Graduate and Undergraduate Research Projects
2019 – 2021. Cole Soldo (MS). Constructed wetland adoption in agriculture.
2019 – 2021. Shelby Taber (MS). Water quality perception accuracy.
2018 – 2020. Elizabeth Schwab (MS Co-advised with Dr. Margaret Kalcic). Maumee river watershed farmers’ perceptions of nutrient loss risk.
2017 – 2020. Maggie Beetstra (PhD). Evaluating the Impact of Seasonality and COVID-19 on Farmers
2016 – 2019. Hugh Walpole (PhD). Re-perceiving perceived risk: Examining the psychological structure of risk perception.
2017 – 2020. Callia Tellez (BS). Overcoming barriers to government program participation for interested farmers.
2017 – 2018. Emma Tippett (BS). Behavioral spillover in health and environmental contexts.
2017 – 2019. Emily Walpole (PhD). Communicating climate adaptation: A mechanistic and audience-based investigation of message framing approaches for climate-exacerbated hazards.
2015 – 2018. Olivia Carros (BS). Promoting cover crop adoption to improve water quality in agricultural landscapes.
2013 – 2015. Katherine Connolly (BS). Exploring the relative influence of knowledge, values and risk perception on engagement in climate change mitigation behaviors
2014 – 2016. Hugh Walpole (MS). Why stay? Why go? An examination of attitudes towards risk in wildfire evacuation.
2011 – 2016. Kristina Slagle (PhD). Social and psychological drivers of public involvement in large carnivore management.
2012 – 2014. Elizabeth Burnett (MS). The influence of farmer stress and hardiness on adoption of best management practices in the Maumee watershed.
2013 – 2015. Miranda McClendon (BS). Assessing the effectiveness of a climate change communication intervention: An experimental study
2013 – 2014. Karam Sheban (BS). Understanding environmental behaviors: A modification of value-belief-norm theory applied to nutrient management decisions in the Maumee watershed
2010 – 2012. Tara Ritter (MS). Developing a model of farmer nutrient management behavior.
2010 – 2011. Sarah Zwickle (MS). Understanding weeds and organic weed management: A mental models approach.
2010 – 2011. Gina Hnytka (MENR). Social risk perceptions, attitudes, and farmer integrated weed management decisions: An analysis.
2010 – 2012. Katie Waller (BS). Understanding nursing directors’ attitudes, beliefs and knowledge about climate change and predicted human health impacts
2009 – 2014. Adam Zwickle (PhD). Communicating environmental risks.
2009 – 2011. Josh Ferry (MS). Phosphorus management in the agroecosystem: A mental models analysis of knowledge and perceived risk.
2008 – 2010. Sana Syal (BS). The role of public health agencies in addressing climate change as a human health concern.
2008 – 2010. Timothy Ascher (MS). Factors influencing support for prescribed burning and mechanical thinning among wildland-urban interface residents in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
2008 – 2010. Kristina Slagle (MS). Hispanics and parks: Managing for human diversity.
2008 – 2009. Jecy Bennett (BS). Columbus and Franklin County Metropolitan Park District’s Firearms Policy: A Mental Models Study of Park Rangers