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EES Majors Who Have Completed Senior Theses
2006 Environmental Studies Senior Theses
[Click on "Abstract" after each name to see full abstract. Click on "Poster" after each name to see the poster the student presented at the Senior Research Conference.]
(Student's Concentration is in Parentheses after their name. )
Baker, Jonathan (Political Science) [Abstract] [Poster]
Predicting the Growth of Wind Power through 2025
Bergstrom, J Todd (Psychology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Community Responses To Disaster: A Case Study of the Sago Mine Disaster
Boyer, Matthew (Geology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Long-Term Changes in the Forest Soils of the Adirondack Mountains
Brady, Megan (Education) [Abstract] [Poster]
Environmental Education within the School District of Philadelphia: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Approach
Dadachanji, Minocher (Biology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Soil Resorption in Susua State Forest
DeMarco, Kristyn (Geology) [Abstract] [Poster]
How Accurately Can We Predict Large Future Meteorite Impacts?
Gerrits, Adrian (Communications) [Abstract] [Poster]
Framing Global Warming: A look at congressional framing and its affect on public opinion
Goldberg, Laura (Fine Arts) [Abstract] [Poster]
The Environmental Effects of Ski Resort Operations and Expansion
Gravatt, Christina (Humanities) [Abstract] [Poster]
Man & Land: the Effects of Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Agricultural Practices on the Northern Half of the Isle of Arran
Greathouse, Evan (History) [Abstract] [Poster]
Electro-Osmosis, Conductive Polymers, and Dewatering Soils
Harris, Alexander (Political Science) [Abstract] [Poster]
Constitutional Issues in Environmental Law: The Interstate Commerce Clause
Kane, Nathaniel (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) [Abstract] [Poster]
Finding Property Rights in International Environmental Agreements: Solutions to the “Tragedy of the Global Commons” Two Case Studies
Kirwan, Emma (Health & Socitey) [Abstract] [Poster]
Local Food Distribution in Philadelphia: Reviving Locally-Produced and Community-Supported Agriculture
Kramek, Niva (Sociology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Living Downstream: What Wastewater Reuse Tells Us About Current Drinking-Water Practices
Levinson, Meira (English) [Abstract] [Poster]
The Hula Valley: a Case Study of Changing Water Policies in Israel
Lorincz, Eamon (International Relations) [Abstract] [Poster]
Water Privatization in the Developing World: Hope for the Future or Disaster for the Poor?
Lovelock, Elizabeth (Geology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Paleobotanical Reconstruction of Continental Paleoclimate during the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum
Marcial, Jose (Biology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Human Recreation in the Streams of the Caribbean National Forest
Martiny, Sarah (Political Sci& History) [Abstract] [Poster]
Managing the Water of the American West: the Political, Economic, Social, and Environmental Implications of the Hoover Dam
McClelland, Bryan (Anthropology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Ecuadorian Ecotourism Development: Environmental Sustainability, Culture, and Education
McElroy, Caitlin (History) [Abstract] [Poster]
Impact of the Uranium-Mining Industry on the Navajo Nation
Michel, Andrea (Health & Society) [Abstract] [Poster]
Environmental Management in Hospitals in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Reich, Sarra-Zoe (Health & Society) [Abstract] [Poster]
Environmental Management in Hospitals in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Zhorov, Irina (Geology) [Abstract] [Poster]
The Future of Cerro Rico Potosí
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2006 Paleobiology Senior Theses
Feasibility of Ancient DNA Analysis of Viking-Age Pigs from the North Atlantic
Taphonomy of a Sauropod Quarry in the Upper Morrison Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
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2005 Environmental Studies Senior Theses
Bome, Lauren (Economics) [Abstract]
Community-Based Conservation: The Key to Environmental Management and Sustainable Development
Cavanagh, Brandon (Psychology) [Abstract]
Psychological Barriers to Use of Recycled Wastewater
Cole, Naomi (Architecture) [Abstract] [Poster]
Envirotecture: Green Building Design in Center City Philadelphia
Davis, Elizabeth Polly (History) [Abstract] [Poster]
Fair-Trade Coffee as a Sustainable Alternative: A Focus on the Consumer Habits of Students at the University of Pennsylvania
Duncan, Claire (Political Science) [Abstract] [Poster]
US Foreign Policy in Latin American and the Middle East: the Role of Natural Resources
Fitzgerald, Paige (Economics) [Abstract] [Poster]
Promoting democracy through Higher Education
Friedman, Spencer (Communications) [Abstract] [Poster]
Tobacco at Penn: Problems, Perceptions, and a Look at the Future
Development of Effective Social Behaviors in the Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater): Hatch-Date factor
Humblet, Emmanuelle (Biology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Riparian vegetation in the Luquillo Mopuntains, Puerto Rico
Municipal Solid Waste in America: Lessons from the German System
Kuendig, John (Urban Studies) [Abstract] [Poster]
Driving Daytona Beach
Meischeid, Soren (International Relations) [Abstract] [Poste]
Cuba: A Case of Sustainable Development?
Moyer, Amanda (Geology) [Abstract] [Poster]
Twenty-Year changes in the Forest Floor of the Adirondack Mountains, New York
Comparison of Natural and Engineered Geomorphic Processes: An Assessment of the Beach Protection Project in Ventnor City, New Jersey
Previti, Emily (English) [Abstract]
Media Framing of the Water Shortage in the Lower Colorado River
Groundwater Contamination in Ringwood, New Jersey
Ryckman, Lindsey (Geology) [Abstract] [Poster]
From Field to Policy: Managing Water Quality by 222Rn and Alternate Tracers in Submarine Groundwater Discharge
Performance Study of a Novel Aerobic/Anaerobic Hybrid Biological Reactor for Wastewater Treatment
Schmicker, Nancy (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) [Abstract] [Poster]
Sustainable Development and its Implications: A Business Plan for Importing Chocolate from Small Farms in Ghana
Seeleman, Leigh (Biology) [Abstract]
Species Effects on Soil CO2 Flux in BIOCON vs an Oak Savanna
Enzymatic and Metabolic Responses of Stream Periphyton Communities to a Heavy-Metal Stress
Spiller, Klair (Philosophy, Politics & Economics) [Abstract]
The Predicted Effects of Climate Change and International Mitigation Efforts on Developing Countries
Thune, Spencer (History) [Abstract] [Poster]
The Alyeska Pipeline: A Case Study
Benjamin Franklin, an 18th-Century Environmental Scientist
Weiner, George (Political Science) [Abstract] [Poster]
Solar Energy in Schools: A Case Study of the Kearny Public School Project
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2004 Senior Theses
Environmental Studies (Student's Concentration is in Parentheses after their name)
Carter, Lauren (Urban Studies) [Abstract]
Childhood Lead Poisoning in Philadelphia: Reducing Exposure Through Strategic Abatement
Chung, Anca. (Urban Studies) [Abstract]
Case Study - Hong Kong: Will Someone Please Turn Off the Noise?
Connolly, Margaret (Biology) [Abstract]
Fostering Action Through Education: The Creation of a Children's Wetlands Education Curriculum for the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
Elansary, Mei (Biological Basis of Behavior) [Abstract]
Advancing Campus-Community Environmental Health Partnerships
Glick, Jason (English) [Abstract]
Rural Sanitation and the Residential Industry
Huang, Kathleen (Urban Studies) [Abstract]
Environmentally Blighted Communities and the Quest for Answers: A Case Study of the Waterfront, South Camden, New Jersey
Karp, Lauren (Communication) [Abstract]
The Wilderness Divide: An Examination of the Rhetoric Used to Define American Wilderness
Kolade, Luqman (African American Studies) [Abstract]
Environmental Justice & the Inner City
LeMay, Gregory (Natural Science) [Abstract]
Dynamics of Gas and Particle Phases of Certain Pesticides in the Michigan Atmosphere
Lewis, Jason (Anthropology) [Abstract]
The Effect of Regional Environment on Global Cranial Variation
Mahony-Anaya, Patricia (Health & Societies) [Abstract]
Childhood Obesity and the Fast Food Industry
Malachowski, Christoper (Biology) [Abstract]
Effects of River Discharge on Coral Reefs in Puerto Rico (and Relationship to land Cover Change Over Time)
Moore, Elizabeth (Political Science) [Abstract]
A Wolf at the Door: A Study of the Gray Wolf Recovery in the Northern Rocky Mountains
Potts, Stephanie (Anthropology) [Abstract]
Anthropogenic Causes for the Proliferation of Mosquito-Borne Diseases: A Case Study of Dengue in Latin America and the United States
Neir, Alyssa (Communication) [Abstract]
The Relationship Between Droughts and Groundwater Quality in Caroline County, Virginia.
Quinn, Brennan [Abstract]
Ecosystem Management Does Fire: Controlling the Uncontrollable
Stewart, Ciara (Political Science) [Abstract]
Issaquah Highlands: Sustainable Development or New Suburbanism?
Suttile, Zachary (Fine Arts) [Abstract]
Reviving an Elevated Eden: Manhattan's High Line as an Urban Greenway
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Paleobiology
Leslie, Andrew [Abstract]
Morphological Analysis of Leaf Development in Two Groups of Carboniferous Plants
Pirolli, Timothy (Paleobiology) [Abstract]
Identification of an allosaurid (Dinosauria: Therpoda) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Carbon County, Montana
Poole, Karen (Paleobiology) [Abstract]
A study of neoceratopsian braincases, with an emphasis on the species Avaceratops lammersi and Zuniceratops christopheri
 Tim Pirolli ('04)
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EES Majors who have Published
Emmanuele Ergas (GEOL '06 /Paleobiology Track)
A summer research project became an Abstract which was recently presented at a Poster Session at the Geological Society of America Conference in Salt lake City, UT. Emmanuele was one of those who presented the poster.
Undergraduates in the Department of Earth & Environmental Science have ample opportunities to pursue Research Projects. Projects range from one semester Independent Studies to two semester Senior Theses.
The best resource for research topics in the department is the faculty. Many of our faculty members are involved in ongoing research in many locations worldwide and are in need of a work force for their summer excursions. Other faculty members are involved in the professional world outside of academia and have connections to various firms and corporations. Faculty members are willing to help undergraduates gain research experience. Feel free to email or stop by to talk to a professor about their research and any opening they may have on their field team or about his/her affiliations with the professional world. Some of opportunities within our department are listed on the Opportunities page.
Other resources for research topics include Study Abroad and Internships where students immerse themselves in a particular field or culture and bring the knowledge and skills they have learned at Penn to a new setting. Many of these opportunities develop into carrers for the students after they leave Penn.
The Environmental Studies, Geology Honors, and Paleobiology track majors require a Senior Thesis as part of the major requirements. A Senior Thesis requires independent research over a 2 semester period. However, many students wish to do and are encouraged to start their research earlier than their senior year. In addition many students choose to pursue independent research projects as underclassmen. For those students, an Independent Study is a good choice. An independent study can often be done in conjunction with a field season with one or a group of our professors and researchers. Independent Study topics vary with the interests of the students and can be individualized to focus on the student's specific interest. If you are interested in pursuing an Independent Study talk with Dr. Giegengack or Dr. Bordeaux about your idea(s). They can recommend a faculty member with the same interests or field of expertise and answer your questions about the logistics of such a project. Once a topic and advisor is identified, a one-page proposal of the scope and focus of the Independent Study should be submitted to the Undergraduate Chair in order to be registered for the course.
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