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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 ... -
Analysis of Asymmetric Interactions between Nonnative Brown Trout, Salmo trutta, and Native Brook Char, Salvenlinus fontinalis, as a Mechanism of Habitat Fragmentation in the Gunpowder River Watershed of Central Maryland
(2018-12)Brook char, Salvelinus fontinalis, is the only salmonid that is native to the Mid-Atlantic and South Eastern United States. Within the state of Maryland, it is estimated that brook char have been expatriated from over 60% ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Can Medical Science Teach Conservation Science to Become More Effective?
(2020-05)In the United States, most conservation decisions are delegated to local governments and agencies. Those decisions are made by appointed or elected officials who have minimal or no training in conservation science. Researchers ... -
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 ... -
Climate Action Beyond Government: How Business Can Drive Action Through Value Chain Based Goals and Cooperative Initiatives
(2018-04)The purpose of this research is to provide recommendations for improved corporate climate action strategies, based on trends in the successful setting and achievement of emissions reduction goals in the business sector of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Competitive Advantage of Sustainability Reporting
(2017-12)Over the last few decades, the demands for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) developments and reporting have dramatically increased in business. Currently, the majority of the S&P 500 Index is providing sustainability ... -
Determining the potential distribution of highly invasive plants in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine: a species distribution modeling approach under different climate-land- use scenarios and possible implications for natural-resource management
(Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, 2011-12)Background: The Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains are one of the most species-rich ecoregions in Europe. High levels of biodiversity can be explained by the heterogeneous geomorphology of the mountain range, its geographic ... -
Does nitrogen gas flux through stream water account for the fate of anthropogenic nitrogen in an agricultural watershed?
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The Effect of Caudal Stimulation on Hematological Indicators of Stress in Blacknose Sharks, Carcharhinus Acronotus
(2020-12)I conducted this study with the mentorship of Field School, particularly its Director, Dr. Catherine Macdonald, and Director of Program Development, Dr. Julia Wester. In 2017, shortly after realizing I wanted to find work ... -
The Effect of Global :Population Growth on Sustainable Development Goal Targets 6.1 and 6.2
(2020-12)According to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 Synthesis Report on Water and Sanitation, the world is not on track to achieve SDG targets 6.1 or 6.2, which aim to provide global access to water and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Effectiveness of Prescribed Burn Treatment on Forested Land as a Method to Reduce Lyme Disease Human-Contractions in the State of Virginia
(2020-07)Virginia, and the greater United States, are currently experiencing an expansion in the range and increase in cases reported of Lyme disease, caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. A parasitic tick, Ixodes sp., is ... -
Effects of land use and land cover on alosine spawning habitat in non-tidal tributaries to the Bush River, Maryland: Implications for Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management
(Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, 2011)There is extensive literature on the effects of land use and land cover on aquatic biodiversity and integrity of habitat. Aquatic health in lotic systems has been found to decline with increasing development and construction ... -
Effects of Road Salt Applications on Human and Ecological Health: A Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Prospective Policy Options
(2019-05)Under many winter weather conditions, the use of de-icing chemicals is deemed necessary to maintain safe traveling conditions. Salt applications are used as the most effective method for treating ice and snow. Depending ...