Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Past Undergraduate Capstones

One-semester Projects

One-Semester Research Projects

Post-Sandy Flood Resiliency in NYC: How to Prevent Subway Systems from Increasing Storm Surges

December 2021

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

May 2022

One-Semester Engaged Scholarship Projects

Selling Glaciers: Extracting Value from Nature in Northern Chilean Patagonia

May 2019

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

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

May 2023

What You Don’t See on the Menu: Dietary Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Exposure in Adolescents

May 2022

 

Sakura Storytellers: Cherry Blossoms as Indicators of Change in More-Than-Human Environments

May 2022

Engaged Scholarship Theses

Incentivizing SNAP Beneficiaries to Purchase Healthier Food: The Impact of Farm Fresh Rhode Island’s Bonus Bucks Program 

May 2020

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

May 2021