What do Hampshire students "do" in Environmental Studies? Here are some Divisional projects students have completed:

Division I

• » Sustainable Aquaculture
• » Analysis of Drinking Water from the Hopi Reservation
• » Daily Changes in Sugar Content Sugar Maple Sap
• » United States Policy Towards Wetlands and Agriculture
• » The Case for Hydrothermal Systems as the Origin of Life
• » Architectural Spaces: The Role of the Earthlodge in Pawnee Society Prior to the Early 1800s
• » Bamboo: An Alternative Building Material Resistant to Earthquakes
• » Spiritual Ecology in Practice: The Life of John Muir
• » Sea Turtle Conservation in the Caribbean
• » Rate of Carbon Dioxide Production in Worker Ants of the Genus Pogonomyrmex
• » Implications of a Sewage Treatment Plant on Deer Island, Massachusetts
• » Heat Loss and the Window Quilt
• » Westover Air Force Base: The Laws Governing the Cleanup of Hazardous Waste

Division II

• » Conservation Biology
• » The Interaction Between Culture and Environment: Cultural Ecology
• » Four Horses and Several Thousand Corn Earthworms
• » Outdoor and Environmental Education
• » Studies of Biodiversity and Forest Preservation
• » Relationships Between Ecology and Art
• » Forests and Society: Visions of Nature

Division III (Senior Thesis)

• » Survival and Triage of Cold-Stunned Stranded Kemp's ridely Sea Turtles
• » Ecology and Conservation of Blanding’s Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) in Massachusetts
• » Mills and Muskrats on the Monatiquot River: An Experiment in Place Based Education
• » Wind Energy: Working Toward a Sustainable Energy Path
• » A Tale of Two States: Progressive Land Use Policies in the U.S.
• » Federal Intervention in Environmental Affairs: A Case Study of Boston Harbor
• » Local Energy Politics: A Case Study of Northampton
• » Community Supported Agriculture: Farms of Tomorrow?
• » The Citizens' Guide to "Low-Level" Radioactive Waste in Massachusetts
• » Materials and Process Affecting Compost Quality: An Analysis of the Hampshire College Farm Composting System
• » Environmental Science and Video Production
• » Kavus: The Sacred Mini Forests in Kerala, India
• » An Analysis of Carbon Dating Anomalies in Long Valley Caldera, California