The annual Steinmetz Symposium at Union College showcases student research. The list below gives you a sense of the depth and breadth of research on the Environment at Union. Not all of these students are ESP majors, and this highlights the fact that studies of the Enviroment at Union occur across many disciplines

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND DECISIONS

Eric Strader - The oil price-U.S. Macroeconomy Relationship: Has the United States been able to insulate itself from the effects of an oil shock?

Daniel Amira - How Green is My Union? Sustainability at Union College

Molly Garrett - Garden Design

Daniel Amira - Environmental Sustainability at Union College

Kate Swartz - Promoting Environmental Awareness Amongst College Students

Daniel Felder - Food Choice in America: The Social Factors Which Determine What We Eat

Aaron Goldman, Mary Berkery, Risa Dubow, Bilal Mahmoodl - Student Service Trip to New Orleans (post Katrina)

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Alexandra Paul - Determination of species identity of a previously uncharacterized Bacillus subtilis bacterium and the characterization of its antifungal properties

Amanda Mishler - Sorption of Ultra-Violet Filter Chemicals to Natural Sediments

Alexander Krickx - Mercury Detection and Concentration in Seafood by PIXE (Proton Induced X-Ray Emission)

Mamadou Fall - The effect of pH on Tick development

Ashleigh Schaublin - The Role of Visual Motion in Eliciting Attention in the Lizard Anolis sagrei

Michael Smirnov - The Role of Visual Motion in Eliciting Attention in the Lizard Anolis sagrei

Sarah Webb - Moss Canopy Structure as a Influencing Factor on Photosynthetic Capacity and Evapotranspiration

Jessica Zima - The Effect of Surface Roughness on Light Attenuation in Moss Canopies

Felicia Spector - The Survival of the Allegheny woodrat: The Evaluation of a Possible Anti-Parasitic Compound in Paulownia tomentosa

Evan Bargnesi - Constraining depositional ages on detrital zircon in rocks of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

Scott Brady - Dating thermal maximum of the Mosherville Sandstone Member of the Galway Formation of the Cambro-Ordovician Beekmantown Group using detrital zircon fission-track thermochronology.

Matthew Smith - A Paleoclimatic Record, Interpreted by Stable Isotope Ratios, Laguna Yuraicocha, Peru

Bethany Spence - Analysis of Oxygen and Carbon Stable Isotopes of Lake Yuraicocha Sediment Core, Peruvian Andes

Peter Wilson - Thermal history of the Potsdam Sandstone in the eastern Adirondacks determined by fission track dating of detrital zircons

Mike Mastroianni - Radioactive Background Measurements using Atom Trap Trace Analysis

ENGINEERING and TECHNOLOGY

Mark Angeloni, Michael Guigli and Justin Molé - Unveiling the Union College 100 MPG Challenge Vehicle

James Arner - Thermoelectric Heat Recovery from an Automobile Engine

Michael Bogino - Setting up a Diesel Test Bed to Compare Bio-Diesel with Petro-Diesel

Brian Feldman - Tracer Experimentation in a Hydrogen Fueled Internal Combustion Engine

Stephen Frymire - Development of an Electrically Powered On-Demand Supercharger for a Small Displacement Engine