Past ES&P Final MA Project Topics

Christopher Bowser (ES&P/MA '06): Elusive Human Security: Foibles and Future Implications of African Union Security Structure
                       
Jennifer Ann Bowen (ES&P/MA '06): Characterizing Perceptions of Risks in Vulnerable Communities

Regina Estelle Capoccia (ES&P/MA '06): Wildlife Stewardship, Awareness, and Policy: Components of Sustainable Cities?

Ping Kong (ES&P/MA '06): Projections of Mercury Emissions from Coal in China: Policy and Technology Implications

I’Mair Manasrah (ES&P/MA '06): The Risks of Current Medical Waste Management Policy in Palestinian West Bank Cities Case Study of the City of Hebron

Seema Parakh (ES&P/MA '06): Envisioning Integrated Public Transit Systems for Bangalore, India

Bryan Peter Becker (ES&P/MA '05): Restoring Al Ahwar: Post-Conflict Ecological Restoration as Humanitarian Assistance in the Mesopotamian Marshes

Alexis D. Dallaportas (ES&P/MA '05): Cleaning Up the Nashua and Blackstone Rivers: An Examination of Federal and State Clean Water Laws

David Milton Greene (ES&P/MA '05): Why Not Dry? Building the Case for Dry Toilets using Prospective Analysis of Sanitation-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Emily F. Harvey (ES&P/MA '05): The Impact of Human Disturbance on Local Climate in the Yucatan, Mexico: An Analysis of Land-Cover Change and Its Effect on Land Surface Temperature in a Dry Tropical Forest Region

Patrick Aaron Keeler (ES&P/MA '05): Contradiction in Terms: Certification and the co-optation of the organic movement by the USDA

Ann Marie Langlais (ES&P/MA '05): Ecosystem Based Watershed Management in Rhode Island: A Case Study of Green Hill and Ninigret Pond

Corinn R. Maudlin (ES&P/MA '05): The Role of Local Agricultural Extension Services in the Organic Information Network of Massachusetts

Kamweti Gethoi Mutu (ES&P/MA '05): Impacts of Community-Based Conservation Initiatives on Herbivore Population and Biodiversity Trends in Kenya

Angela Mueni Mwandia (ES&P/MA '05): Land Degradation in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan: The Case for Non-Timber Tree Products Development

Elizabeth Anne Roessler (ES&P/MA '05): Decision Tools for Prioritizing Wetland Protection, Restoration and Creation

Divya Seth (ES&P/MA '05): Cost Benefit Analysis: A Critical Review of the Process used to regulate Lead and it's Application in the Assessment of Mercury Reduction Levels

Christine Binueza Soliva (ES&P/MA '05): How Adaptive Management Can Improve Success in Wetland Restoration

Jessica Elizabeth Steele (ES&P/MA '05): Constructed Wetlands as Part of a Sustainable Sanitation Strategy

Joanna Catherine Winkler (ES&P/MA '05): Exploring Human Vulnerability Through Mercury-Contaminated Lense

Catherine E. Buckley (ES&P/MA '04): Learning through Technological Inventions in Low-Impact Individual Mobility: The Cases of Sparrow and Gizmo (Advisor: H. Brown)

Casey F. Burns (ES&P/MA '04): The Parallel Influences of Science and Society on the Success of Risk Assessment and Risk Management: A Case Study of Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute Communities Living near the Nevada Test Site (Advisor: R. Goble)

Shreela Chakrabarti (ES&P/MA '04): Monitoring the Kyoto Protocol with Remote Sensing Data and Technology: Current Initiatives with a Focus on Canada (Advisor: J. Rogan)

C. Jerome Clark (ES&P/MA '04): How Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Cancer Can Elucidate Valuable Information (Advisor: H. Brown)

Eve DiPietro (ES&P/MA '04): A Critical Review of Early Childhood Environmental Education in Central Massachusetts (Advisor: T. Downs)

Alexandra Dichter (ES&P/MA '04): Switzerland's Transition to Sustainable Agriculture (Advisor: H. Brown)

Irena Draksic (ES&P/MA '04): Taming the Lions: An Analysis of the Role Bestowed onto the GRI to Transform Corporate Cultures (Advisor: H. Brown)

Jennifer Ericson (ES&P/BA/MA '04): Quantitative Risk Assessment Practices: An Examination of the Limitations of the Interspecies Extrapolation Using 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin as an Example (Advisor: R. Goble)

Jennifer Frances Farley (ES&P/MA '04): Mapping Environmental Stressors and Health Effects to Establish a Baseline Health Profile for Worcester, MA (Advisor: T. Downs)

Jean Chimbirima Gondwe (ES&P/MA '04): Challenges for Sustainable Management of Solid Wastes in Lilongwe City, Malawi (Advisor: T. Downs)

Shilpa Khadka (ES&P/MA '04): The Status of Water Supply in the Urban Areas of Kathmandu Valley (Advisor: T. Downs)

Sarah R. Rosenberg (ES&P/MA '04): Learning the Lessons of Experience: Evaluation of Water Governance Policies in South Africa, Canada, and Bolivia (Advisor: T. Downs)

Carissa Lee Williams (ES&P BA/MA '04): Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the City of Worcester: How to Develop an Inventory and Plan for Reductions (Advisor: H. Brown)

Kelly S. Donohue (ES&P/MA '03): Technology and Policy Options to Reduce Health Effects Associated with Diesel Buses (Advisor: R. Goble)

Rose Heil (ID/MA '03): Strategic Participation for Environmental Management (Advisor: T. Downs)

Ethan W. Moore (ES&P/MA '03): Organizational Learning and Environmental Stewardship: A Theoretical and Practical Approach to the Management of Modern Business (Advisor: H. Brown)

Julie St. Francis (ES&P/MA '03): Assessment of the Potential for Integrated Solid Waste Management at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, using the EPA WasteWise Program (Advisor: T. Downs)

James Prescott Salo (ES&P/BA/MA '03): Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles: Choosing the Fuel of the Future with an Analysis of Social Infrastructure Barriers and Benefits (Advisor: H. Brown)

Emily Shusas (ES&P/BA/MA '03): Modeling Dose-Response Relationships between Arsenic Exposure and Ishchemic Heart Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, and Hypertension: A Methodology for Quantifying Non-Cancer Health Risks (Advisor: H. Brown)

Taylor Young (ES&P/MA '03): An Investigation of the Tower Industries: The Selection Process Using Linear Programming (Advisor: S. Ratick)

Casey Burns (2001) Lifestyle, Culture and Environmental Hazards

Kimberly Caravaglio (2001) Hybrid Vehicles or Death

Thomas Christopher (2001) Using the Alternative Licensing Process to Secure Increased Mitigation on Hydropower Dams in the United States

Mary-Michal Erwin-Loschke (2001) Sea Turtles versus the Global Shrimping Industry and International Law

Amanda Freitas (2001) Market Incentives for the Promotion of Environmental Stewardship

Andrew Hudon (2001) Nutrient Loading and Eutrophication of Patches Reservoir

Mary Kozlak (2001) A Sustainable Clark Initiative

Myriem Ouchen Noussairi (2001) The Degradation of the Argan (Argania Spinosa (L.) Skeels): A Multidimensional View

Jared Markham (2001) Gasoline Additives: Their Benefits, Dangers, and Alternatives

Monika Szymurska (2001) The Effect of Forest Management Practices on Biodiversity of the Adirondack Region

Myriem Ouchen Noussairi (2001) The Degradation of the Argan (Argania Spinosa, L. Skeels): A Multidimensional Perspective

Katrina Rideout (2001) Environmental Sustainability at Clark University: Solid Waste Disposal and Air Pollution Issues

Jessica Barber (2000) Old Growth Forests and Ski Area Management

Jennifer Cronin (2000) The Mystery of Amphibian Malformations and Populations Declines

Jenna Lamontagne & Karin McDonough (2000) Corporate Environmental Management at Solutia, Inc.

Thomas Lovett (2000) The Current Status of Lands Subject to Coastal Storm Regulation Development in Massachusetts

Abel Russ (2000) Particulate Air Pollution: Interindividual Variability in Exposure and Exploration of Chronic Mortality Associations

Aileen Giovanello (1999) Brownfield Redevelopment: A Case Study of the South Worcester Industrial Park

Anna Makri (1999) Inter-Individual Variability in Risk Assessment for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss with Emphasis on Methodology, Neurotoxicity and Policy

Karen Tam (1999) Groundwater Regulation Effectiveness in Massachusetts

Matthew Robbie (1999) No Discharge Zones - Do They Make Sense in Massachusetts?

Holly Christensen (1999) Causes of Negative Birth Outcome: A Review

Erin L. FitzPatrick (1996) The Sustainability of the Maine Lobster Industry

Jason A. Sohigian (1993) Energy Interdependence in the Former Soviet Union

Tom Reese Larsen (1993) Corporate Environmentalism: A Review of How the Business World Responds to the Environmental Crisis

Kevin M. Covell (1993) Marine Mammals in Captivity

Philip Alexandrin (1990) Geographical Information Systems in Locating Hazardous Facilities

Karen M. Doherty (1990) Surface Water Treatment Rule: The Effect on Local Surface Water Supplies

Andrea Lemerise (1990) Haste Makes Waste: The Plastics Dilemma

Lee Montagna (1990) The Introduction of New Technologies into Society

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