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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Landscape Consequences of Pennsylvanian Natural Gas Development: Fragmentation effects of unconventional gas development upon the future of Pennsylvania's old growth forests.

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Jeremiah Bernau
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Pennsylvania's forests share a long and deep history that has been affected throughout the years by a number of external factors. The most recent threat to forest health is the development of unconventional shale gas production from the Marcellus Shale...

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Manual and landmark-based morphometric comparison of two populations of Campeloma, sp. across the K-Pg boundary

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Gary D. Linkevich
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Understanding how species survive mass extinction events allows scientists to more fully explore the effects of major biotic change in the fossil record. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K- Pg) extinction 65.5 Ma was one of the largest extinction events in Earth's history...

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