Soriano, Kaitlin Marie

The weeds that are present in the landscape of the Dickinson College Certified Organic Farm, play a vital role in the agroecosystem that is created through human manipulations. The farm managers spend a great deal of time...

Beehler, Madison Grace

My research will build upon the field of walkability, social capital and resource extraction from social networks. Literature shows that living in an environment rich with destinations to walk to facilitate the creation of...

Smedinghoff, Joan Marie

While large cities are commonly associated with public transit, towns are also places where people look to public transit as a service for their community. Many times, this means creating a new transit system where there was...

Raczka, Alexandra Gabrielle

This study looks at the food environment of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is specifically focused on food access and food preferences, and the relationships between a person’s educational background, household income, and...

Zimmermann, Tabea Klassen

Inland waters are particularly sensitive to environmental changes and a growing body of research points to lakes as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of large-scale stressors such as climate change (Carpenter et al. 2007,...

Sennett, Caryn Marie

Background: Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE’s) have been phased out of production in the USA since 2005 due to concerns about their persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity. Subsequent regulation of PBDE production by the...