Senior Theses

Below is a sample of theses from Lewis & Clark Environmental Studies seniors.

Click on the thumbnail of the poster to see a larger version; click on the thesis title to read the written thesis.

 

2011-2012

Tara Brown: “Face to Face with the Farmer:” Narratives of Production and Consumption in Specialty Coffee Value Chains Between the United States and Guatemala

 

Megan Coggeshall: Why come back? Sense of Place and Senegalese Student Migration 

 

Zach Holz: Portland’s Prestige Ecosystems and the Competition for World-City Status: A History of Three Gardens

 

Nate Stoll: Keynote Sounds in the Tryon Creek Soundscape: A Battleground in the Deep

 

Chloe Waterman: Getting to the Meat of Moral Discourse and Practice

 

 

2010-2011

Katherine Fiedler: Examining the Progression of Ecological Theory Through Arachnid Recovery of Mount St. Helens

Ben Mitzner: Motown and the Rose City: a situated political economic study of urban agriculture in Detroit, MI and Portland, OR

Emily Nguyen: Bioregional Imagination and the White Man’s Burden

 

 

Rosanne Wielemaker: Urban Agrarian Utopias: Re-conceptualizing the Role of Agriculture in Urban Landscapes

Tehya Wood: From Flowers to Flames: Motherhood, Identity, and Environmental Stewardship in Bhopal

 

 

2009-2010

Martin Frye: To Build or Not to Build? An ethical Approach to Dam Decisions

 

Jenifer Jackson: How Level of Development Affects the Enforcement of Environmental Policies in Puebla, Mexico

 

 

2008-2009

Evan Blankenship: How Russian Images of Far Eastern Fisheries Encourage Predicated Ways of Seeing

 

Katherine Hoglund: Examining Invasive Species Impacts Across Trophic Levels

 

Megan Mills-Novoa: Stakeholders in Creating Water Infrastructure Projects in Canterbury, New Zealand

 

 

2007-2008

Stephanie Elliott: Poetics of the Middle Landscape

 

 

Meagan Nuss: See(me): An Intersection of Environmental Studies and Art

 

Irene Shaver: Hurricane Katrina: The Dynamic Processes of Normality and Vulnerability

 

Christen Kiser: The Interplay of Fire on a Dynamic Landscape

 

 

2006-2007

Ben Schifman: Equivalence and Issue Framing Effects

 

Megan Taylor: Hydrologic and Ecologic Implications of Limited Surface Infiltration in the Tryon Creek Watershed

Megan McBride: Nutritional Inequities

 

2005-2006

Matt Ehrman: Sizing Up the Chevron Doctrine

Cameron Okie: Harvested Fish Size Evolution

Caitlin Sampson: Environmental Education in the Public Eye

Aaron Vandenberg: Buy Local: Regional Marketing Trends