Mary Hayes,  MS '02,  studied surface charge characteristics of Cryplosporidium parvan and Giardia lamblis.  She worked with Jan Boll, Bio Ag Engr, the project was funded by NSF.

Thesis Library
The following are some of the theses topics that have been defended by University of Idaho Environmental Science MS students:

Summer 2007

Meghan Calhoon

Early Detection of Fire-induced Delayed Tree Mortality Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Advisor: Lee Vierling, Fish and Wildlife Resources

Spring 2007

Emmi Blades

The National Wildlife Refuge System: Providing a Conservation Advantage to Threatened and Endangered Species in the United States

Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Scott, Fish & Wildlife Resources

Alex James Colter

Groundwater Contamination Attributed to Agricultural Practices in Idaho: A Pesticide Education Project

Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences

Loy G. Pehrson Jr.

Water, Nutrient, and Agronomic Management Practices Used in Potato Production in Idaho

Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences

Stacie Joy Robinson

Landscape Genetics of Black Bears (Ursus americanus) on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska: Phylogenetic, Population Genetic and Spatial Analyses

Advisor: Lisette Waits, Fish and Wildlife Resources

Nicholas M. Whitaker

A Biological Assessment of the Benthic Macroinvertebrates in the Silver Creek Watershed, Blaine County, Idaho

Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences

Rachel Winston

The Suite of Seed-feeding Biological Control Insects for Yellow Starthistle: Champions or Merely Team Players?

Advisor: Mark Schwarzlaender, Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences

Fall 2007

Jenifer Farley

Bringing Sustainable Food into Youth Outdoor Education

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Advisor: Charles Harris, Conservation Social Science

Summer 2006

Lubia Cajas Cano
Advisor: Christine Moffitt, Fish and Wildlife Resources

Kirandeep Dhami
A Study of Quantitative Parameters of Biofilms formed at Three Different Arsenic Concentrations
Advisor: Tom Hess, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Matt Thompson
The Effects of Wildfire on Hydraulic Properties in Conifers
Advisor: Katy Kavanagh, Forest Resources

May 2006

Todd Anderson
Relating permeability and structural setting of Mickey Hot Springs, southeast Oregon
Advisor: Jerry Fairley, Geological Sciences

Justin Boeck
A Biological Assessment using Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Myrtle Creek Watershed, Boundary County, Idaho
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

Anne-Marie Casey
Impacts of Flow Regulation on Black Cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) along the Skagit River, Washington
Advisor: Jeff Braatne, Fish and Wildlife Resources

Gilberto Flores
Microbial Oxidation of Inorganic Arsenic in Geothermal Waters of the Alvord Basin, Oregon: Field and Laboratory Investigations
Advisor: Susan Childers, Geological Sciences

Seyoum Gebremariam
Short-term Effects of Glucose on the Performance of Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) Activated Sludge Enriched with Acetate
Advisor: Tom Hess, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Julie Wawrzynek
Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Actions of New England Residents about Water Resources Issues
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

December 2005

James Hulme
Hazardous Waste Management: Reducing the Risk
Advisor: Don Crawford, Environmental Science and Microbiology

Stacy Smith
Barriers to Implementing Best Management Practices (BMPS): Idaho Local Highway Jurisdictions
Co-Advisors: Lorie Higgins, Sociology, Don Blackketter, Civil Engineering

David Stanish
Defining recovery: An analysis of endangered species recovery criteria through 2004
Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Scott, Fish and Wildlife Resources

Summer 2005

John Wallace
Integrating Biological Control and Prescribed Grazing to Manage Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis L.) on Idaho Rangelands
Advisor: Linda Wilson, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

May 2005

Michael Atchison
Biological Assessment of the Benthic Macroinvertebrates in the Big Boulder Creek Drainage Basin, Owyhee County, Idaho
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

Travis Dickson
Analysis of Environmental Attitude Survey from Environmental Science 101
Advisor: Steve Hollenhorst, Conservation Social Science

Kathryn Hall
Water Uptake Depths and Niche Overlap of Eight Conifer Species in Northern Idaho
Advisor: John Marshall, Forest Resources

Brian Shirley
Potential for using Monoterpenes in an Integrated Pest Management Program for Control of Conophthorus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)
Advisor: Steve Cook, Forest Resources

December 2004

Stephanie Boyd
Detection and Quantification of Methanogens in Methane Hydrate Samples using the Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (QPCR)
Advisor: Max Dakins, Environmental Science

Erin Chamberlain
Leaf Decomposition and Stream Macroinvertebrate Colonization of Japanese Knotweed, an Invasive Plant Species
Advisor: Jeff Braatne, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

Alan Scott Hauser
Public Perceptions and Attitudes in Idaho about Water Rights, Water Rights Transfers, and the Revocation of the Local Public Interest Review Criterion in Idaho Water Law
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

Edmund Wong
Abandoned Mine Drainage Remediation using Permeable Compost Barrier, Geochemical Investigation
Advisor: Frank Cheng, Chemistry

Summer 2004

Olha Furman
Lead Bioavailability to Waterfowl in the Lower Coeur d'Alene River Basin
Advisor: Daniel Strawn, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

Shunichi Itoga
Impact of Globe on Students' Knowledge and Attitude: A Case Study of Globe Students in the Renaissance Charter School, Moscow Idaho
Advisor: Mike Odell, Education

Edward Jolly
Biological Assessment using Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Lake Creek Watershed of Northern Idaho
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soils, and Entomological Sciences

Eric Loomis
Assessment of Abandoned Railroad Grades in Riparian Areas in the University of Idaho Experimental Forest
Advisor: Rob Robberecht, Range Resources

May 2004

Elmer Diaz
Selenium Oxidative Stress and In vivo Speciation in Ovine Environmental Exposure
Advisor: Ron Robberecht, Range Resources

Kimberly Kaiser (Ball)
Estimating Streambank Erosion on the East Fork of the Big Lost River
Advisor: Maxine Dakins, Environmental Science

Jennifer Kamm
Social Acceptability of Economic Change in Northern Idaho
Advisor: JD Wulfhorst, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

Ka Lam
Habitat Groups Clustering from Logistic Regression Model Coefficients: Extensions to Polychotomous Logistic Regression
Advisor:

Bindu Nair
Characteristics of Humic Acids Extracted from the Bottom of Lake Coeur d'Alene

Jodie Saltz
Using the Benthic INdex of Biotic Integrity to Evaluate Ecosystem Response to Stream Restoration
Advisor: Jim Kingery, Range Resources

Jason Shira
Sampling Mobile Colloids in the Vadose Zone
Advisor: Barbara Williams, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

December 2003

Joshua Linard
Determining Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity using a Hillslope Infiltrometer and Inverse Modeling
Advisor: Jan Boll, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Karen Zelch
Aggrading Alluvial Fans and their Impact on Fish Passage in Tributaries of the Kootenai River, Idaho and Montana
Advisor: Klaus Jorde, Civil Engineering, Boise

Summer 2003

Jeremy Carr
Water Quality in a High Mountain Reservoir: Tamarack Resort and Lake Cascade
Advisor: Dale Goble, Law

Nathaniel Dowse
Potential for Mitigating the Effects of Global Climate Change on Idaho's Water Supply
Advisor: Joel Hamilton, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

Krishna Penugonda
Big Sagebrush (Artemesia Tridentata) Rhizosphere Microbial Ecology and its Potential Applications
Advisor: Don Crawford, Environmental Science and Microbiology

May 2003

Dustin Hinson
Sediment and Benthic Community Characterization Downstream of Selected Agriculture and Aquaculture Pollution Inputs in the Middle Snake River, South-Central Idaho
Advisor: Michael Falter, Conservation Social Science

Kathleen McKinley
Medicine Lodge Subbasin Assessment and Sediment Total Maximum Daily Load and a Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis on the Streambank Erosion Inventory Model
Advisor: Max Dakins, Environmental Science

Evgeniy Perevodchikov
Confronting the Tragedy of the Commons through the Public Trust Doctrine
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lind, Philosophy

Anna Pidgorna
Conservation Assessment of Ukraine: Biological and Geophysical Features
Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Scott, Fish and Wildlife Resources

Andriy Polovskyy
Stumpage Price Determination in Ukraine: Economic, Social, and Environmental Aspects
Advisor: JD Wulfhorst, Agricultural Economics and Rural Society

Robert Sentz
Biological Assessment of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in the Orofino Creek Drainage Basin
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plants, Soils and Entomological Sciences

Wendy Shields
Community Involvement in the Forest Stewardship Contracting Initiative
Advisor: JD Wulfhorst, Agricultural Economics and Rural Society

December 2002

Dayna Dettmers
Constructing Predictive Estimates for Worker Exposure to Radioactivity during Decommissioning: Analysis of Completed Decommissioning
Advisor: Max Dakins, Environmental Science

May 2002

Jonathan Huels
Biological Assessment incorporating Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Jim Ford Creek Watershed
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

Ryan Molsee
Constructed Wetlands for Ground Water Quality Improvement
Advisor: Jim Osiensky, Geological Sciences

Milovan Vukovic
Corrosion Behavior of Iron in Solutions containing Thiobacillus ferrooxidans
Advisor: Batric Pesic, Materials Science and Engineering

Summer 2000

Suh-Jane Lee
Selective Extraction of Strontium with Supercritical Fluid Carbon Dioxide
Advisor: Chen Lai, Chemistry

December 2000

Bruce Godfrey
Delineation of Agroclimate Zones in Idaho
Advisor: Myron Molnau

Jon Munkers
Abiotic and Biotic Processes in the Release and Control of Selenium in the Western Phosphate Resource Area
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Möller, Food Science & Toxicology

May 1999

Melanie Bond
Characterization and Control of Selenium Releases from Mining in the Idaho Phosphate Region
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Möller, Food Science & Toxicology

May 1998

Richard Denning
Remediation of Nitrate-Contaminated Waters using Combined Biological and Chemical Processes
Advisor: Paul McDaniel, Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences

May 1997

Wade Melton
Measurements of Ambient Volatile Organic Compounds and Particulates in Moscow, Idaho
Advisor: Margrit von Braun, Dean, College of Graduate Studies

Shao-fen Wang
Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Metal Species from Solid Materials
Advisor: Chen Wai, Chemistry

May 1996

Randy Haws
Environmental Impact of Dietary Selenium Supplemented Animal Waste
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Möller, Food Science & Toxicology

May 1995

R.G. Thompson Jr.
Perspectives of Building Golf Courses in Arid and Semi-arid Environments based upon an Opinion Survey of Golfers in a City of Southeast Idaho
Advisor:

May 1994

Sebastian Hargrove
Incidence and Ecology of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in Grazed Idaho Watersheds
Advisor:

Previous Years

Zoya Drozdova
Sorption of Nd and Gd onto Kaolinite: The Effect of Organic Ligands
Advisor: Scott Wood, Geology

Mary Hayes
Evaluation of Surface Charge Characteristics and Hydrophobicity of Cryptosporidium Parvum and Giardia Lamblia
Advisor: Jan Boll, BioAgEngr

Ben Scofield
Littoral ecology, attached algal primary productivity, and sediment condition in the Rocky Reach Reservoir, Middle Columbia River, Washington
Advisor: Michael Falter, Fish and Wildlife

Ryan Hruska
Detection of Balsam Woolly Adelgid Infestations in Subalpine Fir Stands using Hyperspectral and Multispectral Remote
Sensing
Advisor: Karen Humes, Geography

Inga Grdzelishvili
Heat Inactivation of E.coli  O157:H7 through Composting
Advisor: Tom Hess, BioAdEngr

Eric Crook
Five different erosion control measures affect soil moisture and seedling emergence on a stream bank in 
north-central Idaho
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant Soil & Entomological Sciences

Feng Xie
Grain Loading Estimate with Opacity and Gas Exit Velocity
Interest: Air pollution control
Advisor: Dave Drown, Chemical Engineering

Yancey Willis
Soil Inorganic Nitrogen Accumulation Over a Ten-Year Period Using Common Cropping Sequences in Twin Falls County, Idaho
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant Soil & Entomological Sciences

Evan Glenn
Community risk perception study related to aquifer system which flows under a national nuclear laboratory in southeast Idaho
Advisor: J.D. Wulfhorst, Ag Econ and Rural Sociology

Bethany Armstrong
Recharge to the Palouse Groundwater System: A Study using REE Geochemistry
Advisors: Scott Wood and Jim Osiensky, Geology and Geol. Eng.

Nancy Chaney
The Relationship Between Art Objects and Duration of Attention to Related Natural Scenes
Advisor: Stephen Drown 

Joseph L. Mrstik
Keeping Our Word: Indian Ownership of Submerged Lands
Advisor: Dale Goble, Law

James George III
Chemodynamic Studies of Selenium Release, Mineralization, and Sorption-Desorption Pathways in the Western Phosphate Resource Area
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Möller, Food Science & Toxicology

Petr Olegovich Sharov
Analysis and Recommendations for Lead Health Risk Reduction at Rudnaya Pristan' Russia
Advisor: Margrit von Braun, Chemical Engineering

Jeremy Riggle
Fundamental Chemistry Relevant to the Use of Humic Materials in Pollution Remediation
Advisor: Ray von Wandruszka, Chemistry

Joel Murray
Development of a GIS Database for Recharge Assessment of the Palouse Basin
Advisor: Paul McDaniel, Plant Soil & Entomological Sciences

Charles Baier
Characterization and Control of Environmental Selenium Contamination Associated with Phosphate Mining in the Western US Phosphate Region 
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Möller, Food Science & Toxicology

Julie Ogstrup-Pederson
Effectiveness Assessment of Structural Best Management Practices in the Winchester Lake Watershed (2001)
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant Soil & Entomological Sciences

Allison Niggemyer
Isolation and Characterization of a Novel As(V) Reducing Bacterium: Implications for Arsenic Mobilization and the Genus Desulfitobacterium (2001)
Advisor: R. Frank Rosenzweig

Igor Ziderer
Kinetic Parameters of Acid Mine Drainage (2001)
Advisor: Keith Prisbrey, Metallurgy

Tetyana Lysak
A Comparative Analysis of Coastal Resource Water Management: The Black Sea and the Great Lakes (2001)
Advisor: Patrick Wilson, Political Science

Sa Lui
Mechanism of Nitroaromatic Compound Degradation in Modified Fenton's Systems (2000)
Advisor: Dr. Tom Hess, Bio and Ag Engineering 

Shawn Barndt
Tracer Movement Via Perched Water Tables and Implications for Agriculture
Advisor: Paul McDaniel, PSES

Tamara Shokes
Chemical and Microbial Corrosion of Sacrificial Iron: Effects on Heavy Metal Contaminants from Pyrite Oxidation
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Möller, Food Science and Toxicology

Varduhi Petrosyan
Lead Contamination and Exposure Issues in the United States and Armenia
Advisor: Dr. Margrit von Braun, Chemical Engineering

Julie Miller
Suburban Sprawl and the Three-toed Crawl: A Demographic Population Study of the Three-toed Box Turtle Across 35 years of Land-use Change
Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Scott, Fish and Wildlife

Susan Spalinger
Analysis of Heavy Metal Exposure at Two Mining/Smelting Sites in the United States and Russia
Advisor: Dr. Margrit von Braun, Chemical Engineering 

Jason Karl
Assessment of Wildlife Habitat Relationship Models: Theory and Application
Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Scott, Fish and Wildlife

Amelia Fine Jenkins
The Greening of National Forest Planning
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lind, Department of Philosophy

Collette Palamar
Wild, Woman, and Wolves: An Ecological Feminist Examination of Wolf Reintroduction
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lind, Department of Philosophy

Scott Birkey
External Attempts to Change an Internal Perspective: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Environmental Philosophy
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lind, Department of Philosophy

Austin Heady
The Feasibility of Using Hybrid Poplars as Riparian Vegetation in a North-Central Idaho Agricultural Setting
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant Soil & Entomological Sciences

Robbyn Forny Abbitt
The Geography of Extinction and Vulnerability: Distribution of Restricted-Range Species and Development Patterns in the United States
Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Scott, Fish and Wildlife

Svetlana Nour
Simulation of the Chernobyl Radioactive Plume over Moldova Using the CALMET/CALPUFF Modeling System
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Carleson, Chemical Engineering

Current Graduate Students
The Environmental Science Program has 78 graduate students (Spring 2003).  The following is a few of our students and their research:

Anna Pidgorna
Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Scott, Fish and Wildlife
Research interest: biodiversity conservation

Elmer Diaz
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Möller, Food Science and Toxicology
Project: Speciation of Selenium in Biological tissues.

Angie Koski
Advisor: Dr. Scott Wood
Project: The Geochemistry of Geothermal Systems in the Alvord Valley, SE Oregon

Rob Sentz
Advisor: Dr. Robert Mahler, Plant Soil & Entomological Sciences
Project: Marcoinvertebrate Biological Assessment of Orofino Creek

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