations

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Emily Hanson '93
, Devising a Management Strategy: A Case Study of the New England Groundfishery

Mary Lanphear '93, Concentration and Historical Analysis of Butyltin Species in Coastal Maine Sediments

Catherine Sperry '93, An Environmental Explorations Sourcebook: A Project in Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Design

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Lebauer '92
, Dimensional Analysis of Three Small Maine Towns: A Manual for Determining What Makes a Town "Nice"

Shannon Smith '92, Crisis in the North Woods: A Case Study in Citizen Participation

Rachael Webber '92, Effects of Precipitation on Nitrogen and Fecal Coliform Bacteria Fluxes in Three Geologically Different Watersheds

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Carter '91
, A Contingent Valuation of Open Space on Merrymeeting Bay in Dresden, Maine

Christopher Cheney '91, A Transfer of Development Rights Program for the Royal River Watershed

John Fay '91, Nutrient Flux through the Maquoit Bay Watershed

John Devine '91,The Libertarian-Communitarian Debate and its Impacts on Global Environmental Issues

Laurel Dodge '91, The Cultural Evolution of a Disposable Society

John McClelland '91, The Effects of Environmental Quality on Fisheries Regulation

Nicole Mahar '91, Seasonal Cycles of Acid-Volatile-Sulfide and the Depth of the RPD Layer in Maquoit Bay (Maine) as They Relate to the Growth and Survival of the Benthic Community