"The NRESS program connected me with diverse faculty studying genetics, community ecology, and physical soil ecology. The staff, faculty and students involved in NRESS overwhelmingly support each other. I really benefited from the collaborative nature of my peers in NRESS, and I know this is a unique experience chatting with folks from other programs and universities."
—Mark Anthony, NRESS ’19G, Postdoctoral researcher, Crowther Lab, ETH Zürich
| Alumni | Year | Degree | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Evans | 2021 | EES |
A Bird’s Eye View of Stream Ecology: Evaluating Stream Condition and Restoration Impacts Using Drones, Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry, and Machine Learning Methods |
| Adele Fenwick | 2021 | NRES | Fire Regimes and Red Pine Stand Development in the White Mountains of New Hampshire |
| Andrew Robison | 2021 | EES |
Carbon Emissions From Streams and Rivers: Integrating Methane Emission Pathways and Storm Carbon Dioxide Emissions Into Stream and River Carbon Balances |
| Kiley Remiszewski | 2020 | EES | Nutrient Cycling Along Microbial and Lithologic Gradients and Fostering Student Self-Confidence in Science |
| Katherine Ineson | 2020 | NRES | Demography of a Recovery: Tracking the Rebound of Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus) Populations |
| Sophia Burke | 2020 | EES |
Investigating the Spatial and Temporal Scale Variability of Ebullitive Flux from a Subarctic Thaw Pond System |
| Bianca Rodriguez-Cardona | 2020 | EES |
Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Fluvial Systems across Biomes |
| Pamela Moyer | 2020 | EES |
Understanding Earthquake Rupture Processes: Insights from Mid-ocean Ridge Transform Faults and Submarine Volcanoes |
| Alyson Eberhardt | 2019 | EES | Evaluation of New England Salt Marsh Support of the American Eel, Anguilla Rostrata, and the Impacts of Hydrologic Restriction |
| Mashkoor Malik | 2019 | EES | Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty of Seafloor Acoustic Backscatter |
| Ashley Norton | 2019 | EES | Acoustic Methods for Mapping and Characterizing Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Using a Multibeam Echosounder |
| Lindsey Williams | 2019 | NRES |
Coastal Conflicts and Cross-Sectoral Engagement: Learning from Disputes Over Science in Coastal and Ocean Systems |
| Olivia Bartlett Fraser | 2019 | EES | Long-Term Forest Growth and Decadal Soil Chemistry Change Across the White Mountain National Forest |
| Robert Colter | 2019 | NRES | Advancing the Terrestrial Ecological Unit Inventory Within the White Mountain National Forest Using Lidar |
| Mary Jensen | 2019 | NRES | Dish It Up! The Influence of Kind Dining & Green House Model Food and Food Service Innovations on the Resident Experience in Residential Care Facilities |
| Andrea Jilling | 2019 | EES | Assessing the Agronomic and Ecological Relevance of Mineral-Associated Organic Matter |
| Brooks Kohli | 2019 | EES | Mammals on Mountainsides Revisited: Analyzing Multiple Dimensions of Diversity to Gain New Insight on Community Assembly and Biogeography |
| Mark Anthony | 2019 | EES | Fungal Community and Soil Responses to Invasive Alliaria Petiolata (Garlic Mustard), Soil Warming, and Nitrogen Deposition |
| Rory Carroll | 2019 | EES | Direct and Indirect Effects of Anthropogenic Land Use on Bobcats (Lynx rufus) in New England |
| Jose Gutierrez-Lopez | 2019 | NRES | Ecohydrology of Aspen and Eucalyptus Plantations: Considerations for Management |
| Kamini Yadav | 2019 | NRES | Accuracies, Errors, and Uncertainties of Global Cropland Products |
| Allison Leach | 2018 | NRES | Addressing the Nitrogen Challenge: Footprint Tools and On-Farm Solutions |
| Katherine Sinacore | 2018 | NRES | Variation in Plant Water Use, Growth, and Water-Use Efficiency of Planted Mixtures and Monocultures: Toward Proper Species Selection for Reforestation Efforts in the Seasonally Dry Tropics |
| Ryan Stephens | 2018 | NRES | Small Mammal Community Dynamics and the Dispersal of Mycorrhizal Fungi |
| Abigail Carroll | 2018 | EES |
Ecosystems, Communities, and Species: Understanding Mammalian Response to Ancient Carbon Cycle Perturbations |
| Cameron McIntire | 2018 | NRES | Impacts and Management of Foliar Pathogens of Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus) in the Northeastern United States |
| Rosa Affleck | 2017 | NRES |
Infrastructure Impact for Human Safety and Resilience: A Case Study |
| Richard Brereton | 2017 | EES |
Nitrogen Dynamics and Retention in the River Network of a Tropical Forest, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico |
| Ryan Cassotto | 2017 | EES | Unraveling Short-Term Variations in Tidewater Glacier Flow: Insights from Terrestrial Radar Interferometric Studies |
| Lauren Koenig | 2017 | EES |
Hydrological and Biogeochemical Controls on Carbon and Nitrogen Export from River Networks |
| Eric Morrison | 2017 | EES | Fungi as Drivers of Ecosystem Response to Global Change |
| Andrew Ouimette | 2017 | NRES | Patterns and Drivers of Carbon Fluxes in Temperate Forests |
| Lesley Atwood | 2017 | EES |
Effects of Agricultural Practices on Soil Communities and Their Associated Ecosystem Services |
| Matthew Tarr | 2017 | NRES | Effects of Alien Shrubs on Caterpillars and Shrubland-Dependent Passerines within Three Transmission Line Rights-Of-Way in Southeastern New Hampshire |
| Kimberly Aviado | 2017 | EES | Magma Genesis Beneath Active Continental Rifts |
| Jennifer Wilhelm | 2017 | NRES | Exploring the Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Agricultural Expansion in New Hampshire |
| Stephen Eayrs | 2016 | NRES | Organizational Change Management in Fisheries: Critical Evaluation and Potential to Facilitate the Sustainable Development of the New England Groundfish Industry |
| Danielle Grogan | 2016 | EES | Global and Regional Assessments of Unsustainable Groundwater Use in Irrigated Agriculture |
| Neil Kessler | 2016 | NRES | Ontology of Close Human-Nature Relationships |
| Matthew MacDowell Smith | 2016 | NRES | Creating an Economically Viable, Closed-System, Energy-Independent Dairy Farm Through the On-Farm Production of Animal Bedding and Heat Capture from an Aerated Static Pile Heat Recovery Composting Operation |
| Rachel Feeney | 2015 | NRES | Catch Share Management in the Northeast Multispecies Fishery: Implications for the Commercial Groundfish Fishery in New Hampshire |
| James Houle | 2015 | NRES | Community Decisions About Innovations in Water Resource Management and Protection |
| Ian Honsberger | 2015 | EES | Metamorphism, Deformation, Geochemistry, and Tectonics of Exhumed Ultramafic and Mafic Rocks in the Central and North-Central Vermont Appalachians |
| Cynthia Kallenbach | 2015 | EES | Microbial Influences on Decomposition and Soil Organic Matter Formation in Agricultural Soils |
| Dovev Levine | 2015 | NRES | Beyond Campus Borders: How External Environments Impact College and University-Based Renewable Energy Activity |
| Jennifer Walsh | 2015 | NRES | Hybrid Zone Dynamics Between Saltmarsh (Ammodramus caudacutus) and Nelson's (Ammodramus nelson) Sparrows |
| Jay Clausen | 2015 | EES | Sampling of Soils with Metallic Residues Collected from Military Small-Arms Ranges |
| Dorn Cox | 2015 | NRES | A Physiocratic Systems Framework for Open Source Agricultural Research and Development |
| Justin Fisk | 2015 | EES | Net Effects of Disturbance: Spatial, Temporal, and Societal Dimensions of Forest Disturbance and Recovery on Terrestrial Carbon Balance |
| Joseph Orefice | 2015 | NRES | Silvopasture in the Northeastern United States |
| Nathaniel Morse | 2014 | EES | Quantifying the Impact of Urbanization on N and P Inputs, Transformations, Removal and Fluxes in Watersheds Draining to the Plum Island Estuary |
| Jeffrey Rogers | 2014 | EES | Full_Waveform and Discrete-Return Lidar in Salt Marsh Environments: An Assessment of Biophysical Parameters, Vertical Uncertainty, and Nonparametric DEM Correction |
| Jessica Veysey | 2014 | NRES | Conserving Wetlands for Humans and Amphibians: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Social and Ecological Effectiveness of New England's Wetland Policies |
| Timothy Algeo | 2014 | NRES | Assessing Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) Habitat Use and Predicting Potential Corridors for Rabies Spread with Maximum Entropy and Circuit Theory Modeling |
| Sarah Andrews | 2014 | EES | Relationships between Structure and Function: System Structure Matters Whether You are in a Wetland or a College Classroom |
| Chelsea Corr | 2014 | EES | The Analysis of In Situ and Retrieved Aerosol Properties Measured During Three Airborne Field Campaigns |
| Debora Figueroa-Nieves | 2014 | EES | Impacts of Treated Sewage Effluents on Stream Ecology in Puerto Rico |
| Maria Hunter | 2014 | EES | Carbon Stocks and Cycling in the Amazon Basin: Measurement and Modeling of Natural Disturbance and Recovery Using Airborne Lidar |
| Claire Treat | 2014 | EES |
Effects of Climate Change on Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Permafrost Soils of Alaska |
| Eric Kelsey | 2014 | EES | Towards Understanding North Pacific Climate Variability with Instrumental and Ice Core Records |
| Laura Nagy | 2014 | NRES | Vernon Bailey and Wolf Extermination: Economy, Ecology and Progressive Era Policy |
| Robert Swarthout | 2014 | EES | Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Unconventional Natural Gas Production: Source Signatures and Air Quality Impacts |
| Elizabeth Burakowski | 2013 | EES | Winter Climate Impacts of Historical Deforestation in New England |
| Martha Carlson | 2013 | NRES | Monitoring The Health of Sugar Maple, Acer Saccharum |
| Thomas Cawthern | 2013 | EES:Geology | Reconstructing the Late Miocene to Recent Volcanic, Geologic, and Oceanographic Evolution in the Andaman Sea and Northern Bay of Bengal, Northeast Indian Ocean |
| Stephanie Coster | 2013 | NRES | Landscape Genetics of Pond-Breeding Amphibians in a Managed Forest |
| Emily Klein | 2013 | NRES | Change in Nonlinear Dynamics and Spatial Structure of Coastal Socio-Ecological Systems: Bay of Fundy as Case Study |
| Alesia Read | 2013 | NRES | Understanding the Role of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations Within the Federal Fishery Management Council Process |
| Yvette Garner | 2013 | NRES | The Effects of Biotic and Abiotic Factors on Byssogenesis, Growth and Movement Patterns of the Blue Mussel, Mytilus Edulis |
| M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos | 2013 | EES | Plant Water Use and Canopy-Fog Interactions across a Land Use Change Trajectory of Pine Reforestation in a Tropical Montate Cloud Belt |
| Heather Ballestero | 2013 | NRES | Bacterial Biodegradation of Soluble Crude Oil Hydrocarbons and the Influence of Protists in Simulated Arctic Seawater and Sea Ice |
| Patricia Jarema | 2013 | NRES | The Role of Social Capital in Understanding Ecosystem Resilience with Application of Spatial Extensions |
| Matthew Vadeboncoeur | 2013 | EES | Mechanisms of Nutrient Limitation and Nutrient Acquisition in Managed and Unmanaged Forest Ecosystems |
| Meghan MacLean | 2012 | NRES |
A Multi-Temporal Image Analysis of Habitat Modification in the Coastal Watershed, NH |
| Kalle Matso | 2012 | NRES |
Producing Science that Actually Gets Used by Coastal Communities: What Funders Should Do to Link More Science with Decisions |
| Shelley F. Mitchell | 2012 | NRES | An Empirical Investigation: How Small to Mid-Sized Enterprises Use Innovation on the Path Toward Ecological Sustainability |
| Shivanesh Rao | 2012 | EES: Oceanography |
Interaction Between the Coastal Ocean and the Estuarine Systems |
| Giacomo Chato Osio | 2012 | NRES | The Historical Fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea: A Reconstruction of Trawl Gear, Effort and Trends in Demersal Fish Stocks |
| John R. Coon | 2012 | NRES | Can We Get There From Here? Ecosystem Based Governance in the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine Region |
| Daniel Hocking | 2012 | NRES | The Role of Red-backed Salamanders in Ecosystems |
| Amanda Plagge | 2012 | EES | Observational Studies of Scatterometer Ocean Vector Winds in the Presence of Dynamic Air-Sea Interactions |
| Melissa Smith Lombard | 2012 | EES | Trace Metal Applications in Atmospheric and Watershed Dynamics: Case Studies of Mercury Deposition in New England and Bedrock Groundwater - Surface Water Mixing |
| Philip Nuss | 2012 | EES | Comparative Systems Analysis of Thermochemical and Biochemical Recycling of Organic Waste Towards Industrial Feedstocks |
| Lina Saavedra-Diaz | 2012 | NRES | Towards Colombian Small-Scale Marine Fisheries Management Hacia un Manejo de la Pesca Marina Artesanal en Columbia |
| Robert Vincent | 2012 | EES | Ecological Effects of Ditching and Ditch-Plugging in New England Salt Marshes |
| Shannon R. Davis | 2011 | EES | Marine Atmospheric Influences on Trace Gas Observations and Transport during the ICARTT 2004 Campaign |
| Fernando Espirito-Santo | 2011 | EES | Detection of Mortality in Tropical Forests Using Remote Sensing: From Treefall Gaps to Large Disturbances |
| Brad Johnson | 2011 | NRES | Assessing Social-Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Capacity in the Face of Climate Change: An Examination of Three Communities in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem |
| Tzu-Ling Lai | 2011 | EES | Occurrence of Major Ozone Episodes and Their Time-Series Trends over the Past Decade in New England |
| Deborah Goodwin | 2011 | EES: Oceanography | Satellite-Derived Fluorescence Quantum Yields as Indicators of Phytoplankton Photophysiology |
| Alyssa B. Novak | 2011 | EES: Oceanography | Unraveling the Mystery of Leaf Reddening in Seagrasses |
| Shannon H. Rogers | 2011 | NRES | Examining the Relationship between Social Capital and the Built Environment: A Case Study in Measuring Community Sustainability |
| Fabienne Lord | 2011 | NRES | An Exploratory Approach to Social Impact Assessment of Public Policy Decisions: Multiple Stakeholders Perspectives on the Social Impact of Overfishing in New England Groundfisheries in the 1990s |
| Cynthia Carlson | 2011 | EES | Efficiency of the Built Environment: Interdependencies in Transportation, Development Form and Public Health |
| Alexandra Contosta | 2011 | EES | Seasonal, Biogeochemical, and Microbial Response of Soils to Simultaneous Warming and Nitrogen Additions |
| Su Youn Kim | 2010 | EES | Continental Outflow of Polluted Air from the U.S. to the North Atlantic and Mercury Chemical Cycling in Various Atmospheric Environments |
| Lucigleide Nascimento | 2010 | NRES | The Long Journey to Become the 'River of National Unity': The Sao Francisco River Basin from 1940s to 2008 and the Interactions of Environment, Government and Local Citizens |
| Elena Traister | 2010 | NRES | Effects of Physical and Chemical Disturbance on Stream Ecosystem Structure and Function |
| Jamie Marie Cournane | 2010 | NRES | Spatial Management of Groundfish Resources in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank |
| Mary A. Friedman | 2010 | NRES | Social Science and Social Capital in the Lamprey River Watershed: A Resident Survey for Community and Environmental Planning and Predicting Support for Innovative Land Use |
| Arthur G. Powers | 2010 | NRES | An Initial Evaluation of Market-Based Land Reform in Brazil: Can it Create Sustainable Communities? |
| Peter Sean Tardie | 2010 | NRES | Land Development in Massachusetts: Its Effect on the Environment Within Essex and Middlesex Counties from 1990 to 2007 |
| Irina Trubetskova | 2010 | NRES | From Biosphere to Noosphere: Vladimir Vernadsky's Theoretical System as a Conceptual Framework for Universal Sustainability Education |
| Erika L. Washburn | 2009 | NRES | To Pave Or Not To Pave: A Social Landscape Analysis of Land Use Decision-Making in the Lamprey River Watershed |
| Luke Ziemba | 2009 | EES | Ambient Measurements of Chemical and Physical Properties of Organic Aerosols: Insights into Formation, Growth, and Heterogeneous Chemistry |
| Verna DeLauer | 2009 | NRES | The Mental Demands of Marine Ecosystem-Based Management: A Constructive Developmental Lens |
| Mary Hopkins | 2009 | NRES | A Wild Web: The Tangled History of Attitudes Toward Wildlife in a Dynamic New England Culture, 1945-1985 |
| Rachel Russo | 2009 | EES | Temporal Variation, Regional Sources, and Removal Processes of Volatile Organic Compounds in New England |
| Jennifer Hegarty | 2009 | EES | Synoptic Controls on Ozone Over the Northeastern U.S. and Continental Export |
| Charles French | 2008 | NRES |
The Social Production of Community Garden Space: Case Studies of Boston, Massachusetts and Havana, Cuba |
| Erika Zollett | 2008 | NRES | Conserving Dolphins and Fishermen: Combining Science and Local Knowledge to Reduce Cetacean Bycatch |
| William Strauss | 2008 | EES | The Fallacy of Endless Growth Exposing Capitalism's Insustainability |
| Xuyi Cai | 2008 | EES | Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation of Relevance to the Marine Boundary Layer |
| Marguerite White | 2008 | EES | Sources and Sinks of Selected Trace Gases in the Tropospheric Boundary Layer of the Eastern United States |
| Stefan Claesson | 2008 | NRES | Sustainable Development Of Maritime Cultural Heritage In The Gulf Of Maine |
| John Alexander Lough | 2008 | NRES | Stratified-Drift Aquifers in New Hampshire with Potential to Serve as Future, Large Public Water-Supplies: Status, Circa 200; Projected Losses, Circa 2025; and Data Accuracy |
| Clayton Mitchell | 2008 | NRES | The Local Land Use Process in New Hampshire: Does it Contribute to Sprawl? |
| Caroline Ochieng | 2008 | NRES | Survival Strategies of Eelgrass in Reduced Light |
| Garrett Barr | 2007 | NRES | The Roles of Brook Trout and Larval Two-lined Salamanders as Predators in Streams |
| Jianjun Chen | 2007 | EES | Modeling Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Biogenic Hydrocarbon |
| William Fleeger | 2007 | NRES | Standing Closer to the Flame: Community Wildfire Protection Planning and the Healthy Forest Restoration Act |
| Difei Zhang | 2007 | NRES | A Spatial Equilibrium Model of Northern New England and Southern Quebec in Forest Products and Wood Flow |
| Jeffrey Gaeckle | 2006 | NR | Eelgrass(Zostera marina L.) Leaf Growth and Restoration Ecology |
| Michael Rawlins | 2006 | EES | Toward an Improved Understanding of Pan-Arctic Terrestrial Hydrology |
| Michael Palace | 2006 | EES | Tropical Forest Structure: Ground Measurements of Coarse Woody Debris and Satellite Observations of Crown Structure |
| Stephen Hagen | 2006 | EES | Linking multivariate observations of the land surface to vegetation properties and ecosystem processes |
| Brian Frappier | 2006 | NRES | Stream Community Patterns and Classification of Minimally Impacted New Hampshire Streams and a Comparison of Novel Approaches for Predicting Biological and Physical Habitat Reference Conditions |
| Amy Frappier | 2006 | EES | Recent Extreme Events in a Tropical Stalagmite: Multiproxy Records and an Analysis of Ecosystem Carbon 13 Isotope Sensitivity to Weak Climate Forcing |
| Jeanne Anderson | 2006 | EES | Remote Detection of Forest Structure in the White Mountains of New Hampshire: An Integration of Waveform Lidar and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data |
| Yong Zhou | 2006 | EES | Atmospheric volatile organic compound measurements:Distributions and effects on air quality in coastal marine, rural and remote continental environments |
| John Iiames | 2006 | NRES | Assessing the Accuracy of the Modis LAI 1-KM Product in Southeastern United States Loblolly Pine Plantations: Accounting for Measurement Variance from Ground to Satellite |
| Penelope Morrow | 2006 | NR | Toward Ecocitizenship: A Praxis for Empowerment |
| Qingyuan Zhang | 2006 | NRES | Improving Estimation of Gross Primary Productivity of Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Emily LaFiandra | 2006 | NRES | Gonadal Histology and Reproductive Steriodogenesis of Anurans Exposed to Potential Endocrine Disrupting Contaminants |
| David Howland | 2006 | NRES | Good Press, Bad Press: A 25-year Comparison of Arguments and Trends in American News Coverage of Climate Change and the Ozone Hole |
| Maya Bhatt | 2005 | NRES | Evolution of Chemical Composition Along River Drainage Networks |
| Evilene Lopes Bowley | 2005 | NRES | Woody Tissue Carbon Dioxide Flux Measurements |
| Kaplan Yalcin | 2005 | EES | A Glaciochemical Record of Natural and Anthropogenic Environmental Change form Eclipse Icefield, Yukon Territory, Canada |
| Nancy Miaoulis | 2005 | NRES | The Ecological Christ: Discovering an Ecological Consciousness in the Sermon on the Mount |
| Katharine York | 2005 | NR | An Examination of Students' Attitudes Toward the Environment as Shaped by the Phenomenon of Dissection |
| Mark Brennan | 2005 | NR | Spatial Distribution Analysis of Colonization and Nest Site Characteristics of the Common Loon in New Hampshire |
| Brian Pellerin | 2004 | NRES | Influence of Land Use on Water and Nutrient Fluxes in the Ipswich Watershed, Massachusetts |
| Jennifer Pontius | 2004 | EES | Using NIR Spectroscopy and Foliar Chemistry to Assess Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Success and Hemlock Decline |
| Manoel Carduso | 2004 | EES | Large-Scale Fire Dynamics in Amazonia |
| Julie Newman | 2004 | NRES | Reaching Beyond Compliance: Obstacles to Integrating Sustainability into Decision-Making Processes in an Institution of Higher Learning |
| Lynda Bruschett | 2004 | NRES | Examining the Role of Social Capital in Community Development: How the Creation of a Land Trust Set a Small Town on the Path to Sustainability |
| Gabriel Fabian Bautista | 2003 | NRES | Intimacy with the Natural World: A Humanistic Perspective |
| Joseph Salisbury | 2003 | EES: Oceanography | Classification of Coastal Waters Using Satellite and Fluvial Discharge Data: Moving Towards a Better Understanding of Terrigenous Constituent Dynamics in Coastal Waters |
| Raymond Konisky | 2003 | EES | Restoring Our New England Saltmarshes:Modeling and Visualizing Habitat Response to Hydrologic Restoration |
| Melinda Salazar | 2002 | NRES | Implementation and Evaluation of A Gender Equity Project in Bolivia |