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
Little Island
Leah R. Nath — Mon, 11 Nov 2024
After spending two full months living on a remote island off the coast of Maine, I had a difficult time adjusting to mainland life again; the noise, the people, the lack of birds a shock to my system...
The Effects of Phenological Shifts on the Reproductive Success of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) and Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea) in the Gulf of Maine
Jamie W. Dinella — Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Climate change is resulting in ecosystem-wide consequences, including shifts in the geographical distribution of species and the timing of biological events, or phenology. The rapidly warming Gulf of...
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...
