Senior Essays 2009

Full manuscripts for these excellent papers are available in the Environmental Studies program office. (See Contact Us for office location, etc.)

Berkley Adrio
Senior Essay: From Settlement to Seeds:How fire catalyzed native plants development on U.S. Public Lands

Adedana Ashebir
Senior Essay: Nemagon in Nicaragua: A Transnational Dilemma

Ilya Byzov
Senior Essay: When you build a highway: An analysis of linkages between automobile dependence and the suppression of public transit in the United States

Kevin Currey*
Senior Essay: “We’re Iñupiat, We’re Hunters” Subsistence, Petroleum Development, and Cultural Identity in Nuiqsut, Alaska
                                      
Christine Ellman
Senior Essay: Opportunities and Challenges Under the Diversion Ban with Exceptions of the Great Lakes Compact: A Case Study of the City of Waukesha, Wisconsin

Bente Grinde
Senior Essay: Imagining the North Shore: Perspectives on the Flathead Valley, Montana

Kevin Hickenbottom
Senior Essay: Backcountry Permits in North Cascades National Park: Analysis and Justification

Kathleen Knighton
Senior Essay: Scenic Design and Management of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Elyse LeeVan
Senior Essay: Chagas disease: a comprehensive analysis of the factors facilitating disease transmission and integrated evaluation of control strategy efficacy in Argentina

Davis Lindsey
Senior Essay: BioEnergy and Conservation: Sustainable BioEnergy from Grassland in the Conservation Reserve Program in Southeast Minnesota

Ariel Patashnik
Senior Essay: The Decline and Conservation of Endangered Lost River and Shortnose Suckers in the Klamath Basin
   
Tom Santoro
Senior Essay: Plastics: Bisphenol A and Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate.  Risk Assessment, Current Management Approaches, and Management Alternatives   

Irene Scher
Senior Essay: Internationalization and the Canadian Boreal Campaign

Laura Zatz
Senior Essay: Marketing obesity: Needed changes to the regulation of television food marketing to American children

*A special congratulations to the students who were awarded the Gaylord Donnelley Prize for distinguished work in environmental studies at this year's Commencement.

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