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COBALT MINING IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: COLONIALISM, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN ENERGY TRANSITIONS
(2022-12)While electric vehicle (EV) consumption is frequently lauded as a necessary sustainable solution, EV production is inextricably linked with severe social suffering in upstream mining communities in the Democratic Republic ... -
Building a Texas Water Data Hub as a model for National Water Data Infrastructure
(2022-12)Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) water data is a buzz word in the industry for good reason (Making Public Data FAIR, 2018). Without these objectives, poor water data across the United States will ... -
Advancing Environmental Equity: Environmental Justice Organizational Directory and Toolkit, 2022
(2022-12)Too often grassroots groups and environmental justice (EJ) organizations are not linked to each other (Bullard, 2000), exist in silos, and are isolated from the resources and/or organizations in which they can collaborate ... -
AN ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOLAR MARKETPLACE SHOPPING AND SOLAR EQUIPMENT QUALITY
(2022-12)The current Biden administration has aggressive goals to dramatically increase solar deployment across the United States. While solar is highly sustainable compared to fossil fuel electricity sources, solar modules ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF CITES AT MITIGATING ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING OF EUROPEAN EELS
(2022-12)In 2007, as a result of drastic population decline over the last century, European eels were added to Appendix II of CITES in order to regulate and limit its trade exploitation. However, illegal trade of these species ... -
THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL IMPACT OF COLONIALISM ON THE NEOTROPICS
(2022-05)The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were a time of exploration and colonization. Fueled by the necessity to establish new trade routes and profit potential by sea, colonists flocked to the Neotropics. Colonization brought ... -
CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOMELESSNESS IN DENVER, COLORADO: THE EFFECTS OF EXTREME HEAT AND REDUCED AIR QUALITY ON UNHOUSED POPULATIONS
(2022-04)Climate change is expected to have very intense impacts on the climate of Denver, Colorado. There will be an increase in the severity of heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and air pollution. At the same time, there are ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF SMALL MAMMAL ABUNDANCE AT ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK, NEW JERSEY
(2022-05)Island Beach State Park (IBSP), a barrier island located off the coast of New Jersey, is a state park with noted populations of a variety of organisms that includes numerous small mammals such as Didelphis virginianas ... -
EXPLORING THE NEXUS OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND CONSERVATION SCIENCE: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE MAPPING REVIEW, 2009-2021
(2021-05)Over the past 40 years, the ecological conservation research and policy community has advocated for the inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge and diverse cultural and spiritual worldviews in conservation science, management, ... -
STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF MORTALITY, SPAT, AND BIOMASS OF SANCTUARY AND PSFA OYSTER BARS IN CHESAPEAKE BAY
(2021-05)The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is a keystone species in Chesapeake Bay, providing nutrient and sediment filtration and crucial habitat. While the eastern oyster was once abundant in Chesapeake Bay, over-harvesting, ... -
A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF FORECASTED THREATS – FIRE AND LAND USE CHANGE – ON CONFICT BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN LION (PUMA CONCOLOR) AND PEOPLE IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
(2021-05)Human-carnivore conflict (HCC) remains a significant threat to carnivore populations around the globe. HCC from depredation, car strikes, and illegal hunting in southern California with the mountain lion (Puma concolor) ... -
Estimating Climate Resilience in Boreal Forests Through Functional Diversity
(2021-05)The largest threat to northern forests ecosystems is the poleward migration of southern species, which are outcompeting and displacing the native vegetation. To mitigate this shift, land managers must optimize the growth ... -
THE EFFECT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SHELTER-IN-PLACE ORDERS ON WILDLIFE BEHAVIOR: ONGOING HUMAN CONFLICT DURING THE ANTHROPAUSE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS
(2021-07)I conducted this study with the mentorship of Johns Hopkins University faculty member and lecturer, Dr. Kimberly Vest Gardner. I had the idea for this study in April of 2020 while enrolled in Dr. Gardner’s Landscape Ecology ... -
Wrecked: Impacts of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones on Neotropical Bird Migrants
(2021-05)North American birds are under pressure. With nearly 3 billion birds lost in the last half century (Rosenberg et al., 2019), understanding and quantifying incremental avian mortality is vital. There are many perils for ... -
Testing Some Hunting Myths: Are White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780) (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Cervidae) Movements Correlated with Meteorological or Astronomical Events
(2021-05)The purpose of this study was to investigate some elements of the folklore surrounding white-tail deer hunting and determine if anyone or more of those elements can be scientifically falsified. To address this goal, I ... -
A SPATIAL STORY OF DESTRUCTION AND RESTORATION: AL HAWIZEH MARSH, IRAQ
(2021-05)The al Hawizeh Marsh of southern Iraq is one of three marshes belonging to the semi-arid Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh ecoregion. This extensively freshwater wetland is the only natural marsh remaining in this ... -
WHERE IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED CAN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PROJECTS HAVE THE HIGHEST IMPACT ON NATURE AND PEOPLE? A PENNSYLVANIA CASE STUDY
(2021-05)The goal of this study is to determine where urban projects should be targeted to have the largest impact on nature and people within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Chesapeake Bay (Bay) is the largest estuary in the ... -
Examining the International and Regional Environmental Governance Impact and Future Role of the Arctic Council
(2021-12)Environmental governance often refers to an established system that influences environmental action by changing environmental incentives, knowledge, or stakeholders' decision-making or behavior (Bennett et al.). Many ... -
Colombia’s Environmental Security: How Protected Areas have become collateral in the International Drug Trade.
(2021-12)Environmental security is an emerging topic of great importance in regards to environmental conservation and preservation. In Colombia, the national natural parks are protected by the government as well as the International ... -
CHIMPANZEES, CONSERVATION, AND COMMUNITY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE’S TRIANGLE APPROACH
(2021-05)The illegal trafficking of great apes is a complex, multi-billion dollar industry that has resulted in dwindling wild chimpanzee populations through activities such as poaching for bushmeat and the pet trade. The Jane ...
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