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Join us for two days of academic excellence as Environmental Studies students present their St. Mary's snd Capstone Projects, May 4-5.
Oral Presentations on Monday, May 4, Cole Cinema, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
8:30 Mia Dyer - Transformative Experiences: Book Arts as an Interpretive Tool for the Environmental Movement
8:50 K. Kirby - Revitalizing the SMCM Healing Garden: A Sustainable Landscape Restoration Project
9:10 Khushi Patel - Legacy Pollution Persistence of Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Tied to Aqueous Film-Forming Foam Pollution in the St. Mary’s River
9:30 Ella Voos - Growing Together: Socio-Economic Impacts of Agritourism in Costa Rica and the United States
9:50 Alexandria Cooke; Bryna Haldeman; Jana Snyder; David Winters - Cultural Preservation in the Face of Climate Displacement (Climate Affect)
10:10 Joanna Cleaver - Connection to Land: African American and Indigenous American Oral Histories
10:30 Jasha Forgione - All in a Name: The Relation of Urban Development to the Retention of Indigenous Place Names Within Waterscapes
10:50 Isabella Ramirez - "Water Doesn’t Cry; Water Screams": Ontological Conflicts and the Struggle for Relational Water Rights in Colombian Artisanal Fishing Communities
11:10 Fiona Kortyna; Sarah Luersen; Jack Brown; Megan Stonesifer - Fostering Community Relationships with Nature Through Seed Stewardship
11:30 Aislin Fabey Play-in-a-Day: Expanding Environmental Stewardship With Arts-Based Pedagogy
11:50 Tess Gibson-Thoele - Growing Minds: Implementing Hands-On Agricultural and Environmental STEM Education in K-5 Title I Schools
12:10 Corinne Frederick - Environment in Pluriverse: Educator Approaches to Evolving Pedagogies
Poster Presentations on Monday, May 4, ARC REC Courts
9:00 Isabella Clancy - Weaponized Ignorance: The Failed Remediation of PFAS
Sarah Swimmer - The Effectiveness of Captive Breeding Programs as a Tool for Conserving the Biodiversity of Endangered Species
10:30 Julien Goodrich - What's Eating North Woods? An Examination of Deer Behavior and it's Effect on Plant Communities
JD Salo - Assessing the Impact of Urbanization and Noise Pollution on Bird Biodiversity in St. Mary's County of Maryland
Phinheas Rouland - The Effects of Farmland Management on Grassland Breeding Bird Success in Southern Maryland
Please join ENST faculty, student presenters, and guests in Cole Cinema Hallway at 12:30 PM on Monday, May 4 for celebratory refreshments