The interdisciplinary composition of ESP faculty results in a wide variety of research opportunities. Students are a critical part of this research. For more information about their work, click on the faculty member’s name below. Then, please reach out to them to discuss specific research options!
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research
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- Growth of Smallmouth Bass in rivers with a restoring river herring run
- Consumer food waste behaviors in relation to open date label misinterpretation
- Media Analysis of Coverage of Environmental Issues in the Midst of a Pandemic
- Soil Salinity and the Occurrence of Invasive Phragmites australis in Scarborough Marsh
- K-12 Environmental Education Program
- Determining the Ability of Larval and Juvenile Alewife to Consume Zooplankton in Highland Lake
- Comparing Zooplankton Diversity Across a Gradient of Lake Size and Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Western Lakes Region of Maine
- Microbial Fuel Cell Technology in Maine
- Growth and Habitat Use by Juvenile Alewife in Windham, Maine
- Rearing Black Soldier Fly Larvae on Different Food Sources to Study Heavy Metal Accumulation
- Shell Fishing for the Community
- Impact of Earthworms on Plant Development, Soil Properties, and Root Response
- Functional Feeding Groups of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates on Natural and Artificial Leaves in Forested Stream Habitats in the Sebago Lake Land Reserve
- The Androscoggin BioBlitz: a Citizen Science Biological Survey in New Auburn, Maine
- Comparing methods and technologies for assessing vertical size distribution of American beech leaves (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh)
- A look at Lichen Elemental Concentrations and Lichen Diversity from Edge to Interior in Canco Woods
- Haiti: Beauty on Edge
- Cutler Coast Fairy Head Loop Trail Expansion
- Impact of road salts (NaCl) on winter water quality in Mill Brook, Westbrook, Maine
- An Outdoor Classroom to Improve the Student Experience and Connect the Community
- Water vapor Uptake Across the Cocoon Wall of the introduced Pine Sawfly Diprion similis (Hartig) (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae
- Cyanobacterial Blooms in Highland Lake, ME
- Using stable isotopes to quantify restoration progress in a restoring northern New England salt marsh