2024
The Effects of Phenological Shifts on the Reproductive Success of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) and Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea) in the Gulf of Maine, Jamie Dinella, advisor: Tasha Gownaris
National Parks and Wolf Restoration: A Comparative Study of the United States and France, Alyssa Papantonakis, advisor: Randy Wilson
Highly Efficient Songbird Surveys using Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Jake Stergio, advisor: Andy Wilson
Reasserting Indigenous Presence in a U.S. National Park: The Role of Yellowstone Bison, Molly Hoffman, advisor: Randy Wilson
2023
Evaluation of the Schmidt Hammer Dating Technique in Iceland and the Mid-Atlantic USA, Tessa McDonald, advisor: Sarah Principato
An Investigation of Water Quality in Rock Creek, Gettysburg, PA: Impact of Treated Wastewater, Agriculture, Urbanization, and Riparian Buffers, Danielle Kleinberg, advisor: Sarah Principato
Do Redlined Neighborhoods Have Lower Butterfly Diversity?, Meghan Clark, advisor: Andy Wilson
Bioacoustics and Weather Surveillance Radar: A Case Study of Nighttime Migration and Bird Window Collisions, Zach Hoffman, advisor: Andy Wilson
Individual Level Responses to Rapid Climate Change in Common Terns (Sterna Hirundo) and Arctic Terns (Sterna Paradisaea), Kaiulani Sund, advisor: Tasha Gownaris
2022
The Feasibility and Promise of Tiny House Living and Construction in 2021, Zachary De Besche, advisor: Randy Wilson
The North ‘Helicoptering’ Into the South: A Meta-Analysis of Parachute Science in Ecological Field Studies, Alexandros Economou-Garcia, advisor: Tasha Gownaris
Indigenous Pennsylvania: Past, Present, and Future, Sarah Gilsoul, advisor: Salma Monani
Estimating Fish Diet in Lake Turkana, Kenya, Julia Sharapi, advisor: Tasha Gownaris
Evaluating Human Pressure on Protected Areas in East Africa, Bailey Ytterdahl, advisor: Rud Platt
2021
Place Me in Gettysburg: Relating Sexuality to Environment, Kylie Mandeville
Estimating depth and range for species of beaked whales found in the Marianas Archipelago region, Lauren Sherman
Challenges and Opportunities for Bison Conservation: National Parks and Tribal Lands in the Yellowstone Region, Jack Lueddeke
2020
Morphometric Analysis and Paleo Equilibrium-Line Altitude Reconstruction of Cirques on the Faroe Islands, Kiki Wallick
Ice Scour Lakes in Iceland, Ilana Sobel
2019
Wolves are Wild: A Collection of Narratives About Rescued Wolves and Wolfdogs, Molly Vorhaus
Developing a Campus Sustainability Action Plan: Stage II, Cassandra Shields
Using streamlined landforms to reconstruct and compare paleo-ice flow paths in Bárðardalur, north Iceland and northwestern Pennsylvania, Marion McKenzie
Yellowstone in Transition: An Analysis of Wildfire Characteristics and Post Fire Regeneration in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Annalise Hauser
The impact of recreational boat noise on Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae settlement, Jennifer Gilmore
Blue Sky Olympics: Satellite Observations of Air Quality During the 2008 Beijing Olympics Lincoln M. Butcher
How Environmental Film Affects Audience Climate Change Attitudes and Behavior, Brittany Bondi
2018
The Effects of UAVs on the Behavior of Song Birds, Kenny Boyle
Framing Yellowstone National Park: How the 1988 Wildfires and 1995 Wolf Re-introductions were Framed in the Local and National News Media, Kevin Aughinbaugh
2017
Cultivating Food Justice and Social Capital for Immigrant Community Gardeners: A Case Study in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Cooper
Cultural and Technical Analyses of Pesticide Exposure Risk faced by Migrant Farmworkers, Adams County, Pennsylvania, Micaela Edelson
Changes in the breeding range of the Broad-Winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) due to habitat fragmentation in the Northern Appalachians, Rachael M. Pruitt
Vulnerability of Elevation-Restricted Endemic Birds of the Talamancan Montane Forests (Costa Rica and Panama) to Climate Change, Violla (Zhen) Liu
North American Plains Bison: Conservation Status and Future Outlook, Sam Donnelly
Parks for Whom?, Katerina Krohn
The role of adult fiddler crab environmental acoustic cues and chemical cues in stimulating molting of field-caught megalopae, Emily Waddell
2016
The Greening and Browning of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado: Trend Analysis of Forest Vegetation Using Landsat Imagery, Katherine C. Cavanaugh
Fracking in Pennsylvania: A Spatial Analysis of Impacts on Land Cover and Land Use, the Viewshed, and the Audioshed, Kelly A. Collins
A Quantitative Analysis of Cirques on Tröllaskagi, Northern Iceland, Rachael E. Grube
Growth Rates of Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Punta Abreojos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Marjorie E. Howard
Crafting a Campus Sustainability Action Plan: A Grassroots Approach, Jolina A. Kenney
2015
Field-Testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Monitor Avian Abundance Using Audio Recordings, Megan E. Zagorski
A Feasibility Study of Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Survey Avian Abundance using Audio Recording, Janine M. Barr
Relationships between Forest Bird Declines and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Prevalence in the Eastern United States, Julie E. Blum
Is It Hot Out Here? Communicating Climate Change using Glacier National Park, Online Media, and Place Attachment, Dori L. Gorczyca
A Morphometric Analysis of Cirques on East Iceland Using GIS, Heather Ipsen
2014
An Evolution of Landscape and Meaning: Gettysburg National Military Park and Mesa Verde National Park, Adrienne M. Ellis
Using Sedimentology and GIS Analysis to Interpret Paleo-Ice Flow in Northern Iceland, Alyson G. Hampsch
Wind Forcing of Sediment Flux and Post-Larval Transport in a Patchy, Biogenically Structured Intertidal System, Sondra E. Winders
2013
Effect of Fluoxetine (Prozac) on Locomotion of One Species of Freshwater Snail and Two Species of Marine Snail, Christina Jasion
The Effects of Hydration/Dehydration Cycles on Germination in Two Subspecies of Clarkia xantiana, Christopher Strock
Effects of Deforestation on Microhabitat Suitability for Salamander Communities, Kaitlin Watrud
Using GIS to Reconstruct Paleo Equilibrium-line Altitudes from Cirques in Northwest Iceland, Jess Lee
Assessing the Impact of Industrialization on Lead Levels on the Gettysburg College Campus: A Chemical and Spatial Analysis, Nikita La Cruz
Using GIS and Streamlined Landforms to Reconstruct Ice Flow in Northern Iceland, Alexis Moyer
The Food Gap: Lessons Learned from One Rural Community’s Perspectives on Combating Food Insecurity, Emily Constantian
2012
Go With the Flow: Biogenic Structure Types Alter Bedload Transport and Dispersal Dynamics of Macrofauna and Meiofauna in Maine Mussel Beds, Brittany Jones
Mussel Beds Are Mostly…Mud and Shells, Not Mussels! Ecosystem Engineer Cover Types Alter Sediment, Macrofauna, and Meiofauana in Maine, USA, Mitchell Jones
2010
Exploring Intersections between Wilderness and Environmental Filmmaking, Brian Kelley
Detection and Modeling of Mountain Pine Beetle Red Attack in Colorado, 2003-2009, Jon Walter
Predator and Non-predator Chemical Cues Alter Mussel Self-Organization into Power-Law Clusters, Sara Coleman
Predator Chemical Cues Alter Mussel Self-Organizing Aggregation Rates and Patch Metrics. But So Do Non-Predator Cues!, Danielle Bates Haulsee
2009
Big Box Retail Development and its Alternatives in Rural Pennsylvania, Thomas J. Merce
Sedimentology and Humification Index of Peat Deposits in New York and Maine, Julie Markus
Wave exposure as a predictor of landscape-scale bivalve occurrence in the Gulf of Maine, Christine Urbanowicz
Challenging Notions of Potential: A Case Study of an Experiential, Discovery-based Botanical Education Program for Four-Year Olds in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Heather Grace-Rutledge
2008
A Greenhouse Gas Inventory of Gettysburg College, Marissa Mizeski
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Damage Increases Soil Nutrient Cycling, Causing Nutrient Leaching into Mountain Streams, Jason Cessna
Are Mussel Beds Selfish Herds? Mussels Self-Organize into Fractal Aggregations, Natasha Gownaris
Effects of Student-Initiated Environmental Programs upon Undergraduate Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors, Miriam Parson
Looking East for the New West, Alexandra Bigler
Heavy Metal Exposure and the Incidence of Renal Cell Carcinoma in the Baltic, Kristy Knepp
Examining Prey Resource Value of Hypoxia Impacted Habitats of Juvenile Spot in 2005, Matt Yergey
Caesar or house salad? A feeding preference comparison of the crayfishes Procambarus clarkii and P. spiculifer on aquatic plants of the Southeastern United States, Theresa Davenport
2007
Painted Turtle Farm: Assessing initial outcomes of a student-run community garden, Freya Gibbon
An Analysis of Land Use Patterns in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Andrew Rohrbaugh
2006
The effects of road data source on road density in south-central Pennsylvania: a GIS analysis, Sarah Lilley
Characteristics of Diamicton from Vestfirdir and the Mainland of Iceland: Implications for Provenance, Kristin Igusky
The Effect of Hydration-Dehydration Periods on Two Subspecies with Contrasting Mating Systems in Clarkia xantiana, Catrina North
Conservation and the State of Maryland: Determined by the Conservation Potential Metric, Jennie Fiorito
2005
The Water Quality of Springs and The Effects of Golf Courses on Stream Water Quality in South Central Pennsylvania, Erin Barkdoll
Evaluating the spatial distribution of ice-scour lakes on Northwest Iceland: Implications for determining the intensity of glacial erosion, Jeremiah Johnson
