The Environmental Studies Electronic Thesis Collection is a collection of undergraduate theses from the University of Vermont Environmental Program, in partial fulfillment of the Environmental Studies major. The Environmental Program supports the fundamentally interdisciplinary study of the environment.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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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

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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

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Paid Parental Leave and Gender-Just Degrowth, Eleanor Churchill

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Surveys, Syllabi and Faculty Interviews: Assessing the Impact of Sustainability Courses at the University of Vermont, Lydia G. O'Connor

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The (In)Equity of Revitalization: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Green Gentrification in Rust Belt Cities, Kieran R. Hogan

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Understanding the Drivers of Urban Heat; Case Study in Burlington, Vermont, Alexandra E. Greer

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Vermont Public Schools’ Water Tap Lead Exposure: A 2017 – 2021 Spatial Analysis, Logan Solomon

Theses from 2022

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Absurdist Rituals to Process Ecological Grief, Michaela L. Aladjem

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Case Study: University of Vermont Faculty and Staff Transportation Modes and Carbon Emissions, Kathleen Enns

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From Root to Wing: The Music of Vermont's Ecological Soundscapes, Madeline S. Reilly

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Park Personality: A Discourse of National Parks Through Social Media Images, Emily H. Cummings

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Shade Equity in Louisville, KY: Considering Environmental Justice in an Analysis of Urban Tree Canopy Inequality and Demographics, Isabella Sofia Wolfsdorf

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Subtle Worlds: Exploring Relational Ecology with Clay, Emerson Odom Jeffery

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Vermont Wildlife Landscape Connectivity: A Case Study Connecting Habitats in the Green Mountains, Spanning Interstate 89, Cyrus Grey Oswald

Theses from 2021

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Eco-Anxiety in “the Climate Generation”: Is Action an Antidote?, Isabel Grace Coppola

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Eco-Anxiety in “the Climate Generation”: Is Action an Antidote?, Isabel Grace Coppola

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The Influence of Vegetation and Green Spaces on Air Quality and Outdoor Air Temperature Mitigation on Multiple Scales, McKinley Deery

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The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change Education on Undergraduate Students, Maya Bostwick

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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

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Characterizing occupational health exposures and health outcomes among immigrant dairy farmworkers in Vermont, Mary-Kate Barrett

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Environmental Health Disparities in Vermont, Julia Selle

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Food waste disposal: How social factors influence individuals’ willingness to make behavioral changes, Alysa J. Kelly

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Plant Community Richness and Composition in Formerly Dammed Reservoirs of Central Massachusetts, Carrie L. Wiater

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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

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The Geography of Home: Systems Awareness in a Changing World, Eleanor B. Connolly

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Understanding the Impact of Identity on Small Business Social Responsibility, Michael Jared Chan

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University of Vermont Housing: Motivations Behind Institutional Sustainability Transitions, Noah JB Stommel

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UVM's Roadmap to Zero Waste, Isabel Lisle

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UVM’s Roadmap to Zero Waste: Effective Strategies for Enhancing Zero Waste Management Goals at the University of Vermont, Isabel Lisle

Theses from 2019

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A conservationist, an economist, and a medic walk into a moral dilemma: Environmental decisions and rationalizing behavior, Arielle Raitt Cheifetz

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Big Cats Around the Globe: How Communities Around the World Perceive Their Backyard Big Cats, Will C. Corcoran

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Can Exposure to Outdoor Education Impact the Decisions that University of Vermont Students Make Throughout and Beyond College?, Beatrix Roxane Berry

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Connecting Art and Science: An Artist’s Perspective on Environmental Sustainability, Hayley Jean

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Ecocritical Poster Art: Subverting Problematic Symbolic Tropes in Contemporary Environmentalism, Clarissa Mae Libertelli

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Environmental Values and Clothing Consumption: Do Clothing Purchases Reflect Environmental Values?, Jessica A. NeJame

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Examining Connections between Gendered Dimensions of Inequality and Deforestation in Nepal, Ethan S. Shafron

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Farm to Forest - The Andrews Community Forest, Angus Bisgard Cummings

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Nitrous oxide release from agricultural soils under different management practices during freeze-thaw cycles, Julia M. Pupko

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Queen City Culture: Immigration, Food, Culture, and Burlington's Local Food System, Ashley Raymond

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Sense of Place in the Anthropocene: A students-teaching-students course, Giannina Sol Gaspero-Beckstrom and Ella Mighell

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The Complexities of Wildcrafting: A study of knowledge systems' influences on wildcrafting in Chittenden County, VT, Marissa Pappalardo

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What do vulnerable populations of children, specifically those who are infected/affected by HIV/AIDS, need in order to have a meaningful experience at summer camp? A comparison of literature versus counselor perspectives, Hailey Nelson

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Yes, You Can Eat That: How Communities that Forage in Vermont Interact with Invasive Species, Sheridan Plummer

Theses from 2018

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Charging down the Road: A Historical Analysis of the American Auto Industry and Tesla Inc., Bryce Dzialo

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Does Conservation Status Matter if You’re Ugly? An Experimental Survey of Species Appeal and Public Support, Natalie Theresa Redmond

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Environmental Vulnerability and Social Unrest: A Comparative Index, Michela H. Grunebaum

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Finding A Place in College: Re-Examining Residential Learning Communities as Third Places for Student Development, Sarah C. Feigelman

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Normative Reframing as a Policy Process: Community Solar for Low-Income Electric Customers, Madeline Murray-Clasen

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PAHs in Coal Tar Sealants: Policy Analyses and Design, Abigail Rose Ames

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Response: A Portrait of Four Environmental Artists in Vermont, Peter vanderWilden

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State-based Climate Legislation: A Policy Analysis of Carbon Tax Proposals in Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts, John Doane

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Success of Food Assistance Programs: Metrics to Evaluate Provision of Healthy Food Products Across Burlington, Vermont., Meghan Conway

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Taming the Floods: Using an Intellectual History of Chinese Hydraulic Thought to Address Contemporary Issues in China’s Water Governance, Sophia Rose Danison

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The Bolton Dome Fundraiser Film Thesis, fraser query

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The Glyphosate Controversy: How Vermont Perspectives Could Inform Future Policy, Rachel C. Helbig

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The Green Divider: A Discourse Analysis of the Kingdom Community Wind Project in Lowell, VT., Robert L. Persons

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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

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Conserving Vermont's Endangered Species through Designation of Critical Habitat, Amanda M. Ramsing-Lund

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Cultural Heritage and Rising Seas: Water Management, Governance, and Heritage in Venice and Amsterdam, Katherine D. Mitchell

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Interstices of Power: Considerations of women’s health and agency through creative nonfiction, Erica Rose Gilgore

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Native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) and berry polycultures: Studying farmers’ motivations for diversification and the impact of mass floral resources on pollinator communities, Jen Hayes

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Rio Como Vamos: Assessing the Triple Bottom-Line Legacies Being Left by the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, Zack Pensak

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The Impact of Act 148 on Food-Insecure Populations in Chittenden and Essex Counties of Vermont, Gina E. Cassara

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Traditional Values in a Modern World: An Ethnographic Study of Permaculture Practitioners in Vermont, Rose C. Thackeray

Theses from 2016

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Environmental Navigation Network: Developing a Peer Mentor Program in the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont, Jacqueline Cardoza

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“Envisioning a Just Food System” A Students Teaching Students Course, Claire Snowden Wiggin, Leila Elliot Rezvani, and Olivia Jane Burt

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Farmer Resiliency in a Changing Climate: A Comparative Study of Massachusetts and Vermont Farmers, Ann G. Fitzgerald

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Hard Work, Cows and Community: Why young people in Bethel, Vermont are choosing to stay on dairy farms, Mikayla Sandra Peront

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Kosher, Local, Organic, Oh My! An exploration of the challenges and possibilities of local kosher meat in the Jewish Community of Vermont., Frances Lasday

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Vacationing for a Cause: Volunteer Ecotourism on Alternative Spring Break, Amelia Fontein

Theses from 2015

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An Investigation of Insect Netting Trellis Systems to Manage Spotted Wing Drosophila for Vermont Blueberry Farms, Hannah Lee Link

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Deconstructing Systemic Oppression Through Teaching Community Organizing: A students-teaching-students course, Francesca A. Hall

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Pain at the Pump: The relationship between gas prices and transit ridership in urban and rural counties of Vermont, Olivia Irene Taylor

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Permaculture Design to Address Coffee Leaf Rust and Climate Change on a Panamanian Coffee Farm, angela M. deBettencourt

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The Proposed Northern Pass Transmission LIne and the Power of Public Opinion, Michael A. Storace

Theses from 2014

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Chasing Organics: A Study of the Implications of Act 148 on Vermont's Waste Hauling and Composting Enterprises, Rory C. Shamlian

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Neighborhood in Constant Flux: An Ethnographic Analysis of Food Access in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Jack N. Steele

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On Being Earthlings: Photographic Portraits and Audio Narratives on Human-Earth Connection in Israel-Palestine, Blair R. Borax Ms.

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The Communication of Goals in Volunteer-Based Ecotourism: A Case Study of Two Ecuadorian Ecological Reserves, Robyn J. Bath-Rosenfeld

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The Greenleaf Farm Resiliency Project: An Ecological Landscape Design, Holly Lee Greenleaf

Theses from 2013

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Cultivating Little Consumers: How Picture Books Influence Materialism in Children, Rachel J. Franz

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Getting down to earth: Revisiting sustainability on a small, diversified farm in Maryland, Brittany N. Dooling

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Hunger, Leadership and Social Change: A Students Teaching Students Course, Catherine Gannascoli

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Safe Cosmetics Legislation in Vermont: Passing H.308 in the Vermont Legislature, Anna Tadio

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Spilling the Beans on Coffee Certifications: Consumer Values and Knowledge of Fair Trade and USDA Organic Coffee, Kieran Ficken

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The Vegan Journey: An Exploration of Vegan Experiences with Vegans from Burlington, Vermont, Kelsey Steele

Theses from 2012

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Awareness and Advocacy towards Instituting Bias-Free Policing Criteria in Vermont: A cross county comparison of Addison and Franklin Counties, Vermont, Abigail Zuckerman

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Bicycling the Gap: A mixed method study examining bicyclists in New York City and the interactions they share with the Metro Transportation Authority Subway System, and the New York Waterway Ferry System, Daniel Clark

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ENVS 197 Students Teaching Students: Hunger, Leadership, and Social Change, Samantha Ethridge

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Rethinking the Role of Community Gardening in Localizing Post-Oil Suburbia: A Proposal for Willowdale Community Garden in Cherry Hill, NJ, Andrew Schlesinger

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Strategic Climate Change Communication: A Creative Effort Toward Mitigation and Adaptation Changing the Current, Page Atcheson

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The Meat of the Matter: Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Ethics and the Food Choices of Environmental Studies Majors at the University of Vermont, Samantha Morgan

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The Socioeconomic Impact of Hydroelectric Dams on Developing Communities: A Case Study of the Chalillo Dam and the Communities of the Macal River Valley, Cayo District, Belize, Central America, Emily Bird

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"Things need to change around here." The Diversification of a Small Farm in Northwest New Jersey, Caitlan Stephens

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Transformative Education for Creating Sustainable Food Systems: A Mini Course: "Yoga (yoke) of the Earth, Food and Use" at the GreenHouse Residential Learning Community, Kazuha Kurosu

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What's the Catch? An Analysis of Seafood Sustainability at the University of Vermont, Sara Cleaver

Theses from 2011

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Eating Practices and Attitudes among American Buddhists: An aspect of Buddhism and Ecology, Taylor Ralph

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Japanese Children's Songs for Environmental Education: Environmental Education Curriculum for Edmunds Kindergarten in Burlington, Akane Yamamoto

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Relationships Between Aircraft Fleet Composition and Environmental Impacts, Matthew Judd

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Sustainable Urban Composting: Determining Best Practices for Organic Waste Management in Burlington, Vermont, Caroline Shepard