Earth Science and Geography Department
"A stench in the nostrils of Brooklyn:" whole foods, gentrification, and environmental inequality along the Gowanus Canal
"The Seattle way": urban governance before and during Amazon's boom
"They are our Prisoners:" The Gitmo Uighurs and the Making of the United States
"“A Mass Consumption of Scenery”: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Construction of Landscape in the 19th-Century White Mountains and Their Tallest Peak Mount Washington
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...
(De)colonizing nature in Bukit Brown: a struggle over national identity and citizenship in Singapore
A day at the beach in Cumberland, Kentucky: The influence of tidal channel deposition on the geology of the Warix Run Member of the Slade Formation
The Slade Formation, as observed in the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF) in
northeastern Kentucky, consists of sediments transitioning from a deep water marine depositional
environment to fluvial conditions in the Late Mississippian Period. This transition is marked by a...
A path cut by water: the making of the Cochabamba water war through internationalization, postcolonialism and decoloniality
Agitations in Western American Rangelands: Memory, Property and Regionalism in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Occupation
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
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...
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
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...
An un-bridged divide: the disconnect of an elevated urban experience at the Walkway Over the Hudson
Assessing the arterials: environmental impacts and injustice along Poughkeepsie's east-west arterial roads
Assessment of the Diversity and Abundance of Marine Species around Appledore Island Using Remote Underwater Videos
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...
Benthic foraminifera assemblage responses to sewage outflow in the Hudson River Estuary at Piedmont, NY
Bicycle politics in New York City: Rights to the City on Bedford Avenue and Prospect Park West
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...
Caves of Hella: Visual and Environmental Clues for the Early Medieval Christian Settlement in Southern Iceland
This thesis explores the early medieval Christian settlement in Iceland through an interdisciplinary approach that combines Art History and Earth Science. The primary focus of the thesis is the artificial caves in Hella, Iceland. By examining literature, regional climate changes...
Clay Mineralogy of the MH-2 Core, Snake River Plain, Idaho
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...
Constructing Nature and the "Savage": Japanese Governance of Indigenous People and their Territory in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945
This thesis expands our discussion on the construction of indigeneity through the idea of “savagery” in Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule. Researchers who examine Japanese governance of Taiwan as an example of colonization outside of Europe and the United States...
Constructing Nature and the "Savage": Japanese Governance of Indigenous People and their Territory in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945
This thesis expands our discussion on the construction of indigeneity through the idea of “savagery” in Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule. Researchers who examine Japanese governance of Taiwan as an example of colonization outside of Europe and the United States...