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2018-2019
  • Loreena Avery: The Marriage between Evolutionary Origins and the Genesis Story of Creation
  • Alina Bardaji: Determining Pith Offset of Pine and Oak Species Using Geometric Method
  • Olivia Barone: The Impacts of China’s National Sword Policy on Rider University
  • Carissa Moore: Using tree ring analysis to determine if the Canadian Hemlock on the West Lawn at Mount Vernon was the original planted during Washington’s era
  • Patrik Rollefson: Problem Solving Capabilities of Coati Mundis in Captivity
  • Joseph Warker: Deicing salts impact on sodium concentrations in Centennial Lake Watershed: Soil Retention and Vertical Translocation of Sodium and Chloride
  • Joseph Warker: Effect of Scents as a Form of Enrichment on Movement and Behavior of American Alligators

2017-2018

  • Loreena Avery: Impacts of Captive-born Giant Pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) on Understory Species Richness
  • Alina Bardaji: Dendrochronological Analysis of Mont Alto, Pennsylvania Black Oak
  • Maria Chaves: Attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Demographic and Environmental Factors in the United States
  • Maria Chaves: A Dendrochronological Case Study of Ewing Presbyterian Church’s Historic White Oak, 1593-1954
  • Timothy Forrest: Topography and Tree Growth at the Fernow Experimental Forest, WV
  • Timothy Forrest: A Rider Wildlife Guide: Bridging the gap between the digital and natural world
  • Tiffany Girado: Environmental Enrichment Project on White Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) at Six Flags Great Adventure
  • Taylor Grieshaber: Salt loading and retention in the Delaware River and Centennial Lake Watershed
  • Imani Guest: Strengthening a Historical Climate Record in South-Central Pennsylvania with Tree Rings Dating Back 600 Years
  • Naomi Jainarine: Assessing potential changes in reproductive life histories of female Sebastes melanops during changing climates in Newport, Oregon
  • Casey Kaufmann: Weekly monitoring of abiotic factors and the plankton community in Centennial Lake, New Jersey
  • Rachel Pereira, Melissa Holley, Ashley Feliciano: Fish Population Assessment of Centennial Lake at Rider University
  • Joshua Schiariti: Seasonal Growth Patterns of Invasive Plant Species Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria at Centennial Lake
  • Amanda Schopf: Data Gathering to Determine the Species on Rider Campus (Lawrenceville)
  • Thomas Stein: When up is down and down is up: the case of Gravity Hill, Titusville, NJ
  • Meg Tomayko: Photosynthesis, Respiration, Growth and Grazing of the Plankton Community in Centennial Lake, NJ
  • Nicole Donato: Identifying High-Potential Areas for Water-Supply Wells and Estimating Groundwater Recharge in Northern Kenya
  • Loreena Avery, Olivia Barone, Timothy Forrest, Veronika Geiger, Lauren Margel, Julia Ragazzo, Aleesha Rouse, Amanda Schopf, Michael Shea, Joseph Warker: Natural Resources of Rider University via Google Tour
  • Timothy Forrest, Joshua Minnich, Olivia Barone: A proposed expansion of the Rider Woods trail system

2016-2017

  • Mickey Bagnato: Age and condition of Largemouth Bass in Centennial Lake
  • Kelly Catino: Effect of meteorological conditions on behavior of captive bison at Six Flags Wild Safari Park
  • Ambria Dell’Oro: Geochemical identification of erosional pathways of garnets from the Wissahickon Formation, PA
  • Nicole Donato and Maria Chaves: Variations of lead concentrations in soil profiles near an Interstate highway in New Jersey (student co-authors of a paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America Northeast Section)
  • Ian Flynn: Past and future rates of stream erosion along Crosswicks Creek, Mercer County, NJ (student co-author of a paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America Northeast Section)
  • Tim Forrest, Maria Chaves, and Imani Guest: Tree growth correlations and spatial distributions in an acid deposition treatment watershed at Fernow Experimental Forest, WV (student co-authors of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Ecological Society of America)
  • Julia Galayda: The effect of algal density and diversity on organisms in New Jersey
  • Imani Guest: Strengthening a historical climate record in south-central Pennsylvania with tree rings dating back 600 years (student co-author of papers presented at the Annual Meetings of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Ecological Society of America and at the SAEOPP McNair/SSS Scholars Research Conference)
  • Imani Guest: The provenance of New Jersey barrier island garnets
  • Rachel Pereira: Biodiversity study of macroorganisms with algae communities in Centennial Lake at Rider University
  • Miranda Rosen: Examining the effects of coastal zone management techniques on population characteristics of Mole Crabs (Emerita talpoida) along the New Jersey shore
  • Miranda Rosen: Examining music as a type of environmental enrichment on two California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) at Six Flags Great Adventure
  • Vicki Trucksess: Meerkat lookout behavior in the Philadelphia Zoo's newest attraction: Meerkat Maze (student author of a paper presented at the 2016 Philadelphia Zoo Research Symposium)
  • Vicki Trucksess: Precipitation and population variability on South Carolina Firefly populations (student co-author of a paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers)

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