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Tom O'Dowd
Program Administrator
todowd@bard.edu

Environmental and Urban Studies Program
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

Senior Projects in Environmental and Urban Studies

EUS Senior Projects have addressed questions pertaining to a wide variety of topics, including: Environment and population growth; sustainable development; environmental impacts of globalization; international efforts to protect the environment; land ownership and the distribution of wealth; the environment and human health; the measurement of environmental quality; distributive impacts of environmental policy; environmental racism; alternative energy; urban sprawl; land-use planning; land and tax policy; wilderness protection; watershed protection; deforestation; habitat loss; agricultural subsidies; organic farming; animal welfare; pollution control policy; fisheries; species extinction; transportation policy; ecotourism; the viability of small communities; and environmental politics, art, and education.


Recent senior projects:

2010


Tina Marie Doran
"'Where the sea is reborn'; A Framework for Marine Protected-Area Creation in Tropical Ecosystems”

Christopher Jun Harada
“A Greenhouse Gas Inventory of a Concentrated Solar-Power Trough System"

Roberta Marie Harper-McIntosh
"Diabetes and Northern Arapaho Subsistence”

Chantal Abigail Zupka Ludder
"Native Plants and Arresting Demifauna: A study of Native and Exotic Plant Species in the Suburban Yard and their Respective Relationships with Arthropods"

Thomas Victor Serino (EUS and Political Studies double-major)
"Saving the Sound: A History of the Threats Facing the Long Island Sound” 


2011

Kylie Alanna Collins
"An Output-Input Energy Analysis of Organic Tomato Production in the Hudson Valley Area of New York"

Bridget Elizabeth Hallowell
"I Eat, Therefore I Am," a historical analysis of why our food has gotten weaker and how it influences human and environmental health

Michael Ross Kauffman

"Time for a Team-Beam: Captain Planet and the Planeteers and Education," a qualitative analysis of the television show, its value as an educative tool, and the lessons imparted upon its viewers

Mélanie Massardier Kenney
"The Impact of Dams on the Quantity and Quality of Suspended Organic Material in Four Dutchess County Streams (New York)”


2012

Diane Margaret Borden (EUS and anthropology double-major)
"Nine-Banded 'Leper': Armadillos, Liminal Bodies, and Stigma in the United States”

Elizabeth Mae Castle (EUS and anthropology double-major)
"Articulating the Home: Retreat, Activism, and Intimacy in Contemporary American Homesteading”

Rachel Liesel Hyman
"In the Company of Bees: Gleanings from the Hive"

Cyrina Shannon King
"Carving Out an Agricultural Landscape: Meat Production and Geographies of Resistance in the Hudson Valley"

Honora Connell Montano
"The Stone Wall and the Town Common: Dwelling and Mythmaking in the New England Landscape"

Elias Menifee Moose
"Landscape of Conflict: The Political Ecology of Settlements Surrounding Deonar Garbage Dump in Mumbai, India," an inquiry into the cycle of demolition and rebuilding of several slums on the outskirts of Mumbai

Lily Consuelo Saporta-Gagiuri
"New York City Birds: The Creation of a Multispecies Metropolis"

Tristan Thomas Siegel (EUS and Historical Studies double-major)
"The Environmental and Cultural Effects on the Conquest of Mexico"