Friends University: Master of Science in Environmental Studies

[ ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ]

Graduate Projects

City Planning

Conservation

The quality of grass clipping compost generated by a pilot yard waste composting program.
Conservation program for the Smoky Hill River.
Land Use Proposal for Managing Dyck Arboretum's Borders in Hesston, Kan.
Regional characterization of groundwater use using techniques of regression analysis within the Middle Arkansas Sub-basin in Central Kansas.

Environmental Education

Timber Creek Nature Park teacher education plan.
Organization and administration of an environmental workshop.
Newton High School Outdoor Wildlife Learning Site guide: Correlated with 2007 Kansas State Science Standards (Adopted Feb. 14, 2007)
Sedgwick County Department of Environmental Resources: Environmental curriculum for teachers.
Creating a self-guided tour brochure for Chisholm Creek Park.
Creating an educational brochure on groundwater contamination.
The creation of an interpretive guide for native wildflowers and grasses in the collection at Dyck Arboretum of the Plains.
Interpreting Kansas wildlands: A seven year plan for environmental education.
An environmental handbook for agriculture.
Earhart Environmental Magnet School: Revitalizing an environmental program.
The re-certification of Emerson Open Magnet Schools Outdoor Wildlife Learning Site.
A model program to educate small business owners about complying with EPA regulations.
Maize High School environmental studies curriculum guide: Correlated with Kansas State Science Standards (Adopted Feb. 14, 2007)
An educator’s guide to natural history inventory in Kansas’ physiographic provinces.

Environmental Health

A Study of fecal coliform bacteria in the Little Arkansas River in Wichita, Kan.
Combating the problem of stray and feral cats in Wichita, Kansas, and the surrounding areas.
An investigation of the environmental and occupational health effects of lead.
Lake Afton: A Study in phosphate loading.
An investigation of the effects of nutrient loading in relation to fecal coliform bacteria in the surface waters of the upper Walnut River South watershed in Butler County, Kan.
Distribution, infestation, and habits of Sericea lespedeza in Cowley County, Kan.
The status of Project 33/50 and emissions in the three most populous counties in Kansas.

Environmental Law

Interpretation, implementation, and corporate compliance with safety and health regulations.
Deregulation presents new opportunities for wind power.
A comprehensive history of air pollution, the Clean Air Act, and a guide for compliance to the Clean Air Act amendments and aerospace NESHAP.

Environmental Management

Comprehensive wastewater discharge programs: A guidance document for metal-finishing industry in Wichita, Kan.
Environmental sampling procedures for industry.
Assessing air emissions at a Midwestern U. S. ethanol plant.
Environmental and analytic methods with applications for the aerospace industry.
Health and safety program for environmental laboratories.
Development of a post closure application for a hazardous waste storage facility.
Project development of an operating permit for a hazardous waste storage facility.
Environmental impact and assessment of the relocation of CH-40 helicopter units to Los Alamos Armed Forces Reserve Center, California, and Fort Hood, Texas.
Comprehensive air quality construction permitting and preventative maintenance for new sources.
Environmental management plan for six rural Kansas counties.
Good up high, bad nearby: An ozone forecasting model for Wichita, Kansas.
Hazardous materials emergency response management for an aerospace company.
Opening an environmental testing laboratory.
Landfill siting procedures.
Creating the Wichita Community Advisory Group: 57th Street and North Broadway Superfund Site.
The complexities of selecting the appropriate remediation technology for groundwater and soil contamination.
Comparisons of recycling programs and landfill technologies.

Environmental Physiology

Natural History

Physiographic provinces in Kansas and their impact on vascular plant and vertebrate animal distribution.

Wildlife Management

Factors affecting population declines of loggerhead shrikes in southcentral Kansas.
Kansas non-indigenous aquatic nuisance species management plan.
Territory density and reproductive success of Eastern Meadowlarks and Grasshopper Sparrows on Fort Riley, Kan.
Benefits to juvenile galinaceous bird management from legume plantings in fallow wheat fields based on small arthropod counts.
Reintroduction of the southern pickerel frog into Kansas.
Habitat evaluation of Natrona Creek, Pratt County, Kansas.
Graphical conversion of tabular groundwater monitor and interceptor well data.
Comprehensive report on the status of introduced captive wildlife and exotic animals in Kansas.
Mapping potential wetlands in Sedgwick County, Kansas.

Zoo Science

A handbook for captive management of birds.
Determination of testosterone levels in African and Indian elephants as a predictor of the onset of musth.
Analysis of the dominance hierarchy in a captive group of chimpanzees based on agonistic and association behaviors.
Undergraduate internship program for Friends University zoo science majors.
Natural history and captive breeding programs of North American wolves.
Bioethics and zoos.