Student SIE, Independent Study and Honors Projects

The Senior Integrative Experience
An individual or group "CAPSTONE" interdisciplinary course on any environmental issue. Work one-on-one with a professor on your topic, or work with a group of seniors, and present your results to the Environmental Studies community. An "environmental" internship may satisfy this requirement.
Required by majors.

The Group SIE Projects ... Click on the link for the final report, when available.

• Spring 2002 - Composting Feasibility Study for Hobart and William Smith Colleges (link)
• Fall 2002 - Got Wind? An in depth analysis of the wind industry and the role it plays in the world today (link)
• Spring 2003 - Student Involvement in the Finger Lakes Institute
• Fall 2003 - A compost pilot study at HWS (link)
• Fall 2004 - Composting at HWS (link)
• Fall 2005 - Finger Lakes National Forest Management Plan (report not available)
• Fall 2006 - Ethanol Fessibility Study (Y Tube - Web Site)

A sampling of previous and present student projects ... SIEs ... honors ...

• Mark Vogelgesang (H'08) Costs of Sustainability at HWS.
• Charlotte McIntosh & Kara Horton (WS'07) Recycling at HWS: An action plan for change.
• Aeron Hurley (H'07) New York State Wind Energy Information Collaborative.
• Caitlin Rogers (WS'05) Got Varves? Reconstruction Holocene Climate Change in Seneca Lake, New York.
• Sylvan Bonsignore Burch (H'05) Future Full-Scale Composting Facility at HWS.
• Marissa Madej (WS'05) Evaluation of Evasive Species in the Finger Lakes.
• John Riina (H'05) Odell's Pond Hydrogeochemistry
• Tana Hintz (WS'04) Water quality survey of the Keuka Outlet.
• Shannon Phillips (WS'04) Regional Economic Analysis of the Finger Lakes Region: Input-Output Approach.
• Andy Baker (H'04) Evidence for mupliple highstands and lowstands during the Holocene in Seneca Lake, New York.
• Sonya Smith (WS'03) Regulation and Monitoring of Water Resources, Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA.
• Rob Stewart (H'03) Salinity diffusion fluxes through the sediment in Seneca Lake.
• Amber Beutel (WS'02) Having your fish and eating them too: An economic analysis of fisheries management.
• Sandy Baldwin (WS'02) Chlorophyll-a patchiness in Seneca Lake.
• Lindsey Paige Bowser (WS'02) Nitrates in the Seneca Lake Watershed.
• Molly Etherington (WS'02) Sediment controls on the distribution of zebra and quagga mussels and Diporeia in Lake Ontario.
• Micah Nicolo (H'01) Environmental Transition at the End of the Mid-Holocene Hypsithermal: Evidence From the Sediment of Seneca Lake.
• Timothy Riley (H'01) Application Of The HWS Data Logger To Hydrological Studies.
• Sky Stanfield (WS'00), Reducing carbon emissions from transportation: The potential of alternative fuel vehicles.
• Tara Spitzer (WS'00), The environmental impact of hog farms on the Seneca Watershed.
• Heather Whittier (WS '99), Agent Orange, Vietnam vets and lots of red tape.
• David Steckler (H'99), Atlantic Ocean fisheries and the impact of dams along the Connecticut River.
• Michael Ruiz (H'99), Environmental education in elementary schools.

A complete list of SIEs, Independent Study and Honors Projects.