2012

Research

• Andrea Lindsay ’13  Food Justice in Los Angeles: What, Who, and Why?
• Emily Ury ’13  Thesis

Creative

• Sonja Thalheimer ’14 Can Agriculture Do Good? Agriculture As a Net Good to Both Ecological and Human Communities

Internships

• Celeste Berg ’13  Sustainable Endowments Institute
• Lucy Bergwall ’15 Summer of Solutions
  
• Talia Calnek-Sugin ’15 New York Sun Works
  
• Vera Cecelski ’13 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  
• Lucie Coleman ’14 Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
  
• Wade Davis ’13 The Renewable Energy Initiative
  
• Paul de Konkoly Thege ’14 White Roof Project
  
• Sara Finkle ’14 Lessons in Seed Growing from Northland, New Zealand
  
• Julieanne Fontana ’14 Along the Hoosic River with HooWRA
  
• Zoe Grueskin ’14 Sierra Club
  
• Robin Hackett ’13 The Wilderness Society
  
• Charles Lorenz ’13 Bicycle Sharing Programs
  
• Julio Cesar Luquin Association des Jardiniers de Tournefeuille
• Julia Matejcek ’15 The University of Victoria’s Whale Research Lab
  
• Samantha Murray ’14 Students Help Keep Berkshire Farming
  
• Katherine Newcomer ’14 Mote Marine Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program
• James Nolan ’13 Students Help Keep Berkshire Farming
  
• Clara Noomah ’13 Botanic Research in Alaska
• Laurel O’Connor ’15 Center for Neighborhood Technology: Turning Numbers into Stories
  
• Meghan Rowe ’14 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
• Jasmine Thomasian ’15  Mt. Greylock Community Garden
• Chie Togami ’13 Earthjustice Policy and Legislation Department
• Cary White ’13 Students Help Keep Berkshire Farming

2011

Research

• David Gold ’12 Developing an Epistemology of the Environment
• Lindsay Olsen ’12 Island Harvest: The Conflicts of Aquaculture in the Faroe Islands
• William Su ’12 A Change of Beliefs: Jenny Holzer’s Black Garden and Critical Publics

Creative

• Amy Nolan ’12 Shifting Perspectives: Reconsidering New England Landscapes: A Cycling Trip and Artists Book
• Kaison Tanabe ’13 Photographic Documentation of the Environmental Effects of Rapid Urbanization in Istanbul

Internships

• Olivia Delia ’12 Eagle Mount
• Elizabeth Dorr ’12 Western Reserve Land Conservancy
• Sara Finkle ’14 Summer of Solutions Pioneer Valley
• Dana Golden ’13 Seattle Tilth Farm Incubator Program
• Andrea Lindsay ’13 Solid Ground’s Lettuce Link
• Chad Lorenz ’13 Fostering an Appreciation of Natural Beauty in the Hoosic River Watershed
• Patrick Morrissey ’12 phb Catalystgroup inc., Bathgate Urban Food Industry Center
• James David Nolan ’13 Summer Garden Manager Williams Center at Mt. Greylock High School
• Anthony Raduazo ’12 Berkshire Grown
• Hayden Rooke-Ley ’14 Senator DeFazio
• Sarah Rosenberg ’14 The Healthy Schools Campaign
• Emma Rouse ’14 Professor Greg Dwyer at the Kellogg Biological Station
• Chie Togami ’13 The Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment
• Cary White ’13 Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance

2010

Research

• Rooney Charest ’11 The predicament of the American food system: First chapter draft for senior
• Kathleen Durante ’11 The Food Movement: A Case Study of Urban Agriculture and Advocacy for Food Justice in New York City
• Abigail Tinsley Moncure Martin ’11 An Exploration of Several Themes That Influence the Architecture and Sense of Place in Mystic, CN
• Chandler Sherman ’11 Up and Atom: Nuclear Energy Policy

Creative

• Brian Cole ’11 On the Trail to Art: A Creative Endeavor
• Beryl Manning-Geist ’11 The Australian Sugar Cane Industry and the Great Barrier Reef: A Sticky-Sweet Debate
• Sarah Tory ’11 Writing on Ground, Essays on Landscape

Internships

• Michael Abrams ’11 Dept of Microbiology, Rutgers University
• Amanda Darling ’12 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
• Wade Davis ’13 2010 Ronald Joseph Summer Internship with the KLT
• Sara G. Finkle ’13 New England Climate Summer, 2010
• Andrew Gaidus ’11 Project for Public Places
• Tommy Gaidus ’13 Hoosic River Watershed Association Summer Internship 2010
• Timothy Hicjey-LeClair ’11 Thomas E. Black ’80 Fund
• Andrea Lindsay ’13 Streets for All Seattle
• Evalynn Rosado ’12 Water in Tampa: An Internship Experience
• Connor Stern ’12 The Best Cage is an Empty Cage: Volunteering at the Centre for Rehabilitation of Wildlife
• Sonja Thalheimer ’13 North Carolina Conservation Network Internship
• Chie Togami ’13 N.E. Climate Summer
• Carol Tsoi ’11 Environmental Concerns Intern
• Josephine Warshauer ’11 Friends of the Lower Cape Fear Stopping Titan Cement
• Emily Ury ’13 Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Sediments of the Hoosic River

2009

Research

• Alex Beecher ’10 Design of new materials for use in organic solar cells
• Elizabeth Brickley ’10 A Story of Glaciers: Exploring the Icy Heart of Switzerland in the Face of Climate Change
• Rooney Charest ’11 Sustainable Eleuthera Reports & Campus Sustainability Project
• Sasha Anne Macko ’11 Research Ass’t for Bill Lynn
• Rachel Savain ’10 Measuring the Success of Community-Based Initiatives for Creating Green Jobs: A Case Study of Sustainable South Bronx’s Bronx Environmental Stewardship
• Katherine White ’11 A Comparison of Artisanal Cheese Production in Spain and New England: How Small Producers in Both Regions Have Preserved and Renovated Traditional Cheese-Making Techniques

Creative

• Evan Dethier ’11 A Photographic Examination of New England Art and Land Use
• Keith Kantack ’11 A Photographic Examination of New England Art and Land Use
• David Hansen ’11 The Natural History of Alaska and New England Explained Through Sculpture
• Hnin Hnin ’10 Mapping the Local Berkshire Food Economy
• Allegra Hyde ’10 A Hundred Miles of Wilderness

Internships

• Chad Brown’10 Intern/Pittsfield Green Commission
• Ruby Dale-Brown ’11 Intern/Trustees of Reservation-Field Farm Interpreter & Conservation Ranger
• Shawn Curley ’11 Intern/ St. Lawrence River Institute of Env Sci
• Alessandra DeMarchis ’10 Intern/Himalayan Cataract Project
• Kathleen Durante ’11 Intern/Dept. of Community & Preventive Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospitals
• Andrew Gaidus ’11 Intern/Wmst COOL Committee–Action Plan Analyst/ Community Outreach
• Dan Gura ’10 Intern/Carrboro, NC, Planning Department
• Beryl Manning-Geist ’11 Intern/SPREP South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme
• Henry H. Montalbano ’10 Intern/Sierra Club
• Kelsie Meehan ’11 Intern/Peace Valley Farm & Dining Services
• Marissa Pilger ’11 Intern/WRLF
• Anthony Raduazo ’12 Intern/Green Mountain Club
• Jennifer Rowe ’11 Intern/Himal Prakriti, Munsiari, India
• Jack Rudolph ’11 Env. Defense Fund
• Chandler Sherman ’11 Intern/WeACT or MADRE
• Taida Smailhodzic ’12 Intern/FONDEKO, Assoc. for Sustainable Development and Quality of Life in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Laura Staugaitis ’11 Intern/Cheeseboard (long-lived workers’ collective in Berkeley, CA)
• Connor Stern ’12 Intern/Berkshire Reg Planning Commission
• Julian Suhr ’11 Intern/HooRWA
• Josephine Warshauer ’11 Intern/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC
• Corey Watts ’10 Intern/Himalayan Cataract Project

2008

Research

• Clint Robins ’11 Ecological Change in the Lake of the Woods as a Result of Developmentally Generated Eutrophication
• Avalon Gulley ’09 Senior thesis Research “Developing a Water Management Plan for a Small Farming Community in Costa Rica, School for Field Studies”

Internships

• Antoniya Aleksandrova ’11 Intern/ Consulting Center of Sustainable Development Geopont-Intercom Ltd., Bulgaria
• Adam Carman ’10 Intern/Wyoming Wilderness Assoc.
• Laura Christianson ‘11 Intern/Minnesota Land Trust and Intern/Dean’s Beans
• James Cox-Chapman ’09 Intern/The School for Ethics and Global Leadership
• Randall Dorf ’09 Intern/Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
• Leah Katzelnick ’10 editor/Most Excellent Majesty book on Mt. Greylock
• Marissa Kimsey ’11 Intern/Delta Institute
• Christopher Law ’10 Intern/WRLF& HooRWA
• Beryl Manning-Geist ’11 Intern/Charles Darwin Station in the Galapagos Islands
• Adriann Mintzmyer ’09 Intern/Target Hunger
• Jared Nourse ’11 Marine Turtle Research, Rescue, and Conservation, Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
• Jennifer Rowe ’11 Intern/Dept. of Wildlife Ecology , U of Maine – Orono
• Chandler Sherman ’11 Intern/EPA
• Kathryn Stephens ’10 Intern/Jumby Bay Hawksbill Turtle Project
• Julia Van Hoogstraten ’11 Intern/Office of Trade Rep in DC

Faculty-Sponsored Internships

• Abigail Martin ’11 Land History Intern
• Amy Russell ’08 Research Assistant/Art
• Katherine S. White ‘11
• Howard A. Knight ‘08 Renewable Energy and Resource Sustainability/LUCE Interns
• Andrew T. Mikell ’09

Creative

• Daniel Gura ’10 William College Nature Trail, Dining Services/Peace Valley Farm Liaison
• Christopher Holland ’11 What is My Environmental? Enhancing Cullman’s Future by Educating about Interactions, An Integrative Environmental Proposal for Schools in Cullma, Alabama
• Rebecca Kane’10 Landscapes: Confronting Issues of the Environment Through Art
• Sam Kapala ’09 The Mount Washington Valley on Film and In Song

2007

Creative

• Mirza Delibegovic ’08 UNEP/UNESCO Textbook on Sustainable Consumption
• Nora Morse ’08 Creative and Resourceful Shelter: A Hands-on Exploration of Cob Building
• Julia Sendor ’08 Cross-Country Grassroots: Fighting Exploitative Mining in West Virginia and Arizona

Internships

• Camille Bevans ‘09 Trust for Public Lands
• Audrey Bell ’10 Near East Foundation’s Morocco program
• Elizabeth Brickley ’10 Westmoreland Conservation District
• Jonathan Earle ’09 Center for Ecological Technology and Center for Environmental Studies
• Zoe A. Fonseca ’08 Research Assistant to Hilary French, Senior Advisor for Programs for WWI and UNEP
• Elizabeth Gleason ’08 Food For Free, a Cambridge-based organization
• Stuart Jones ’08 Peace Valley Farm
• Whitney Leonard ’08 Mass. Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
• Jane Lole ’08 Williamstown Rural Lands
• Julia McNamara ’09 Student Conservation Association
• Fathimath Musthaq ’09 Near East Foundation
• Corey D. Watts ’10 Student Conservation Association

Research

• Marjorie Boivin ’09 Herpetology/Environmental Science Research
• Ruth Aronoff ’09 LUCE Project
• Kathleen Creel ’10 LUCE Project
• Caroline Goodbody ’10 LUCE Project
• Matt Gustafson ’09 LUCE Project
• Katherine S. White ’11 LUCE Project

2006

Research

• Justin Bates ’07 Living with the Land: Capturing the Essence of Swiss Alpine Farming
• Ansel Bubel ’08 An Evaluation of Ailanthus altissima Invastions in Secondary versus Mature Forest/ NJ
• Andrew Stevenson ’07 The Impact of the 2012 Olympics on the Urban Environment of London, England
• Jeffrey D. Wessler ’07 HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Bridging the Scientific Gap

Internships

• Jane Allen ’07 el Gruopo Ecologico de la Costa Verde, N.C. – A sea turtle conservation program with a public education aspect
• Cary Bearn ’08 WWF Life/Namibia
• Jennifer Bees ’08 Alutiiq Museum, Community Archeology Intern, Lodiak, AK
• Sara M. Buckley ’07 New England Aquarium
• Henry C. Burton ’08 Nature Conservancy/OR
• Katie Craig ’08 Nature Center Intern with Maine Audubon
• Mirza Delibegovic ’08 Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Anna Edmonds ’07 Wmst Rural Lands Foundation Internship at Sheep Hill
• Zoe Fonseca ’08 Associacion Kairos Para la Formacion
• Gleason, Liz ’08 Angino Community Farm and City Sprouts
• Henry Kernan ’09 World Wildlife Federation/Galapagos
• Ana Koski-Karell ’08 WAGES: Women’s Action to Gain Economic Empowerment, Oakland, CA
• Sarah Martin ’07 Hawthorne Valley Farm
• Lauren Moscoe ’07 Ensuring a Sustainable Relationship Between Peace Valley Farm and Williams College
• Kendell Newman ’08 People’s Grocery of West Oakland, CA

Creative

• Julia Sendor ’08 Stories of People, Food and Land: Exploring Orange County, North Carolina’s Community Food System

Faculty-Sponsored Internships

• Jennifer Menzies ’07 Perchorlate Contamination of MGRHS Wells with the Wms Chem Dept
• Fathimath Musthaq ’09 Research assistant/Kai Lee
• Gillian Tedeschi ’09 Research assistant/Hank Art

2005

Research

• Manuel A. Moutinho’07 Analysis of Perchlorate Contamination in the MGRHS Environment
• Catherine R. Mygatt ’06 Thesis Research on Impacts of a mercury on human health

Internships

• Jane Allen ’07 Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center
• Erin Blanchard ’06 HooWRA
• Mirza Delibegovic ’08 UNEP Division for Technology, Industry and Economics (Sustainable Consumption and Production training manual)
• Merritt Edlind ’07 Movimiento Mi Cometa/Ecuador<
• Ashlee Martinez ’06 Williamstown COOL Committee (CO2 Reduction Project)
• Nora Morse ’08 Field Bio Intern/Nature Conservancy
• Rebecca Nourse ’08 Marine Turtle Research, Rescue, and Conservation Project at Mass. Audubon
• Carolyn Reuman ’06 US Dept. of Justice, Env. & Natural Resources Division
• Alexis Saba ’06 Mass. State Representative, Mark Carron
• Julia Sendor ’08 Williamstown COOL Committee (CO2 Reduction Project)
• Emily Wasserman ’07 [PTNY] Assistant Organizer/Cycling the Erie Canal and Great Hudson Valley Pedal Bike Tours with Parks & Trails, NY

Creative

• Melissa Bota ’07 Healing the Mental Landscape: A Cultural History of Ecological Thought in a Northern Ontario Mining Community
• Katie Craig ’09 Exploring Maine’s Diverse Natural Habitats Through Art

Faculty-Sponsored Internships

• Colin D. Carroll WRLF<
• Alison M. Koppe ’07 Urban Sustainability Research

2004

Research

• Kenneth R. Brown ’05 Thesis Research on Distributions of Invasive Plants
• Elizabeth (Ellie) Frazier ’05 Ecological Art: Christo’s “The Gates” in Central Park
• Jocelyn Gardner ’05 Thesis work on food and Williams
• Emma Golden ’06 Agricultural Land Use at the Classic Maya Site of Motul de San Jose, Guatemala
• Benjamin M. Haldeman ’05 Geomancy and Political Organization: A Comparative Analylsis of Lowland Maya Community Planning in El Peten, Guatemala
• Brtian G. Saar ’05 Computational Approaches to Atmospherically Relevant Hydro-fluorocarbons (thesis)
• Kate C. Scheider ’07 The Effects of Fly-Fishing on the Mary Creek Reef Complex, Virgin Islands Nat’l Park, St. John
• Vivian Schoung ’05 A Comparative Study of the Viability of Sustainable Agriculture Practices in Spain

Internships

• Evelyn Aguilar ’07 Machalilla Nat’l Pk
• Amelia G. Bishop ’06 The Wilderness Society
• Erin Blanchard ’06 WRLF
• Elana R. Boehm ’05 HooRWA
• Amy Dieckmann ’05 Goabeb Training and Research Center, Namibia
• Sara Jablonski ’07 DEC
• Kate Majzoub ’06 La Hesperia Biological Reserve
• Melanie Malone ’05 Springfield City Hall, Env. Lead Dept.
• Sarah L. Meserve ’05 Birding Ecotourism/Sumaco Biological Reserve
• Carolyn Reuman ’06 CET
• Alexis Saba ’06 MassPIRG
• Mary Stranghoener ’05 Maria Mitchell Assoc. Nantucket
• Matt Wibbenmeyer ’07 Env. Law Alliance Worldwide

Faculty-Sponsored Internships

• Lucy M. Cox-Chapman ’06 Historical Research on the HMF
• Elspeth Mitchell ’06 Historical Research on the HMF
• Pablita Santos ’07 Urban Sustainability
• Allison Smith ’07 Dining Services Local Sustainable Agriculture Project

Creative

• Nikhar Gaikwad ’06 Natural Gas in New Delhi: A City’s Initiative to Operate its Public Transport Fleet on CNG Fuel
• Scott Moskowitz ’05 A Visual Essay on the Massachusetts Highways Systems

2003

Research

• Anna Brittain ’04 Biotic Transformations in an Urban Environment
• Alexandra Grashkina ’04 Land Preservation and Left Political Movement in Northeastern Brazil
• Meredith Jones ’04 Sea Turtle Nesting Behavior on Dog Island, Florida
• Jonathan Langer ’04 Silver in the Ruby Mountains: The Settlement, Exploitation, and Abandonment of Irwin, Colorado
• Mark Orlowski ’04 Colleges Investing in the Environment<
• Katherine Stevens ’05 Reconciling Ranching and Environmental Viewpoints in the New West: Is the Cowboy Myth Sustainable?
• William Wetzel ’06 The Effect of Hiking Trails Upon Alpine Plant Communities in the Purcell Mountains

Internships

• Nicholas Brandfon ’04 Natural Resources Defense Council
• Kristin Englebrecht Bleem ’04 Chrysalis Community Inc.
• Sara Gerson ’05 Sarasota County Environmental Services
• William Hahn ’04 Mass General Hospital
• Elise Henson ’06 Finca Loma Linda Research Station, Coto Brus, Costa Rica
• Elise Leduc ’06 New England Aquarium
• Melanie Malone ’05 Glen Helen Ecology Institute Trailside Museum
• Sarah Meserve ’05 Quebec-Labrador Foundation
• Donald Mitchell ’06 Hoosic River Watershed Association
• Shawn Powers ’04 WorldWatch Institute
• Alexis Saba ’06 Otsego County Conservation Association
• Carlos Silva ’04 Climate Protection Partnership, EPA

Faculty-Sponsored Internships

• Maura Commito ’04 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
• Jocelyn Gardner ’05 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
• Jennifer Lazar ’04 Williamstown Photo History Project
• Robert Quay ’04 Sustainable Development in Small Cities: Downtown Redevelopment in Pittsfield, Mass

Field Courses

• Laura Cavin ’05 Ecological Design

2002

Research

• Dan Austin ’05 Wood Turtle and Eastern Box Turtle Populations in Central Pennsylvania
• William Hahn ’04, Eric Kerns ’03, and Freeden Oeur ’03 Determining Popluation Densities of the Classic Maya in the Peten Region of Guatemala
• Matthew Jungers ’03 A Focused Study of Ford Glen Brook in HMF
• Tim Patterson ’04 Conquerors to Stewards: The Shift in Humanity’s Perspective Towards Nature as Illustrated by Historical and Contemporary Attitudes Towards Whales and Whaling
• Amanda Stout ’04 Land Use, Ownership, and Political Power in Post-War America

Internships

• John Arendshorst ’05 MassPIRG
• Evan Chadwick ’05 Constitution Marsh Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary<
• Carolyn Dekker ’05 The Nature Conservancy, New Jersey
• Dan DeMoss ’03 Health Alliance International, Mozambique
• Marsha C. Lynch ’03 Harvard School of Public Health
• Saerom Park ’04 Earthjustice
• Robert Quay ’04 Partners for Livable Communities
• Melody Scheefer ’03 High Desert Museum
• Susie Theroux ’05 INFORM
• Joanna Touger ’04 Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation

Creative

• Alicia L. Arevalos ’05 Interpretive Signs in the HMF
• Elaine Denny ’04 Not Just Second-dairy: Wisconsin’s Efforts to Survive in the Age of Globalization

Field Courses

• Nina Trautmann ’03 Climates and Ecosystems

2001

Research

• Matthew Jungers ’03 Geomorphology in the Hopkins Memorial Forest
• Jennifer Weztel ’02 Sustainable Development in New Zealand
• Nick Nelson ’03 and Angus Beal ’03 Coliform Levels in Olympic National Park

Internships

• Irena Hollowell ’02 Maquipucuna Cloud Forest Reserve
• Janna Rearick ’02 New England Aquarium
• Mark Roberston ’02 Environmental Protection Agency
• Nina Trautman ’03 Environmental Education at Ithaca High School
• Tisha Joseph ’04 Caribbean Network for Rural Integrated Development

Creative

• Marshall Dines ’03 Costs of Open Space
• Malin Pinsky ’03 Natural Resources in Maine
• Jon Wiener ’02 Environmental Journalism

2000

Research

• Kyle Goodrich ’01 Deer Population in The Hopkins Memorial Forest
• Kristin Bohnhorst ’03 Deer Population in The Hopkins Memorial Forest
• Tanu Kumar ’01 Agribusiness
• Allison Robbins ’01 The Citizens Conservation Corps in The Hopkins Memorial Forest
• Brian Werner ’01 Composting on Campus

Internships

• David Cooperman ’02 The Nature Conservancy
• Michael Levien ’01 Alternatives for Community and Environment
• Christine Pace ’01 The Population Council
• Jonathan Wiener ’02 CA Urban Mass Transit
• Hilary Williams ’01 Maine Island Trail Association

Creative

• Kathryn Guernsey ’01 Environmental Effects of Horse Farming
• Edward Rossier ’01 Function and space in New York City

1999

Research

• Andrew Chang ’00 Experimental and quantitative aspects of marine biological invasions in Long Island Sound
• Sarah Connolly ’00 Thesis: Air Pollution in Santiago Chile
• David Joyce ’00 Thesis: Demise of Oyster Stocks in Chesapeake Bay
• Cordelia Ransom ’00 Thesis: Researching Coral Fossils

Internships

• Alan Brelsford ’01 Alaska Bird Observatory
• Lauren Buckley Rocky Mt. Biological Laboratory
• Julia Cianfarini ’01 Environmental Protection Agency
• Julianna Connolly ’01 Harvard School of Public Health
• Kristina Fisher ’02 New Mexico Law Center
• Emily Gillmar ’00 Huddleston Architecture, Interiors & Design
• Matt Gunther ’00 Senator Harry Reid/Nevada
• ViMimi Hua ’01 9 Mile Run Greenway Project
• Angela Lankford ’00 Sangre de Cristo Mountain Council
• Jessica Leibler ’01 Aspen Farm Community Garden
• Caren Mintz ’01 Cetacean Research Unit
• Kathleen Reardon ’00 Save the Bay
• Allison Robbins’01 Farmington River Watershed Association
• Taylor Schildgen ’00 Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre
• Catherine Seelig ’01 Sierra Club’s Grizzly Bear Ecosystem Project

Creative

• Heather Brutz ’02 Performance Art Piece
• Chris Spence ’00 Photo Essay
• Matthew Toth ’00 Photo Documentary/Cranbrook
• Matt Wessler ’01 One Town’s Success: From Logging to Tourism
• Hilary Williams ’01 Re-Visiting Home: A Personal Exploration of Coastal Maine Through Visual Art & Journaling
• Elizabeth Wood ’00 Journal & personal narrative/physical and cultural environment at UWESO Farm