Environmental Studies Thesis Prize
The $500 Environmental Studies Senior Thesis Prize is awarded annually to a senior in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program who has written an outstanding thesis in the broad area of Environmental Studies. Student nominations are made by departmental thesis advisers.
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Major | Adviser | Senior Thesis Title |
| 2012 | Alexandra K. Deprez | ANT | Carol Greenhouse | Nature Re-Visioned: An Ethnographic Diary from the Peruvian Amazon |
| 2012 | Peter R. Florence (Honorable Mention) | CHM | Jeffrey Schwartz | Dipole Design for Organic Electronic Devices |
| 2012 | Rebecca A. Scharfstein (Honorable Mention) | WWS | Mark Watson | Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Mortgage Credit Expansion on Residential Energy Consumption in California |
| 2011 | Hannah Barkley | EEB | Stephen W. Pacala | Establishing Links Between Basin-Scale Climate and the Growth of Atlantic Corals: The Effect of Temperature and Feeding on Flavia fragum |
| 2011 | Samuel Talcott Borchard | CEE | Blanko Glisic | Leave No Trace: Designing a Zero Waste Bridge on the Appalachian Trail |
| 2010 | Martina Car | ANT | Alan Mann | Evolene: A Case Study of the Challenges to Sustainable Development in Alpine Agro-Pastoral Systems |
| 2010 | Ruth N. Metzel | EEB | Stephen W. Pacala | From "Finca" to Forest: Forest Cover Change and Land Management in Los Santos, Panama |
| 2009 | Jennifer S. Palmer | ECO | Smita Brunnermeier | The Unintended Consequences of Environmental Regulation: An Empirical Analysis of the Changing Structure of the United States Dairy Industry |
| 2009 | Holger J. Staude | ECO | Henry Farber | The Impact of the Clear Air Interstate Rule of 2005 on Electric Utilities: Evidence from the Stock Market |
| 2008 | Anna Offit (First Prize) | ANT | Carol Greenhouse | Imagism Re-Imagined: An Ethnographic Approach to Ezra Pound's Modernist "Invention" |
| 2008 | Rachel Rothschild (Honorable Mention) | HIS | Angela Creager | The Light of Genius: James Croll's Theory on Climate |
| 2007 | Alexis Schaitkin (First Prize) | COM | Chang-Rae Lee | Warp and Weft Stories |
| 2007 | Edward A. Burgess (Honorable Mention) | CHM | Michael Bender | Investigating the Buildup of the Greenland Ice Sheet from the Chemical Composition of Trapped Gasses in GISP2 Silty Ice |
| 2006 | Karis Gong | WWS | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Exporting Sustainability: A Proposal to Reduce the Climate Impact of the Export-Import Bank of the United States |
| 2006 | Kathryn Fiorella | EEB | Rachael Winfree, Claire Krement | Reserve Site Selection: A Case Study of Madagascar |
| 2005 | Kyle Meng | CEE | Mike Celia, Bob Williams | Identifying Opportunities for Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Projects in China |
| 2004 | Stephanie J. Tatham | POL | George Hawkins | Groundwater Protection in New Jersey: Significance, Current Governance and the Potential for Further Protection |
| 2004 | Aniece L. Gerrard (Honorable Mention) | EEB | Rosemary Grant | Fishing Impacts and Management Policy of the English Sole Population in Hecate Strait, British Columbia |
| 2003 | Cynthia S. Lin | CEE | Eric Wood | Contexctualizing Scarcity: Approaches to Integrating Global Water Scarcity Indicators with the Driving Forces of Social Response |
| 2003 | Peter August Nelson | CEE | James Smith | Evolution of Hydrologic Response and Channel Morphology in an Urban Drainage Basin in the Maryland Piedmont |
| 2002 | Sarah Jane White | CHE | Satish Myneni | Influence of Elevated Soil-CO2 on Mineral Weathering and Soil Biogeochemistry, Mammouth Mountain, CA |
| 2002 | Sarah Helen Labun (Honorable Mention) | WWS | The Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact: An Economic Tool for Environmental Protection in Rural New England | |
| 2002 | Aaron Forrest | ARC | The Los Angeles Aqueduct: A Landscape Atlas | |
| 2002 | Babar Sultan (Honorable Mention) | ECO | Daily Emissions Tax: The Search for Efficiency in Controlling Tropospheric Ozone Levels | |
| 2002 | Melissa Hagstrum (Honorable Mention) | ENG | William Howarth | Placing People: Louise Erdrich and the Dakota Landscape |
| 2002 | Brooke Owens (Honorable Mention) | HIS | The 1837 Smallpox Epidemic at Fort Clark: An Extended Analysis of the Destruction of the Mandan Employing Disease, Biological, Cultural, and Environmental Variables | |
| 2001 | Daniel Weitz | EEB | Jim Gould | Space, Systems and Synergy: The History of Biosphere 2 |
| 2001 | Heather Swanson | ANT | Like a Salmon Returning Home: Travels of a 'Native' Anthropologist Along the Lower Columbia River | |
| 2001 | Anthony Broadman (Honorable Mention) | ENG | Anne Matthews | In the Backcountry: Trail Crew in Sequoia National Park |
| 2001 | Phillip A. Buffa (Honorable Mention) | ECO | The Case of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker: An Economic Analysis of the Perverse Incentive Created by the Endangered Species Act | |
| 2000 | Joy Bucher | EEB | Andrew Dobson | Long Canyon, Idaho: Protection of a Wilderness Area |
| 2000 | Marian Rollins | Classics | Rosamund E. Fantham | Malaria in Ancient Times - A Problem in Greece and Italy? |
| 1999 | Emma Owings | POL | Kent Eaton | Forest Resource Use and Allocation in Chile |
| 1999 | Lisa Gomes-Casseres | EEB | Henry Horn | From Unbroken Forests to Suburban Sprawl: The Influence of Soil on Natural and Human History in Princeton and Vicinity |
| 1998 | Sarah Finklestein | EEB | Stephen Hubbell | An Ecological Study of the Seedlings in a Panamanian Forest |
| 1998 | Talebb Noormohamed | WWS | Jerome Clinton | Establishing a Success: The Isma'ili Community and its Settlement in Canada |
| 1998 | Jonathan Tze | EEB | Burton Singer | Serengeti III: Reintegrating People, Disease Management, and Conservation Policy in the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem |