2024
Air Quality Citizen Scientists: A Case Study of the Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition, Faine Aichele
Meat: the Good, the Bad, and the Virtuous, Chloe Brill
Compost Toilet As A Radical Act Of Care? A Gentle Invitation to Deal With Our Shit, Moselle Fredericks
Testing the potential for field qPCR detection of fecal indicators in the Saw Kill, a Hudson River tributary, Niskua Luz Medina
View River River View, Lillian Merrill Ogden
An Economic and Social Positioning of Small Scale Farming and Local Food Access in the Hudson Valley, Elias James Smith
2023
Mapping Maple Memory, Grace Derksen
Legal Mechanisms for Protecting the Earth from Climate Change: An Analysis of Limitations, Current Trends and Emerging Alternatives, Abby Mei Frazier
Food and Waste in Urban Kabul: The Role of the Informal Waste Sector and Climate Change, Bibi Khadija Ghanizada
Mythologies in Plastic, Concrete, and Wood: a Material Practice of Non-Duality, Julia Kane
More Than Mattresses: Community-Based Adaptive Management for Floating Treatment Wetlands in the North and South Twin Lakes, Masha Alex Kazantsev
It's Hard to Believe There are People There, Lily Rose Peña
NoVo: New Wave on a Broken Foundation, Sam Lazarus Shear
Provisional Food Security: The Role of Emergency Food Systems in An Evolving Landscape, Luca Walker Tagliati
The Rome of the West: An Ethnographic Play with Music, Clayton Roma Bragg Webb
From Fast Fashion to Conscious Couture : Revealing the Need for Policy in Shaping a Sustainable Fashion Industry, Mikelison D. Womack
The Valley of Science and Fiction: Capitalism, labor, race, and environment in the Silicon Valley, Juliette R. Zicot
2022
Lithium Mining: Unearthing Old Mining Practices in a New Age of Extraction, Claire Isabella Dickson
Art and Environmental Activism in the Age of Climate Change, Devon Donahue
The Elusive Rainbow Nation: Assessing Post-Apartheid Reconstruction Strategies in Johannesburg, South Africa, Ashley May Eugley
Rethinking Science Literacy in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change: The Power of Productive Skepticism, Samuel Quentin Grabowski-Clark
Indoor vs Outdoor Bacteria in the Air, Jyoti Kumari
birdwork, Masha Alexeevna Kurbatova
Blending Borders: Transboundary Protected Areas and their role in an intersectional future, Alexandra Rogalinski
Data and Tenant Choice: Exploring the Relationship Between Limited Liability Company Ownership and Block Conditions in Norwood, Bronx, Albert Rosario-Pichardo
Gentrification and Control: An Analysis of New Urbanism, Form Based Code, and Kingston’s Rezoning Process, Gem Sorenson
Adapting to Drought in the Colorado River Basin: A Case Study of Indigenous Voices in Water Management, Ross Sounart
Rocket Ships, Emotions, and Disgusting Wealth: The Emotional Significance of the Billionaire Space Race, Melissa J. Toney
2021
Sonified Hudson Valley Landscapes and the Influence of Industry, Jess Belardi
Reclaiming Albany's Arboreal Abundance, Damaris L. Borden
A Multimetric Analysis of Benthic Macroinvertebrates Present Downstream of a Small, Run-of-the-River Dam in Upstate New York, Olive Streeter Chen
An Exploratory Analysis of Sustainability Signaling and the Environmental Performance of U.S. Green Bond Issuing Electric Utility Companies, Katherine R. Esposito
Blood and Water: How Anti-Indigenous Colonial Ideology led to the Drainage of Mexico City’s Lakes, Brianna Estrada
A Rejection of Nature? Or the Natural World? An Objectless Inquiry into the Writings of Kazimir Malevich, Aidan Edward Galloway
Examining the Role that Environmental Studies Programs in Advancing the Environmental Justice Movement: A Case Study of Bard College’s Environmental and Urban Studies Program, Julia Jankrisfa Gloninger
Planting for Permanence: Persevering in Protecting New York’s Community Gardens, Juliette Arissara Groarke
a mass of what's departed: Analyzing the Influx of Middle Class Homeowners and Luxury Development Sustaining the Housing Crisis in Former Brick Manufacturing Hub Kingston, NY, Deirdre Frances Irvine
Hidden in a Snail Shell, Zara Ana Kornfeld
Avian Attractiveness to Vertically Polarized Light, Aurora Belle Kuczek
Air Quality Impacts of the 2020 West Coast Wildfire Season on Kingston, NY, Mikala Jordan L'Hote
Entangled Roots: Knowledge Systems and Conservation in the Tongass National Forest, Lily Geneva Lustig
Optimizing Green Infrastructure: designing, managing, and evaluating green infrastructure to receive social, economic, and ecological benefits, Mikaela Christine Martiros
Possibilities & Potential of Perennial Wheat: A Comparison of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Diversity and Abundance between Winter Wheat and Kernza, Tess Noble Strohm
Systems of Erasure: An Archival Analysis of Gentrification in Hudson, N.Y., Danielle Ashley Ranieri
The Effects of Priming Eruca sativa Seeds with Short-Chain AHL C6-HSL at Bard Farm, Shannon M. Ryan
Through Tivoli Bays: My Time in the Woods, William J. Santora
The application of Solarization has no significant effect on Fungal Diversity: a study conducted at Bard Farm, Erica Walsh
2020
Multiple Perceptions of Soil Health: A Transdisciplinary Collaborative Study of two Contrasting Grain Farms in Columbia County, NY, Gemma G. Allen
(The Pitfalls of) Analyzing and Setting up Glass Eel Data from the NYSDEC Run “American Eel Community Science Project”, Christina Rae Brinzac
Exploring the Precursors of Disinfection Byproducts and CDOM Fluorescence Monitoring, Victoria Choy
Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Multitasking Problem-Solving, Luca Adrian Cristo
A Dance with Cranes: Grus americana and the Promise of Wilderness, Grace Elizabeth Drennan
"Involution" and Hybrid: Responsibility, Relationality, Reciprocity on a Biodynamic Farm, Zuri Katherine Frueh
The Ethics of Work: Controlling Latinx Immigrants in the Food System Through Cultural Perception, Adam Burleigh Game
Skateboarding, Space and Subculture: Indexing Skated Spaces and Their Urban Implications, Djimon Mark Gibson
"PCB Pandemic": How Polychlorinated Biphenyls Plagued the Hudson And Why Commercial Fishermen Were Left Behind, Morgan Averill Gray
How Vending Machines can Conquer Access to Better Quality Convenience Food, Tessa C. Greenhalgh
Socio-Ecological Synergies for a Sustainable Onondaga Lake: Reckoning with the Complexities of Restoration, Skyler Maassen
Antibiotics in the Saw Kill and Rhinebeck Kill Creeks: Tracking Anthropogenic pollution with Bacteria and Integrons, Timothy William Matsakis
Upstream / Downstream: Wastewater as the Source of Microplastic Pollution on the Saw Kill, Hector Charles Prud'homme
Doom and Gloom in Algae Blooms: Assessing Floating Treatment Wetland Technologies to Mitigate Eutrophication at the Twin Lakes, Glennys Aileen Romero Medina
From Belief to Action: Histories and New Directions within the Youth Climate Movement, Christian Sabharwal
“You Can’t Milk an Almond”: America’s Consumption of Milk and “Milk’s” Consumption of America, Miranda Cahill Sanborn
Vegetation as Sanitation: How Plant and Water Microbial Diversity Impact Greywater Treatment in Earthships, Elinor T.K. Stapylton
Assessing Food Insecurity in the Hudson Valley Through the Capabilities Lens, Nicole Grace Vascimini
Rewriting the Haggadah: Judaism for Those Who Hold Food Close, Rose Noël Wax
2019
The Role of Unpaid and Alternative Labor on Organic and Sustainability-oriented Farms, Abigail Avital
THE FUTURE OF FOREVER WILD: The History, Politics and Economics of the New York State's Forest Preserve, Michael R. Callejo
A Comparison of Aquatic Microbial Community Structure in a Rural Stream (Sawkill in Red Hook, NY) and an Urban Stream (Sawmill in Yonkers, NY), Emlyn A. Ellerby
Potential for human exposure to Legionella near Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, New York, Azlan Maqbool
To Bloom or not to Bloom? That is the Eutrophication. Observations of a microbiological treatment for eutrophication in a small, artificial pond, Hunter Robinson Snow Mathis
The Power of Social Movements to Influence Government Action In Urban Water Crises: A Dual Case Study of Flint, MI and Newburgh, NY, Mary Grace McNulty
Russian Climate Politics in 2019: Concessions and Trade Offs, Nikita O. Minin
A History and Analysis Relevant to the US Border: a.k.a. "Fuck the Border”, Cole Rainey-Slavick
South Twin Lake Water Quality Report, Abigail Stritzler Russell
New York Citadel: A Future History of Hudson Yards, Pansy D. Schulman
The Brookhaven Landfill: An Environmental Case Study on Politics, Policy, and Perceptions, Katlin Dakota Stath
Atoms For Peace: Revisiting the Promise of Nuclear Power on the Cusp of Climate Catastrophe, Amelia Louise Tiemann
Black Market Baby Otters: An Investigation into the Origins and Consequences of the Otter Pet Trade, Summer Alexis Tuverson
Herbal Supplements: Perceptions, Risks and Need for Improved Regulation, Julia Nikati Wright
2018
Fences: Physical and Socio-Cultural Boundaries, Vanessa Baehr
How Sweet is Sugar Really? An Analysis of United States Sugar Policy, Giulia Francesca Bambara
Troubled Waters: Drinking Water Quality, Environmental Injustice, and the Politics of Permissibility in Newburgh, NY, Julia Derby
Varying Perceptions of Climate-Related Threats to Lake Ecosystems, Emma Goad Donohue
Payments for Ecosystem Services: Impact on Wealth Inequality Within Ecosystem Providing Communities, Clara Richard Duman
Where the Wild Things Are: Wildlife Habitat Preference and Land-Use Management in Meihuashan Nature Reserve, China, Sara Xing Eisenberg
The L.I.D. B.I.D., Joshua Gachette
49 years after the Harvest: Population Recovery of the Tivoli Bays Snapping Turtles, Aldo Grifo-Hahn
The Fungus Among Us: The effect of copper fungicide on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and implications for sustainable agricultural systems, Francois J. Hartnett
Drowning in Plenty: Bulk, Waste and Countercultural Revival in the Anthropocene, Olivia Shuang Horwitz
Shanghai Made: The Trade Off Between Global Transformation and Social Equity in a Chinese City., Nikhil Amar Inalsingh
Evolving Environmentalism: Contentious Partnerships and Transformational Relationships Between the Environmental Justice Movement and the Mainstream Environmental Movement, Xaver Chaim Kandler
Mountains of Water: Fly-fishing, Scarcities, and Rural Economies of New York City’s Catskill and Delaware Watersheds, Samuel M. Levine
Knowing Water: Science and the Politics of Knowledge Production along the Saw Kill, Carlo Diego Raimondo
The Chopped Cheese: Traversing Upscale Foodways and the Struggle for Community Control, Matthew Fields Sprague
From the Headwaters to the Bay: Stories of the Saw Kill, Tierney Jo Belle Weymueller
2017
Long-Term Changes in Biotic Integrity: A Multimetric Longitudinal Analysis of Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Saw Kill River, Samuel Astrachan