Theses and Dissertations

Recent Projects, Theses, and Dissertations

Environmental Policy

2012

Nelson Manda
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Report Title: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Zambia: How Effective is Public Participation in the EIA Process in Zambia?

Ellen Elizabeth Brenna
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Thesis Title: Perceptions of Water Conditions and Management in the Sonora River Basin, Sonora, Mexico

Andrew C. Orthober
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisors: Hugh Gorman, Gary Campbell
Thesis Title: Public Participation in Michigan Mining Policy: The Kennecott Eagle Project Case

2011

Ellis Adjei Adams
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Thesis Title: Nongovernmental Organization Staff Views of Global Water Privatization

Valoree Sherick Gagnon
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Carol A. MacLennan
Thesis Title: Fish Contaminants through the Tribal Perspective: An Ethnography of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community’s Tribal Fish Harvest

Courtney S. Goss
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Barry D. Solomon
Thesis Title: U.S. Utilities’ Experiences with the Implementation of Energy Efficiency Program

Karl James Makinen
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Thesis Title: Balancing Wildlife and Bioenergy Values on Private Forestlands in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Jillian Rae Schubert
Master of Science in Environmental Policy
Advisor: Audrey Mayer
Thesis Title: Peer Influence in NIPF Landowner Decision Making in the Western Upper Peninsula, Michigan

2010

Makinen, Karl. 2010. Balancing wildlife and bioenergy values on private forestlands in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2010M235; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2010M235

Pavlot, Laura. 2010. Silver Spring as a case example of implementing smart growth policies. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2010P337; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2010P337

2009 

Morin, Bode J. 2009. Reflection, refraction, and rejection: copper smelting heritage and the execution of environmental policy. Thesis (Ph.D.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.D2009M858; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.D2009; Electronic Dissertation

Kozich, Andrew T. 2009. Wetland mitigation in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: compliance with site monitoring and invasive plant species standards. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2009K88; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2009K88

Kiefer, Lindsay. 2009. The Apostolic Lutheran religion in the Keweenaw: divisions in the religion and the influences on family formation. Thesis (B.S.). Archives Oversize Call Number: LD3300.T2009K54

Johnson, Nicholas Howe. 2009. A cost-benefit analysis for a proposed wind turbine at Principia College. Report (M.S.). Archives Oversize Call Number: LD3300.R2009J66

Borg, Genevieve M. 2009. EPA's Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling: a case study of science policy implementation. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2009B732; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2009B732; Electronic Thesis

Balint, Susan. 2009. Federal and state policy influence on woody biomass utilization. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2009B186; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2009B186; Electronic Thesis

2008 

Pilling, Stacey Ann. 2008. Perceptions and realities of water quality in a Yaqui village. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2008P641; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2008P641

Manda, Nelson. 2008. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) in Zambia: how effective is public participation in the EIA process in Zambia? Report (M.S.). Archives Oversize Call Number: LD3300.R2008M271

Dahal, Khila Raj. 2008. Hazard and risk: perception of Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding from Tsho Rolpa Lake, Nepal. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2008D129; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2008D129

2007 

Sather-Knutsen, Afton. 2007. Community responses to land ownership parcelization in the Keweenaw Peninsula; Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007S254; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007D129

Greer, Gerald Kenneth. 2007. Barriers impeding success of local watershed groups in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: examining state-level policies and their influence on success. Thesis (M.S.); Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007G793; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007G793

Graves, Kate L. 2007. Risk perception of natural hazards in the volcanic regions of Ecuador and Guatemala. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007G776; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007G776

Dahal, Smriti. 2007. Nepali community forestry and a case study of a model women's forest user group. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007D129; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007D129

2006

Steudle, Heidi E. 2006. The sustainability of record-setting material recovery programs. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2006S842; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2006T555

Shamir, Mirit. 2006. The status of the precautionary principle in international environmental law. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2006S531; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2006S531

Barnes, Justin R. 2006. Sustainable energy systems: a study of the obstacles impeding the expansion of the wind energy and lignocellulosic ethanol industries. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2006B261; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2006B261

2005

Wang, Xin. 2005 Non-agricultural uses of farmland and official decision making regarding farmland uses in China. Thesis (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005W246; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005W246

Strong, Katherine. 2005. The conceptualization and implementation of the wilderness idea in the Porcupine Mountains. Thesis (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005S923; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005S923

Staves, Robert Gregory. 2005. Environmental justice, lead issues and children. Report (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.R2005S775

Qadir, Samir Aslam. 2005. ISO 14001 in India: More than a certificate on the wall? Thesis (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005Q2; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005Q2; Electronic Thesis

Morua, Agustin Robles. 2005. Environmental challenges of rural communities: a case study in Rosario de Tesopaco (northwest Mexico). Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005M827; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005M827

Kruse, Katherine D. 2005. We speak for ourselves: a grassroots effort to change Wisconsin's mining law. Thesis (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005K89; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005K89

2004

Binkley-Power, Jennifer. 2004. The expansion of renewable energy in our National Parks: powering Isle Royale. Report (M.S.) Archives Call Number: LD3300.R2004B612

2003

Zhu, Lin. 2003. Policy options to prevent or control the spread of zebra mussels at Isle Royale National Park. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2003Z64; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2003Z64

Barbier, Melanie Lynn-Hiltunen. 2003. Been-here's versus come-here's? Not necessarily. Conflict and community in Keweenaw County land use planning. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2003B236; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2003B236

Industrial Archaeology

2012

John P. Baeten
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology
Advisor: Patrick E. Martin
Report Title: The Klondike System: Technology, Mining Methods and Landscapes in a Placer Mining District in Fairbanks, Alaska

Natiffany Ranae Mathews
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology
Advisor: Susan R. Martin
Thesis Title: Public Values and Perceptions of Industrial Heritage in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

2011

Renee Marie Blackburn
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology
Advisor: Susan R. Martin
Thesis Title: Preserving and Interpreting the Mining Company Office: Landscape, Space and Technological Change in the Management of the Copper Industry

Lisa M. Gillis
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology
Advisor: Samuel R. Sweitz
Thesis Title: Lighthouses as an Overlapping Boundary Between Maritime and Terrestrial Landscapes: How Lighthouses Served to Connect the Growing Industries of the Keweenaw Peninsula with the World Market

Dennis H. Leopold
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology
Advisor: Patrick E. Martin
Report Title: Quincy and Torch Lake Railroad Engine House Facility Management and Interpretive Plan

James A. Rudkin
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology
Advisor: Susan R. Martin
Report Title: “A Cold Blizzard was Raging, But the Light Shone Brightly”: Social Networks Presented in Stained Glass within an Industrial Community

Brandon Anthony Sexton
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology
Advisor: Larry D. Lankton
Thesis Title: “Brethren Upon The Same Level”: Membership and Class in Calumet’s Masonic Lodge

2010

Gohman, Sean M. 2010. A more favorable combination of circumstances could hardly have been desired: a bottom to top examination of the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company's Cliff Mine. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2010G614; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2010G614; Electronic Thesis

Montcalm, Jessica Faye. 2010. A burning question: archaeology at the Davenport Pottery and technological adaptation in the Mormon domain. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2010M771; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2010M771

Nelson, Christopher L. 2010. The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company of Greenfield, Ohio: survival and adaptation of a black-owned company in the vehicle building industry, 1865-1939. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2010N425; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2010N425

Wilson, Craig P. 2010. From ruin to museum: preserving and interpreting the Quincy and Torch Lake railroad engine house. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2010W747; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2010W747

2009

Bastion, Amy. 2009. Central Aguirre: reconstructing a company housing typology. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Oversize Call Number: LD3300.T2009B378

Beltran Vargas, Yolanda Isabel. 2009. Industrial archaeology of the hacienda Santa Brigida, Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, Mexico. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2009B453; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2009B453

Dávila, Carmelo. 2009. A space for production and a space for communality: socio-historical study of Central Aguirre and its industrial community, Salinas, Puerto Rico: 1949-1970. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2009D259; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2009D259

DePasqual, Seth C. 2009. Winning coal at 78˚ North: mining, contingency and the Chaîne Opératoire in old Longyear City. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2009D419; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2009D419; Electronic Thesis

Hartnell, Cameron C. 2009. Arctic network builders: the Arctic Coal Company's operations on Spitsbergen and its relationship with the environment. Thesis (Ph.D.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.D2009H333; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.D2009H333; Electronic Dissertation

2008

Brignola, Alessandra A. 2008. World heritage and local reality: a visitor walking tour for the city of Houghton. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2008B854; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2008B854

Griebel, John E. 2008. Cultural landscape report: Nonesuch Mine & Village: Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2008G848; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2008G848

Trepal, Daniel J. 2008. Evolution in iron: the West Point Foundry casting house 1817-1912. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2008T789; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2008T789

2007

Atwood, Stephanie K. 2007. At the head of Torch Lake: Lake Linden's past, present, and future as the Copper Country's largest mill town. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007A887; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007A887

Bennett, Shannon A. 2007. Where the bosses lived: managerial housing of three companies in Michigan's Copper Country. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007B471; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007B471

Kaunonen, Gary. 2007. Conflict in the Copper Country: building toward a strike in a Finnish immigrant neighborhood, Hancock, Michigan, 1904-1914. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007K21; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007K21

Kotlensky, T. Arron. 2007. Between mine, forest, and foundry: an archaeological study of the West Point Foundry blast furnace, Cold Spring, New York. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2007K87; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2007K87

2006

Deegan, Michael J. 2006. Living on the East Bank of the West Point Foundry: an archaeological investigation of the East Bank House ruin, West Point Foundry site, Cold Spring, New York. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2006D311; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2006D311

Merritt, Christopher W. 2006. Trade and consumption in the Mormon Great Basin, 1847-1900: locally produced ceramics and instrumental neutron activation analysis. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2006M572; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2006M572

See, Scott Fisher. 2006. Industrial landmarks: shaft-rockhouses of the Keweenaw copper mines. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2006S451; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2006S451

2005

Baird, Keith P. 2005. Archaeological investigation of the transformation of the Coal Creek mining landscape, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005B163; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005B163

Herzberg, Rachael J. 2005. An analysis of activity areas within an industrial site: the boring mill complex at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York. Thesis (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005H582; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005H582

Rivett, Suika M. 2005. New deal for recreation: two CCC-built sites in the Ottawa National Forest. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005R924; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005R924

Tennant, Edward W. 2005. Using ArcGIS to create "Living Documents" with archaeological data: a case study from Svalbard, Norway. Thesis (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005T295; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005T295

Timms, Erin Colleen. 2005. The historical and archaeological interpretation of waterpower and blowing engine technology at the West Point Foundry blast furnace, Cold Spring, New York. Thesis (M.S.) 2005. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005T584; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005T584

Vago, David A. 2005. An interpretive plan for the Calumet and Hecla Mill Site. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2005V126; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2005V126

2004

Finch, Kimberly A. 2004. Waterpower: a geophysical and archaeological investigation of the waterpower system at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York. Thesis (M.S.) 2004. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2004F492; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2004F492; Electronic Thesis

Menghini, Cristina. 2004. Examining patterns of Italian immigration to Michigan's Houghton County, 1860-1930. Thesis (M.S.) 2004. Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2004M544; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2004M544; Electronic Thesis

Mishkar, Lawrence J. 2004. Spanning the wilderness: bridges of the Alaska Railroad. Report (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.R2004M678
Wilson, Joseph Andrew Park. 2004. The history and archaeology of the Huron Copper Milling Complex including a brief social history of Hurontown. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2004W749; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2004W749

2003

Van Lingen, Gary W. 2003. The interpretation of archaeological remains at the Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor Copper Mining Company's second campsite: evaluating a structural component and its potential uses and contexts. Thesis (M.S.). 
Archives:
 LD3300.T2003 L756; Main Collection Call Number:
LD3300.T2003 L756

2002

Kloss, Julie Anna. 2002. Defining an historic cultural landscape : the Choate Branch Logging Landscape Ottawa National Forest Michigan. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2002 K66; Main Collection Call Number: LD3300.T2002 K66

2000

Sexton, Brandon Anthony. 2000. "Brethren upon the same level": membership and class in Calumet's Masonic Lodge. Thesis (M.S.). Archives Call Number: LD3300.T2011S518; Electronic Thesis

1996

Day, Grant L. 1996. Copper mines and mining in Ontonagon County, Michigan: An intensive level survey of historic era mining sites, Project No. S95-337. Report (M.S). Archives Call Number: LD3300.R1996D273

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Nasi, Aaron. 2009. Interpretation in archaeological research. Thesis (B.S.). Archives Oversize Call Number: LD3300.T2009N37

Nelson, David J. 2009. Moonshine and archaeology: mixing a new cocktail of America. Thesis (B.S.). Archives Oversize Call Number: LD3300.T2009N45