First-year master's students in the School of Environment and Natural Resources presented their thesis proposals at the 2015 Graduate Symposium, held on May 4, 2015. Graduate students will be conducting research on a range of environment and natural resource-related topics.
Graduate students presenting their proposals:
Diana Marcela Ampudia Sjogreen, advisor Cathy Rakowski
Community Organizing: A Process to Empower Local Farmers and Generate Agricultural Development on Providencia Island, Colombia
Jed Brensinger, advisor Kristi Lekies
The Role of Mobile Technology Use in Experiences Of and Connection to Nature
Kelly Claborn, advisor Jeremy Brooks
Measuring the Environmental Efficiency of Well-being in Columbus, Ohio
Ellen Comes, advisor Kris Jaeger
Short-term Geomorphic Responses to Lowhead Dam Removal in a Mid-sized Urban River
Danielle Cook (Vent), advisor Mazeika Sullivan
Restoring Rare and Engangered Fishes in an Altered landscape, Scioto River Basin, OH
Bobby Davis, advisor Mazeika Sullivan
Changes in Fish Food-web Architecture and Contaminant Loads Following Lowhead Dam Removal in an Urban River System
Matheus De Nardo, advisor Jeremy Brooks
Impacts of Market Integration on Community Social and Economic Dynamics and Subsequent Outcomes of Community Forestry in Bhutan
Kaley Donovan, advisor Stephen Matthews
Landscape Scale Conservation of Songbird Diversity in Southeast Ohio’s Public Forestland
Jazz Glastra, advisor Linda Lobao
Exploitation and Stratification of Farmworkers in America
Stacy Haught, advisor Kristi Lekies
The Next Generation of Farmers? On-Farm Apprenticeship Across the U.S.
Mackenzie Miller, advisor Konrad Dabrowski
Optimizing Production of Monosex Female Yellow Perch Through Induced Gynogenesis
Jenna Odegard, advisor Laura Pintor
The Role of Biodiversity on Invasion Success in Coastal Wetlands of Lake Erie
Matthew Porter, advisor Linda Lobao
Motivations and Economic Diversification Strategies for Organic Farms at the rural Urban Interface
Kristen M. Towne, advisor Konrad Dabrowski
Production of All-femal Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) through Gynogenesis and Sex Reversal
Anne Vascik, advisor Brian Slater
Creation of a Physiographic Soils Map of Ohio Based on First Principles of Soil Formation
Hugh Walpole, advisor Robyn Wilson
The Role of Risk Attitudes in Evacuation Decision-Making in Wildfire
Martha J. Zapata, advisor Mazeika Sullivan
Effects of Ecological Light Pollution on Aquatic-Terrestrial Energy Flux in Estuarine Food Webs
May 6, 2015.