OEFS Project List
Student projects are listed by year and category.
Spring 2024 Semester
Ecology |
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Jeremy Pustilnik |
Detecting African wildlife trails from space: A six year time series analysis |
Hurricanes & Floods |
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Andres Mauricio Garcia-Chacon | Examining the Impact of Storm Surge from Major Hurricanes in Florida Through Remote Sensing Imagery |
Jamila Jaxaliyeva | 2024 Russia-Kazakhstan Floods |
Soil |
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Yeim We |
Wars and Conflicts Impacts |
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Becca Chausse | Remotely Sensed Assessments of Food Insecurity in South Sudan Using Normalized Burn Ratio |
Sarah Cheung | Tracking the Effects on War on the Environment in Gaza |
Spring 2023 Semester
Arial Imagery |
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Jacob Peters |
Creating a Mosaic of 1934 Aerial Imagery over New Haven, CT to Estimate Historic Tree Cover |
Agriculture |
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Eliana Stone | Crop Production and Pesticide Use in Mato Grosso, Brazil |
Violet Low-Beinart | Quantifying Silvopastoral Conversion in the Azuero Peninsula, Panama |
Drought |
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Tyler Mar |
Geology |
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Dana Polomski |
Using Remote Sensing for Detecting Lithologies and Minerals in Bou Azer, Morocco |
Land Use Change |
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Ben Everett-Lane | The Impacts of Cobalt Mining on the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Jasmine Gormley | Using Remote Sensing Techniques to Analyze Urbanization and Land Use Change in Western Montana, USA, Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Maddie Bartels | Land Use Change in Northeastern Kazakhstan after Independence |
Urban Greenness |
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Peyton Meyer |
Using NDVI to Analyze Neighborhood Greenness in Bridgeport, CT |
urban Heat |
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Makenzie Birkey |
Redlining’s Legacies in New Haven: Surface Temperature Differences by Neighborhood |
Spring 2022 Semester
urban heat |
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Adriana Maciel Metal | Map Seasonal Distribution of Urban Green Space in Bay Area, CA |
soil moisture |
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Urmila Mallick | Examining Landscape Characteristics and Soil Properties in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Landscape |
method development |
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Teddy Horangic | Classified Map Using a Combination of Drone Footage and Satellite Imagery |
Jonathan Rigby | Examining Wildfire Detection Through GOES 16 and 17 Imagery |
land use change |
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Jon Michel | Quantify the Land-Use Change of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems in Central Wyoming |
Camilla Ledezma | Quantify Land-Use/Cover Changes (LUCC) in an Area of the Venezuelan Llanos |
glacier melting |
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Megan Grimes | Quantify Glacial Retreat, Grey Glacier |
environmental risk assessment |
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Brianna Fernandez |
Comparison Between Before and After the 2016 Flash Flood in Greenbrier, West Virginia |
Spring 2021 Semester
Spring 2020 Semester
land cover change |
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Sangam Paudel | Forest fires and land cover change in Nepal |
Amelia Han | Land cover change in Newtown, CT |
Sherry Xu | Using remote sensing to study desert “superblooms” in California |
Minnie Min Ying Li | Urban change detection in New Haven, CT using declassified imagery |
Anya Lomsadze | Change analysis surrounding the Merowe Dam, Sudan |
Colin Baciocco | Assessing changes in perennial ice cover on Baranof Island, Alaska |
Forests |
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Xiyao Fu | Reforestation in the Phillipines |
Isa Del Toro Mijares | Examining the deforestation effects of Plan Colombia’s glyposate campaigns |
Jacob Payne | Reforestation of the Icelandic landscape |
Mary Yap | Land use change and undocumented deforestation and urbanization |
Air Quality |
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Ningjing Wang | A comparative study of coronavirus’ impact on air quality |
Victoria Dombrowik | Modeling emissions and preliminary conditions of the 2018 Camp Fire |
Drones |
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David Bruce | Analysis of high resolution drone imagery of Horse Island |
Agriculture |
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Katrina Starbird | Detection of agricultural production in Saudi Arabia |
Keer Zhang | Mapping irrigated area in California |
Water |
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Sarah Esenther | Water quality in Long Island Sound |
Spring 2019 Semester
Spring 2018 Semester
Spring 2017 Semester
Spring 2016 Semester
Spring 2015 Semester
Spring 2014 Semester
Spring 2013 Semester
Spring 2012 Semester
Spring 2011 Semester
Forest Issues |
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Nathan Rutenbeck | Estimating Land Cover Type on Parcels of Conservation Value |
Jason Lawhon | Mapping Pine Beetle Mortality in Wyoming Mixed Conifer Forest |
Selin Devranoglu | Remote Sensing of Forest Health: Case of Insect Damage Hatila Valley, Turkey |
Campbell Moore | Fire and Forest Degradation in Niumi District, The Gambia |
Landscape Change Detection |
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Lily Zeng | Land cover change in Xishuangbanna, China |
Rita Effah | Land use land cover changes in a high forest zone in southwest Ghana |
Man-Yu Yang | Kingmen Taiwan Post-war land use change |
Yan He | Landscape Change in Xin Jiang Province, China, 1989-2010 |
Yao Fu | Visualizing the Aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami through Change Detection |
Amy Higgins | Land Cover Classification & Change Detection in Ladakh, India using ASTER Imagery |
Jeffrey Chow | Vegetation change in El salvador |
Epidemiology |
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Mohammed Salim | Effect of land use on the incidence of Lyme disease on Block Island, Rhode Island |
Urban Issues |
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Yang Tian | Radiative forcing at local to national level associated with urbanization in China |
Nedal Nassar | Estimating Changes in Urban Metal Stocks via Nighttime lights |
Raul Lamas-Bregante |
Growth of Lima city: Trends and implications |
Landcover Mapping |
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Jennifer Miller | Land Cover Classification ofPanna Tiger Reserve, India |
Lauren Brooks | Detection of Mountain Top Removal Sites in Southern West Virginia using Image Enhancement Indices |
Angela Orthmeyer | Ecosystem Services in the Natchaug Watershed, CT |
David Ross | Identification of pasture lands in the Sao Felix do Xingu, Brazil |
Anobha Gurung | Land cover and surface temperature for Kathmandu Valley, Nepal |
Aitong Li | RS_Final_Presentation: The Case of Mt Everest Natural Reserve, Tibet |
Kristofer Covey | Predicting optimal backcountry skiing habitat in the dankness of Vermont: A remote sensing and GIS approach |