This collection includes 509 University of Montana graduate student portfolios, papers, and capstone projects, which some departments utilize as an alternative to the traditional thesis option. Use the following links to search discipline-specific portfolios:
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Science, Advocacy, Policy, Planning: Tools for Advancing Transportation Equity
Garrett S. McAllister
The theme of this portfolio is how different tools and approaches can be used for advancing transportation equity. Broadly defined, transportation equity is about fairness in transportation. There are a number of ways this fairness can be assessed. The most common way to assess transportation ... Read More
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Scene of a changing climate
Mona Nazeri Dr
For the last 500,000 years, the world climate has been in transition from warm to cold and vice versa. However, recent human-caused climate change has increased the rate of change in extreme and average climate conditions. Globally, people are facing higher than average temperatures as ... Read More
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Restoring Watersheds and Building Watershed Communities
Lindsay Wancour
The central theme of my four portfolio pieces is restoring watersheds and building watershed communities. Each component of my portfolio approaches this theme differently. Using a broad approach allowed me to explore the various ways communities, watersheds, and restoration can intersect. My first portfolio piece ... Read More
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Multi-Scaled Approaches for Protecting Montana's Watersheds and Water Resources
Elizabeth Yoder
The central theme carried among my four portfolio pieces is: using scientific and governmental approaches to conserve watershed health. For the purposes of this portfolio, I define watershed health as a very general term that describes the state of water quantity and quality that is ... Read More
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Laying the Foundation for Effective Natural Resource Management
Teresa Scanlon
The following portfolio describes three distinct, yet not mutually exclusive, approaches for managing water and other resources. A common theme throughout the three approaches is that they “lay the foundation” for future management, and each piece depicts a different approach to natural resource management planning. ... Read More
