Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Using soil cores to assess the role of ion exchange in soils impacted by acid deposition: a case study from Sleepers River Research Watershed, Danville Vermont, Elliott Jaye Bloom
Theses from 2023
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth?: A Study in the Values of Visitors, Horses, and Ecological Management on Assateague Island, Nora K. Ripley-Grant
Paid Parental Leave and Gender-Just Degrowth, Eleanor Churchill
Surveys, Syllabi and Faculty Interviews: Assessing the Impact of Sustainability Courses at the University of Vermont, Lydia G. O'Connor
The (In)Equity of Revitalization: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Green Gentrification in Rust Belt Cities, Kieran R. Hogan
Understanding the Drivers of Urban Heat; Case Study in Burlington, Vermont, Alexandra E. Greer
Vermont Public Schools’ Water Tap Lead Exposure: A 2017 – 2021 Spatial Analysis, Logan Solomon
Theses from 2022
Absurdist Rituals to Process Ecological Grief, Michaela L. Aladjem
Case Study: University of Vermont Faculty and Staff Transportation Modes and Carbon Emissions, Kathleen Enns
From Root to Wing: The Music of Vermont's Ecological Soundscapes, Madeline S. Reilly
Park Personality: A Discourse of National Parks Through Social Media Images, Emily H. Cummings
Shade Equity in Louisville, KY: Considering Environmental Justice in an Analysis of Urban Tree Canopy Inequality and Demographics, Isabella Sofia Wolfsdorf
Subtle Worlds: Exploring Relational Ecology with Clay, Emerson Odom Jeffery
Vermont Wildlife Landscape Connectivity: A Case Study Connecting Habitats in the Green Mountains, Spanning Interstate 89, Cyrus Grey Oswald
Theses from 2021
Eco-Anxiety in “the Climate Generation”: Is Action an Antidote?, Isabel Grace Coppola
Eco-Anxiety in “the Climate Generation”: Is Action an Antidote?, Isabel Grace Coppola
The Influence of Vegetation and Green Spaces on Air Quality and Outdoor Air Temperature Mitigation on Multiple Scales, McKinley Deery
The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change Education on Undergraduate Students, Maya Bostwick
Visual and Rhetorical Cues to Transform Nature: A Historical Analysis of Mao Zedong’s Environmental Policy Through Print and Visual Media, Nathan P. Basch
Theses from 2020
Characterizing occupational health exposures and health outcomes among immigrant dairy farmworkers in Vermont, Mary-Kate Barrett
Environmental Health Disparities in Vermont, Julia Selle
Food waste disposal: How social factors influence individuals’ willingness to make behavioral changes, Alysa J. Kelly
Plant Community Richness and Composition in Formerly Dammed Reservoirs of Central Massachusetts, Carrie L. Wiater
Synthesis of the local knowledge and ecology of vansemberuu (Saussurea dorogostaiskii Palib.) for conservation, Darkhad Valley, Khuvsgul, Mongolia, Joscelyn Norris, Nyamgerel Nudkhuu, Tumursukh Jal, Lhagvajau Davaajii, Davaatseren Buyanjargal, Nyam-Ochir Dvvjii, Byaamba Ornobish, Batzaya Erdenebat, and Tsoogo Ornobish
The Geography of Home: Systems Awareness in a Changing World, Eleanor B. Connolly
Understanding the Impact of Identity on Small Business Social Responsibility, Michael Jared Chan
University of Vermont Housing: Motivations Behind Institutional Sustainability Transitions, Noah JB Stommel
UVM's Roadmap to Zero Waste, Isabel Lisle
UVM’s Roadmap to Zero Waste: Effective Strategies for Enhancing Zero Waste Management Goals at the University of Vermont, Isabel Lisle
Theses from 2019
A conservationist, an economist, and a medic walk into a moral dilemma: Environmental decisions and rationalizing behavior, Arielle Raitt Cheifetz
Big Cats Around the Globe: How Communities Around the World Perceive Their Backyard Big Cats, Will C. Corcoran
Can Exposure to Outdoor Education Impact the Decisions that University of Vermont Students Make Throughout and Beyond College?, Beatrix Roxane Berry
Connecting Art and Science: An Artist’s Perspective on Environmental Sustainability, Hayley Jean
Ecocritical Poster Art: Subverting Problematic Symbolic Tropes in Contemporary Environmentalism, Clarissa Mae Libertelli
Environmental Values and Clothing Consumption: Do Clothing Purchases Reflect Environmental Values?, Jessica A. NeJame
Examining Connections between Gendered Dimensions of Inequality and Deforestation in Nepal, Ethan S. Shafron
Farm to Forest - The Andrews Community Forest, Angus Bisgard Cummings
Nitrous oxide release from agricultural soils under different management practices during freeze-thaw cycles, Julia M. Pupko
Queen City Culture: Immigration, Food, Culture, and Burlington's Local Food System, Ashley Raymond
Sense of Place in the Anthropocene: A students-teaching-students course, Giannina Sol Gaspero-Beckstrom and Ella Mighell
The Complexities of Wildcrafting: A study of knowledge systems' influences on wildcrafting in Chittenden County, VT, Marissa Pappalardo
Yes, You Can Eat That: How Communities that Forage in Vermont Interact with Invasive Species, Sheridan Plummer
Theses from 2018
Charging down the Road: A Historical Analysis of the American Auto Industry and Tesla Inc., Bryce Dzialo
Does Conservation Status Matter if You’re Ugly? An Experimental Survey of Species Appeal and Public Support, Natalie Theresa Redmond
Environmental Vulnerability and Social Unrest: A Comparative Index, Michela H. Grunebaum
Finding A Place in College: Re-Examining Residential Learning Communities as Third Places for Student Development, Sarah C. Feigelman
Normative Reframing as a Policy Process: Community Solar for Low-Income Electric Customers, Madeline Murray-Clasen
PAHs in Coal Tar Sealants: Policy Analyses and Design, Abigail Rose Ames
Response: A Portrait of Four Environmental Artists in Vermont, Peter vanderWilden
Success of Food Assistance Programs: Metrics to Evaluate Provision of Healthy Food Products Across Burlington, Vermont., Meghan Conway
Taming the Floods: Using an Intellectual History of Chinese Hydraulic Thought to Address Contemporary Issues in China’s Water Governance, Sophia Rose Danison
The Bolton Dome Fundraiser Film Thesis, fraser query
The Glyphosate Controversy: How Vermont Perspectives Could Inform Future Policy, Rachel C. Helbig
The Green Divider: A Discourse Analysis of the Kingdom Community Wind Project in Lowell, VT., Robert L. Persons
To what extent do psychological distance and knowledge mediate the impact of algae blooms on cultural ecosystem services in the Lake Champlain Basin?, Gemma L. Del Rossi
Theses from 2017
Conserving Vermont's Endangered Species through Designation of Critical Habitat, Amanda M. Ramsing-Lund
Cultural Heritage and Rising Seas: Water Management, Governance, and Heritage in Venice and Amsterdam, Katherine D. Mitchell
Interstices of Power: Considerations of women’s health and agency through creative nonfiction, Erica Rose Gilgore
Rio Como Vamos: Assessing the Triple Bottom-Line Legacies Being Left by the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, Zack Pensak
The Impact of Act 148 on Food-Insecure Populations in Chittenden and Essex Counties of Vermont, Gina E. Cassara
Traditional Values in a Modern World: An Ethnographic Study of Permaculture Practitioners in Vermont, Rose C. Thackeray
Theses from 2016
Environmental Navigation Network: Developing a Peer Mentor Program in the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont, Jacqueline Cardoza
“Envisioning a Just Food System” A Students Teaching Students Course, Claire Snowden Wiggin, Leila Elliot Rezvani, and Olivia Jane Burt
Farmer Resiliency in a Changing Climate: A Comparative Study of Massachusetts and Vermont Farmers, Ann G. Fitzgerald
Hard Work, Cows and Community: Why young people in Bethel, Vermont are choosing to stay on dairy farms, Mikayla Sandra Peront
Kosher, Local, Organic, Oh My! An exploration of the challenges and possibilities of local kosher meat in the Jewish Community of Vermont., Frances Lasday
Vacationing for a Cause: Volunteer Ecotourism on Alternative Spring Break, Amelia Fontein
Theses from 2015
An Investigation of Insect Netting Trellis Systems to Manage Spotted Wing Drosophila for Vermont Blueberry Farms, Hannah Lee Link
Deconstructing Systemic Oppression Through Teaching Community Organizing: A students-teaching-students course, Francesca A. Hall
Pain at the Pump: The relationship between gas prices and transit ridership in urban and rural counties of Vermont, Olivia Irene Taylor
Permaculture Design to Address Coffee Leaf Rust and Climate Change on a Panamanian Coffee Farm, angela M. deBettencourt
The Proposed Northern Pass Transmission LIne and the Power of Public Opinion, Michael A. Storace
Theses from 2014
Chasing Organics: A Study of the Implications of Act 148 on Vermont's Waste Hauling and Composting Enterprises, Rory C. Shamlian
Neighborhood in Constant Flux: An Ethnographic Analysis of Food Access in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Jack N. Steele
On Being Earthlings: Photographic Portraits and Audio Narratives on Human-Earth Connection in Israel-Palestine, Blair R. Borax Ms.
The Communication of Goals in Volunteer-Based Ecotourism: A Case Study of Two Ecuadorian Ecological Reserves, Robyn J. Bath-Rosenfeld
The Greenleaf Farm Resiliency Project: An Ecological Landscape Design, Holly Lee Greenleaf
Theses from 2013
Cultivating Little Consumers: How Picture Books Influence Materialism in Children, Rachel J. Franz
Getting down to earth: Revisiting sustainability on a small, diversified farm in Maryland, Brittany N. Dooling
Hunger, Leadership and Social Change: A Students Teaching Students Course, Catherine Gannascoli
Safe Cosmetics Legislation in Vermont: Passing H.308 in the Vermont Legislature, Anna Tadio
Spilling the Beans on Coffee Certifications: Consumer Values and Knowledge of Fair Trade and USDA Organic Coffee, Kieran Ficken
The Vegan Journey: An Exploration of Vegan Experiences with Vegans from Burlington, Vermont, Kelsey Steele
Theses from 2012
Awareness and Advocacy towards Instituting Bias-Free Policing Criteria in Vermont: A cross county comparison of Addison and Franklin Counties, Vermont, Abigail Zuckerman
ENVS 197 Students Teaching Students: Hunger, Leadership, and Social Change, Samantha Ethridge
Rethinking the Role of Community Gardening in Localizing Post-Oil Suburbia: A Proposal for Willowdale Community Garden in Cherry Hill, NJ, Andrew Schlesinger
Strategic Climate Change Communication: A Creative Effort Toward Mitigation and Adaptation Changing the Current, Page Atcheson
"Things need to change around here." The Diversification of a Small Farm in Northwest New Jersey, Caitlan Stephens
What's the Catch? An Analysis of Seafood Sustainability at the University of Vermont, Sara Cleaver
Theses from 2011
Eating Practices and Attitudes among American Buddhists: An aspect of Buddhism and Ecology, Taylor Ralph
Japanese Children's Songs for Environmental Education: Environmental Education Curriculum for Edmunds Kindergarten in Burlington, Akane Yamamoto
Relationships Between Aircraft Fleet Composition and Environmental Impacts, Matthew Judd
Sustainable Urban Composting: Determining Best Practices for Organic Waste Management in Burlington, Vermont, Caroline Shepard