2021/2022 Undergraduate Research Projects
Hannah Cave & Liam Rascoe
Oh deer, what do we have here? Monitoring stand and landscape-level changes in wildlife habitat use in northern New York
Rob Kruse
Lost Legacy: Forest Resilience and Recovery Following an Extreme Disturbance in the
Adirondack High Peaks
Riley Stone
Patterns in soil organic carbon following the 2018 Altona Flat Rock fire
Devan Bushey
Tough crowd: Post-disturbance regeneration dynamics
in a jack pine barrens in northern New York
Lilian Gunderson
Multiple Forms of Bioimmuration in a Coral-Crinoid-Bryozoan Association from the Middle Devonian Onondaga Formation of Southern Ontario
Ed Rosenberg
Holy Shift! Tree Species range shifts in the Adirondack Mountains
Zach Hart
The Many Layered Flat Rock
A Geospatial Database for The Altona Flat Rock
Ashley Barkley, Mia Morgillo, and Angelo Sinisgalli
Wasterwater Treatment Plants: Microplastics in our Water
Bianca Lynch, Chayton Massic, Paige Megliore, Alex Preston, Kayleen Snyder, and Eric Steckler
Water are you doing? A chemical analysis of stream water at Whiteface Mountain
Clarice Knelly, Mia Morgillo, Hadar Pepperstone, Emma Stewart, and Zach Smith
Connecting the Community: Our Work at Late Night for the Planet
Mikayla Osmer
This could be the start of something new: Jack pine regeneration at Altona Flat Rock, NY
Chase Wojtowecz
Assessing Plethodon cinereus (Red-backed Salamander) Skin Microbiome Differences Across Northern NY
Parker LeClair
Relationships Between Magnetic Susceptibility and Carbonate Content in Meter-Scale Peritidal Rhythms: Upper Ordovician Crown Point Formation, Northeastern New York
Hadar Pepperstone
“The emotional recovery, I think, continues”:
A case study of Tropical Storm Irene’s impact on the North Country
Hadar Pepperstone, Naomi Hodgson, Alesi Cook, and Marcus Mitchell
Roadkill: A Citizen Science Project
Riley Stone, Hanna Penfield, and Chase Wojtowecz
Soil Organic Carbon Variation after a Fire
Riley Savastano
Regeneration Frequency of Pirasocrinid Cladid Crinoid
Spines in the Upper
Pennsyvanian Wann and Barnsdall Formations of Northeastern Oklahoma
Andrea Koetzle
Environmental Impacts of the Textile and Fashion Industry
Graduate Research Projects
Jillian Kara
Equitable Environmental Literacy: Investigating Interventions to Increase Environmental Literacy among BIPOC Students
Luke Briccetti
Forest Landowner Perspectives on Water Resource Management in the Lake Champlain Basin
Kayleen Synder
Phytoplankton Community Composition and Abundance from 2017 to 2021 in Lake Champlain