Advisor's website: https://mypages.unh.edu/epps/
Email: stc1034@wildcats.unh.edu
Natural Resources: Environmental Conservation M.S.
Research Topic: Conducting a policy analysis of dam/river restoration decision-making in New Hampshire, including compensatory mitigation and environmental justice considerations. Also, contribute to the design of the Future of Dams role-play decision scenario and possibly the analysis of policy-relevant aspects of the role play.
Existing studies have found evidence of systemic resource relocation, in which wetland resources are shifted from more urban, whiter, more highly educated impact sites areas to more rural, less populated, and poorer compensation sites with a higher percentage of minorities. I will compare the transaction level spatial data for compensatory wetland mitigation with census-tract level socioeconomic data (non-white percentage, population density, educational attainment and household income) to analyze population characteristics. Then seek to evaluate community access to participate in the ARM Fund program.
