2003 Student and Faculty Summer Research Projects
Name of Student Year Faculty Advisor Project Funding Type of Project

Catherine Campbell

Daisy Small

2004

2003

Douglas Thompson, Physics Characterization of channel morphology and hydraulics for stream restoration design. NSF Career Grant Summer Research

Alice Kelly

Emily Mygat

2004

2005

Christine Small, Botany 1) Historical and environmental influences on the distribution of invasive non-native plant species in the Pawcatuck Borderlands of Southern New England. Connecticut and Rhode Island Chapters of The Nature Conservancy Summer Research

Alice Kelly

Emily Mygat

2004

2005

Christine Small, Botany 2) The use of prescribed burning in the restoration and maintenance of a regionally rare pitch pine sand plain ecosystem, Hopeville Pond Natural Area Preserve, Griswold, CT. Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Summer Research

Alice Kelly

Emily Mygat

2004

2005

Christine Small, Botany 3) Impacts of intensive white-tail deer herbivory on vegetation regeneration in the Burnham Brook Nature Preserve, East Haddam, CT. Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy Summer Research

Mathew Frackelton

Daisy Small

Margaret Gentz

2004

2003

2004

Robert Askins, Biology The ecology of early successional birds nesting on power line corridors. Mellon Environmental Research Fund, and the Bernice Wheeler Fund Summer Research
Lopa Desai 2003 Marc Zimmer, Chemistry Computation methods to examine the substrate selectivity of nitrile hydratase. Petroleum Research Foundation Honors Thesis