ES students and faculty members work side-by-side on research projects that lead to publications in scholarly journals and professional conference presentations. Student-faculty collaboration is a priority not only in the ES department, but throughout Gettysburg College, which helps students obtain support for undergraduate research and creative activities.
Check out the recent honors thesis projects students have conducted with guidance from ES professors.
Open access publications by ES students
A Method for Estimating Songbird Abundance with Drones
Andrew M. Wilson et al. — Mon, 12 Aug 2024
Using drones to conduct airborne bioacoustics surveys is a potentially useful new way to estimate the abundance of vocal bird species. Here we show that by using two audio recorders suspended from a...
Morphometric Analysis of Ice Scour Lakes in Iceland: A Proxy for Ice Sheet Dynamics
Halley M. Mastro et al. — Mon, 12 Aug 2024
Glacial erosion rates on the Iceland landscape throughout the Pleistocene are not well quantified. Ice scour lakes provide an opportunity to investigate glacial erosive activity and relative intensity...
Mapping for Accountability: Decolonizing Land Acknowledgment Initiatives
Salma Monani et al. — Mon, 12 Aug 2024
What does it mean to map Indigenous presence onto lands that have been appropriated by settler colonial nation states? This chapter examines the challenges and potentials of re-inscribing Indigenous...
Clean Water Saves Lives: Improving Clean Water Access in Yeakpee Town, Liberia
Mishael F. Ohanwadi — Wed, 10 Apr 2024
Civil unrest in Liberia, a West Coast African nation, has caused the destruction of essential infrastructure, particularly water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems. As a result, there is a high...
