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1998-1999 Thesis Abstracts and Presentations

Senior Theses

Ela Abrams

Conservation biology of a rare New England plant: Cynoglossum boreale

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Jennifer Atlee

The Effects of Whole Tree Harvest on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen after 15 years

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Amy Elkes

Should Brown Become a Green Investor? The Possibility of Instituting Environmentally-Responsible Money Management at Brown University

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Catherine Goodall

Permitting Pollution: An Assessment of the Rhode Island Implementation of the Naional Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

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Ben Hardt

Site Quality Effects of Ailanthus altissima and Acer platanoides on an Urban-Rural Gradient

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Charlotte Matthews

Reducing Building Energy Loads through Improved Fenestration Design

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Kimberly Mowery

Housing Conditions in Providence: Enough to Make You Sick?

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Saul Nadler

Quonset Point and the Morning Commute: Are There Opportunities for Mass Transit to Quonset Point/Davisville Industrial and Commerce Park?

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Megan Reha

A Successful Approach to the Remediation and Restoration of Riverside Mills

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Laura Schmitt

Exploration of Possible Feedback Mechanisms for Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in a Forested Ecosystem in Response to Global Climate Change

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Perry Sheffield

Preventing Pathogenic Microbe and Chlorine Contamination of Narragansett Bay from Providence, Rhode Island's Treated Wastewater

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Dani Simons

Applications of Remote Sensing to Conservation Biology

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Brian Scott Slater

How Can Unit-Pricing Programs Be Better Designed To Meet the Needs of Low-Income Residents?

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Emilie Stander

Can epiphytes also serve as indicators of pollution in sub-tropical ecosystems?

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Ninian Stein

Dyeing the Cloth: The Environmental History and Industrial Archaeology of Lebanon Mills, Pawtucket RI

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Masters Theses

Shivani Chaudhry

The Quest for Equity and Efficiency in the Use of Plant Genetic Resources

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V.Colas

Evaluation of TDR Program for Rhode Island

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Roosevelt Grant

Improving Public and Private Sector Coastal Zone Risk Assessment and Hazard Mitigation: A Case Study of the Coastal Hazard and Risk Assessment Map

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Jeffrey Nield

What are the ship-related environmental risks of increased commercial shipping traffic in Narragansett Bay due to proposed port expansion at Providence and Quonset/Davisville?

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Molly Olver

Public Funding of Photovoltaic Installations in Rhode Island: A Good Use of Public Money?

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Malena Sell

Climate Change Mitigation Projects in the Forestry Sector: The Significance of Co-Benefits Beyond Carbon Sequestration

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Holly Smith

The Great Green Toolbox: Building a Web-based Environmental Social Research Tool

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