Past Comps Projects

Mia Beeman-Weber, Geoff Bynum, Tyler Chodera, and Gitanjali Matthes, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Climate Adaptation in Southeastern Minnesota: Multiscalar Decision-Making and a Case Study of the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum

Grace Rogers and Elena Prichard, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Sustainability in Higher Education: Architecture and Design in Environmental Interdisciplinary Learning Spaces

Elizabeth Rowland, Mitch Porter, and Noah Morris, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Water from the Rock: Scarcity, Efficiency, and Policy Change in Sonoran Desert Agriculture

• Ashley Cohen and Leo Jordan, “Environmental Communication in Rice County, Minnesota: Channel and Message Framing Preferences”, ENTS 2024
• Hazel DeHarpporte, Aria Kischner, and Blake Tran, “Effects of a Regenerative Poultry Silvopasture Model on Hazelnut Height and Basal Diameter”, ENTS 2024
• Evie LeDuc, Alex Mazur, and Sydney Merrell, “Stormwater Mitigation at Carleton College: A Site Suitability Analysis for a Bioretention Basin on Campus”, ENTS 2024

• Avigail Bailon, Chloe Truebenbach, and Dominic Calicdan, “Environemtnal Justice Curricula in Interdisciplinary Environmental and Sustainability Programs: Examing the Variance of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Institutions that Include Environmental Justice Curricula”, ENTS 2023
• Avery Blumenthal and Lucas Cantrell, “Politics and Economics in the Endangered Species Act: Evaluating Endangered Species Delistings”, ENTS 2023
• Cassie Cunniff, Diaraye Diallo, Zia NoiseCat, and Beck Woollen, “Watering the West: An Exploratory Case Study of Indigenous Water Rights in the Colorado River Basin“, ENTS 2023
• Kairah Foster and Kenta Hikino, “Live or Die: Survival Strategies of Organizations Promoting Clean Cooking”, ENTS 2023
• Henry Holcomb, Simran Kadam, Francine Legba, and Jane Zeman, “Environmental Art: Reflections of America’s Ecological Consciousness”, ENTS 2023

• Marc Donnelly, Keely Fisher, Rebecca Horwitz, and Isabella Quattrucci, “A Temporal Analysis of Manoomin Co-Management in Minnesota”, ENTS 2022
• Trina Eichel and Klara Gabriela Heuchert, “Striking a Balance with Wolves in the Last Best Place: How Cultural Heritage, Land Ethics, and Science Shape Perceptions of Wolves in Montana”, ENTS 2022
• Elias Franzen, Hannah MacLeod, Ella Stack, and Abigail Sutcliffe, “A New Normal: The Rise of Anthropocene Rhetoric in Local News Media Coverage of Wildfire”, ENTS 2022
• Astrid Steiner-Manning, Kara Sun and Ada Wright, “Objections and Ideologies Surrounding the Development of Affordable Housing on Local Greenspace: A Case Study of the Kraewood Development Project”, ENTS 2022
• Rebecca Chen and Theresa Chen,“Evaluating natural climate solutions as a tool to reduce carbon emissions and reduce climate impacts: a case study at Carleton College”, ENTS 2022

• Alle Brown-Law, Fiona Casey, Karen Chen, and Maya Hilty, “The Green Zones Initiative: A Community-Driven Environmental Justice Policy in Minneapolis”, ENTS 2021
• Andrew Farias, Karah Haug, and Jack Schill, “Cows, Colleges, and COVID: A Single Case Study into Northfield’s Climate Action Plan Implementation During the 2020 Pandemic”, ENTS 2021
• Erika Mitchell and Sarah Shapiro, “Staying Grounded: COVID-19 Impact on CO2 Emissions from Transportation in the United States”, ENTS 2021
• Allison Palmbach, Grace Pearson and Heqing Wang, “Assessing a Transition in Environmentalism: A Comparison of Campaign and NGO Rhetoric and the Effect of Crises on Biden’s Proposed Environmental Policy”, ENTS 2021
• Grace Leslie, Yoshiko Lynch and Tuomas Sivula, “Climate Migration: Implications of Duluth as a “Climate-Proof City”, ENTS 2021

Theme: From Climate Change and Rural Conservation to Plastics and Sustainable Book Purchasing

• Heather Luedke and Emma Thomley, “A Comparative Study of Climate Action Plans in Liberal Arts Colleges: Planning Processes, Climate Action Strategies, and Implementation Techniques”, ENTS 2020
• Jeremy Alsaker and Cooper Kohlman, “Spare and Share as Applied to Land Management Practices of Farmers in the Rice County Area”, ENTS 2020
• Jared Kannel, Joe Liesman and Nasra Mohamed, “Plastic Art and Activism: How Artists are Taking On Plastic Pollution”, ENTS 2020
• Justin Webb & Akiko Williams, “Pioneering Shipping Waste Management at Carleton College: How Individual And Institutional Behaviors Contribute to the Textbook Shipping Waste Stream”, ENTS 2020
• Madeline Hagar and Caroline Hall, “Reaching Carbon Neutrality: An Analysis of Higher Education Institutions’ Approaches to Mitigating Scope 3 Emissions”, ENTS 2020
• Mariah Casmey and Nicola Lowry, “Looking Back to Look Ahead: Providing Temporal Context for the Spare or Share Debate Using Land Use Change and Bird Populations”, ENTS 2020

Theme: Of Wolves and the Sustainability of Microbreweries

• Mayte Aldrett, Emma Dempsey, and James Harren, “How Local Craft Breweries Foster an Ethic of Sustainability through Community Building and Development of Place-Based Identity”, ENTS 2019
• Caroline Harvey, Christian Nielsen, and Thu Nguyen, “Tracking Newspaper Reporting on Wolves in Minnesota in the Years Following Their Listing and Delisting from the Endangered Species Act”, ENTS 2019

Theme: Minnesota’s Energy Landscape

• Jerrilyn Goldberg, Zifeng (Eric) Wang, and Archibald Fraser, “Spatial Misallocation of Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Across Minnesota”, ENTS 2018
• Willa Gruver and Kadin Woolever, “Rice County Farmers & the Conservation Reserve Program: Comparing Congressional & Local Perspectives”, ENTS 2018
• Bex Klafter, Amy Roach, and Rafael Soto, “Searching for Solar: Applying the Path of Least Resistance, a Case Study of Solar Gardens in Farmington and Lakeville, MN”, ENTS 2018

Theme: A Local Lens

• Sarah Goldman, Jenna Greene and Leland Swift, “Factors Influencing Farmers’ Support for the Minnesota Buffer Law: A Cross-County Case Study of Rice and Dakota Counties”, ENTS 2017
• Robert Harris III, Hannah Marty and David Meraz, “Shifting Tallgrass Prairie Management Practices: The Influence of Fire on Public Health, Grassland Ecology, and Ranching Activities”, ENTS 2017
• Carly Yu and Sacha-Rose Phillips, “Emerging from the Dark Ages: A Modern History of the Donald J. Cowling Arboretum”, ENTS 2017
• Gina Hatch, Molly Ross and Morgan Vought, “Cultural Inclusion in the Cowling Arboretum Restoration: Evaluating Ethnobotanical Connections and Assessing the Educational Value of Ethnobotanical Resources”, ENTS 2017

Theme: Governing Animals

• Molly Ellsworth and Kathryn Phillips, “Russia’s Grizzly Coast: A Case Study of Decision Making at the Minnesota Zoo”, ENTS 2016
•  Michelle Hoge, Caroline von Klemperer, Chris Nootenboom, “Spatial Optimization in Tallgrass Prairie Restoration: Tradeoffs between Ecosystem Services and Restoration Costs”, ENTS 2016
• Joe Haase and Emma Vinella-Brusher, “Assessing Urban Habitat Connectivity:  Applying Circuit Theory to Blanding’s Turtle in the Twin Cities”, ENTS 2016
• Anna Cich, Drew Higgins, and Andre Miller, “The Backyard Birder: Motivations Behind Backyard Chicken Keeping on the Urban Edge, a Case Study of Northfield, Minnesota”, ENTS 2016
• Brent Murcia and Jacob Wasserman, “Beefing Up Local Meat Production: Studying Constraints on Local Meat in Southern Minnesota”, ENTS 2016

Theme: Cities in the 21st Century

• Jamie Harrison, Ingrid Lyons, and Cassandra Prenn-Vasilakis, “Seeing Biodiversity:  Exploring the factors that influence perception”, ENTS 2015
• Katherine Dooley, Arnaud Kpachav, and Eli Skinner, “The Impact of Land Use Change on Lake Phosphorus Concentrations in Dakota County, MN”, ENTS 2015
• Laurel Goldner, Anna Larson, and Sarah Lukins, “‘Eating Off the Land’ Cultural and Institutional Influences on Ecological Outcomes of Hmong Gardens in Saint Paul, MN”, ENTS 2015
• Hanna Lee, Taylor Mayhall, and Robert Olney, “A Sustainability Assessment of St. Paul Using LEED-EN”, ENTS 2015
• Charles Bloom, Maria Kjellstrand, and Kathryn Leys, “Applying an Actor-Oriented Approach to Ecological Restoration:  A Case Study of Coldwater Spring”, ENTS 2015

Theme: Managing the Mississippi

• Courtney Dufford, Young-Eun (Amber) Kim, and Julia Moen, “Implementing (Waste)water Treatment Alternatives: A Comparative Case Study of Small Town Decision-making”, ENTS 2014
• Zoe Craig, Matt Jaquette, Colleen Stewart, and Julia Yang, “Wading through the Muddy Floodwaters: Social Vulnerability to Flooding in Northfield, MN, a Case Study”, ENTS 2014
• Anthony Abercrombie, Cody Wang, and Liz Wilson, “Languages Of Legitimacy: Understanding Nonpoint Source Pollution In the Cannon River Watershed Through Methodological Complementing”, ENTS 2014
• Gwen Jenkins, Sebastian Bouknight, and Lauren Young, “Historic Preservation on an Industrial Riverfront: Local Perspectives on Minneapolis’s Upper Harbor Terminal”, ENTS 2014 
• Jesse Gourevitch, Maddie Halloran, Henry Peyronnin, and Maggie Sullivan, “Applying the Analytical Hierarchy Process to Small Dam Management: A Case Study”, ENTS 2014

Theme: America’s Energy Future

• Lara Brenner, Claire McFadden, and Hannah Joy Wirshing, “The American Lawn: Examining our Cultural Commitment to an Energy-Intensive Institution”, ENTS 2013
• Megan Brant, Rose Chernoff, Lindsay Guthrie, and Courtney Halbach, “Extension in the 21st Century: Promoting Regenerative Agricultural Practices Using the Diffusion of Innovations Theory”, ENTS 2013
• Casey Silver, Kristen Dooley, and Sophie Daudon, “Can a Food Hub Connect the Dots: Helping MN Pursue a Path to a Stronger Local Food System”, ENTS 2013
• Ellen Farnham, Jonathan Hillis, Tom Holmes, and Greg Phillips (Distinction), “Building Retrofits On Campus: A Case Study of the Comprehensive Costs and Benefits of Improving Energy Efficiency at Carleton College”, ENTS 2013
• Dan Ackerman, Mallika Jayaraman, Phil Juda, and Alex Waltz, “Fueling the Future: Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use on the Economic Viability of Second Generation Biofuels”, ENTS 2013
• Jasmine Cutter, Karlie Haug, Madeleine Koski, Emily Rogers, “Sold on Solar? Perceptions of Solar Panels in Grand Canyon National Park: An Analysis of the Implementation of Renewable Energy Technologies in National Parks”, ENTS 2013
• Elicia Cousins, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Mariana Zapanta (Distinction), “Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience”, ENTS 2013
• Russ Aguilar, Ariane LeClerq, Arshia Sandozi, and Megan Teplitsky, “How Many Steps Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?: Integrating Higher Efficiency Lamps into the American Consciousness”,  ENTS 2013

Theme: Environmental Problems

• Erin Anderson, Benjamin Cushing, Acadia Davis, “Watering the Food Desert: A Policy Analysis of Urban Food Access Disparities in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans”, ENTS 2012
• Jake Reznick and Charlotte Arneson, “Conservation at College: A Demand-Side Management Approach to Reduce Student Water Consumption”, ENTS 2012
• Brendan Grant and Sarah Stadler, “Measuring the Wind Power Potential Outside of Conservation Areas in Wyoming”, ENTS 2012
• Amelia Harris, Irene Hussey, and Owen McMurtrey, “Buffalo for a Broken Agricultural System: Land-Use Intensity of the Bison Meat Industry from Montana to Indiana”, ENTS 2012
• Hannah Heavenrich, Libby Nachman and Ryan Noe, “Valuing the Ecosystem Services of Low-Input, High-Diversity Prairie as a Biofuel Feedstock in Southern Minnesota”, ENTS 2012 
• Emily Houser and Elena Rosenberg-Carlson, “Modeling Food Security in Kenya: Interactions Between Neoliberal Policy Reforms, Environmental Factors, and Food Security”, ENTS 2012
• Peter Kerns and Molly Watters, “Urban Forest Inequality: Assessing the Distribution of Trees and Their Services across Twin Cities Neighborhoods”, ENTS 2012

Theme: Conservation Reserve Program Study

• Kelsea Dombrovski, Ellen Esch and Sydney Weydemeyer, “Motivating Enrollment: Rice County Landowners in the Conservation Reserve Program”, ENTS 2011
• Megan Milligan, Emily Kao, and Ben Sullender “Where Livelihood and Wildlife Collide: The Effectiveness of the Fortress Conservation Paradigm in Tarangire National Park”, ENTS 2011
• Amanda Miller Savitt and Samantha Ann Baker, “Economic and Ethical Externalities Associated with Electric Vehicles”, ENTS 2011
• Zoe L. Statman-Weil, “Agroecology in the MST: The Fight for Sustainability and Social Justice”, ENTS 2011
• Bryce E. Gray and Amy S. Teller, “Praying for Rain: Farmer Vulnerability to Climate Change in Mto Wa Mbu and Lukange Village, Tanzania”, ENTS 2011

Katie Blanchard 2010, Green Except for the Green: Lawncare, Sustainability and Placemaking at Carleton College