Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Past Undergraduate Capstones

One-semester Projects

One-Semester Research Projects

“Water is Life”: Colonial Water Management as a Tool of Subjugation in the Navajo Nation and the West Bank

May 2024

Recruitment Dynamics of Invasive Mullet Species, Osteomugil engeli, in a Native Hawaiian Fishpond

May 2022

One-Semester Engaged Scholarship Projects

Teaching Black Environmental Histories and Geographies of Resistances: A Curriculum on Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp

December 2022

Theses

Two-semester Projects

Research Theses

Investigating the Role of the Transportation Sector on Providence’s Intra-Urban Air Quality Trends

May 2024

Evaluating the impacts of DNA metabarcoding diet coverage on the nutritional analysis of bison in Yellowstone National Park

May 2024

SINGING IN THE FACE OF THE RISING SEAS:  Lyric Analysis of Climate Protest Music in the United States

May 2024

Assessing biological and anthropogenic drivers of spatiotemporal variation in the Galápagos marine soundscape

May 2023

Engaged Scholarship Theses

Foraging with a Capital F: An Ethnographic Foray into the Meanings, Barriers, and Hopes of Foragers in the Northeast United States

May 2024

Shelling Out for Shellfish: an Analysis of the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Increasing Oyster Aquaculture in Rhode Island

May 2021