Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Ecosystem Function Along an Elevational Gradient in Vermont, Emily Page Piche, MS
Climate Change And Land Use/cover Change Impacts On Watershed Hydrology, Nutrient Dynamics – A Case Study In Missisquoi River Watershed, Linyuan Shang, PhD
Characterizing The Management Practices And Decision-Making Processes Of Winter Maintenance Companies In The Lake Champlain Basin, Holden Smith Sparacino, MS
Evaluating Climate And Environmental Drivers Of Tree Species’ Growth Within The Northern Forest, Rebecca Stern, PhD
Shining light on the storm: Using high-frequency optical water quality sensors to characterize and interpret storm nutrient and carbon dynamics among contrasting land uses, Matthew CH Vaughan, PhD
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Human Side Of The Smart Grid: Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency From Renters Using Real-Time Feedback And Competitive Performance-Based Incentives, Daniel Fredman, PhD
Remote Sensing Methods and Applications for Detecting Change in Forest Ecosystems, David James Gudex-Cross, PhD
Pharmaceutical Waste in Vermont: Results from a Survey on Purchasing, Use & Disposal, Christine Hart, MS
Evaluating The Impacts Of Southern Pine Beetle On Pitch Pine Forest Dynamics In A Newly Invaded Region, Molly Heuss, MS
No Farm Is An Island: Pollinators And Pollination In Agricultural Landscapes, Charles C. Nicholson, PhD
Cityscape connections: National Park Service relevance and resilience in urban areas, Elizabeth Eleanor Perry, PhD
Comparing website presentations of "nature" across Vermont ski areas and adjacent rural communities, Margaux Anna-Elizabeth Reckard, MS
Applying Bayesian Belief Network To Understand Public Perception On Green Stormwater Infrastructures In Vermont, Qing REN, MS
Land Use, Power, and Knowledge at the Northern Resource Frontier: Mining, Public Engagement, and Contentious Land Imaginaries in Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Jonathan Tollefson, MS
Conservation of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Vermont, USA, Keri B. Watson, PhD
Governing Environmental and Economic Flows in Regional Food Systems, Michael Bishop Wironen, PhD
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Using Multiple Methodologies to Understand within Species Variability of Adelges and Pineus (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha), Tav Aronowitz, MS
Estimating Landscape Quality And Genetic Structure Of Recovering American Marten Populations In The Northeastern United States, Cody Michael Aylward, MS
Designing for Economic Success: A 50-State Analysis of the Genuine Progress Indicator, Mairi-Jane Venesky Fox, PhD
Regeneration responses to management for old-growth characteristics in northern hardwood-conifer forests, Aviva Joy Gottesman, MS
Exploration Of New Methods In Long Distance Transportation Data Collection And Tourism Travel In Vermont, Benjamin Kaufman, MS
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