All are invited to the Environmental Studies Spring Showcase, Wednesday, April 18, 2012, in the second floor lobby of Hardin Hall. It will feature posters on senior thesis topics and from our high school Environmentors/Upward Bound program. Refreshments will be served.
Senior thesis research posters will include:
Jake Arneson: Middle school students' attitudes towards garden based learning: A case study at Park Middle School
Eric Barth: Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Elementary Schools in Lincoln, Nebraska: A study of Children on Free or Reduced Lunches
Craig Easley: Evaluating the Success of Individually Owned vs. Cooperative of Agritourism Businesses in Nebraska
Justin Hladik: Warming Night Time Temperatures and Crop Health in the Corn Belt
Daniel Kent: Potential Impacts of Asian Carp on Pallid Sturgeon
Carole Kerry: Competing for Land: The Relationship Between Urban Development and Agriculture in Lancaster and Seward Counties
Jarad Kinyoun: Individual water scarcity education
Allyson Lamb: Nebraska's Safe and Legal Medication Disposal
Jim McBride: Using Landsat Imagery to Monitor Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery in the
Sandhills of Nebraska: A Multitemporal Approach
Elizabeth Novich: Fluctuations are not Always Depressing: Complex Effects of Temperature Variation on Population Growth
Jordan Pharris: Road Salt Runoff: The Effects of Halite Concentrations on Urban Water bodies
Lindy Rauscher: Using Slow-Release Permanganate to Remediate PAH Contaminated Water
Tyler Sorensen: The Plant Based Diet: Increasing Human and Environmental Health through Diet
Steven Speicher: Conserving the Platte River's Wildlife Habitat: A Documentary Short