Student Projects

Below is a list of ENVS student projects starting academic year 2014-15 (with senior capstone projects starting 2011-12), ordered by most recently initiated; for a wider variety of earlier student projects, see the SGE site. Click on any title for additional project record details, or click on the project landing page to go directly to student project documentation. To search for specific projects, enter one or more words of the title, choose a related ENVS course, and/or edit the project initiation date range; if you enter several parameters the search results will only include projects that match all of them.

The Risk of Resource Extraction: A Comparative Case Study of Labor and Land Legislation in Ecuadorian and Canadian Mining Industries

Participating student(s): Maddy Frawley
ENVS course(s): 400
Initiated: September 2017
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Warming, Vegetation, & Remote Sensing: The Use of NDVI to Track the Influence of Climate Change on Arctic and Alpine Plant Communities

Participating student(s): Charlotte Copp
ENVS course(s): 400
Initiated: September 2017
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“To Dust You Shall Return”: The Contradictions of Christian Scripture, Conceptions of Naturalness, and Burial Space in Texas

Participating student(s): Maya Kelp
ENVS course(s): 330
Initiated: March 2017
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The Logger, the Salmon Fisherman, and the Kayaker: Assessing Collaborative Natural Resource Management in Tongass National Forest

Participating student(s): Perri Pond
ENVS course(s): 400
Initiated: September 2016
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Constructing a World-Class Tramway System: Building Identity through Innovative Urbanism in the Glocal City of Strasbourg, France

Participating student(s): Drew Williamson
ENVS course(s): 400, 499
Initiated: January 2016
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Gentrification, Transit Equity, and the Bus Riders Union in Portland, OR

Participating student(s): Jesse Simpson
ENVS course(s): 499
Initiated: January 2016
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Reconciling Multi-Scale Energy Development Approaches and Systems: Myanmar’s Emerging Potential for An Integrated Energy Future

Participating student(s): Keith Morency
ENVS course(s): 400
Initiated: January 2016
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Recreating the Sacred Landscape: Tourism and Pilgrimage in Himalayan Sacred Places Under the Economic, Social, and Political Conditions of Modernity

Participating student(s): Robin Zeller
ENVS course(s): 400, 499
Initiated: January 2015
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Storage of Intermittent Renewable Energy: A comparison of proton exchange membrane fuel cells with comparable methods of energy storage

Participating student(s): Colin Carver
ENVS course(s): 330, 400
Initiated: September 2014
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“Ganga can always survive and purify herself simply because she is a Goddess”: Representation of Spiritual practices in the Ganges River Pollution Problem

Participating student(s): Amanda Wickramasekera
ENVS course(s): 400
Initiated: September 2012
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USDA Inspected, E. coli Approved: Mass Media’s Role in Shifting Responsibility and Perpetuating E. coli in our Food System

Participating student(s): Rachel Lupberger
ENVS course(s): 400
Initiated: September 2012
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Understanding the “Ecologically Noble Savage:” How Popular Representations of Indigeneity Impact Social and Environmental Progress

Participating student(s): Carley Matsumoto
ENVS course(s): 400
Initiated: September 2012
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