Environmental Studies Program Student Theses 2020-21

As global climatic and anthropogenic changes bring increasing resource scarcity to ecosystems across the globe, the resiliency of natural communities to these changes can [...]

While it is generally accepted that temperature determines the approximate altitude of treeline, drivers of fine-scale treeline dynamics are poorly understood. A dominant [...]

A fifth-grade environmental education program in rural Colorado served as a case study to examine how and what teacher-parents (i.e., parents who are also k-12 teachers) [...]

As the climate continues to warm, wildfires are expected to increase in frequency and severity, particularly across the western United States, likely impacting the global [...]

Climate change is shifting fire regimes and changing localized conditions in forests around the globe. Forest vegetation and soils act as major global carbon sinks, and t [...]

The effects of climate change have a dramatic impact on vulnerable ecosystems and vulnerable populations, specifically the effects of desertification on arid landscapes. [...]

Wildfire frequency and severity are increasing as a result of climate change compounded by forest management histories in the Rocky Mountain West. Fire and changes to the [...]

Arctic haze is the seasonal maximum of atmospheric aerosols in the Arctic that occurs every year in the late winter and early spring. Chemical components of Arctic haze i [...]