Examples of Student Work

Student Work

• Examples of Recent Thesis Titles: Env Sci and Geography
• Presentations at professional and scientific meetings
• Publications other than the thesis
• Significant professional contributions to the community
• Significant professional contributions to the field or profession
  
  

Examples of Recent Thesis Titles -- Environmental Science

Shannon M. Ashurst [Fall 2003/R.A. Matthews] Microcosm Study of the Accumulation of Benzo(a)pyrene in Lake Whatcom Phytoplankton

 

Jenny L. Baker [Fall 2003/R.A. Matthews] Riparian Nitrogen Dynamics in a Lowland Floodplain of the Pacific Northwest:  The Role of Vegetation and Hyporheic Processes

 

Duane W. Bays [Spring 2003/P.S. Homann] Spatial Variability in Organic Carbon of Soils in Western Washington and Oregon with Terrain Attributes and Soil Properties

 

Brita L. Clothier [Fall 2003/ B.L. Bingham] Biological Monitoring of the Georgia-Pacific Log Pond, Bellingham, Washington: Evaluating Remediation Success

 

Todd Dielman [Summer 2003/ L.R. Bodensteiner] Fish Use of Backwaters in the Willamette River, Oregon

 

Jeffrey A. Duncan [Fall 2002/B.F. Smith] Influence of Hiking Trails on the Birds of Chuckanut Mountain in Bellingham, Washington

 

Eddy Flores [Fall 2003/B.L. Bingham] The Effects of Sunlight on the Life Stages of the Ascidian Chelyosoma productum

 

Joanne L. Gardiner [Fall 2003/ B.L. Bingham] Foraging Success of Juvenile Pacific Salmon: A Comparison Between Small, Medium and Large Estuarine Tidal Channels

 

Lise P. Grace [Summer 2003/D.O. Wallin] Mapping Bald Eagle Communal Night Roost Habitat in Northwest Washington Using Satellite Imagery

 

Emily Hart Hayes [Summer 2003/W.G. Landis] Ecological Risk Assessment of Cherry Point, WA Using the Relative Risk Model

 

Brett A. Hora [Fall 2002/ S. D. Sulkin] Dietary Requirements and Settlement Ecology of the Larvae and Post Larvae of the Brachy7uran Crabs, Cancer oregonensis and Cancer magister

 

Peter J. Horne [Winter 2002/ J.F. McLaughlin] An Individual-Based Movement Model to Evaluate Potential Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos harribilis) Habitat in the North Cascades

 

Angela L. Schuler [Fall 2003/ D.A. Cancilla] Disinfection Byproducts in the Bellingham, WA Drinking Water System: Using Aldehydes and Water Quality

 

Examples of Recent Thesis Titles - Geography

Amaris, Lunde (Fall 2007)                
Rural Development and Sustainable Agriculture in the European Union Mediterranean

 

Buer, Jessica (Fall 2006)                                   
Agricultural Land Preservation: in Whatcom County…. Whatcom County, Washington.

 

Symonds, Kara (Fall 2006)                              
Targeting Watershed for Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) in Whatcom County, Washington.

 

Davis, Thomas (Fall 2006)
The Development of a GIS-Based Kinematic Regional Rockfall Hazard Assessment Tool

 

Pettyjohn, Kellie (Fall 2006)                                           
An Analysis of Ecosystem Management:  A Case Study of the Impacts of Land-Use Regulations on the Harvest of Salal (Gaultheria shallon) on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

 

Kirshenbaum, Michael (Spring 2006)                         
The effect of access fees on visitation to public lands in Whatcom County, Washington.

 

Leech, Michael (Spring 2006)                                         
Comparison of Pixel-Based and Object-Oriented Approaches to Vegetation Mapping in Hawaii Using High Resolution Ikonos Imagery.

 

McMullin, Cari (Summer 2006)                                     
A Comparative Analysis of Middle School Students’ Journey to School in Bellingham, Washington

 

O’Brien, Kevin (Spring 2006)                                          
The Condition of Place:  Investigating Intra-Rater Repeatability Associated with Qualitative Stream Reach Assessment.

 

Rybolt, Steven (Summer 2006)                                     
Transboundary Environmental Management:  The Influence of Marine Vessel Air Emissions on Intergovernmental Regulations in the Georgia Strait/Puget Sound Region

 

Sussman, Abigail (Spring 2006)                                     
Non-Designated Trail Use in the Mount Baker National Recreation Area:  Are Mountain Stewards Effective as an Indirect Recreation Management Tool?

 

Presentations at professional and scientific meetings:

Ball, D.A.  2003.  Monitoring the effects of Spartina alterniflora eradication on sediment dynamics in two Pacific Northwest estuaries.  Pacific Ecology Conference, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada 

 

Ball, D.A. and J.M. Rybczyk.  2003.  Establishment of a long-term monitoring program in Padilla Bay to determine the effectiveness of chemical controls in returning mudflat habitat to native conditions after Spartina alterniflora removal.  Poster presented at Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada 

 

Flores, E.  2003.  Sunlight damage to the solitary ascidian Chelyosoma productum.  Poster presented at American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Salt Lake City, UT 

 

Landis, W.G., E. Hart Hayes and A.J. Markiewicz.  2003.  Quantitative weight of evidence approach in establishing causal linkages for the decline of the Cherry Point, WA Pacific herring.  Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemical Annual Meeting, Port Townsend, WA 

 

Landis, W.G., E. Hart Hayes and A.J. Markiewicz.  2003.  Weight of Evidence and Path Analysis Applied to the Identification of Causes of the Cherry Point Pacific herring decline.  Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada 

 

Maxwell, S.  2003.  Determining the stability of hydrologically altered Pacific Northwest estuary given sea-level rise.  Pacific Ecology Conference, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada 

 

Meyer, D.S.  2003.  Minimizing depressurization stress in Copper Rockfish.  Pacific Ecology Conference, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada 

 

Penaluna, B.E.  2003.  Habitat use by juvenile fall Chinook in the Umpqua River estuary in Oregon.  Pacific Ecology Conference, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada 

 

Rybczyk, J.M. and D.A. Ball.  2003.  Invasive mound builders in the Pacific Northwest:  Spartina alterniflora and sediment dynamics.  Poster presented at Society of Wetland Scientists Conference, New Orleans, LA 

 

Fullagar, J.A. and S. Maxwell.  2002.  Microtox analysis and immunoassays.  Biannual Conference of Chemistry Educators, Bellingham, WA 

 

Landis, W.G., E. Hart Hayes and A.J. Markiewicz.  2002.  Overlapping spatial and temporal scales in modeling landscape risk.  SETAC North America 23rd Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT 

 

Landis, W.G., E. Hart Hayes and A.J. Markiewicz.  2002.  Overlapping spatial and temporal scales in modeling landscape risk.  Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Whistler, B.C., Canada 

 

Moore, N.M.  2002.  Temporal patterns of ingestion on the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans by newly-hatched crab larvae.  Western Society of Naturalists 83rd Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA. 

 

Perez, M.F.  2002.  Ingestion by larval crabs of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium andersoni and its effect on development.  Western Society of Naturalists 83rd Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA.  Awarded Best Student Paper in the category of Physiology and Reproduction. 

 

Stein, J.A.  2003.  Economic Valuation as a Means to Compare Forest Management Strategies in the Lake Whatcom Watershed, Association of Washington Geographers Spring meeting, Everett, WA 

 

Ramsden, K.H.  2003.  Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Tree Invasion at Ozette, Association of Washington Geographers Spring meeting, Everett, WA

 

Gutchewsky, M.T.   2003.  A Paleoecological Analysis of Peatland Sediments Taken from the Ozette Prairies, Olympic National Park, Washington Association of Washington Geographers Spring meeting, Everett, WA

 

Friskopp, G.E., A.J. Bach, M.T. Gutchewsky and K.H. Ramsden.  2003.  Evidence of Depodzolization in Lowland Meadows (The Ozette Prairies), Olympic National Park, Washington, USA.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA 

 

Gutchewsky, M.T., A.J. Bach, G.E. Friskopp and K.H. Ramsden.  2003.  A Paleoecological Analysis of Peatland Sediments Taken from the Ozette Prairies, Olympic National Park, Washington.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA 

 

Ramsden, K.H., A.J. Bach,  G.E. Friskopp, M.T. Gutchewsky and K. DuBose.  2003.  An Examination of the Recent Encroachment of Trees onto Lowland Forest Meadows, Olympic National Park, WA.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA 

 

Armes, S.R.  2003.  Effects of Logging on Shoreline Sedimentation at Lake Ozette, WA. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA 

 

Mookherjee, D., G.A. Hoerauf, and S.R. Freelan.  2003.  Does the Growth Management Act Contain Sprawl:  A Case Study.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA 

 

Spenner, E. and J.O. Melious.  2003.  Hidden Waters:  Transboundary Environmental Management Across the 49th Parallel.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA 

 

Friskopp, G.E.  2003.  Soil Development at the Ozette Prairies in the Olympic National Park, Washington.  Pacific Ecology Conference, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada 

 

Ramsden, K.H.  2003.  Recent Encroachment of Trees onto the Ozette Prairies in the Olympic National Park, Washington.  Pacific Ecology Conference, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada 

 

Publications other than the thesis

Hart Hayes, E. and W.G. Landis.  2003.  Regional ecological risk assessment of a nearshore marine environment:  Cherry Point, WA.  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.  In Press 

 

Landis, W.G., P.B. Duncan, E. Hart Hayes, A.J. Markiewicz and J.F. Thomas.  2003.  A regional assessment of the potential stressors causing the decline of the Cherry Point Pacific herring run and alternative management endpoints for the Cherry Point Research (Washington, USA).  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.  In press 

 

Cushman, S.A. and D.O. Wallin.  2002.  Separating the effects of environmental, spatial and disturbance factors of forest community structure in the Russian Far East.  Forest Ecology and Management 168(1-3):201-215 

 

Hart Hayes, E., A.J. Markiewicz and W.G. Landis.  2002.  Ecological risk assessment of Cherry Point, WA, using the relative risk model:  Phase III Problem Formulation Report.  Technical Report 0201, Institute of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 

 

Landis, W.G., Markiewicz, A.J., J.F. Thomas and E. Hart Hayes.  2002.  Regional risk assessment predictions for the decline and future management of the Cherry Point Herring Stock and region.  Proceedings of the 2001 Puget Sound Research Conference.  T. Droscher, editor.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team.  Olympia, WA 

 

Richards, W.H., D.O. Wallin and N.H. Schumaker.  2002.  An analysis of late-seral forest connectivity in western Oregon.  Conservation Biology 16(5):1409-1421 

 

Sulkin, S.D., S.M. Hinz and M. Rodriguez.  2002.  Effects of exposure to toxic and non-toxic dinoflagellates on oxygen consumption and locomotion in stage 1 larvae of the crabs Cancer magister and  C. oregonensis. 

 

Wolfe, G.V., S.L. Strom, J.L. Holmes, T. Radzio and M.B. Olson.  2002.  Dimethylsulfoniopropionate cleavage by marine phytoplankton in response to mechanical, chemical, or dark stress.  Journal of Phycology.  In Press 

 

Morgenstern, R., Anderson, R., Greenspan-Bell, R., Krupnick, A., and X. Zhang.  2002.  Demonstrating emissions trading in Taiyuan, China.  Resources, 148:7-11

 

Miller, C.J.  2002.  A comparison of wellhead protection area delineation methods for public drinking water systems in Whatcom County, WA.  Journal of Environmental Health (in press) 

 

Significant professional contributions to the community

Jill Fullagar volunteered with the Swinomish tribe from March-May 2003 conducting amphibian surveys. 

 

Donna Ball was featured in the Padilla Bay Newsletter, winter 2002-03 issue.  Padilla Bay is a National Estuarine Research Reserve managed by the Washington State Department of Ecology.  Donna is monitoring the sediment level at sites where the non-native Spartina salt marsh grass has been eradicated, as well as sites where it is still growing.  She received a Padilla Bay research fellowship to help fund her study. 

 

Steve Meyer received a small grant ($950) from PADI’s Project Aware, fall 2002.  PADI is the organization that certifies SCUBA divers worldwide.  The money is being used to build and maintain a hyperbaric chamber he will be using to study rockfish. 

 

Significant professional contributions to the field or profession

Duane Bays created hydrographic spatial data and consistent attribute records for Salem District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), summer 2002.  He merged BLM spatial and attribute data with U.S. Forest Service data for shared management areas.

 

Brett Hora taught biology at Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska, in fall 2002. 

 

Steve Meyer and Brooke Penaluna participated in the MacMillan Biodiversity workshop in Bamfield, B.C., Canada, in spring 2003.  The workshop focused on coastal marine fishes. 

 

Franchesca Perez worked on two three-week GLOBEC cruises under Dr. Suzanne Strom (Shannon Point Marine Center) in the Gulf of Alaska, studying phytoplankton productivity, April and July 2003. 

 

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