Vassar Scholarship
"A Disappearance of Alternatives": Contesting Monocultures in the Bolivian Lowlands
Publication Date
2021-January-01
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Department or Program
Department
Earth Science and Geography Department
Earth Science and Geography Department
Vassar Scholarship
"A stench in the nostrils of Brooklyn:" whole foods, gentrification, and environmental inequality along the Gowanus Canal
Publication Date
2019-January-01
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
"The Seattle way": urban governance before and during Amazon's boom
Publication Date
2018
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
"They are our Prisoners:" The Gitmo Uighurs and the Making of the United States
Publication Date
2014-January-01
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
"“A Mass Consumption of Scenery”: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Construction of Landscape in the 19th-Century White Mountains and Their Tallest Peak Mount Washington
Publication Date
2023-May-01
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Department or Program
Abstract
New Hampshire’s White Mountains are the site of some of the earliest tourism developments in the United States. In this thesis, I analyze how these developments served to re-shape and construct a new–and lasting–landscape of the region that served the...
Vassar Scholarship
(De)colonizing nature in Bukit Brown: a struggle over national identity and citizenship in Singapore
Publication Date
2018
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
A path cut by water: the making of the Cochabamba water war through internationalization, postcolonialism and decoloniality
Publication Date
2017-January-01
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
Agitations in Western American Rangelands: Memory, Property and Regionalism in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Occupation
Publication Date
2021-January-01
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
An Issue of Sewerage: The role of Ellen Swallow Richards in Broad Irrigation at Vassar College and the present day impacts of excavation on Haven Loam soil
Publication Date
2023-April-20
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Department or Program
Abstract
From 1896 to 1909, a system of sewage disposal existed on the Vassar farm, purifying sewage through sandy soils and irrigating the adjacent crop fields. This system was ecologically innovative in its time and Ellen Swallow Richards, a Vassar alumna...
Vassar Scholarship
An Issue of Sewerage: The role of Ellen Swallow Richards in Broad Irrigation at Vassar College and the present day impacts of excavation on Haven Loam soil
Publication Date
2023-April-20
Authors
Department or Program
Abstract
From 1896 to 1909, a system of sewage disposal existed on the Vassar farm, purifying sewage through sandy soils and irrigating the adjacent crop fields. This system was ecologically innovative in its time and Ellen Swallow Richards, a Vassar alumna...
Vassar Scholarship
An un-bridged divide: the disconnect of an elevated urban experience at the Walkway Over the Hudson
Publication Date
2018
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
Assessing the arterials: environmental impacts and injustice along Poughkeepsie's east-west arterial roads
Publication Date
2019-January-01
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Authors
Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
Assessment of the Diversity and Abundance of Marine Species around Appledore Island Using Remote Underwater Videos
Publication Date
2023-May-02
Authors
Department or Program
Abstract
The Gulf of Maine, located in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, is biologically, ecologically, and socio-economically important. Humans have interacted with this region by overfishing cod, implementing bounties on harbor and gray seals, instigating warming through human induced climate change, and...
Vassar Scholarship
Assessment of the Diversity and Abundance of Marine Species around Appledore Island Using Remote Underwater Videos
Publication Date
2023-May-02
Authors
Department or Program
Abstract
The Gulf of Maine, located in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, is biologically, ecologically, and socio-economically important. Humans have interacted with this region by overfishing cod, implementing bounties on harbor and gray seals, instigating warming through human induced climate change, and...
Vassar Scholarship
Benthic foraminifera assemblage responses to sewage outflow in the Hudson River Estuary at Piedmont, NY
Publication Date
2022-May-02
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
Bicycle politics in New York City: Rights to the City on Bedford Avenue and Prospect Park West
Publication Date
2013-January-01
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Authors
Department or Program
Abstract
This thesis investigates how right to the city conflicts regarding the (de)construction of bicycle lanes in Brooklyn, New York affect the development of a more environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive city. Through an examination of two particular cases – those...
Vassar Scholarship
Clay Mineralogy of the MH-2 Core, Snake River Plain, Idaho
Publication Date
2013-January-01
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Authors
Department or Program
Abstract
The MH-2B hole was one of three holes completed as a part of HOTSPOT: The Continental Scientific Drilling Project. MH-2B was drilled to a depth of 1821m on the Mountain Home Air Force Base southeast of Boise, Idaho to evaluate...
Vassar Scholarship
Contesting Green Lifestyles in the Emerald City: The Urban Sustainability Fix to Capitalism and the Production of Exclusion in South Lake Union, Seattle
Publication Date
2014-January-01
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Department or Program
Vassar Scholarship
Crack Systems Analysis of the McCartys Flow, New Mexico, USA
Publication Date
2014-January-01
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Department or Program
Abstract
The McCartys Flow is a 3.9-ka vesicular porphyritic basalt lava flow in the Zuni-Bandera Volcanic Field (ZBVF) near Grants, New Mexico. The Lava Falls area on the southern part of the flow is dominated by pahoehoe sheet flows. Topographic features...
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Do or DoNo: Financing Inequality in Hartford, Connecticut Through the Downtown North Redevelopment Project
Publication Date
2021-January-01
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