Events & Media

The 10th Annual Master's Theses Presentations

Preston 110

Congrats to the CEP Class of 2012!

Wednesday, May 23rd: Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Climate

12:30 – 1:00 pm   Lucy Van Hook
1:00 – 1:30 pm     Nai Hui Wang
1:30 – 2:00 pm     Jamie Wilson
2:00 – 2:30 pm     Melissa Provinsal
2:30 – 3:00 pm     Michael Bernstein
3:00 – 3:30 pm     Daniel Smith
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3:45 – 4:15 pm     Jessica LeClair
4:15 – 4:45 pm     Melissa Mezger
4:45 – 5:15 pm     Natalie Narotzky

Thursday, May 24th: Energy & Politics, Land Use & Urban Issues

12: 30 – 1:00 pm   Ann Calamai
1:00 – 1:30 pm      Patrick DiCiaccio
1:30 – 2:00 pm      Brandy Chambers
2:00 – 2:30 pm      Leah Scull
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3:00 – 3:30 pm      Anne Kline
3:30 – 4:00 pm      Bartek Starodaj
4:00 – 4:30 pm      Simon Topp

Friday, May 25th: Water & Wetlands, Waste & Energy, Land Management

9:30 – 10:00 am     Keith McHugh
10:00 – 10:30 am   Kristine Pierce
10:30 – 11:00 am   Michelle Phillips
11:00 – 11:30 am   Carol Smillie
                               ---Lunch Break---
1:00 – 1:30 pm       Rachel Savain
1:30 – 2:00 pm       Katherine Murray
2:00 – 2:30 pm       Abigail Osgood
                               ---Break---
3:00 – 3:30 pm      Jaime DiPuppo
3:30 – 4:00 pm      Nolan Gardner
4:00 – 4:30 pm      Jennifer Morrow

5:00 on: Celebration at the Row Jan Creek Boat Club
11 miles north of campus off of Rt 9G. Look for a small road with sign on left after 9G bridge.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Bard Center for Environmental Policy

MICHAEL BENNETT BERNSTEIN Harrison, New York
“Advancing the Role of High-Performance Computing in Sustainable Energy Solutions”

DIANA R. CALAMAI Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“Theory and Practice of Natural Resource Taxation: Implications for New York State's Natural Gas Tax Policy”

BRANDY ALANNA CHAMBERS Minerva, New York
“The Treatment of Non-Transmission Alternatives in New England Markets and Regulations”

JAIME MICHELLE DIPUPPO Pleasant Valley, New York
“Improving Waste Management in New York City: A Case Study”

NOLAN GARDNER Northampton, Massachusetts
“Rainwater Harvesting in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico: Constraints and Promise”

ANNE ELIZABETH KLINE Woodstock, Connecticut
“Knitting Green Infrastructure into the Urban Fabric: Strategies for Implementation”

KEITH THOMAS MCHUGH Roanoke, Virginia
“The Value of Inland, Freshwater Wetlands for Flood Protection”

KATHERINE MARY MULLARKEY MURRAY Delmar, New York
“Can Small Land Trusts Participate in Carbon Markets?”

ABIGAIL M. OSGOOD Glen Ridge, New Jersey
“The Role of Market Actors in Climate Change Mitigation”

KRISTINE E. PIERCE Folsom, California
“Managing Fisheries from Near and Far: Analysis of Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines”

MELISSA N. PROVINSAL Portland, Oregon
“Hydropower in Development: The Case of the Mekong”

RACHEL A. SAVAIN Plantation, Florida
“Building Public-Private Partnerships: Integrating Informal Recyclers into Solid-Waste Management in Haiti”

LEAH SOMERS SCULL Newport News, Virginia
“Facilitating Local Choice in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations: A Strategic Toolkit for New York Municipalities”

CAROL SMILLIE Gallatin, New York
“Sustainable Stormwater Management: Recommendations for the Bard College Campus”

DANIEL J. SMITH Delmar, New York
"Improving Consumer-targeted Residential Energy Audit Software: An Introduction to the Home Envelop & Energy Analysis Tool (HEEAT)"

BARTOSZ M. STARODAJ New Britain, Connecticut
“Forging Consensus? The Prospective Role of Regional Governance in the Planning of ‘Shrinking Cities’ ”

SIMON TOPP Evergreen, Colorado
“Future Impacts of Spatial Management Choices on Land Cover Change: An Analysis of the Rio-Atoyac Watershed of Oaxaca, Mexico”

JAMIE WILSON Centennial, Colorado
“Examining the Use of a Feed-In Tariff to Accelerate Renewable Energy into the Ohio Electricity Sector”


MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CLIMATE SCIENCE AND POLICY
Bard Center for Environmental Policy

PATRICK JOSEPH COSMO DICIACCO Rochester, New York
“Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing: A Review of the PACE Design and its Intersection with the Residential Mortgage Industry”

JESSICA HELENA LECLAIR Windsor Locks, Connecticut
“Governance Strategies in the Far North: Managing Climate-Driven Relocation Efforts in the Arctic”

MELISSA A. MEZGER Cincinnati, Ohio
“The Framing of Uncertainty in U.S. Newspaper Reports on Climate Change”

JENNIFER MORROW Sunderland, Massachusetts
“Modeling Nitrogen Fertility Potential of Cover Crops and Manures”

NATALIE MAX NAROTZKY Westfield, New Jersey
“Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Natural Gas: Implications of a Life-Cycle Based Carbon Tax on the U.S. Electricity Sector”

MICHELLE LYNN PHILLIPS Livonia, Michigan
“Fuel Treatment Thinnings from U.S. Federal Public Lands: A Bioenergy Perspective”

LUCILLE BENTON VAN HOOK Cambridge, New York
“An Examination of First-Cost Barriers in Residential Energy Efficiency Program Participation”

NAI-HUI WANG Republic of China, Taiwan
“Actor Mechanism: Key Elements to Successful Small-Scale Community Renewable Energy”

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