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Class of 2024

Lara Beckius
Environmental Studies and Economics majors
Center Environmental Interest: Evaluating indoor farming practices in urban regions to gauge if they have the ability to feed the rapidly growing population

Carine DeBenedittis
Architectural Studies & Environmental Studies majors
Center Environmental Interest: Explore New York City's use of architecture to protect the city from environmental threats; especially sea level rise and flooding from natural disasters

Hannah Grinnell
Environmental Studies major, Anthropology minor
Center Environmental Interest: Exploring the Indigenous Protected Areas (IPCAs) conservation model as a tool to promote biodiversity conservation

Sarah Hall
Environmental Studies major
Center Environmental Interest: U.K.’s expansion of offshore wind and how it can be transferred to U.S. policy, R&D, and industry economics

Winona Hunter
Environmental Studies major, Anthropology minor
Center Environmental Interest: Comparison of U.K. and New England wind farm successes and resistance through case studies

Keri Krasnoff
Chemistry and Environmental Studies majors
Center Environmental Interest: Ocean acidification projection and solutions

Emma Lanahan
Environmental Studies major
Center Environmental Interest: How policy, economics, society and science play a role in implementing community level agro-ecological farming practices and how to sustain and support them

David Neelappa
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology majors
Center Environmental Interest: Plants in the Northeast U.S. and their potential medicinal value

Grace Robinson
Biology and Government majors
Center Environmental Interest: Manatee conservation policies including examining threats and developing potential policies that will help conserve the endangered species 

Renee Smith
Biology major, Chemistry minor
Center Environmental Interest: Study effects of plant and fungi interactions, such as in soil fungi and pathogens to discover new and practical applications for sustainable agriculture and habitat management

Edin Sisson
Botany major, English and Biology minors
Center Environmental Interest: How the impacts of climate change affect aquatic botanical ecosystems their primary consumers

Luke Sparreo
Botany major, Environmental Studies minor
Center Environmental Interest: Evaluating plant diversity in the newly created "conservation areas" on Connecticut Highway roadsides, comparing techniques between the Connecticut Department of Transportation and the Connecticut College Arboretum  

Aparajita Tyagi
Biology major, Statistics minor
Center Environmental Interest: History of land use affecting the biomass and diversity of mussel species by studying the water systems at Barn Island.

Class of 2023

Vaughn Ammon
American Studies and Government majors
Senior Integrative Project: Using Ecofeminist Theory to Advocate for Better Menstrual Technology
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner
Internship: Seaside Sustainability, Gloucester, MA


Adrian Beckford
Environmental Studies major
Senior Integrative Project: Comparative Analysis of Climate Adaptation Ideas and Strategies Between Ecuador, Spain, and South Africa
SIP Advisor: Julia Flagg
Internship: Sustainable CT, New Haven, CT

Quincy Dowling
Biology major
Senior Integrative Project: Effect of Trailside Disturbance on Biodiversity of Mushroom-forming Fungi in New London, CT
SIP Advisor: Eric Vukicevich
Internship: Cornell Institute for Host Microbe Interactions and Disease, Ithaca, NY

Sarah Padilla
Biology major, Environmental Studies and English minors
Senior Integrative Project: Analyzing Local Sea Turtle Stranding Data in Collaboration with the Mystic Aquarium
SIP Advisor: Maria Rosa 
Internship: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Coastal Ocean Processes at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Ellie Pieper
Biology major, Italian minor 
Senior Integrative Project: Analyzing Local Seal Stranding Data to Inform Conservation Efforts
SIP Advisor: Maria Rosa
Internship: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science (BIOS), Bermuda

Liam Rimas
Government and Environmental Studies majors
Senior Integrative Project: Urban Climate Mitigation Under Federal Right-Wing Regimes
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: Lower CT River Valley Council of Governments, Essex, CT

Kevin Rissmiller
Government major, Sociology and Economics minors
Senior Integrative Project: The Political Impacts of the Climate Movement in the United States
SIP Advisor: Mara Suttman-Lea
Internship: Office of Congressman Jim McGovern Washington D.C.

Anna Smith
English major
Senior Integrative Project: How Can Poetry Help Us Heal Our Relationship with the Environment? 
SIP Advisor: Michelle Neely
Internship: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Alaine Zhang
Biology major, Environmental Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Seabird Conservation: Mapping the Least Terns on Cape Cod
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner 
Internship: MassWildlife, Buzzards Bay, MA

Class of 2022

Alice Ball  
Biological Sciences major
Senior Integrative Project: Characterization of the Northern Star Coral (Astrangia poculata) Behavioral and Physiological Response to Microplastics
SIP Advisor: Maria Rosa
Internship: The Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, R.I.

Milo Becker               
Architectural Studies and Sociology majors
Senior Integrative Project: Realizing Net-Zero Design: Connecticut College Responds to the Climate Crisis
SIP Advisor: Douglas Thompson
Internship: The Stone House Group, Bethlehem, Pa. and Generation Conscious, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Katherine Davis          
Philosophy and Architectural Studies majors
Senior Integrative Project: Why You Should Care:Our Care Based Obligation to Protect Ecospheric Places for Future People
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner
Internship: Small Planet Institute (SPI) in Cambridge, Mass.

Bridget Hilgendorff
Biology major, Environmental Studies and English minors
Senior Integrative Project: Coastal Wetland Conservation Amidst Climate Change
SIP Advisor: Taegan McMahon
Internship: Connecticut Audubon Society, Essex, Conn.

Leah McKeen Kosovsky 
Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology majors, Environmental Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: The Chemical Characterization of Microplastic Polymers from Various Littoral Environments on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
SIP Advisor: Marc Zimmer 
Internship: Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Sandy Hook, N.J.

Lauren Frances Moonan
Biological Sciences major, History minor
Senior Integrative Project: Cetacean Science, Population Recovery, and the Policy Involved
SIP Advisor: Maria Rosa
Internship: Connecticut College, New London, Conn.

Jacqueline Mountford
Environmental Studies major, Economics and Geoscience minors
Senior Integrative Project: A Comparative Analysis of the Andes and the Himalayas: How Climate Change Effects the Health of Glaciers and the Social Impacts this has on Surrounding Communities
SIP Advisor: Douglas Thompson
Internship: Xylem, Rye Brook, N.Y.

Payton Mulvehill
Government major, Environmental Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: A Comparison of Environmental Activism in Minnesota with a Focus in Environmental Justice
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: 

Grace Neale
Neuroscience major, Anthropology minor
Senior Integrative Project: The Effect of Early Developmental Lead Exposure on Adolescent Spatial Learning and Memory and Aggressive and Antisocial Behavior
SIP advisor: Joseph Schroeder 
Internship: 

Amelia Packard
Physics major, Mathematics and GeoScience minors
Senior Integrative Project: An Analysis of Hydrokinetic Devices: Harnessing Energy From Moving Water
SIP Advisor: Douglas Thompson
Internship: The Stone House Group, Bethlehem, Pa.

Katherine Warren
Environmental Studies major
Senior Integrative Project: No-Till Farming for Carbon Sequestration
SIP Advisor: Douglas Thompson
Internship: Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts, Florence, Mass.

Class of 2021

GNCE Class of 2021
From left to right: Naveen Gooneratne, Catherine Fortin, Tess, Beardell, Morgan Maccione, Ella Rumpf, and Grace Neale


Theresa (Tess) Beardell
Environmental Studies major
Senior Integrative Project: Human Reliance and Impacts Upon Soil Microbes and Health
SIP Advisor: Eric Vukicevich

Adelaide (Addie) Daly
Environmental Studies major, Hispanic Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: EU Policies and Laws Relating to Sustainable Agriculture
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson and Eric Vukicevich

Cleora (Cleo) Dolde
Botany major
Senior Integrative Project: Effective Ways to Reforest and Conserve the Amazon Rainforest
SIP Advisor: Pam Hine

Catherine (Caty) Fortin
Government major, Environmental Studies and American Studies minors
Senior Integrative Project: Impact of Copper Mining on Indigenous & Poor Communities in Peru
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson 

Naveen Gooneratne
Biology major, Statistics minor
Senior Integrative Project: Observational Bird and Window Collision Study on Connecticut College Campus
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner

Morgan Maccione
Anthropology and Environmental Studies majors
Senior Integrative Project: Anthropological Study of Human Waste Habits by Examining Chicken Consumption Patterns Across Cultures
SIP Advisor: Anthony Graesch

Grace Neal
Behavioral Neuroscience major, Anthropology minor
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental Toxins and Their Effects on Childhood Development and Anxiety
SIP Advisor: Joseph Schroeder

Joanna Rucker
Economics major, Finance minor
Senior Integrative Project: An Environmental and Ecological Analysis of the Ecotourism Industry in Botswana
SIP Advisor: Maria Cruz-Saco 

Ella Rumpf
Environmental Studies major
Senior Integrative Project: The Philosophy and Ethics of Single-Use Items and the Responsibility of Producers in Their Disposal
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner 

Julia Whelan
Behavioral Neuroscience major
Senior Integrative Project: How Primate Social and Cognitive Makeup Relates to how Humans Should Approach Conservation
SIP Advisor: Joe Schroeder 

Shefka (Sheffy) Williams
Botany and Mathematics majors
Senior Integrative Project: Urban Agriculture, Community Gardens, and Soil Pollution in Post-Industrial Cities
SIP Advisor: Eric Vukicevich

Class of 2020

GNCE Class of 2020
Class of 2020 Certificate Students
Back row, l-r: Avatar Simpson, Emma Brooks, and Julia Neumann
Front row, l-r: Jonathan Monderer, Anna Laprise, Sarah Stephen, Haruko Tatyama, Jennifer Rojas, and Marcus Vinicius Pinto Pereeira Jr.

Emma Nicole Brooks
Environmental Studies major, Anthropology minor
Senior Integrative Project: Humanizing Food Waste Inside College Student Kitchens
SIP Advisor: Rachel Black
Internship: Slow Food USA, Denver, CO

Anna Jo Laprise
Government major, Economics and Environmental Studies minors
Senior Integrative Project: Industrial Hemp Production in the United States: Do current practices promote sustainability?
SIP Advisor: Eric Vukicevich
Internship: Pineland Farms, New Gloucester, ME

Alan Lau
Government major, Hispanic Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: The Unknown Costs of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: Earth Day Network, Washington, D.C.

Jonathan David Monderer
Environmental Studies major, Anthropology minor
Senior Integrative Project: Conservation of Sea Turtles-An Overview and Perspectives on its Issues
SIP Advisor: Maria Rosa
Internships: Mass Audubon's Coastal Waterbird Program, Cape Cod, MA, and Maritime Aquarium, Norwalk CT (research in Colombia) 

Julia Lourens Neumann
Religious Studies major, Environmental Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: Elaborating on an Ecological Ethic of Care: A Synthesis of Leopold's Land Ethic, Feminist Care Ethics, and Sense of Place Development
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner
Internship: Alumni Department at NOLS Headquarters, Lander, WY

Marcus Vinicius Pinto Pereira, Jr.
Chemistry major, Computer Science minor 
Senior Integrative Project: Study Towards the Total Synthesis of Frondosin D
SIP Advisor: Timo Ovaska
Internship: Organic Synthesis Laboratory Connecticut College, New London, CT, and University of São Paulo, Brazil 

Jennifer Katherine Rojas Perez
Computer Science major
Senior Integrative Project: SLASH App: Tracking Consumer Habits to Reduce Environmental Impact
SIP Advisor: Julia Flagg
Internship: CultureHouse, Cambridge, MA

Avatar Justin Simpson
Environmental Studies major, Economics and Religious Studies minors
Senior Integrative Project: Reimagining Streetscapes in a Car-Free City
SIP Advisor: Anna Vallye
Internship: Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments, Waterbury, CT

Sarah Marie Stephen
Psychology major, Environmental Studies minor 
Senior Integrative Project: Modeling Sustainability: Adolescent Environmental Education as a Solution to Long-Term Sustainable Change
SIP Advisor: Julia Flagg
Internship: Yellow Farmhouse, Stonington, CT, and Common Grounds, New Haven, CT

Haruko Tateyama
Chemistry major, Government minor
Senior Integrative Project: Technological and Social Challenges in Moving Towards Sustainable Transportation: Focus on Electric Vehicle Shift
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: Nanograf Corporation, Chicago, IL





Class of 2019

  Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Recognition Ceremony

Left to right: Sarah Bass, Ricardo Olea, Emilio Pallares, Chloe Mayhew, Johnathan Evanilla,  Nate Morris, Delilah Fairclough-Stewart, Sydney Krisanda, Amelia Morrissey, and Ariane Buckenmeyer


Sarah Jackson Bass International Relations major, Art and Environmental Studies minors
Senior Integrative Project: City-Networks and Global Climate Governance: C40 Cities and Cities for Climate Protection (CPP)
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: Transition US, Sebastopol, California

Ariane Buckenmeyer
Biology major, Geology minor
Senior Integrative Project: Taxonomic Anarchy in the Tree of Life, and the Problem It Poses for Conservation
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner
Internship: University of Florida, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St Augustine, Florida

Johnathan Joseph Evanilla Biology and Computer Science majors
Senior Integrative Project: Development of Genomic Resources for Seriola dorsalis Aquaculture: Searching for Valuable Traits Through Local Adaptation
SIP Advisor: Anne Bernhard, Karina Mrakovcich, Marine Sciences USCGA; Stephen Winters-Hilt, Computer Science Western Colorado State
Internship: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California

Delilah Irene Fairclough-Stewart Environmental Studies and French majors
Senior Integrative Project: Where is Our Trash Going? The Lifecycle of a Paperboard Box
SIP Advisor: Anthony Graesch
Internship: Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Hartford, Connecticut

Sydney Susan Krisanda
Economics and Environmental Studies majors
Senior Integrative Project: Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Nutrient Pollution on Harmful Algal Blooms in the Finger Lakes of New York
SIP Advisor: Wei Zhang
Internship: Oregon Environmental Council, Portland, Oregon

Chloe Mayhew
Environmental Studies major, Psychology and English minors
Senior Integrative Project: Bringing Rewilding to the Urban Sphere
SIP Advisor: Derek Turner
Internship: Groundwork Rhode Island, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Nate Robert Morris
Biology major with Ecology concentration, Environmental Studies and Economics minors
Senior Integrative Project: The Reuse of Commercial Long Island Sound Oyster Shells for Restoration
SIP Advisor: Karina Mrakovcich, Marine Sciences USCGA
Internship: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Amelia P Morrissey
Environmental Studies major, Anthropology minor
Senior Integrative Project: Sedimentation, Cleanup, and Social Impacts on the Anacostia River
SIP Advisor: Douglas Thompson
Internship: The Johnson Company, Portland Maine

Ricardo Jose Olea
Sociology and Latin American Studies majors
Senior Integrative Project: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Southern California: The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice vs. The Logistics Industry 
SIP Advisor: Julia Flagg
Internship: Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, Jurupa Valley, California

Emilio Manuel Pallares
Environmental Studies major
Senior Integrative Project: Research proposal on the Ethnobotany of the Siekopai of Painkenape, Perú
SIP Advisors: Manuel Lizarralde
Internship: Fundación Raíz. Painkenape Community, Loreto District, Perú

Class of 2018

GNCE, Class of 2018
Back row, l-r: Maya Sutton-Smith, Josh Lee and Maddie Fenderson
Middle row, l-r: Katherine Carey, Saskia Stark-Ewing, Phoebe Masterson-Ekart, Clare Loughlin and Juliette Lee
Front row l-r, Jessica Sullivan and Lauren Baretta


Lauren Elizabeth Baretta
International Relations major, English minor
Senior Integrative Project: One Garden at a Time: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: Ford City Community Garden, Windsor, Ontario

Katherine Christine Carey
Environmental Studies major
Senior Integrative Project: A Comparative Analysis of Sunscreen Use in the Turks and Caicos Islands
SIP Advisor: Karina Mrakovcich, Marine Sciences USCGA
Internship: Save the Bay, Newport, RI

Madeleine Anne Fenderson
Environmental Studies major, Economics minor
Senior Integrative Project: Stakeholder Interest in Promoting Sustainable Maine Fisheries
SIP Advisor: Karina Mrakovcich, Marine Sciences USCGA
Internship: Wells National Estuary Research Reserve, Wells, ME

Joshua David Gilbert Lee
Government major, Environmental Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: Institutionalizing Urban Climate Governance: A Case Study of the Global Covenant of Mayors and its Predecessors
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: EU Delegation to the United States, Washington, DC 

Juliette Alexandra Lee
Environmental Studies major, Anthropology and Government minors
Senior Integrative Project: Invasion of Caribbean Archipelagic States: An Analysis of the Introduction of Invasive Red Lionfish (Pteroris volitans) into Cuisines in the Caribbean
SIP Advisor: Rachel Black
Internship: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Silver Spring, MD

Clare Wylie Loughlin
Environmental Studies major
Senior Integrative Project: Perfluorinated Compounds: Convenient, Dangerous, and Unregulated
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson
Internship: Toxics Action Center, Portland, ME

Phoebe Masterson- Eckart
Botany major, Math minor
Senior Integrative Project: Assessment, Analysis, and Early Revitalization Planning for the Urban Forest of New London, CT
SIP Advisor: Glenn Dreyer and Maggie Redfern
Internship: Casey Trees, Washington, DC

Saskia Leonore Stark-Ewing
Government major, Environmental Studies minor
Senior Integrative Project: Food Safety Governance in Vietnam: Obstacles and Opportunities
SIP Advisor: William Frasure
Internship: Director of Food Strategy, State of Rhode Island, Providence, RI 

Jessica Leigh Sullivan
English and Environmental Studies majors
Senior Integrative Project: The Rise of "Frankenfood": How Changing Media Strategies Shape our Perception of GMOs
SIP Advisor: Marie Ostby
Internship: Small Planet Institute, Cambridge, MA 

Maya Daniel Sutton-Smith
History major, Arabic minor
Senior Integrative Project: Local Hazard, Global Threat: A Historical Case Study of Activism at Rocky Flats
SIP Advisors: Eileen Kane
Internship: Independent Archival Research in Boulder, CO

Class of 2017

Class of 2017, Goodwin Niering Center for the Environment
Back row, l-r: April Zhao, Sarah Spound, Julia Serafin, Moriah McKenna, Mei Reffsin and Katie Alderman Front Row, l-r: Marissa Gildea, Nako Kobayashi, Nikki Caspers and Lana Richards

Kathryn Rose Alderman
English major, Computer Science and Philosophy minors
Senior Integrative Project: Until Death Brings Us Closer Together Forever: Spirituality, Corporeality, and Queer Identification with Nature in Transcendental Literature
SIP Advisors: Michelle Neely, English and Julie Rivkin, English
Internship: EARTHLab, UC Santa Cruz     

Nikki Angela Caspers
Environmental Studies major                    
Senior Integrative Project: A Study of Potential Size Dependent Diet Shifts of Invasive Lionfish in Florida and an Examination of Their Predation on Local Florida Fisheries
SIP Advisors: Anne Bernhard, Biology and Karina Mrakovicic, Marine Sciences USCGA
Internship: REEF Environmental Education Foundation, Key Largo, FL      

Marissa Lee Gildea
Behavioral Neuroscience major, Environmental Studies minor 
Senior Integrative Project: Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Anxiety Behavior in Response to Glyphosate
SIP Advisor: Joseph Schroeder, Psychology
Internship: US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C. 

Nako Kobayashi
Anthropology major, Environmental Studies and French minors
Senior Integrative Project: The City Where Storks Fly: Sustainable Agriculture and Species Reintroduction in Toyooka City, Japan
SIP Advisor: Rachel Black, Anthropology
Internship: Toyooka City Hall, Toyooka, Japan

Moriah Gale McKenna
Biological Sciences & Anthropology majors with a Concentration in Archeology                   
Senior Integrative Project: Anthropogenic Landscapes in Southern New England: An Archaeological Investigation of Farming Practices on an Eighteenth Century Colonial Farmstead in Southeastern Connecticut
SIP Advisor: Anthony Graesch, Anthropology
Internship: ConnSSHARP, Connecticut College

Mei Belleyang Reffsin
Art major with a Concentration in Design                        
Senior Integrative Project: Visualizing Food Waste and Design Applications of Food Education
SIP Advisor: Andrea Wollensak, Art
Internship: The Seed Farm, Emmaus, PA

Lana Rose Richards
Theater major
Senior Integrative Project: The Land is so Much More Than it’s Analysis: Home and Place in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
SIP Advisor: David Jaffe, Theater
Internship: We Players, San Francisco, CA

Julia Rose Serafin
Economics major                                       
Senior Integrative Project: To Engage or Not to Engage? How Consumers Value Firm Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives
SIP Advisor: Wei Zhang, Economics
Internship: Stowaway Cosmetics, New York, NY

Sarah Pick Spound
Environmental Studies major, Math and Studio Art minors
Senior Integrative Project: Prospects for Community-Based Renewable Energy: Lessons from Abroad
SIP Advisor: Jane Dawson, Government and Environmental Studies
Internship: Vineyard Power, Tidsbury, MA

April Zhao
Environmental Studies and Economics majors
Senior Integrative Project: The Economic Impacts of National Nature Reserves on Local Communities in China
SIP Advisor: Wei Zhang, Economics
Internship: ConnSSHARP, Connecticut College

Class of 2016

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2016.
Back row, l-r: Jessica Wright, Natalie Calhoun, Aly Cheney, Olivia Rabbitt, Emily MacGibeny, Caitlin Persa, Maia Draper-Reich and Cian Fields Front Row, l-r: Marina Stuart, Emma Rotner, Anna Marshall and Matt Luciani

GNCE Class of 2016 Internship Reflection Papers Booklet (pdf)

Natalie Calhoun

Major: Environmental Studies
Environmental Interest: Municipal waste management, landfill divergence strategies and waste energy solutions

Aly Cheny

Majors: Environmental Studies and Economics
Environmental Interest: Carbon values of American forests - United Nations REDD methods

Mai Draper-Reich

Majors: Biology and Dance
Environmental Interest: Relationships between arctic communities, scientists and policy makers

Cian Fields

Major: Economics
Environmental Interest: Auto industry policy and environmental impacts

Matt Luciani

Major: History
Environmental Interests: Environmental racism towards Southwest, U.S. Native Americans

Emily MacGibeny

Major: Environmental Studies
Environmental Interest: Traditional ecological knowledge and the relation to biodiversity & environmental awareness 

Anna Marshall

Majors: Environmental Studies and Anthropology
Environmental Interest: Enviromental impacts of dam removal

Caitlin Persa

Major: Environmental Studies
Environmental Interest: Intersection of art and alternative energy

Olivia Rabbitt

Major: Environmental Studies
Environmental Interest: Economic and social structures of permaculture

Emma Rotner

Majors: Environmental Studies and International Relations
Environmental Interest: Environmental and social justice issues with mining and development

Marina Stuart

Major: Environmental Studies
Environmental Interest: Accessibility and efficacy of science writing

Jessica Wright

Major: Biology
Environmental Interest: Potential comparability of environmental and animal welfare activism 

Class of 2015

GNCE Class of 2015 Seniors
Back row, l-r: Conor Quilty, Lisa Paulsen and Jeanette Hoets Front row, l-r: Margot Wilsterman, Mara Lookabaugh and Azul Tellez Not pictured:Anna Curtis-Heald, Alex Iezzi, Maeve Kidney, Kristina Satterlee and Michaela Tepler

Anna Curtis-Heald

Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Art
Environmental Interest: Sustainable art and environmental education
Internship: Maine Island Trail Association, Portland, ME

Jeannette Hoets

Majors: French and Government
Environmental Interest: Relationship between local impacts and policy change with oil spills
Internship: Ocean Exploration Trust Exploration, Old Lyme, CT on the Exploration Vessle Nautilus , Gulf of Mexico

Alexandra Iezzi

Major: Geophysics (self-designed) Minor: Math
Environmental Interest: Seismic prediction and impacts of volcanos and lahars
Internship: United States Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK

Maeve Kidney

Major: Sociology Minor: Art
Environmental Interest: Local vs. western world perspectives on human-wildlife interactions, explored through photography and journalism
Internship: Wildlife Friends Foundation, Petchaburi, Thailand

Mara Lookabaugh

Major: Architectural Studies
Environmental Interest: How the U.S. can reach a balance in environmental priorities and economic concerns related to sustainable architecture
Internship: B-rOOt Studios, Oaxaca, Mexico

Lisa Paulsen

Major: Environmental Chemistry
Environmental Interest: The synergistic effects of consumer products, especially personal care products on water systems
Internship: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Conor Quilty

Majors: Botany and English
Environmental Interests: Viticulture and the viability and sustainability of the land through multiple reuses and new land use practices
Internship: Kendall Jackson Wine Center, Fulton, CA

Kristina Satterlee

Majors: Environmental Studies and English
Environmental Interests: How sustainable agriculture can be successfully implemented in developing countries
Internship: Groundwork Hudson Valley, New York, NY

Azul Tellez

Major: Environmental Studies
Environmental Interest: How urban agriculture is being used to mitigate food deserts and to encourage black empowerment movements
Internship: Davis Projects for Peace, East Portland, OR 

Micaela Tepler

Majors: Environmental Studies and Music
Environmental Interest: Environmental injustice; changing musical expressions as a result of disaster in Louisiana
Internship: New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation, New Orleans, LA

Margot Wilsterman

Major: Biology
Environmental Interest: By-catch reduction through research on marine organisms, fishery equipment modification and fisheries policy
Internship: New England Aquarium, Boston, MA

Class of 2014

GNCE Class of 2014 Alumni

Left to right: Emily Goldstein, Chelsea Parish, Emily Nixon, Katie Surrey-Bergman, Jessie Mehrhoff, Mary Buchanan and Barry Ke

GNCE Class of 2014 Internship Reflection Papers (pdf)

Mary Buchanan
Major: Biological Sciences
Internship: Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Mystic, CT
Senior Integrative Project: Response of Forest Bird Populations to Long-Term Changes in Local Vegetation and Regional Forest Cover

Emily Goldstein
Major: Architectural Studies
Internship: Amacher & Associates Architects, Cambridge, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Urban Planning: Boston Cycles

Barry Ke
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Equator Principles in China
Senior Integrative Project: Equator Principles in China

Jessie Mehrhoff
Major: Environmental Studies and Economics
Internship: Appalachian Voices, Washington, D.C.
Senior Integrative Project: Communities vs. Coal: A Comparative Analysis of the Movements Against Surface Mining in Australia and the United States

Emily Nixon
Major: Environmental Studies and Hispanic Studies
Internship: Fintrac, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Senior Integrative Project: Public Perceptions of Risk and the Debate Surrounding GMO's

Chelsea Parish
Major: International Relations
Internship: Trust for Public Land, Washington, D.C.
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental Policy in U.S.: Application and Implications of Land & Water Conservation Fund

Katie Surrey-Bergman
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Woods Hole, Oceanographic Institution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Senior Integrative Project: South Africa: A Model for Conservation - An Assessment of South Africa's Efforts to Save the Elephant

Class of 2013

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2013.

Class of 2013 - back row, l-r: Mark Roberto, Seana Siekman, Clare Murphy-Hagan, Katie Lynch, Rebecca Connor and Mitchell Serota front row, l-r: Rhea Corson-Higgs, Raymond Palmer, Wynndee Reese and Rebecca Horan

Read and download Reflection Papers for the Goodwin-Niering Center Class of 2013 or
GNCE Class of 2013 SIP Abstracts

Rebecca Conner
Major: Biological Sciences, Minor: Anthropology
Internship: Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, Barrow Alaska
Senior Integrative Project: Impacts of Western Economic Influence and Climate Change on Indigenous Natural Resource Management: Case Study,  Barrow Alaska

Rhea Corson-Higgs
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Dance
Internship: Earth Island Institute: New Leaders Initiative, Berkley, CA
Senior Integrative Project: Connecticut Core Science Curriculum and Environmental Education in New London

Rebecca Horan
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: French
Internship: University of Maine Forest Bio-Products Research Institute, Orono, ME
Senior Integrative Project: Conservation of an Estuary: Addressing Habitat Quality and Action Planning in the Poquetanuck Cove

Katherine Lynch
Majors: Government and Environmental Studies
Internship: Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Mystic CT

Clare Murphy-Hagan
Major: Physics, Minor: Mathematics
Internship: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Senior Integrative Project: The Effects of Gradient and Discharge on Culvert Outlet Scour

Raymond Palmer
Major: International Relations
Internship: Shaxi Low-Carbon Community Center, Yunnan Province, China
Senior Integrative Project: Where Democracy Concedes: Examining Environmental Civil Societies in China and Japan

Wynndee Reese
Major: Anthropology
Internship: World Camp, Lilongwe, Malawi
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental Education: Sustainability: Delivery and Impact

Mark Roberto
Major: History
Internship: Conservation Law Foundation, Boston, MA
Senior Integrative Project: 50 Years Since Silent Spring:  Rediscovering Rachel Carson

Mitchell Serota
Major: Biological Sciences, Minor: Chemistry
Internship: University of Florida "The Croc Docs", Fort Lauderdale, FL
Senior Integrative Project: Assessing the Effects of Grassland Restoration on a Fall Migratory Bird Stopover Site

Seana Siekman
Majors: Government and Environmental Studies
Internship: Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental Injustices of the Electronics Life Cycle

Class of 2012

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2012.

Class of 2012, l-r: Zoe Diaz-Martin, Stephen Dworkin, Leah Varga, Lucy Frye, Daniel Seehausen, Elizabeth Noonan, Kelsey Cohen and Bryson Cowan

Read and download GNCE Class of 2012 Senior Integrative Project Abstracts or GNCE Class of 2012 Reflection Papers.

 

Kelsey Cohen
Major: Architectural Studies, Minor: Art
Internship: Project for Public Spaces, New York NY
Senior Integrative Project: New London and Connecticut College: What Was; What Is; What's Next...

Bryson Cowan
Majors: Government and Economic & Environmental Analysis (self designed), Minor: Gender and Women's Studies
Internship: Small Planet Institute, Cambridge MA
Senior Integrative Project: Fishy Nightmares & Dairy Dreams: Globalized Markets, Environmental Justice & Gender in Tanzania

Zoe Diaz-Martin
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Latin American Studies
Internship: Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Peru
Senior Integrative Project: Testing the Keystone Plant Resources Concept in a Lowland Amazonian Forest

Stephen Dworkin
Major: English
Internship: E-The Environmental Magazine, Norwalk, CT
Senior Integrative Project: Popular Reality & "Freedom" from Regulation: How Americans Forgot About the Environment & How the Media Must Remind Them

Lucy Frye
Major: Architectural Studies and Art History
Internship: Carpenter & MacNeille Architects and Builders, Essex, MA
Senior Integrative Project: The Relationship Between Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design

Elizabeth Noonan
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Theater
Internship:
Staples Sustainability Department, Framingham, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Identifying Sustainable Tourism Best Practices: A Case Study of Costa Rica

Daniel Seehausen
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Economics
Internship: Intelligent Renewable Energy, Freiburg, Germany
Senior Integrative Project: Benefits of and Barriers to, Renewable Energy in Germany and the U.S. and the Effectiveness of Feed-In Tariffs

Leah Varga
Majors: Biological Sciences Minor: Dance
Internships: Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA
Senior Integrative Project: The Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Cetaceans

Class of 2011

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2011.

Front Row (l-r): Kristiane Huber, Fiona Jensen, Catharine Brookes, Nita Contreras, Sarah Berkley, Janan Evans-Wilent, back row, l-r: Eric LeFlore, Flora Drury, Christopher Haight, Christopher Krupenye, Scott Siedor, Cynthia Roseen

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts or Internship Reflection Papers for the Goodwin-Niering Center Class of 2011.

Sarah Berkley
Major: History
Internship: IslandWood, Bainbridge Island WA
Senior Integrative Project: Recognizing Environmental Justice in History: Resistance and Agency in the Cross Bronx Expressway and the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

Catharine Brookes
Majors: Economics/Environmental Studies
Internship: TerraCycle, Trenton, NJ
Senior Integrative Project: Waste-d: Redefining Waste Through Material Life Cycles

Nita Contreras
Major: International Relations, Minors: Dance / Religious Studies
Internship: Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation
Senior Integrative Project: Fighting Pollution Through the Understanding of Hindu Goddesses: An Analytical Look at River Myths and Rituals to Understand Pollution Issues and Solutions

Flora Drury
Major: Biological Sciences / Environmental Studies
Internship: Energy and Climate Unit, EPA Region I, Boston, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Barriers to Community Wind Power Development in the US: Looking to Europe for Solutions

Janan Evans-Wilent
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Dolphin Communication Project, Stonington, CT / Bimini, The Bahamas
Senior Integrative Project: Vocalizations Associated with Pectoral Fin Contact in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatius)

Christopher Haight
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: TIDE Project, Marine Biological Lab, Plum Island Estuary, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Bisphenol A: Plastic Toxin or Harmless Additive?

Kristiane Huber
Majors: Government / Environmental Studies
Internship: Tribal Link Foundation, New York, NY
Senior Integrative Project: Standing on Solid Ground: Respecting Cultural Rights in Climate Displacement

Fiona Jensen
Majors: Government / Hispanic Studies
Internship: Appalachian Mountain Club, Gorham, NH
Senior Integrative Project: Wilderness Management: A Comparison Study of the Chilean National Forest Corporation & the United States Forest Service

Christopher Krupenye
Major: Biological Sciences, Minor: French
Internship: Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda
Senior Integrative Project: Reasoning about Communication in Rhesus Macaques

Eric LeFlore
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Music
Internship: Global White Lion Protection Trust, S. Africa
Senior Integrative Project: Impacts of National Parks in African Savannas

Scott Siedor
Majors: Economics / Environmental Studies
Internship: Environmental and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Justice Department, Environmental Division, Washington DC
Senior Integrative Project: A Case Study: "The Preserve" The Fifth Amendment, Regulatory Takings and Eminent Domain

Class of 2010

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2010.
(back row, l-r): Kevin Izzo, Sturgis Sobin, Andy Irwin, Charles Van Rees (front row, l-r): Erin Brady, Lily Kunin, Maria Figliola, Melanie Bender, Ariella Cohen, Erica Hildebrand

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstract or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2010.

Melanie Bender
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Government
Internship: Coast Guard Academy, New London CT and CT Department of Environmental Protection, Hartford, CT.
Senior Integrative Project: Lobstermen of Long Island Sound and the Struggle with Shell Disease.

Erin Brady
Majors: Government/Environmental Studies
Internship:The Chancellor’s Urban Education Leaders Internship Program (UELIP), Washington, D.C.
Senior Integrative Project: Closing the Achievement Gap with Ecological Literacy: An Examination of Environmentally Focused Charter Schools as Tools for Educational Reform.

Ariella Cohen
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Economics
Internship: Assistance and Pollution Prevention Unit, EPA, Boston, MA
Senior Integrative Project: The Intersection of Affordable Housing and the Environment Through the Lens of Chapter 40B.

Maria Figliola
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Art
Internship: Corporate Accountability International, Boston MA
Senior Integrative Project: Visual Communication in Climate Change.

Erica Hildebrand
Major: Biological Sciences
Internship: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA.
Senior Integrative Project: Differences in Community Composition of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea in Control and High Nitrogen Fertilizer Plots of the Great Sippewisset Marsh, Cape Cod, MA.

Andy Irwin
Majors: Environmental Studies
Internship: Cool Cities Campaign, Sierra Club, ME.
Senior Integrative Project: Challenges and Opportunities for Climate Change Resilience in Small Cities.

Kevin Izzo
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Economics
Internship: Kilawatt Technologies, Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, Shelburne, VT.
Senior Integrative: A Study of Environmentally Sustainable Large Sporting Events.

Lily Kunin
Major: Economics
Internship: Calvert Social Investment Foundation, MD.
Senior Integrative Project: Renewable Energy: Discovering and Overcoming the Barriers in Rural Areas of Developing Countries.

Sturgis Sobin
Majors: Economics/Environmental Studies
Internship: Clark Construction Group, MD.
Senior Integrative Project: U.S. Green Building Policy and the Stimulus Package of 2009: Promoting Green Building in Absence of National Regulation.

Charles Van Rees
Major: Biological Sciences/ Environmental Studies Minor: Hispanic Studies
Internship : Gandoca Sea Turtle Conservation Project WIDECAST, Costa Rica.
Senior Integrative Project: Of Ethics and Ecosystems: A Bifocal Perspective on Biodiversity Conservation.

Class of 2009

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2009.
Front row, l-r: Andrew Watts, Jeff Nemec, Richard Hederstrom, Jamey Smith, and Hans Eysenbach. Back row, l-r: Mike Seager, Katherine Sacca, Maya Jacobs, Sarah Ayres, Samantha Wright, Rebeccah Beachell, and Tyler Dunham.

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstract or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2009.

Sarah Ayres
Major: History
Internship: Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, Maine
Senior Integrative Project: Fishing for Solutions: A Study of Community Based Fisheries Management and its Implementation in the Gulf of Maine

Rebeccah Beachell
Major: Government & East Asian Studies/Minor: Philosophy
Internship: Berkshire Pioneer Resource Conservation and Development Area, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: The Yellow River Seaward Flows: China's Sorrow and the Self-censorship of Chinese ENGOs

Tyler Dunham
Major: Environmental Studies/Minor: Economics
Internship: Collins Design Research, New York, NY
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental Marketing Strategy: A Story of GE, BP, and Walmart

Hans Eysenbach
Major: International Relations/Minor: Latin American Studies
Internship: Silverbrook Farm, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: Debating the Future of Agriculture: An Environmental Perspective on Lessons and Applications from Opposing Schools

Richard Hederstrom
Major: Botany
Internship: Kew Royal Botanic Garden, UK
Senior Integrative Project: Traditional Native American and British Herbal Medicine: A Discussion of Similarities and an Analysis of British Remedies Collected by the Ethnomedica Project

Maya R. Jacobs
Major: Environmental Studies/Minor: Hispanic Studies
Internship: Ceres, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins of Renewable Energy in Brazil and Argentina

Jeff Nemec
Majors: Philosophy & Environmental Studies
Internship: The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Senior Integrative Project: A Contemporary Philosophical Debate Over Wilderness

Katherine Sacca
Majors: Medical Anthropology & Environmental Studies
Internship: World Camp Inc., Lilongwe, Malawi
Senior Integrative Project: A GIS Analysis of Deforestation and Population in Malawi between 1990 and 2000

Mike Seager
Major: International Relations/Minor: Latin American Studies
Internship: FUNDAPAZ - Development in Justice and Peace Foundation, Argentina
Senior Integrative Project: Talking about Deforestation: Examining Participatory Democracy using Argentina's Law of the Forests as a Case Study

Jamey Smith
Majors: Biological Sciences & Environmental Studies
Internship: Hawaii Agricultural Research Center, Aiea, Hawaii
Senior Integrative Project: Jatropha curcas L. as a Potential Model for the Ecologically Sustainable Production of Biofuels

Andrew Watts
Major: Government
Internship: US Environmental Protection Agency, Boston, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: Community Conservation in African Wildlife Policy: A Comparative Study of Contrasting Implementation Policies in Kenya and Zimbabwe

Samantha Wright
Major: Environmental Studies/Minor: Hispanic Studies
Internship: Ocean and Coastal Consultants, Trumbull, Connecticut
Senior Integrative Project: An Analysis of Coastal Protection Structures: A GIS Based Approach

Class of 2008

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2008.

(Back Row, l-r): Lindsay Michel, Cara Donavan, Katy Serafin, Jessica LeClair, Bianca Kissel, (Front Row, l-r) Kathryn Gutleber, Eliza Greenman, Gabe Sidman, Christina Comfort, Kelsey Jacobsen

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts and Reflection Papers for the Class of 2008.

Christina Comfort
Major: Biology, Minor: Dance
Internship: Save Our Seas, Hanalei, Hawaii
Senior Integrative Project: Drugs from the Sea: Discovery, Development and Sustainability

Cara Donovan
Majors: Hispanic Studies, Environmental Studies
Internship: The Rainforest Education & Resource Center, Cusco, Peru
Senior Integrative Project: Ethnobotanical Guide to the Casa Matsigenka

Eliza Greenman
Major: English
Internship: Norman Bird Sanctuary, Middletown, RI
Senior Integrative Project: Nature as a Theme in Selected Readings in American Literature

Kathryn Gutleber
Majors: English, Environmental Studies
Internship: E-The Environmental Magazine, Norwalk, CT
Senior Integrative Project: People, Planet, Profits: The Development of a Triple Bottom Line for Connecticut College

Kelsey Jacobsen
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Art/French
Internship: Operation Wallacea, Indonesia
Senior Integrative Project: Modeling Planktonic Larval Dispersal Patterns to Improve the Design of Marine Protected Areas

Bianca Kissel
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Botany
Internship: Cross-Cultural Solutions, Ayacucho, Peru
Senior Integrative Project: The Botanical Importance of Coca and the Environmental Impact of the Cocaine Industry in Peru

Jessica LeClair
Majors: International Relations, Environmental Studies
Internship: Snowchange, Varangerbotn, Norway
Senior Integrative Project: Voices from the Far North: The Environmental Injustice of Circumpolar Climate Change

Lindsay Michel
Major: Environmental Studies, Anthropology
Internship: Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT
Senior Integrative Project: Stonewalls: A Stacked History of Land Use and Ownership in the Connecticut College Arboretum

Katherine Serafin
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: U.S.Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL
Senior Integrative Project: Seasons, Storms and Seawalls: A Comparison of Constrained and Unconstrained Beaches

Gabe Sidman
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: History
Internship: Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA
Senior Integrative Project: History Trumps the Turtle: A Comparative Analysis of the Simultaneous Management of Cultural and Natural Resources in the National Park Service

Class of 2007

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2007.

(Left to Right): Jesse Taylor-Waldman, Rebecca Mason, David Hecht, Noah Fralich, Christine Monahan, Saraswati Jayanthi, Jennifer Vasquez

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2007.

Noah Fralich

Majors: Environmental Studies, German Studies
Internship: Wuppertal Institute, Berlin, Germany
Senior Integrative Project: Renewable Energy Sources Act and its Effect on the German Wind Energy Industry: Lessons for the U.S.

 

David Hecht
Major: Government, Minor: Economics
Internship: Atrium Environmental Health and Safety Services, Virginia
Senior Integrative Project: Returning to Nuclear Power: A Historical Look at the U.S. Experience and Analysis of the Current Obstacles to New Plant Development

Sara Jayanthi
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Connecticut College Freshwater Ecology Lab
Senior Integrative Project: A Paleolimnological Examination of the Acidity Trends in Two Kettle Ponds along the Eastern Seaboard

Rebecca Mason
Majors: Environmental Studies, Biology
Internship: Garden Harvest, Maryland
Senior Integrative Project: Local Food as an Educational Tool: A Deeper Look into Student Run Gardens

Christine Monahan
Major: International Relations, Minor: Economics
Internship: Azafady (Pioneer Madagascar Programme), Madagascar
Senior Integrative Project: Mining, AIDS, and Development: Could "Sustainable Mining" Bring More Harm than Good to Madagascar?

Jesse Taylor-Waldman
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: The Nature Conservancy, Vermont
Senior Integrative Project: The Role of Land Trusts and Conservation Easements in Environmental Protection in Vermont: A Case Study of the Vermont Nature Conservancy and the Vermont Land Trust

Jennifer Vasquez
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Montefiore Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, North Bronx, NY
Senior Integrative Project: Use of Magnesium to Prevent Lead Poisoning in Zebra Fish: A Model for Prevention in Humans

Class of 2006

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2006.

(Left to Right): Ceileigh Syme, Allison Baldwin, Alaya Morning, Meghan Lucy, Laurinda Wong, Ben Alander, Adanna Roberts, Joel Scata, Selin Devranoglu

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2006.

 

Ben Alander
Major: Biology
Internship: Save The Bay, Providence, Rhode Island
Senior Integrative Project: Aquariums: Balancing Visitors and Creatures

Allison Baldwin
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Italian
Internship: Legambiente (League for the Environment), Italy
Senior Integrative Project: Italy's Green-as-Grass Movement: Examining the Strength of Local Activism and Factors that Keep the Movement on the Grassroots Level

Selin Devranoglu
Majors: Environmental Studies, Economics
Internship: Bumerang, Istanbul, Turkey
Senior Integrative Project: The EU's Role in Development of Waste Management Policies and Practices in the Candidate and Newly Accessed Countries: Effectiveness of the EU Factor Facilitating Sustainable Waste Management in Hungary, Greece and Turkey

Meghan Lucy
Major: Biology
Internship: Ocean Alliance, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: The Marine Use of Biodiesel

Alaya Morning
Major: Ethnobotany
Internship: City Slicker Farms, Oakland, California
Senior Integrative Project: The Problem with Organic: Examining the Social Implications of Uniform Certification Standards for Small Landholders in the United States and Mexico

Adanna Roberts
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: New York City Department of Education, Office of Occupational Safety and Health
Senior Integrative Project: Indoor Air Quality: The New Environmentalism?

Joel Scata
Major: Government, Minor: Economics
Internship: Atlantic Council of the United States, Washington DC
Senior Integrative Project: Oil Dependence: A Threat to the Future of the United States' Energy Security

Ceileigh Syme
Major: Government
Internship: Wildlife Friends of Thailand, Petchburi Province, Thailand
Senior Integrative Project: Elephant Conservation in Thailand

Laurinda Wong
Major: Biology
Internship: Ocean Alliance, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: Sonar and Mass Stranding: Is There A Connection?

Class of 2005

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2005.

(Back row, l-r): Amy Phelan, Cam Hewitt, Rory Jose, Jen Godfrey, Cait McIntosh, Keiko Nishimoto, Kate Williams, Sarah Lumnah, Emily Weidner (Front row, l-r): Lauren Richter, Allen Bunting, Betsy Ginn, Marcie Berry

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2005.

 

Marcie Berry
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Art
Internship: South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, South Carolina
Senior Integrative Project: The Benefits of Offshore Wind Farms for Renewable Energy and the Possible Creation of Artificial Habitat for a Variety of Marine Life, Using the Cape Wind Project in Nantucket Sound as a Case Study

Allen Bunting
Major: Anthropology
Internship: Penobscot Bay Press, Blue Hill, Maine
Senior Integrative Project: Nature, Environment and Consumption

Elizabeth Ginn
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: American Studies
Internship: City of New York Parks and Recreation and Natural Resource Group, New York, New York
Senior Integrative Project: Community Gardening and Urban Development in New York City

Genevieve Godfrey
Major: Zoology, Minor: Music
Internship: Mote Marine Lab Dolphin and Whale Hospital, Sarasota, Florida
Senior Integrative Project: The use of environmental enrichment in preparing a harbor porpoise for Human Care in Zoological Facility

Cameron Hewitt
Major: Sociology-based Human Relations
Internship: Wood River Land Trust, Ketchum, Idaho
Senior Integrative Project: Citizen Action and Land Conservation

Rory Jose
Major: International Relations
Internship: Department of Marine Resources, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Senior Integrative Project: The Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts of Large Dams: A Case Study of the Three Gorges Dam in China

Sarah Lumnah
Majors: English, Government
Internship: Charles River Watershed Association, Waltham, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: James Fenimore Cooper: Justifying History Through Manipulating the Environment

Caitlin McIntosh
Majors: Bio-organic Chemistry, English, Minor: Music
Internship: Rochester Equine Clinic, Rochester, New Hampshire; Connecticut College Chemistry Department, New London, CT
Senior Integrative Project: Plant poisoning of livestock : issues of economic impact and biological sustainability using Cicuta douglasii and Kochia scoparia case studies

Keiko Nishimoto
Majors: Botany, Environmental Studies
Internship: Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico
Senior Integrative Project: The US Forest Service and the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960

Amy Phelan
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Concord, Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: Restoration of a Pitch Pine / Scrub Oak Woodland at the Hopeville Pond Natural Area Preserve, Griswold , CT

Lauren Richter
Major: Sociology
Internship: Food and Agriculture Organization U.N., Rome, Italy
Senior Integrative Project: Equating Reason With Rational: How Rationality Limits Modern Approaches to Environmental Problems

Emily Weidner
Major: Botany, Minor: Art
Internship: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Barro Colorado Island, Ancon, Panama
Senior Integrative Project: Struggles for Cultural Survival in a Changing Environment: Two Panamanian Hydroelectric Projects and their Impacts on Indigenous Communities

Katherine Williams
Major: English, Minor: Music
Internship: Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program, Mystic, CT
Senior Integrative Project: Musings: A Sense of Place in Moby Dick

Class of 2004

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2004.

Adam Weinberg, Michelle Gorham, Joey Solomon

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2004

 

Joey Solomon
Major: Psychology-based Human Relations
Internship: Pop Sustainability, New York, NY
Senior Integrative Project: Greenpeace, Social Movement Theory, and Modern Media Society

Michelle Gorham
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Clark Laboratory at Duke University, Durham, NC.
Senior Integrative Project: The Development and Implementation of a Continuing Education Curriculum in Environmental Education

Adam Weinberg
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Anthropology
Internship: United States Geological Survey, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Senior Integrative Project: Geomorphological Response to Hydraulic Processes: A Study of Erosion in the Connecticut College Arboretum

Class of 2003

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2003.

(Back row, l-r): Stephan Apse, Sarah Lathrop, Vetri Nathan, Lauren Hartzell, Scott Epstein, Kassie Rohrbach, John Traversi, Katie Jones, Daisy Small. (Front row, l-r): Jared Fertman, Molly Lippman, Lindsey Kravitz.

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2003.

Stefan Apse
Majors: Philosophy, German Studies
Internship: Hofgut Brachenreute farm in Überlingen, Germany
Information Bureau of Bio-Dynamic Farming, Germany
Senior Integrative Project: The Equal Consideration of Animal Interests: A Study of the Works of Peter Singer and Temple Grandin

Scott Epstein
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Psychology
Internship: US EPA, New England Regional Laboratory in Chelmsford, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Equity: A Changing Norm or Simply a Buzzword? An Examination of Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal Policies

Jared Fertman
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship:US EPA Region III Wetlands Enforcement Division, Philadelphia, PA
Senior Integrative Project: The Clean Water Act, Wetlands and the Courts: A Paper-Thin Protection for our Nation's Most Vital Aquatic Resource

Lauren Hartzell
Majors: Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Internship: Environment and Human Health, Inc. in North Haven, CT and the Connecticut College Philosophy Department.
Senior Integrative Project: An Ever-Changing Future: Obligations to Future Generations and the Future Environment

Katie Jones
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Appalachian Mountain Club in Boston, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Wilderness and the 'Leave No Trace' Ethic: An examination of the established wilderness ethic of "Leave No Trace" (LNT)

Lindsey Kravitz
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Art
Internship: Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, CT
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental Education: Cross-Cultural Modeling

Sarah Lathrop
Major: English, Minor: Religious Studies
Internship: Littlewood Organic Farm in Plainfield, VT - Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA).
Senior Integrative Project: Post-Modern American Poetry in the Eco-Critical Context

Molly Lippman
Major: Human Development
Internship: Roughing It Day Camp in Orinda, CA
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental Education in a Traditional Day Camp: A Case Study of the Effectiveness and Impact on Pre-Adolescent Children

Vetri Nathan
Major: Italian, Minor: Zoology
Internship: "Kids for Tigers" Program, Conservation Education Center (CEC) of the Bombay Natural History Society in Bombay, India
Senior Integrative Project: Ecological Post-Colonial Discourse in India: Where the Realms of Culture and Ecology Meet

Kassie Rohrbach
Major: Gender and Women's Studies
Internship: Center for Resource Solutions in San Francisco, CA
Senior Integrative Project: Gender and Sustainable Energy Development: An Examination of Three Case Studies from a Transnational Environmental Feminist Perspective

Daisy Small
Majors: Botany, Environmental Studies
Internship: Vegetation Surveys in Southeastern Connecticut Natural Areas at Connecticut College
Senior Integrative Project: Forest Community Changes Following Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Infestation in Southern New England

John Traversi
Major: Zoology
Internship: New England Aquarium in Boston, MA
Senior Integrative Project: Exploring Turtle Hearing Through Operant Conditioning

Class of 2002

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2002.

Back row, left to right: Leys Bostrom, Maria Sinnamon, Hannah Shayler, Marjorie Lundgren, Rachel Towers, Emily Templin. Front row: Jessica Schwartz and Laura Roe.

Read and download Senior Integrative Project (SIP) abstracts or Reflection Papers for the Class of 2002.

Leys Bostrom
Major: Gender and Women's Studies
Internship: Institute for Central American Development Studies in Costa Rica
Senior Integrative Project: Hidden From View: A Closer Look at Banana Production in Costa Rica

Marjorie Lundgren
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Anthropology
Internship: Invasive Species Monitoring and Control Intern at The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut
Senior Integrative Project: Environmental and Site Characteristics Influencing Invasion of Ten Exotic Plant Species in Southern New England

Laura Rowe
Major: Ethnobotany
Internship: The commercialization of tropical medicinal plants under the Malaysia-MIT Biotechnology Partnership at MIT
Senior Integrative Project: Intellectual Property Rights in the K-Economy: Use and Protection of Traditional Knowledge

Jessica Schwartz
Major: Biology
Internship: Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. in Watertown Massachusetts
Senior Integrative Project: Long term Change (1952-1992) in the Vegetation of the Bolleswood Natural Area, Connecticut College, New London Connecticut

Hannah Shayler
Major: Environmental Studies, Minor: Art
Internship: The Freshwater Ecology Lab at Connecticut College
Senior Integrative Project: Biodiversity of the diatom genus Brachysira Kutsing (Bacillariophyceae) in the Ocala National Forest, FL, USA

Maria Sinnamon
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Water Management Bureau, DEP of Hartford
Senior Integrative Project: The Response in Water Quality and the Propagation of Pollution-Senstive Taxa of the Naugatuck River Due to the Upgraded Waterbury Treatment Plan

Emily Templin
Major: Environmental Studies, Minors: Government and Biology
Internship: Environmental research and policy intern at Oregon Environmental Council
Senior Integrative Project: Mobilizing Support for School Environmental Health Issues: A Study of Connecticut Movements in New London, Lyme-Old Lyme and Litchfield

Rachael Towers
Major: Religious Studies
Internship: Historical and ethnobotanical research at the Mashantucket-Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT
Senior Integrative Project: Spiritual Aspects of Native New England Ethnobotany: Beliefs and Practices of New England Tribes and Lessons for Western Society

Class of 2001

Members of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Class of 2001.

Top Row: (L to R) Elizabeth Robinson, Kristen Park, Dana Gaekle, Jason Hamilton, David Steinberg, Lindsay Mock, Jaimie Atlas Bottom Row: (L to R) David Fyrberg, Hope Dalton, Elayna Zachko, Paige Woodward Not pictured: Jaime Haines

Jaimie Atlas
Internship: Greenbelt Alliance, San Francisco, California

Hope Dalton
Internship: CT DEP Hammonasset Beach State Park, Meigs Point Nature Center, CT

David Fyrberg
Internship: National Marine Fisheries Service, MA

Dana Gaeckle
Internship: New England Wildlife Center, Hingham, MA

Jamie Haines
Internship: Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA

Jason Hamilton
Internship: Save the Sound, Stamford, CT

Kristen Park
Internship: Juneau Ranger District, Dept. of Agriculture, US Forest Service, AK

Elizabeth Robinson
Internship: Massachusetts Audubon Society, Coastal Waterbird Program

Daniel Steinberg
Internship: Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA

Paige Woodward
Internship: Mystic Marine Life Aquarium, CT

Elaine Zachko
Internship: Loon Preservation Committee, NH

 

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