Earth Science and Geography Department
Eating the Exotic: Constructions of the Indigenous Other on the American Superfood Scene
Fault Dating in Rosendale, New York Using Clay Polytype Quantification
The techniques of fault dating, though still underdeveloped on a wide scale, have been increasingly studied over the past decade. This study draws on these recent observations in relative literature and relates them to a fault in Rosendale, New York...
Food injustice in Poughkeepsie: the creation of and challenges to oppressive food structures
From Nature Sanctuary to "National Dump": A Walk through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
This paper is inspired by the literal intersection of two walking bodies, the hiker and the migrant, in the "Most Dangerous Park In America." In Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, located on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, while the National...
From Organic to Co-creation: A Farm's Process of Reshaping their Relationship with Nature
Historical and Contemporary Modes of Racism in Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore is divided into spaces of luxury and wealth and spaces of poverty
and destitution. How did Baltimore come to be materially and spatially segregated by race, and how have those boundaries remained in a post‐Civil Rights era of purported...
Hollaback!: Challenging Street Harassment and Gendered Access to Public Space in New York City
Street harassment, or sexual harassment in public places, is widely experienced by women and queer individuals as they move through cities across the globe. As a form of gender-based violence, street harassment prevents those who experience it from full participation...
Holocene climate variability and the climate divide in the northeastern United States
Holocene Climatic and Biogeochemical History of Shaver Pond on the Rensselaer Plateau, New York
Interrogating the Affinity Space: An Examination of the (De)Politicization of a University LGBTQ Student Center
Interrogating the gayborhood: violence & the uneven geography of queer space
Investigating Controls on Hudson River Foraminifera Assemblages: An Analysis of Sediment Biogeochemistry
Investigating potential barium sources at Mormon Mesa, Nevada: an integrated geochemical-geomorphological study
Landscape Consequences of Pennsylvanian Natural Gas Development: Fragmentation effects of unconventional gas development upon the future of Pennsylvania's old growth forests.
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...
Lived Extractive Experiences and the Creation of Sacrifice Zones in Rural Communities
Loneliness and society: theory, practice, and mismatches
Longshore variation of grain size distribution of the southern coast of Long Island, New York: a test of a sediment transport model
Making sustainability a part of campus culture: an analysis of social movements through a case study of Vassar College sustainability
Manual and landmark-based morphometric comparison of two populations of Campeloma, sp. across the K-Pg boundary
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...