2016-2017

  • Natalie Criscenzo (Energy & Environmental Policy and Public Policy)
    Advisor: Philip Barnes (Institute for Public Administration), Overcoming Policy and Planning Barriers to Resilient and Sustainable Communities in Delaware
  • Lauren Glinko (Geography)
    Advisor: Afton Clarke-Sather (Geography), Causes of Change of Irrigation in the Eastern United States
  • Madison Gutekunst (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Rodrigo Vargas (Plant and Soil Sciences), Linking Below Ground Greenhouse Gas Concentrations with Water Chemistry in the St. Jones Estuary
  • Benjamin Jenkins (Delaware State University Natural Resources-Fisheries Management)
    Advisor: Dewayne Fox (Delaware State University Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources), Estimating the Spawning Population of Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) in the Delaware River
  • Maya Kassoff (Environmental Science)
    Advisor: Gerald Kauffman (School of Public Policy and Administration), Water Quality Monitoring in the White Clay Creek National Wild & Scenic River Watershed
  • Andrea Miller (Environmental Studies)
    Advisor: Gerald Kauffman (School of Public Policy and Administration), UD Water Resources Center), Water Quality Monitoring in the White Clay Creek National Wild & Scenic River Watershed
  • Courtney Rempfer (Environmental Science)
    Advisor: Rodrigo Vargas (Plant and Soil Sciences), Designing an Automated System to Monitor O2, CO2 and CH4 from Sediments in a Salt Marsh
  • Ilana Schnaufer (Chemistry and Environmental Science)
    Advisor: Delphis Levia (Geography), Variations in the Residence Time and Isotopic Signature of Stemflow along an Edge-to-interior Transect
  • Jacob Shelton (Environmental Studies)
    Advisor: Maria Pautler (Plant and Soil Sciences), Sustained Water Quality Monitoring of Possum Creek and Noxontown Pond, Delaware
  • Patrick Wise (Biological Sciences and History)
    Advisor: Angelia Seyfferth (Plant and Soil Sciences), Variable Regulation of Silicon Transporter Gene Expression in Rice

2015-2016

  • Samuel Dever (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Paul Imhoff (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Water Retention and Mineral Weathering in a Forest Catchment
  • Nicole Golomb (International Relations)
    Advisor: Philip Barnes (Public Policy), Delaware Database for Funding Resilient Communities
  • Xiaolun Guo (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Chin-Pao Huang (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Impact of Climate Change on Water Quality: Effect of Temperature on the Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Mineral Solubility
  • Ryan Hall (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Paul Imhoff (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Integrating Biochar Amendments in Green Stormwater Management Systems for Enhanced Nitrogen Treatment of Stormwater Runoff
  • James Hanes (Environmental Science)
    Advisor: A. Scott Andres (Delaware Geological Survey), Determination of Daily Net Primary Production from Continuous Water Quality Monitoring in the Surface Waters of Coursey Pond, Delaware
  • Kelli Kearns (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Angelia Seyfferth (Plant and Soil Sciences), Comparison of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Two Flooded, Vegetative Environments
  • Andres Kwart (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Anastasia Chirnside (Entomology and Wildlife Ecology), Evaluation of a Fungal Solid State Bio-Reactor to Reduce Pollutant Concentration in Food Processing Wastewater
  • Alyssa Lutgen (Environmental Science)
    Advisor: Delphis Levia (Geography), The Isotopic Composition of Throughfall in Relation to Drop Size Diameter Distribution
  • Jillian Matz (Environmental Science)
    Advisor: Shreeram Inamdar (Plant and Soil Sciences), Diel Patterns in Dissolved Organic Matter in a Forested Headwater Catchment in Maryland
  • Marcos Miranda (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Daniel Cha (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Breathable Membrane Enclosures for Fecal Sludge Stabilization: Application in Eco-vapor Toilets
  • Adam Nesbitt (Energy and Environmental Policy)
    Advisor: Lawrence Agbemabiese (Energy and Environmental Policy), Potential for the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility to Invest in Clean Water
  • Margaret Orr (Meteorology and Climatology)
    Advisor: Shreeram Inamdar (Plant and Soil Sciences), Relating Rainfall Intensity to Sediment Mobilization at Fair Hill
  • Erica Rossetti (Natural Resource Management) and Samantha Serratore (Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Gerald Kauffman (Public Policy), Brandywine-Piedmont Watershed Plan: First State National Park
  • Nicholas Villari (Plant and Soil Sciences)
    Advisor: Amy Shober (Plant and Soil Sciences), Understanding the Role of Ditch Sediments in the Transport of Phosphorus in Agricultural Drainage on the Delmarva
  • Ha Vu (Chemistry)
    Advisor: Deb Jaisi (Plant and Soil Sciences), Application of P31 NMR Spectroscopy to Understand Phosphorus Speciation in Wastewater
  • Gemma Antoniewicz, Norma Brasure, and Clare Sevcik (Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering)
    Advisor: Gerald Kauffman (Public Policy), The DWRC UD WATER Program: Silver Brook Watershed Plan