Center for Environmental Studies
Matt Cole Library
Hopkins Forest
Student Funding - List of Projects Funded in Past Years

2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS
Mirza Delibegovic '08 UNEP/UNESCO Textbook on Sustainable Consumption
Nora Morse '08 Creative and Resourceful Shelter: A Hands-on Exploration of Cob Building
Julia Sendor '08 Cross-Country Grassroots: Fighting Exploitative Mining in West Virginia and Arizona

INTERNSHIPS
Camille Bevans ‘09 Trust for Public Lands
Audrey Bell '10 Near East Foundation's Morocco program
Elizabeth Brickley '10 Westmoreland Conservation District
Jonathan Earle '09 Center for Ecological Technology and Center for Environmental Studies
Zoe A. Fonseca '08 Research Assistant to Hilary French, Senior Advisor for Programs for WWI and UNEP
Elizabeth Gleason '08 Food For Free, a Cambridge-based organization
Stuart Jones '08 Peace Valley Farm
Whitney Leonard '08 Mass. Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
Jane Lole '08 Williamstown Rural Lands
Julia McNamara '09 Student Conservation Association
Fathimath Musthaq '09 Near East Foundation
Corey D. Watts '10 Student Conservation Association

RESEARCH
Marjorie Boivin '09 Herpetology/Environmental Science Research
Ruth Aronoff '09 LUCE Project
Kathleen Creel '10 LUCE Project
Caroline Goodbody '10 LUCE Project
Matt Gustafson '09 LUCE Project
Katherine S. White ’11 LUCE Project

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Justin Bates '07 Living with the Land: Capturing the Essence of Swiss Alpine Farming
Ansel Bubel '08 An Evaluation of Ailanthus altissima Invastions in Secondary versus Mature Forest/ NJ
Andrew Stevenson '07 The Impact of the 2012 Olympics on the Urban Environment of London, England
Jeffrey D. Wessler '07 HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Bridging the Scientific Gap

INTERNSHIPS:
Jane Allen '07 el Gruopo Ecologico de la Costa Verde, N.C. - A sea turtle conservation program with a public education aspect
Cary Bearn '08 WWF Life/Namibia
Jennifer Bees '08 Alutiiq Museum, Community Archeology Intern, Lodiak, AK
Sara M. Buckley '07 New England Aquarium
Henry C. Burton '08 Nature Conservancy/OR
Katie Craig '08 Nature Center Intern with Maine Audubon
Mirza Delibegovic '08 Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Anna Edmonds '07 Wmst Rural Lands Foundation Internship at Sheep Hill
Zoe Fonseca '08 Associacion Kairos Para la Formacion
Gleason, Liz '08 Angino Community Farm and City Sprouts
Henry Kernan '09 World Wildlife Federation/Galapagos
Ana Koski-Karell '08 WAGES: Women's Action to Gain Economic Empowerment, 2647 Int'l Blvd #205, Oakland, CA 510-532-5465
Sarah Martin '07 Hawthorne Valley Farm
Lauren Moscoe '07 Ensuring a Sustainable Relationship Between Peace Valley Farm and Williams College
Kendell Newman '08 People's Grocery of West Oakland, CA

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:

Julia Sendor '08 Stories of People, Food and Land: Exploring Orange County, North Carolina's Community Food System

FACULTY SPONSORED INTERNSHIPS:

Jennifer Menzies '07 Perchorlate Contamination of MGRHS Wells with the Wms Chem Dept
Fathimath Musthaq '09 Research assistant/Kai Lee
Gillian Tedeschi '09 Research assistant/Hank Art


2005

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Manuel A. Moutinho'07 Analysis of Perchlorate Contamination in the MGRHS Environment
Catherine R Mygatt '06 Thesis Research on Impacts of a mercury on human health

INTERNSHIPS:
Jane Allen '07 Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center
Erin Blanchard '06 HooWRA
Mirza Delibegovic '08 UNEP Division for Technology, Industry and Economics (Sustainable Consumption and Production training manual)
Merritt Edlind '07 Movimiento Mi Cometa/Ecuador
Ashlee Martinez '06 Williamstown COOL Committee (CO2 Reduction Project)
Nora Morse '08 Field Bio Intern/Nature Conservancy
Rebecca Nourse '08 Marine Turtle Research, Rescue, and Conservation Project at Mass. Audubon
Carolyn Reuman '06 US Dept. of Justice, Env. & Natural Resources Division
Alexis Saba '06 Mass. State Representative, Mark Carron
Julia Sendor '08 Williamstown COOL Committee (CO2 Reduction Project)
Emily Wasserman '07 [PTNY] Assistant Organizer/Cycling the Erie Canal and Great Hudson Valley Pedal Bike Tours with Parks & Trails, NY

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:
Melissa Bota '07 Healing the Mental Landscape: A Cultural History of Ecological Thought in a Northern Ontario Mining Community
Katie Craig '09 Exploring Maine's Diverse Natural Habitats Through Art

FACULTY SPONSORED INTERNSHIPS:
Colin D. Carroll WRLF
Alison M. Koppe '07 Urban Sustainability Research

2004

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Kenneth R. Brown '05 Thesis Research on Distributions of Invasive Plants
Elizabeth (Ellie) Frazier '05 Ecological Art: Christo's "The Gates" in Central Park
Jocelyn Gardner '05 Thesis work on food and Williams
Emma Golden '06 Agricultural Land Use at the Classic Maya Site of Motul de San Jose, Guatemala
Benjamin M. Haldeman '05 Geomancy and Political Organization: A Comparative Analylsis of Lowland Maya Community Planning in El Peten, Guatemala
Brtian G. Saar '05 Computational Approaches to Atmospherically Relevant Hydro-fluorocarbons (thesis)
Kate C. Scheider '07 The Effects of Fly-Fishing on the Mary Creek Reef Complex, Virgin Islands Nat'l Park, St. John
Vivian Schoung '05 A Comparative Study of the Viability of Sustainable Agriculture Practices in Spain

INTERNSHIPS:
Evelyn Aguilar '07 Machalilla Nat'l Pk
Amelia G. Bishop '06 The Wilderness Society
Erin Blanchard '06 WRLF
Elana R. Boehm '05 HooRWA
Amy Dieckmann '05 Goabeb Training and Research Center, Namibia
Sara Jablonski '07 DEC
Kate Majzoub '06 La Hesperia Biological Reserve
Melanie Malone '05 Springfield City Hall, Env. Lead Dept.
Sarah L. Meserve '05 Birding Ecotourism/Sumaco Biological Reserve
Carolyn Reuman '06 CET
Alexis Saba '06 MassPIRG
Mary Stranghoener '05 Maria Mitchell Assoc. Nantucket
Matt Wibbenmeyer '07 Env. Law Alliance Worldwide

FACULTY SPONSORED INTERNSHIPS:
Lucy M. Cox-Chapman '06 Historical Research on the HMF
Elspeth Mitchell '06 Historical Research on the HMF
Pablita Santos '07 Urban Sustainability
Allison Smith '07 Dining Services Local Sustainable Agriculture Project

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:
Nikhar Gaikwad '06 Natural Gas in New Delhi: A City's Initiative to Operate its Public Transport Fleet on CNG Fuel
Scott Moskowitz '05 A Visual Essay on the Massachusetts Highways Systems


2003

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Anna Brittain '04 Biotic Transformations in an Urban Environment
Alexandra Grashkina '04 Land Preservation and Left Political Movement in Northeastern Brazil
Meredith Jones '04 Sea Turtle Nesting Behavior on Dog Island, Florida
Jonathan Langer '04 Silver in the Ruby Mountains: The Settlement, Exploitation, and Abandonment of Irwin, Colorado
Mark Orlowski '04 Colleges Investing in the Environment
Katherine Stevens '05 Reconciling Ranching and Environmental Viewpoints in the New West: Is the Cowboy Myth Sustainable?
William Wetzel '06 The Effect of Hiking Trails Upon Alpine Plant Communities in the Purcell Mountains

INTERNSHIPS:
Nicholas Brandfon '04 Natural Resources Defense Council
Kristin Englebrecht Bleem '04 Chrysalis Community Inc.
Sara Gerson '05 Sarasota County Environmental Services
William Hahn '04 Mass General Hospital
Elise Henson '06 Finca Loma Linda Research Station, Coto Brus, Costa Rica
Elise Leduc '06 New England Aquarium
Melanie Malone '05 Glen Helen Ecology Institute Trailside Museum
Sarah Meserve '05 Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Donald Mitchell '06 Hoosic River Watershed Association
Shawn Powers '04 WorldWatch Institute
Alexis Saba '06 Otsego County Conservation Association
Carlos Silva '04 Climate Protection Partnership, EPA

FACULTY SPONSORED INTERNSHIPS
Maura Commito '04 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
Jocelyn Gardner '05 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
Jennifer Lazar '04 Williamstown Photo History Project
Robert Quay '04 Sustainable Development in Small Cities: Downtown Redevelopment in Pittsfield, Mass

FIELD COURSES:
Laura Cavin '05 Ecological Design


2002

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Dan Austin '05 Wood Turtle and Eastern Box Turtle Populations in Central Pennsylvania
William Hahn '04, Eric Kerns '03, and Freeden Oeur '03 Determining Popluation Densities of the Classic Maya in the Peten Region of Guatemala
Matthew Jungers '03 A Focused Study of Ford Glen Brook in HMF
Tim Patterson '04 Conquerors to Stewards: The Shift in Humanity's Perspective Towards Nature as Illustrated by Historical and Contemporary Attitudes Towards Whales and Whaling
Amanda Stout '04 Land Use, Ownership, and Political Power in Post-War America

INTERNSHIPS:
John Arendshorst '05 MassPIRG
Evan Chadwick '05 Constitution Marsh Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary
Carolyn Dekker '05 The Nature Conservancy, New Jersey
Dan DeMoss '03 Health Alliance International, Mozambique
Marsha C. Lynch '03 Harvard School of Public Health
Saerom Park '04 Earthjustice
Robert Quay '04 Partners for Livable Communities
Melody Scheefer '03 High Desert Museum
Susie Theroux '05 INFORM
Joanna Touger '04 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:
Alicia L. Arevalos '05 Interpretive Signs in the HMF
Elaine Denny '04 Not Just Second-dairy: Wisconsin's Efforts to Survive in the Age of Globalization

FIELD COURSES:
Nina Trautmann '03 Climates and Ecosystems


2001

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Matthew Jungers '03 Geomorphology in the Hopkins Memorial Forest
Jennifer Weztel '02 Sustainable Development in New Zealand
Nick Nelson '03 and Angus Beal '03 Coliform Levels in Olympic National Park

INTERNSHIPS:
Irena Hollowell '02 Maquipucuna Cloud Forest Reserve
Janna Rearick '02 New England Aquarium
Mark Roberston '02 Environmental Protection Agency
Nina Trautman '03 Environmental Education at Ithaca High School
Tisha Joseph '04 Caribbean Network for Rural Integrated Development

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:
Marshall Dines '03 Costs of Open Space
Malin Pinsky'03 Natural Resources in Maine
Jon Wiener '02
Environmental Journalism


2000

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Kyle Goodrich '01 Deer Population in The Hopkins Memorial Forest
Kristin Bohnhorst '03 Deer Population in The Hopkins Memorial Forest
Tanu Kumar '01 Agribusiness
Allison Robbins '01 The Citizens Conservation Corps in The Hopkins Memorial Forest
Brian Werner '01 Composting on Campus

INTERNSHIPS:
David Cooperman '02 The Nature Conservancy
Michael Levien '01 Alternatives for Community and Environment
Christine Pace '01 The Population Council
Jonathan Wiener '02 CA Urban Mass Transit
Hilary Williams '01 Maine Island Trail Association

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:
Kathryn Guernsey '01 Environmental Effects of Horse Farming
Edward Rossier '01 Function and space in New York City


1999

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
Andrew Chang '00 Experimental and quantitative aspects of marine biological invasions in Long Island Sound
Sarah Connolly '00 Thesis: Air Pollution in Santiago Chile
David Joyce '00 Thesis: Demise of Oyster Stocks in Chesapeake Bay
Cordelia Ransom '00 Thesis: Researching Coral Fossils

INTERNSHIPS:
Alan Brelsford '01 Alaska Bird Observatory
Lauren Buckley Rocky Mt. Biological Laboratory
Julia Cianfarini '01 Environmental Protection Agency
Julianna Connolly '01 Harvard School of Public Health
Kristina Fisher '02 New Mexico Law Center
Emily Gillmar '00 Huddleston Architecture, Interiors & Design
Matt Gunther '00 Senator Harry Reid/Nevada
ViMimi Hua '01 9 Mile Run Greenway Project
Angela Lankford '00 Sangre de Cristo Mountain Council
Jessica Leibler '01 Aspen Farm Community Garden
Caren Mintz '01 Cetacean Research Unit
Kathleen Reardon '00 Save the Bay
Allison Robbins'01 Farmington River Watershed Association
Taylor Schildgen '00 Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre
Catherine Seelig '01
Sierra Club's Grizzly Bear Ecosystem Project

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:
Heather Brutz '02 Performance Art Piece
Chris Spence '00 Photo Essay
Matthew Toth '00 Photo Documentary/Cranbrook
Matt Wessler '01 One Town's Success: From Logging to Tourism
Hilary Williams '01 Re-Visiting Home: A Personal Exploration of Coastal Maine Through Visual Art & Journaling
Elizabeth Wood '00 Journal & personal narrative/physical and cultural environment at UWESO Farm