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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

Spring 2008 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class

• Macalester College Carbon Audit:  Clean Air-Cool Planet Campus Carbon Calculator

Spring 2008 - Citizen Science:  Environment, Technology and Democracy Class

• 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

Spring 2007 - Honors Thesis

• Negotiating with Nature: The Evolution of Urban Parks in the Twin Cities by Ariel A. Trahan

Spring 2007 - Citizen Science:  Environment, Technology and Democracy Class

• 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 - Maggie Hughes' Internship with GrassRoots Restoration

• GrassRoots Restoration Internship

Spring 2006 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class

• Looking Into Rondo:  Environmental Studies

Spring 2006 - Macalester College's First Green Roof

• Learn more about this green roof project by Macalester students.

Spring 2006 - Citizen Science:  Environment, Technology and Democracy Class

• 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 - Water and Power Class

• Exposing Hurricane Katrina:  The Scope of an Unnatural Disaster

Spring 2005 - Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Class

• Environmental Sustainability in St. Paul

Fall 2004 - Environmental Analysis and Problem-Solving Class (Jr. Seminar)

CLIMATE CHANGE ON NATIONAL PARKS

• 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 - 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.

Macalester College · 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105  USA · 651-696-6000
Comments and questions to esson@macalester.edu