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Student Projects

To get an idea of the breadth of subject matter our students pursue, have a look at their final projects and theses. Contact cory.pike @ utah.edu to inquire.

  • Ecotage!: A Game of Climate Uncertainty (Rune Davino-Collins, M.S.)
  • Disturbances: Cultural Stratification and Contamination on the Grasse River (Skylar Fetter, M.A.)
  • COAST Card: An Evaluation Case Study for International and Transdisciplinary Socio-Environmental Collaboration (Pheng Lor/Pheej Lauj, M.S.)
  • Mad Mud and Strange Survival: a Meeting in the Undefined (Esther Mathieu, M.S.)
  • The Nature of Inclusion: Exploring Nature-Based Structured Experiences for Black Youth and Their Families (Sydney Murray, M.A.)
  • In the Middle, at the Margins: Resilience, Novelty and Futurity at Lee Kay Conservation Area (Maggie Scholle, M.S.)

  • Gazing at Ecological Precarity: a Fugitive Map of Fire Island, New York (Amelia Carter, M.S.)
  • Solidarity across Time and Place: A Call for Collective Bargaining Rights to Sustain Conservation Workers, Long-term (Jaimie Choi, M.S.)
  • Life over Lithium: Mining, Power and Just Transition at Thacker Pass /Peehee Mu'huh (Amelia Diehl, M.S.)
  • The Role of Gardens in Northern New Mexican Environmental Justice: Food, Climate and Community (Jazmine Lopez, M.A.)
  • Building a Permeable Landscape: Community-based Collaboration in Montana's Centennial Valley (Margaret McGuirk, M.S.)
  • The River and the Reeds: Carrizo Cane and the Politics of Migration on the Rio Grande (Maddie Melton, M.S.)
  • Infrastructure versus Conservation: Political and Epistemological controversies of Lake Powell Pipeline (Juan Camilo Perdomo Marin, M.A.)
  • Project ECO SLC: Using Digital Environmental Education to Promote Community Connection and Resilience (Tessa Scheuer, M.A.)
  • Digital Ecologies of Access: Archiving Art-Based Narratives at the Intersection of Disability and the Environment in Salt Lake City, Utah (Natalie Slater, M.S.)
  • Indigenizing the Junior Ranger Booklet at Antelope Island State Park in Collaboration with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation (Fiona Summers, M.S.)

  • Extraction: Stories of Place, Displacement and Memory from Lark, Utah (Ashleigh Albrechtsen, M.A.)
  • Praxis: Toward a Critical Climate Justice Pedagogy (Maria Archibald, M.A.)
  • Home on the Rattlesnake's Range (Amber Aumiller, M.S.)
  • Landscapes of Transformation: Narratives from the Colorado Trail (Jenna Fisher, M.A.)
  • Notes from the Landscape of Grief (Maya Kobe-Rundio, M.A.)
  • Writing with Trees: Plants as Literary Characters & Epistemologies for Children (Sam Nelson, M.A.)
  • Forgetting and Remembering Native Land Use and History in the Wasatch Back (Doug Sam, M.A.)
  • Developing Indigenous History and Culture Programming at Antelope Island State Park (Hannah Taub, M.A.)

Last Updated: 11/13/24