ESSP Projects

What do Hampshire students "do" in Environmental Studies? Here are some Divisional projects students have completed:

Division I

 * Sustainable Aquaculture
 * Analysis of drinking water from the Hopi Reservation
 * Daily changes in sugar content Sugar Maple Sap
 * United States Policy Towards Wetlands and Agriculture
 * The Case for Hydrothermal Systems as the Origin of Life
 * Architectural Spaces: The Role of the Earthlodge in Pawnee Society Prior to the Early 1800s
 * Bamboo: An Alternative Building Material Resistant to Earthquakes
 * Spiritual Ecology in Practice: The Life of John Muir
 * Sea Turtle Conservation in the Caribbean
 * Rate of Carbon Dioxide Production in Worker Ants of the Genus Pogonomyrmex
 * Implications of a Sewage Treatment Plant on Deer Island, Massachusetts
 * Heat Loss and the Window Quilt
 * Westover Air Force Base: The Laws Governing the Cleanup of Hazardous Waste

Division II

 * Conservation Biology
 * The Interaction Between Culture and Environment: Cultural Ecology
 * Four Horses and Several Thousand Corn Earthworms
 * Outdoor and Environmental Education
 * Studies of Biodiversity and Forest Preservation
 * Relationships Between Ecology and Art
 * Forests and Society: Visions of Nature

Division III

 * Survival and Triage of Cold-stunned Stranded Kemp's ridely Sea Turtles
 * "Ecology and Conservation of Blanding’s Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) in Massachusetts’
 * Mills and Muskrats on the Monatiquot River: An Experiment in Place Based Education
 * Wind Energy: Working Toward a Sustainable Energy Path
 * A Tale of Two States: Progressive Land Use Policies in the U.S.
 * Federal Intervention in Environmental Affairs: A Case Study of Boston Harbor
 * Local Energy Politics: A Case Study of Northampton
 * Community Supported Agriculture: Farms of Tomorrow?
 * The Citizens' Guide to "Low-Level" Radioactive Waste in Massachusetts
 * Materials and Process Affecting Compost Quality: An Analysis of the Hampshire College Farm Composting System
 * Environmental Science and Video Production
 * Kavus: The Sacred Mini Forests in Kerala, India
 * An Analysis of Carbon Dating Anomalies in Long Valley Caldera, California