The
Danielle Jackson
In order for Pace to get permission to execute development plans, there had to
be a water monitoring program in place. She
developed a water monitoring plan and compared the results that were obtained
from a certified lab to the results she got from using Hach kits.
Hazardous Tree Assessment at
Katrina R. Shindledecker
Parks are becoming increasingly vulnerable to lawsuits because of tree damage to
property or lives. Since RSPP has
many trees that are at maturity, many are in danger of causing damage.
She mapped out all the dead and dangerous trees and identified the
species. She mapped all of this,
using GIS.
Do Best Management Practices Reduce
the Impacts On
Elizabeth Carleton Kline
This project involved doing chemical and benthic macroinvertebrate
sampling upstream and downstream of a site where a bridge was to be replaced.
She established the baseline conditions and monitored the sites during
and after construction to see if the proposed sediment control plans worked
satisfactorily (They did.).
An Assessment on the Impact of a Series of Beaver Ponds
on the Quality of Water Running Through Them
Melissa LaMacchia
She monitored the nutrients and other chemical components of waters as they
progressed through a series of beaver ponds in a secluded area of
The Development of a
System To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Wastewater Treatment Plants in
Hardley G. Blake
This project involved inspecting all of the resort wastewater treatment plants
on the island and determining what aspects of the different plants were
operating properly and what were the effects of mismanaged plants.
It developed a systematic method to evaluate the facilities.
Jennifer E. Richardson
After having worked in Jewish day camps for several years, she came to the
realization that there was a need for environmental education in the suburban
Jewish community. She developed an
educational program to use Old Testament teachings to reinforce environmental
stewardship. She made a program to
be taught at day schools. She is now
in charge of outreach programs at
The New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Environmental Remediation'
Draft DER-10 Technical Guidance for Site Investigation and Remediation as
Applied to the Retail Petroleum Industry
Brian Melancon
He worked at a consulting company where the team members had to grapple with the
everyday application of the almost-unintelligible language of the DER-10
legislation. He developed a guide
for working with the document, so that his company could better interpret the
regulations and how they should advise their clients.
Consideration of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Methods
in
Solange Yayi
She worked with information about the wastewater treatment needs of
The Relationship Between Successional Lands and
Shantytown Location on Sint Maarten and the Identification of Possible Solutions
Beverly Mae Nisbeth
She mapped out the shantytowns on the island and identified the root causes of
the proliferation of these areas. It
was an economic, demographic, social and legal nightmare, but she found the
causes and identified possible solutions. Her
work gave her an advantage when applying to become the director of the
underwater park, when she beat out 41 other candidates for the position.
Using GIS Mapping to Determine the Impact of a Wetland
Ordinance in the Town of New
Greg Fleicher
New Paltz’s mayor was an upstart 24-year-old who ran on an environmental
platform. He initiated the change in
the wetland setback regulations to 100 feet (from 50 feet).
This changed the amount of developable land, but also preserved several
important wetlands in the area. He
used GIS to map out the affected lands and established the importance of the
affected areas.
Angela Hough
Bedford
,
A Reporting Protocol for Golf Courses in Audubon
International Program
Michael Colombo
Audubon International has been certifying golf courses as wildlife sanctuaries
for over fifteen years. While the
intention of the thesis was to correlate adoption of the program by golf courses
to reduction in chemical use, Michael found something more troubling:
The records that were submitted for certification had no consistency or
order and were never reviewed by the association.
He developed a format for Audubon to adopt in order to formalize the
certification process and allow it to stand up to scrutiny.
A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Choate Pond
Choate Pond is the centerpiece of the Pace University Pleasantville, NY campus.
Since it was enlarged in 1975, there has been no maintenance, resulting
in severe filling of the pond and persistent vegetative growth in and around the
water. This plan calls for a
systematic approach to improving the pond and maintaining it sustainably.
Using GIS to Determine the Capacity of Green Roofs to
Reduce Stormwater in the Combined Sewer Overflow Area in
Safeera Gaffar
A large area of
A Historical
and GIS Investigation into the Locations of Historic Hat Factory Sites in
Danbury, Connecticut
Sunera Rahman
Danbury, Connecticut was the site of many hat factories from the mid 1800's
until the 1940's. The widespread use of mercury for carroting the fur led
to a variety of ailments, many of which were mental. This study is the
first to accurately locate where each of the hat factories were sited and
identifies the properties on the tax map that either are or could be affected by
historic mercury contamination.
An Evaluation of a Method to Reduce Mercury Emissions
from a Steel Recycling Plant in New Jersey
Indira Rattiram
Recycling steel is done by melting down a variety of consumer products, usually
old cars. These vehicles are not normally torn apart to remove the
mercury-based switches, so much of the mercury becomes volatilized and gets
emitted from the stacks. New Jersey enacted new regulations on the amount
of mercury that is permitted to be discharged from the stacks of steel recycling
plants, effective in 2010. There is currently no method to achieve these
goals. This study evaluated how well one proprietary product reduced the
mercury emissions.