Below is a list of ENVS senior capstones from spring 2012 on, with most recent at top. Click on any title for additional capstone details. To search for specific capstones, enter one or more words of the title, choose a student last name or capstone type, and/or edit the graduation date range; if you enter several parameters the search results will only include capstones that match all of them.
Rebirthing the Elliott State Forest
Type: Thesis
Student: Jay Horita-Chu
Graduation date: May 2018
Warming, Vegetation, & Remote Sensing: The Use of NDVI to Track the Influence of Climate Change on Arctic and Alpine Plant Communities
Type: Thesis
Student: Charlotte Copp
Graduation date: May 2018
Fish Fights: Values of Nature in Columbia River Salmon Conservation
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Gabby Francolla
Graduation date: May 2018
Renewable Energy in Peripheral Nations: Rhetoric v. Reality
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Kori Groenveld
Graduation date: May 2018
Come Hell or High Water: Disparities in Health During Coastal Storms
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Rachel Jacobson
Graduation date: May 2018
Fukushima Daiichi: Japan’s Resilience to Nuclear Plant Meltdown
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Tasha Addington-Ferris
Graduation date: May 2018
Got Neoliberalism? : A Political Ecology of Power in Senegal’s Milk Market
Type: Thesis
Student: Aphelion Crampton
Graduation date: May 2018
Digitizing Agriculture: The Sustainable Development Impacts of Big Data Agriculture
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Blake Slattengren
Graduation date: May 2018
Analysis of Prosocial Action in Chile’s Participation in the Paris Climate Accords
Type: Thesis
Student: Alex Groher-Jick
Graduation date: May 2018
Community’s Shadow: Examining Community Isolation in LA Eco-village
Type: Thesis
Student: Emily Tucciarone
Graduation date: May 2018
Significance of Stories: What Climate Justice Narratives Reveal About the UNFCCC
Type: Thesis
Student: Katie Kelly
Graduation date: May 2018
Animal Welfare Concerns and Policy in the Agricultural Industry
Type: Thesis
Student: Tarun Bishop
Graduation date: May 2018
The Risk of Resource Extraction: A Comparative Study of Land and Labor Regulations in Ecuador and Canada
Type: Thesis
Student: Maddy Frawley
Graduation date: May 2018
Performing Truth: The Navigation of Climate Change Reality in the United States
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Roan Shea
Graduation date: May 2018
Rewilding in Yellowstone National Park
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Maya Bon
Graduation date: May 2018
Measuring Disaster Risk Around Portland College Campuses
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Atsatsa Antonio
Graduation date: December 2017
Bush Whacking: The Wicked Attempt to Mobilize Civic Engagement on Climate
Type: Thesis
Student: Frances Swanson
Graduation date: August 2017
Connecting Educators: Exploring the Relationships Between Formal and Informal Learning Environments
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Mika Mandeville
Graduation date: May 2017
Planning Gentrification: Municipal Policy & Price Effects of the Orange Line in Portland, OR
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Jesse Simpson
Graduation date: May 2017
Constructing a World-Class Tramway System: Building Identity through Innovative Urbanism in the Glocal City of Strasbourg, France
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Drew Williamson
Graduation date: May 2017
The Logger, the Salmon Fisherman, and the Kayaker: Assessing Collaborative Natural Resource Management in Tongass National Forest
Type: Thesis
Student: Perri Pond
Graduation date: May 2017
Love Thy Neighbor (Or Know Them, At Least): Cultivating Social Capital Online
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Kara Scherer
Graduation date: May 2017
The Role of the Risk Society in Eco-Labeled Food Purchases
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Julia Benford
Graduation date: May 2017
Powering the Revolution: An Assessment of Cuba’s Renewable Energy
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Daphne Yuen
Graduation date: May 2017
Cultural Endangerment vs. Resource Endangerment; A Discourse in the Conflicts Surrounding Land Conservation in Tanzania
Type: Thesis
Student: Sadie Kurtz
Graduation date: May 2017
A Colonial Legacy in a Nutshell: How French Influence Persists in Agricultural Industries of Senegal
Type: Thesis
Student: Julia Revier
Graduation date: May 2017
Unsettling Dreams: Investigating Crisis in Earthquake Fiction from Japan and the Pacific Northwest
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Hannah Smay
Graduation date: May 2017
Unfiltered Drinking Water Systems in Oregon: Resilience to Climate and Land Use Change
Type: Thesis
Student: Bee Kelsch
Graduation date: May 2017
Bikeshare Cycle-Ology: Portland’s Nike BIKETOWN
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Anna Blythe
Graduation date: May 2017
Grounding in Uncertain Geology: How art will help us learn to live within the Anthropocene epoch
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Marielle Bossio
Graduation date: May 2017
Measuring Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Ghana
Type: Thesis
Student: Audrey Stuart
Graduation date: May 2017
Living With the Throat of Fire: The Role of Trust in Impending Volcanic Disaster
Type: Thesis
Student: AnaCapri Mauro
Graduation date: May 2017
Pluralizing Paradigms: Rights of Mother Earth in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Lex Shapiro
Graduation date: May 2017
Social Organization in Participatory Irrigation Management
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Travis Meng
Graduation date: May 2017
Energy & Equity: Solar Energy Technology and Social Vulnerability in Portland, Oregon
Type: Thesis
Student: Sara Goldstein
Graduation date: May 2017
Se souvenir par le bricolage: Understanding One’s Place Abroad Through Poetic Ways of “Making Do”
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Lauren Scott
Graduation date: May 2016
The Contribution of State Renewable Energy Policies to Global Climate Goals
Type: Thesis
Student: Osamu Kumasaka
Graduation date: May 2016
The Culture of a Changing Landscape: A Case Study of the Mid-Atlantic Coast
Type: Thesis
Student: Rachel Tanzer
Graduation date: May 2016
‘Place’-based Theatre: A Phenomenological Approach
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Marlon Jiménez Oviedo
Graduation date: May 2016
Trans Feminine BIPOC, “Queer” Spaces, and Urban Colonialism: A Case Study of Seattle
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Samson Harman
Graduation date: May 2016
“Good” Business: Examining the Benefits of B-corps
Type: Thesis
Student: Jhana Taylor Valentine
Graduation date: May 2016
Hydropower or Private Power: Forging Effective Resistances to River Development in the Chilean Landscape
Type: Thesis
Student: Lydia Bleifuss
Graduation date: May 2016
Knowing Your Place: The Role of Environment in the Transition to College
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Rebecca Kidder
Graduation date: May 2016
The Trouble with Mononaturalism in Place-Based Pedagogies
Type: Thesis
Student: Samantha Shafer
Graduation date: May 2016
The Construction of Knowledge and Classification of Nature: Cloud Identification as a Lens to Scientific Inquiry
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Laurel Garrett
Graduation date: May 2016
Uncharismatic Waste: Addressing Barriers to Visibility of E-waste
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Max Haworth
Graduation date: May 2016
Utilizing the Potential of Genetic Engineering: Lessons Learned from Bt Cotton in India
Type: Thesis
Student: Jacob Weiss
Graduation date: May 2016
Responsibility in the International Climate Regime: Examining German Motivations in Burden Sharing
Type: Thesis
Student: Michaela Koke
Graduation date: May 2016
Pastoralist Communities and their Relation to Technology and how Climate Change has affected that Relationship
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Rebecca Robbins
Graduation date: May 2016
Portland Public School System’s Struggle to Make Every Puzzle Piece Fit: How Autism Education Needs to Change
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Leah Kenney
Graduation date: May 2016
The Preservation of Iconic Landscapes: World Heritage Sites
Type: Thesis
Student: Kyle Miller
Graduation date: May 2016
The Amenity Value of Urban Trees and their Relationship to City Shape
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Aaron Fellows
Graduation date: May 2016
Reconciling Multi-Scale Energy Development Approaches and Systems: Myanmar’s Emerging Potential for An Integrated Energy Future
Type: Thesis
Student: Keith Morency
Graduation date: May 2016
Tom Krome’s Capstone
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Tom Krome
Graduation date: May 2015
Suburban Secrets: Homelessness in Washington County Public Parks
Type: Thesis
Student: Erin Scheibe
Graduation date: May 2015
Storage of Intermittent Renewable Energy: A comparison of proton exchange membrane fuel cells with other methods of energy storage
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Colin Carver
Graduation date: May 2015
Diabetes and Antioxidants C & E: Narratives of Risk
Type: Thesis
Student: Lauren Genn
Graduation date: May 2015
Recreating the Sacred Landscape: Tourism and Pilgrimage in Himalayan Sacred Places Under the Economic, Social, and Political Conditions of Modernity
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Robin Zeller
Graduation date: May 2015
Masdar City and the politics of utopian eco-development in the United Arab Emirates
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Gabby Henrie
Graduation date: May 2015
Trout and Climate Change: Exploring the Relationship in Western Montana
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Kyle Tibbett
Graduation date: May 2015
Urban Development in Deserts: Does Water Matter?
Type: Thesis
Student: Justin Ketzler
Graduation date: May 2015
Ownership and Access: Land Tenure Around Mt. Fuji
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Gabe Kohler
Graduation date: May 2015
The Pursuit of “Naturalness” in Medicine
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Eva Johnson
Graduation date: May 2015
Architecture and Dwelling in the Anthropocene
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Ben Small
Graduation date: May 2015
Whiskey’s for Drinkin’, Water’s for Fightin’: Science, Politics and Dam Deconstruction in the Klamath Basin
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Kelsey Kahn
Graduation date: May 2015
Born & Bread: A Home Baker’s Journey to Brick and Mortar
Type: Non-thesis
Student: Ethan Goldblatt
Graduation date: May 2015
Livestock Livelihoods: Growers’ Perspectives on the Production and Marketing of Australian Wool
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Katherine Jernigan
Graduation date: May 2015
Desertification Nation: Echoes of French Colonialism in Senegal During Times of Water Shortage
Type: Thesis
Student: Schuyler Schwartz
Graduation date: May 2015
Scotch Whisky, Sustainability, and Commodification of Nature & Culture
Type: Thesis
Student: Savannah Weinstock
Graduation date: May 2015
An Alternative System: A Comparative Study of the Household Barriers to Adopting Alternative Energy Systems
Type: Thesis
Student: Ben Rathbun
Graduation date: May 2014
Meat, Media, and Morals: Furrowing in on Effective Food Activism in the Animal Protection Movement
Type: Thesis
Student: Beau Broughton
Graduation date: May 2014
Exclusive Environments: Transmisogyny in U.S. Environmentalism
Type: Thesis
Student: Laura Houlberg
Graduation date: May 2014
‘Bike Lanes are White Lanes!’: The Social Implications of Urban Active Transportation Planning in the Built Environment of Portland, OR
Type: Thesis
Student: Lucy Roberts
Graduation date: May 2014
Not-So-Common Ground: Critiquing “Multicultural” Environmentalism in Seattle Urban Gardening
Type: Thesis
Student: Devon Snyder
Graduation date: May 2014
(Food) Waste Note, Want Not: Final Thesis Draft and Poster
Type: Thesis
Student: Miriam Coe
Graduation date: May 2014
A Change in the Weather: Fact, Fiction, and Metaphor in the Discourse of Climate and Weather Extremes
Type: Thesis
Student: McKenzie Southworth
Graduation date: May 2014
Citizen Science and Spatial Patterns in Beached Seabirds
Type: Thesis
Student: Daphne Hamilton
Graduation date: May 2014
Food Mirages, Purity, and the “Other” Bodies: Exclusion in “Accessible” Alternative Food Networks in Portland, Oregon
Type: Thesis
Student: Michelle Moulton
Graduation date: May 2014
Geohazard Risk Perception and Land-use Decisions in Southern Chile and the Pacific Northwest, USA
Type: Thesis
Student: Julian Cross
Graduation date: May 2014
Like We Were Never There: How Leave No Trace Works as an Individual and Institutional Environmental Solution
Type: Thesis
Student: Sarah Clement
Graduation date: May 2014
Mapping a Mountain: Mt. Fuji Land Cover Transitions Over the 20th Century
Type: Thesis
Student: Kara Batdorff
Graduation date: May 2014
The Place of the Stone Altars: Mapuche community-based tourism that empowers in Curarrehue, Chile
Type: Thesis
Student: Jack Andreoni
Graduation date: May 2014
The Making and Re-Making of Traditional Medicine in Ecuador
Type: Thesis
Student: Kelsey White-Davis
Graduation date: May 2014
The Short Leg of the Three-Legged Stool: Power, Social Equity, and Sustainable Development in Haiti
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Haley Flora
Graduation date: May 2014
Understanding Bicycle Communities: Indicators and Propagators of Progressive Cities
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Tom Rodrigues
Graduation date: May 2014
Urban Renewal For Whom? The Distribution of Environmental Amenities in 3 Portland Neighborhoods
Type: Thesis
Student: Elijah Probst
Graduation date: May 2014
Not Another Brick In The Wall: Social Learning Theory, Assessment, and Leaving Those Kids Alone
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Micah Leinbach
Graduation date: May 2014
Are you really gonna drink that? An investigation of factors that influence risk prevention in drinking water
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Katy Yeh
Graduation date: May 2014
Are we The Environment? What Is Environmental Ed Teaching You?
Type: Thesis
Student: Anna Foreman
Graduation date: May 2013
Cyclonic Deforestation in the Gulf
Type: Thesis
Student: Evan Stanbro
Graduation date: May 2013
Gun Thy Neighbor: Individualism and Disaster Preparedness
Type: Thesis
Student: Kay Real
Graduation date: May 2013
#ExpandingNarratives: Twitter’s response to the 3.11 Earthquake in Japan
Type: Thesis
Student: Meghan Cleland
Graduation date: May 2013
Of Kuia’s Garden: Hydroelectricity, Iwi, and the War for Whanganui River Power
Type: Thesis
Student: Lu’ukia Nakanelua
Graduation date: May 2013
Recapturing the Heart of the City: Evaluating Integrated Water Resource Management in Urban Areas
Type: Thesis
Student: Isabel Kuniholm
Graduation date: May 2013
Should We Lead Them Two by Two? The search for authority in assisted migration
Type: Thesis
Student: Mali Smith
Graduation date: May 2013
Soft Power, Hard Danger: China Damming The Mekong River, Southeast Asia
Type: Thesis
Student: Majel Kong
Graduation date: May 2013
There Be Dragons, Here Be Starbucks: Cybercartography and the Efficacy of Volunteered Geography
Type: Thesis
Student: Hanah Goldav
Graduation date: May 2013
Understanding the “Ecologically Noble Savage:” How Popular Representations of Indigeneity Impact Social and Environmental Progress
Type: Thesis
Student: Carley Matsumoto
Graduation date: May 2013
USDA Inspected, E. coli Approved: Mass Media’s Role in Shifting Responsibility and Perpetuating E. coli in our Food System
Type: Thesis
Student: Rachel Lupberger
Graduation date: May 2013
“Ganga can always survive and purify herself simply because she is a Goddess”: Representation of Spiritual practices in the Ganges River Pollution Problem
Type: Thesis
Student: Amanda Wickramasekera
Graduation date: May 2013
Surveying the Challenges to Funding: Urban Parks in Portland, Oregon
Type: Thesis
Student: Kyle Dietrich
Graduation date: May 2012
“But God was not in the earthquake”: Theodicy in Biblical and Contemporary Religious Responses to Natural Disasters
Type: Thesis
Student: Darya Watnick
Graduation date: May 2012
Conservation-Reliant Species and the Northern Spotted Owl
Type: Thesis
Student: Taylor Riso
Graduation date: May 2012
Cross-National Comparison of Ecological Exploitation in the Fishing Industry
Type: Thesis
Student: Kim Vanderklein
Graduation date: May 2012
A means to equality? A look at the ecofeminist art of Jackie Brookner and Ana Mendieta
Type: Thesis
Student: Chelsea Ambrose
Graduation date: May 2012
Getting to the Meat of Moral Discourse and Practice
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Chloe Waterman
Graduation date: May 2012
Greentailing along the Retailer Spectrum in Portland, Oregon
Type: Thesis
Student: Anna-Brooke Gutzler
Graduation date: May 2012
Heirloom Seed, Heritage Breed, and Organic Feed: The Quest for Simplicity in Portland, Oregon
Type: Thesis
Student: Michelle Tynan
Graduation date: May 2012
Islands and Islanders: Environmental History of the Caribbean
Type: Thesis
Student: Gus Hynes-Hoffman
Graduation date: May 2012
Natural Resource Extraction in Hokkaido
Type: Thesis
Student: Tom Wilson
Graduation date: May 2012
Perceptions of Geohazard Vulnerability in South Central Chile
Type: Thesis
Student: Ted Hamilton
Graduation date: May 2012
Portland’s Prestige Ecosystems and the Competition for World-City Status
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Zachary Holz
Graduation date: May 2012
Soundscapes in Tryon Creek
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Nate Stoll
Graduation date: May 2012
The Difficulty of Accurate Planning: A Study of Portland’s Light Rail Transit System
Type: Thesis
Student: Richard Burnam-Fink
Graduation date: May 2012
The Political Economy of Land Degradation: Implications for sub-Saharan African Food Security
Type: Thesis
Student: Taylor Grandchamp
Graduation date: May 2012
The Virtual Incarnation of Crafts: Subverting Creative Destruction and the New Capitalism
Type: Thesis
Student: Stephanie Kate Levine
Graduation date: May 2012
Why Come Back? Sense of Place and Senegalese Student Migration
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Megan Coggeshall
Graduation date: May 2012
Rising from the Ruin: The Aestheticization of Detroit’s Industrial Landscape
Type: Thesis
Student: Sally Bernstein
Graduation date: May 2012
Specialty Coffee Networks Between Guatemala and the US
Type: Thesis (honors)
Student: Tara Brown
Graduation date: May 2012
Voluntourism in Cusco, Peru
Type: Thesis
Student: Emma Redfoot
Graduation date: May 2012
Plastic Bottled Water Consumption in Australia vs. United States
Type: Thesis
Student: Melanie Frank
Graduation date: May 2012