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Environmental Studies Department
Olin Rice 249
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-696-6274
Comments & questions to:
esson@macalester.edu

Student Projects

Fall 2010

• ENVI 140 - The Earth's Climate System (Prof. Louisa Bradtmiller)
  • El Nino-Southern Oscillation by Daryl Cartas '14
  • EBAs for Climate Change Mitigation by Owen Daniels '12
  • Climate Feedback Systems by Sarah Fleming '14 
  • Climate Change and the Effects on Rivers by Jake Johnson '14
  • Ocean and Climate by Chris Kartheiser '14
  • Climate vs. Energy by Sam Leopold-Sullivan '14
  • Carbon Cycles by Sabrina Upadhyay '14
  • Corrie's Cool Climate Consortium - Population vs. Planet by Corrie Weikle (St. Kate's)
       
    
• ENVI 144 - Lakes, Streams, and Rivers Class (Prof. Dan Hornbach)

Spring 2010

• Honors Thesis - Straws in the Wind: Race, Nature and Technoscience in Postcolonial South Dakotan Wind Power Development, Kai A. Bosworth
     
  
• Honors Thesis - Undue burden: A Feminist Analysis of the Discursive and Material Realities of Breast Cancer and Obesity in the United States, Hannah Q. Rivenburgh
     
  
• Honors Thesis - Modeling Mussels: The Importance of Hydraulic and Dispersal Variables for Unionid Abundance & Diversity, Cara S. Weggler
     
  
• ENVI 133 - Environmental Science Class (Prof. Dan Hornbach)
      
• ENVI 140 - The Earth's Climate System (Prof. Louisa Bradtmiller)
  • El Nino:  Causes, Effects and Implications by Zoe Fullem '12
  • Greenhouse Gases by Allison Harris '10
  • Hurricanes and Mid-Latitude Weather Systems by Benjamin Eskin '12
  • Technology Against Climate Change by Marius Johansen
       
• ENVI 215 - Environmental Politics and Policy (Prof. Roopali Phadke)
  • Opinion editorials written by students and published by MN2020
        
• ENVI 335 - Science and Citizenship (Prof. Roopali Phakde)
  • BiDil: A Case Study of Racial Medicine by Lisa Moldan '11
  • BPA - Controversy Study by Kevin Kjorlien '10
  • A Bridge to the Twentieth Center: Megaproject Technocracy and the Columbia River Crossing by Aaron Brown '10
  • Constellation on the Chopping Block by Amanda Ledig
  • Cell Phones and Health Effects by Robert Hemphill '11
  • Fluoridation Frenzy by Zach Lazar '10
  • Losing Faith in Science:  The Rhetoric of Denialism in the Autism/Vaccines Debate by Andrew Guyton
  • Nuclear Energy, Climate Change, and the Fission of the Environmental Movement by Laura Bartolomei-Hill '10
  • Organic Labeling and the "National List" by Margaret Scott
  • Sweetness Versus Science: The Battle Over High Fructuse Corn Syrup by Melinda Vogel '11
  • Treasure Island Redevelopment by Diego Ruiz '12
  • U.S. Food Safety Standards: The Heated Debate About Pasteurization by Rebecca Harnik '10
  • The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Controversy by David Klock
        
• ENVI 488 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class (Prof. Louisa Bradtmiller and Suzanne Savanick-Hansen).
  • Cradle to Macalester to Grave
    • A Lifecycle Analysis of Printer & Copy Paper by Rachel Toenjes '11
    • Electronic Waste at Macalester by Lauren Ballewske '10
    • Life Cycle Assessment & Cost Comparison of Paper Towels and Hand Dryers at Macalester College by Maddy Cochrane '10
  • On-Campus Composing
    • Suggestions for Implementation by Molly Brown '10, Davita Flowers-Shanklin '10, and Emily Merrill '10
    • How To Guide
  • Recycling at Macalester
    • Macalester College 2010 State of the College Recycling Report by Rebekah Holmes '10, Kevin Kjorlien '10, and Zach Lazar '10
    • Recycling at Macalester Web Site
    • RecycleMainia 2011 Communications Plan
  • Sustainable Off-Campus Living
    • Composting and Sustainable Off-Campus Living by Trina PaStarr '10, Laura Bartolomei-Hill '10, and Piera Von Glahn '10

Fall 2009

• ENVI 194 - Water Science and Policy Class (Prof. Roopali Phadke and Prof. Kelly MacGregor)
  • Hell's Highway:  The Hidrovia Waterway on the Paraguay River by Ariel Herrod '13
  • The Iraqi Marshlands:  A Casualty in the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin by Natalie Camplair '13
  • Restoring the Charles River by Kayla Nussbaum '13
  • Sharing the Ganges:  Water Conflict Between India and Bangladesh by Brianna Besch '13
  • Zimbabwe and the Zambezi River by Boon Epstein '13
       
    
• ENVI 194 - Lakes, Streams, and Rivers Class (Prof. Dan Hornbach)
     
  
• St. Croix River Research Rendezvous

Summer 2009

• Student Research Projects

Spring 2009

• Honors Thesis - Restoring the Mississippi River Ecosystem in the Twin Cities: The Values of a Historical Approach, Samuel M. Adels
     
  
• Honors Thesis - Paleoenvironmental Change over the last 4000 years in Glacier National Park, Montana: Carbon and Nitrogen in Lake Cores from Lake Josephine and Swiftcurrent Lake, Hannah C. Wydeven
      
• ENVI 488 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class - Macalester College Institutional Action Plan for Carbon Neutrality - Adapted by Justin Lee from the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar 2009 Report (Suzanne Savanick-Hansen)

Fall 2008

• How to be a Sustainable Scot - Booklet written by Kai Bosworth ’10, Timothy Den Herder-Thomas ’09, Rob Jentsch ’10, Matt Kazinka ’11, Hannah Rivenburgh ’10, Jason Rodney ’10, David Seitz ’10, Terrence Steinberg ’11, Callie Thuma ’10, Austin Werth ’09, Hannah Wydeven ‘09

Summer 2008

• Student Research Projects

Spring 2008

• ENVI 488 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class - Macalester College Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory:  1990-2006 (Prof. Chris Wells and Suzanne Savanick-Hansen)
      
• ENVI 133 - Environmental Science - Projects on the Three Rivers (Prof. Dan Hornbach)
   
  
• ENVI 194 - Lakes, Streams, and Rivers - St. Croix River Project (Prof. Dan Hornbach)
   
• ENVI 335 - Citizen Science:  Environment, Technology and Democracy (Prof. Roopali Phadke)
  • The Beat of the Oil Drum by Ross Donihue
  • Bisphenol-A:  The Role of the Citizen by Ann Baltzer
  • A Boulder Future:  Energy and Power in Xcel's Smart Grid City by Kai Bosworth
  • CDM - How Clean Is The Clean Development Mechanism? by Raisa Behal
  • Clean Coal:  Reality or Rhetoric? by Marjorie Mayfield
  • CU Powerline and Activism in Western Minnesota by Rebekah Holmes
  • Effects of Ecotoursim on Citizens and the Environment by Elise Griffin
  • Japan's Whaling Problem by Tue Q. Tran
  • rBGH and the (mis) Use of Science: How Our Values get Lost in Environmental Controversies by Tom Klink
  • Solving Our Plastic Problems by the Bottle? by Patrick Ewing

Fall 2007

• ENVI 133 - Environmental Science - Twin Cities River Project (Prof. Dan Hornbach)
     
  
• St. Croix River Research Rendezvous

Spring 2007

• Honors Thesis - Negotiating with Nature: The Evolution of Urban Parks in the Twin Cities by Ariel A. Trahan
     
  
• ENVI 335 - Citizen Science:  Environment, Technology and Democracy Class (Prof. Roopali Phadke)
  • America's Radioactive Civil War by Andrew Ehrmann
  • Cleaning our Toxic Nation:  The Viability of the Superfund Program for Remediating Toxic Waste Sites by Clara McConnell
  • Directing the Invisible:  Citizen Involvement in Nanotechnologyg by Russell Schneider
  • The Endangered Species Act by Ann Berge
  • Free Market Strategies to Confront Global Warming Emissions Trading and Carbon Taxes by Austin Werth
  • Genetically Modified Crops and the Millennium Development Goals by Avery Bowron
  • Human Biomonitoring:  Developing a Bioethical Framework for an Emerging Field by Daniel Murphy-Cairns
  • Nuclear Energy in America by Carlye Sikkink

Summer 2006

• GrassRoots Restoration Internship by Maggie Hughes

Spring 2006

• ENVI 488 - Senior Seminar Class - Looking Into Rondo:  Environmental Studies (Prof. Chris Wells)
     
  
• Macalester College's First Green Roof - Learn more about this green roof project by Macalester students.
     
  
• ENVI 335 - Citizen Science:  Environment, Technology and Democracy Class (Prof. Roopali Phadke)
  • Bioprospecting or Biopiracy? A Controversy Study of Motives, Practices, and Ecologies by Elyse Gordon
  • Endocrine Disrupters and the Pill by Kelsey Hornbach
  • The Climate Crisis: A Case Study of Adaptation, Mitigation, and Transformational Politics by Richard Graves
  • Malaria: A Devastating Public Heath Concern by Julia Vraspir
  • Nuclear Power by Jeff Jay
  • Rights to Research and the Stem Cell Debate by Anna Goldberg
  • Urban Wastewater Management in the Great Lakes Watershed by Joe Rand

Fall 2005

• ENVI 252 - Water and Power Class - Exposing Hurricane Katrina:  The Scope of an Unnatural Disaster (Prof. Roopali Phadke)

Spring 2005

• ENVI 488 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class - Environmental Sustainability in St. Paul (Prof. Brett Smith)

Fall 2004

• Environmental Analysis and Problem-Solving Class (Jr. Seminar) - Climate Change on National Parks (Prof. Brett Smith)
  • Climate Change and Acadia National Park by Katie Ashton
  • Climate Change in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Ana Murteria
  • Denali National Park and Climate Change by Katie Edwards
  • Impacts of Climate Change on Yosemite National Park by Anna Argyridou
  • Our National Parks in the Face of Climate Change:  Spotlight on Florida's Everglades National Park by Ashley Ayres
  • Rocky Mountain National Park and Climate Change by Kat Sachs

Spring 2004

• ENVI 488 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class - "Finding Love Through Local Food:  A Guide to Sustainable Eating" - This book is a tool to help readers find healthy, responsible eating choices and to have fun in the process.

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