MES Research

MES students and faculty work on a wide variety of interesting research. Some recent projects are listed below.

Students

Awards

• Marc Hershman Marine Policy Fellowship, Puget Sound Partnership - Allison Osterberg, MES 2012

Funded Research

• Effects of Science and Sustainability Programming in Prisons on Inmates - Brittany Gallagher, MES 2013, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Winter 2013
• Determining the Relationship between Rates of Insect Visitation and Seed Viability of Selected Species at the Puget Sound Lowland Prairies and Webster Nursery: Implications for Improving Seed - Jennie Husby, MES 2012, Student Foundation Actitvity Grant - Spring 2012
• Experimental evaluation of two fungi species in the removal of E.coli from a solution - Tim Rogers, MES 2012, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Spring 2012
• Bats at The Evergreen State College Farmhouse; an Effort to Mitigate - Noel Ferguson, MES 2012, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Spring 2011
• A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Oyster Industry in Willapa Bay, WA - Emily Sanford, MES 2012, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Winter 2011
• Determining if Ostereidae sp. (oysters) Consume Marine Microplastic Debris - Andrew Kociubuk, MES 2012, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Winter 2011
• Exploring migratory connectivity in the Calliope Hummingbird through stable isotope analysis of tail feathers  - Clare Brown, MES 2012, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Winter 2010
• Free‐Roaming Cat Survey - Lisa Macki, MES 2011, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Spring 2009
• The Portable Pedal Powered Nut Grinding Machine - Travis Skinner, MES 2011, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Spring 2009
• Edible Forest Teaching Gardens - Natalie Pyrooz, MES 2010, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Spring 2009
• Fuel Efficient Stove Project - Michelle Holmes, MES 2009, Student Foundation Activity Grant - Winter 2007

Internships

Sustainability in Prisons Project - Brittany Gallagher, MES 2013

Outstanding Papers/Presentations

• Comparison of Insect Visitation Rates and Seed Viability at Webster Nursery and the Puget Lowland Prairies - Report (PDF) & Poster (PDF) Presented at 2012 University of Washington Conserving Biodiversity in a Changing World Conference - Jennie Husby, MES 2012
• Valley Circulation Experiment: Mapping airflow across the H.J. Andrews Long Term Research (LTER) Forest - Poster (PDF) Presented at 2012 ConforWest Conference & Abstract (PDF) - Jerilyn Walley, MES 2012
• Prisons, Prairies, and Partners: The Sustainability in Prisons Project (SPP) Nursery Program - Abstract (PDF) for Presentation at 2012 Society for Ecological Restoration Conference - Evan Hayduk, MES 2012
• Climate Change, Environmental Scarcity, And Violent Conflict: Examing Primers and Analyses (PDF) - Katie Wolt, MES 2013
• Probable Implications of Global Climate Change on Southern Resident Killer Whales (PDF) -  Shelby Proie, MES 2013
• Prisoners Pitch in to Save Endangered Butterfly - Nature.com article written on presentations by MES Faculty Carri LeRoy and MES student Dennis Aubrey, MES 2013, at the Ecological Society of America conference in Portland, OR
• They Live Nowhere Else in the World: Washington’s Own Olympic Mudminnow (PDF). Poster presented at the 2012 South Sound Science Symposium, Shelton, WA. Teal Waterstrat, MES 2012    

Published Research

• Seasonal and annual dynamics of harmful algae and algal toxins revealed through weekly monitoring at two coastal ocean sites off southern California, USA (PDF) - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Dec 2012 - Jennifer Runyan, MES 2014

Theses

For a complete listing of past thesis projects, visit the MES theses page on Evergreen's Library website

MES Alumni

Published Research

• Biodiversity of Mobile Benthic Fauna in Geoduck (Panopea generosa) Aquaculture Beds in Southern Puget Sound, Washington (PDF) - Journal of Shellfish Research, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2011 - Rana Brown, MES 2010

Faculty

Faculty-Supported Projects

• Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative - Jean MacGregor
• Sustainable Prisons Project - Carri LeRoy
• VISTAS: VISualization of Terrestrial-Aquatic Systems - Judy Cushing (MES 2010-2012)

Grants

• Faculty foundation grant for Assessing the age of plant-derived carbon exported by the Queets River: A glimpse into the carbon cycling dynamics of temperate rainforests - Erin Ellis