Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Quantifying tree response to alterations in pollution deposition and climate change in the northeastern US, Alexandra M. Kosiba, PhD
Early Feeding In Lake Trout Fry (salvelinus Namaycush) As A Mechanism For Ameliorating Thiamine Deficiency Complex, Carrie L. Kozel, MS
Emission Permits as a Monetary Policy Tool: Is it Feasible? Is it Ethical?, Tracey McCowen, PhD
What’s In Your Body Of Water? Reducing The Psychological Distance Of Pharmaceutical Pollution Through Metaphor In Risk Communication, Alexandra Z. Millarhouse, MS
Assessing Community Dynamics and Colonization Patterns of Tritatoma dimidiata and Other Biotic Factors Associated with Chagas Disease Prevalence in Central America, Lucia Consuelo Orantes, PhD
Social and Emotional Dimensions of Succession Planning for Family Forest Owners in the Northeastern United States, Hallie E. Schwab, MS
Spawning Site Selection and Fry Development of Invasive Lake Trout in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Lee Simard, MS
Shaping Policy in the Anthropocene: Gender Justice as a Social, Economic and Ecological Challenge, Phoebe Spencer, PhD
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Methods for the spatial modeling of forest carbon in the Northern Forest, Alison Adams, MS
Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Stormwater and Surface Waters in Chittenden County, Vermont, USA, Joseph Hollis Bartlett, MS
Renewable Energy Transition: Dynamic Systems Analysis, Policy Scenarios, and Trade-offs for the State of Vermont, Christopher Ernest Clement, PhD
Preservation and Sediment Cycling Beneath "Ghost Glaciers": How Cold-Based Ice Dictates Arctic Landscape Evolution, Lee Corbett, PhD
Integrating management for old-growth characteristics with enhanced carbon storage of northern hardwood-conifer forests, Sarah Eliot Ford, MS
Placing natural resource decisions in social and historical contexts: Sociological inquiries into agency communications, management rationalities, and community change, Emilian Geczi, PhD
Quantifying Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Soil Carbon Storage To Determine Best Management Practices In Agroecosystems, Tyler Goeschel, MS
A Multiscale Analysis of the Factors Controlling Nutrient Dynamics and Cyanobacteria Blooms in Lake Champlain, Peter D. F. Isles, PhD
Invasive Plant Ecology In Vermont: Insights From Spatial Analysis And Interactions Of Garlic Mustard (alliaria Petiolata) With Native Plants And Invertebrates, Chenin Kathleen Limback, PhD
Measurement and modeling of stormwater from small suburban watersheds in Vermont, Joel Nipper, PhD
Erosion rates in subtropical, rapidly developing countries: an isotopic approach to measuring background rates of erosion in Brazil and China, Veronica Sosa-Gonzalez, PhD
Importance Of Agricultural Systems As Multifunctional Landscapes, Flavio Sutti, PhD
Long-term forest carbon storage and structural development as influenced by land-use history and reforestation approach, Andrea Rose Urbano, MS
The Role of Transportation in Expanding the Democratic Ideal of National Parks, Xiao Xiao, PhD
Influence of Mission, Audience, and Policy Context on Issue Framing: A Case Study of Mobilization Against Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale, Rezwana Zafar, MS
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Role Of Motivation And Curriculum In Shaping Pro-Sustainable Attitudes And Behaviors In Students, Kathleen Bamford, MS
The Impact of Engagement With Community Supported Agriculture on Human Attitude Towards the Sustainable Food Movement, Ariana Margarita Cano, MS
Phosphate Removal and Recovery from Wastewater by Natural Materials for Ecologically Engineered Wastewater Treatment Systems, Daniel Thomas Curran, MS
Using The Past As The Key To The Present: Informing Coastal Resource Management With Geologic Records, Benjamin D. DeJong, PhD
Discourse as Social Process in Outdoor Recreation and Natural Resource Management: Arguing, Constructing, and Performing, Monika Marie Derrien, PhD
Using stable isotope analysis to estimate black bear (Ursus americanus) diet in Vermont, Eliese Antona Dykstra, MS
How Wildlife Information, Recreation Involvement And Demographic Characteristics Influence Public Acceptability Of Development, Jessica Espenshade, MS
Fixed Versus Plastic Partial Migration Of The Aquatic Macroinvertebrate, Mysis Diluviana, In Lake Champlain, Peter Thomas Euclide, MS
Human-Nature Relationship And Faery Faith In The American Pagan Subculture, Sarah Goodrich, MS
New insights for the future of Lake Champlain: Practical approaches and useful tools for grappling with uncertainty and weighing trade-offs in watershed management., Philip Halteman, PhD
Lidar Remote Sensing Of Forest Canopy Structure: An Assessment Of The Accuracy Of Lidar And Its Relationship To Higher Trophic Levels, Christopher Felix Hansen, MS
monitoR: Automation Tools For Landscape-scale Acoustic Monitoring, Jonathan Edward Katz, PhD
Thermokarst And Wildfire: Effects Of Disturbances Related To Climate Change On The Ecological Characteristics And Functions Of Arctic Headwater Streams, Julia Rose Larouche, PhD
Management By Crisis: Land Trust Conservation Engagement And Methods In Vermont, Louise Sopher Lintilhac, MS
Effects of landscape change on corsac foxes in Mongolia, Myagmarjav Lkhagvasuren, MS
Effects of PCB Contamination on the Environment and the Cultural Integrity of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne, Kim Ellen McRae, PhD
Early Adoption Dynamics Of Private Sustainability Governance Initiatives: A Case Study Of The Marine Cultured-Pearl Industry, Julie Nash, PhD
Pedagogical Praxis Models in Sustainability Education: A Focus on Food Systems and Environment, Karen Lynn Nordstrom, PhD
Collaboration And Conflict In The Adirondack Park: An Analysis Of Conservation Discourses Over Time, Jeffrey Michael O'Donnell, MS
Habitat Use By Early Successional Bird Species Along Powerline Rights Of Way: Making Connections Across Private Lands, Christine Rose Peterson, MS
Managing the Wilderness Experience at Olympic National Park: A Study of Day and Overnight Visitors, Warren Vinson Pierce, III., MS
Lake Trout Spawning Site Use In Lake Champlain & The Development Of The Binomial Rolling Residence Test, Victoria M. Pinheiro, MS
The impact of ecosystem services knowledge on decisions, Stephen Mark Posner, PhD
The Status Of Stonecats (Noturus Flavus) In The Laplatte And Missisquoi Rivers, Vermont, Elizabeth Puchala, MS
Analytical And Decision Tools For Wildlife Population And Habitat Management, Kurt Rinehart, PhD
Becoming Transdisciplinary: Exploring Process in a Research Initiative on Climate Change, Emil Tsao, MS
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Decision Support for Natural Resource Management, Jonathan Cummings, PhD
Trophic Dynamics and Cyanobacteria Blooms In Shallow Eutrophic Bays Of Lake Champlain, Rebecca Michelle Gorney, PhD
Measuring Streetscape Design for Livability Using Spatial Data and Methods, Chester Wollaeger Harvey, MS
Modeling Consumption Rates Of Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus), Mitchell Jones, MS
Modeling The Effects Of The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid On Carbon Storage In Northern New England Forests, Jeffrey John Krebs, MS
Exploring Relationships Between Building And Transportation Energy Use Of Residents In U.S. Metropolitan Regions, Timothy Pede, MS
Local Energy Governance In Vermont: An Analysis Of Energy System Transition Strategies And Actor Capacity, Tarah Rowse, PhD
Ecological Remediation Using Bacterial, Fungal, and Plant Microcosms: An Effective Solution for Bunker C Crude Oil Contamination in Waterways, Jakob E. Schenker, MS
Renewable Energy Zoning: Cutting Green Tape While Improving Ecological Outcomes for Renewable Energy Projects, Joanna Elizabeth White, MS
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Behavioral Ecology and Genetics of Potential Natural Enemies of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Arielle Arsenault, MS
Developing a Cohesive Urban Agriculture Policy for Burlington, VT, Alison Nihart, MS
Evaluation of National Park Service 21st Century Relevancy Initiatives: Case Studies Addressing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the National Park Service, Rebecca Stanfield McCown, PhD
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in Chittenden County Via Modifications to the Built Environment, Dale Azaria, MS
Remote Sensing of Forest Health Trends in the Northern Green Mountains of Vermont, Michael G. Olson, MS
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Status of Lake Whitefish (Coregonus Clupeaformis) in Lake Champlain, 2006-2010, Seth Herbst, MS
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Peer to Peer Sustainability Outreach Programs: the Interface of Education and Behavior Change, Christina Erickson, PhD
Searching for the Sweet Spot: Managing Information as a Good that Improves with Use, Ida Kubiszewski, PhD
Estimating the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Baltimore, MD, Stephen Posner, MS
A Multilevel Property Hedonic Approach to Valuing Parks and Open Space, Christopher Treg, PhD
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Ecological Economic Applications for Urban and Regional Sustainability, Kenneth Bagstad, PhD
Evaluating the Influences of Soil Calcium and Aluminum Availabilty on Ecosystem Processes in the Northern Hardwood Forest, Homer Elliott, MS
Promoting Ecoliteracy and Ecosystem Management for Sustainablity Through Ecological Economic Tools, Valerie Esposito, PhD
Environmental Influences on the Genetic Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Arctic Streams, Julia Larouche, MS
Forest Carbon Storage in the Northeastern United States: Effects of Harvesting Frequency and Intensity Including Wood Products, Jared Nunery, MS
Sustainability Indicators in the Vermont-Regional Food System, Rachel Schattman, MS
Identifying Priority Conservation Areas for Grassland Birds in the Champlain Valley of Vermont, Flavio Sutti, MS
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Evaluating Environmental Risks in Mining: a Perceptual Study, Mary Ackley, MS
Approaches to Sustainable Forest Management in Parcelized Landscapes, Michelle Baumflek, MS
Using Stable Isotopes to Understand Seasonal Interactions in a Long-Distance Migratory Songbird, Traynor Biasiolli, MS
Scale-Dependent Mechanisms of Habitat Selection And Demography for a Forest Songbird in a Heterogeneous Landscape, Kerri Lyn Cornell, PhD
The Effects of Nutrient Ratios and Forms on the Growth Of Microcystis aeruginosa and Anabaena flos-aquae, Kathryn A. Crawford, MS
Jewels of Responsibility from Mines to Markets:, Sarah Wade Dickinson DeLeon, MS
Green Forestry? Case Studies of Sustainable Forestry and Forest Certification, Bryan Foster, PhD
Metapopulation Dynamics and Multi-Scale Habitat Selection of a Montane Forest Songbird, Sarah Frey, MS
Initial Research to Assist the Restoration of American Chestnut to Vermont Forests, Kendra Gurney, MS
Using Pheromone to Attract Female See Lamprey (Petromyzon Marinus) in the Presence of Ambient Males, Michael Harrington, MS
Mining and Tourism: Comparing Spatial Patterns, Socioeconomic Contributions, and Environmental Impacts in China, Ganlin Huang, PhD
An Ecological Design Approach to Wastewater Management, Sacha Lozano, MS
Putting Aesthetics in its Place in the Vermont Wind Power Debate, Brian Miles, MS
A Land-Use-Based County-Level Carbon Budget for Chittenden County, Vermont, Erin Quigley, MS
Predation Pressure on Emergent Lake Trout Fry in Lake Champlain and Techniques for Assessing Lake Trout Reproduction in Deep-Water Habitats, Jacob W. Riley, MS
Classifying and Analyzing Human-Dominated Ecosystems:, Weiqi Zhou, PhD
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Valuing Ecosystem Services:, Shuang Liu, PhD
Effects of Hayfield Management on Grassland Songbirds:, Noah G. Perlut, PhD
Understory Plant Responses to Uneven-Aged Forestry, Kimberly J. Smith, MS