Past ESPP Theses
Reading past theses is an excellent way to understand what is expected of a Senior thesis in ESPP and to get inspiration for your own thesis.
Year | Student Name | Thesis Title |
2024 | Fred Asare-Konadu | Navigating Net Zero: Private Equity's Path to Better Utilization |
2024 | Nicole Bellingham | Ecosystem Seeding Reveals Distinct Coral Reef Communities |
2024 | Guillaume Bouchard | Ambient temperature and sleep in a changing climate: novel insights from the American Time Use Survey |
2024 | Rey Chin | Megaflora vs. Megafauna: Elephant Utilization of Baobabs in Southern Mozambique |
2024 | Tim Fargiano | Agriculture, Climate Change, and Desertification: An Investigation of 21st Century Farming in the West African Sahel |
2024 | Sophia Gustafson | Environmentalism’s Colonial Resource Curse: Lasting impacts of colonialism in the DRC’s mining sector and the green transition as an opportunity for change |
2024 | Alexandra Kassinis | Humidity in Hot Pursuit: Refining Heat Index Projections and Tracking Features of Humid-Heat Stress in India |
2024 | Blake Koerber | Lessons from MEDEA: The Effects of Climate Change in the Arctic and its Implications for National Security |
2024 | Klara Kuemmerle | An Analysis of Indian Monsoonal Extreme Rainfall Events and Their Correlation with Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature |
2024 | Elijah McGill | Wall Street in the Woods: how changing forms of forest ownership have altered the species composition of Maine forests |
2024 | Nick Nocita | A Life Cycle Assessment Model of Cocoa Agroforestry Systems in Trinidad and Tobago with Policy Recommendations |
2024 | Michael Omole | Who Gets to Live in a Utopia: Lagos, Eko Atlantic City, and Just Climate Futures |
2024 | Lexie Purcell | Heavy Metal Water Pollution of the Pilcomayo River Basin in Bolivia: From Field Work to Proposed Policy |
2024 | Claire Wigglesworth | The environmental impact of housing, transit, and energy policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts: a holistic evalution of Cambridge's Net-Zero Action Plan |
2024 | Chelsea Xia | Engineering chitostan-silk fibronin laminates for use as strong, tough, and biodegradable alternatives to plastic packaging |
2025 | Hannah Adler | Greenhouse gases in motion: modeling the lateral Flux and Stream-Atmosphere Exchange of Carbon and Methane in Harvard Forest Wetland Ecosystems |
2025 | Kiani Akina | O ke kahua ma mua, ma hope ke kūkulu: A Framework for ʻIke ʻĀina Policy in Hawaiʻi’s K-12 Public Schools |
2025 | Liam Downing | An Analysis of MethaneAIR’s Identification and Quantification of Point Source Emissions: Leveraging Data Hiding in Plain Sight |
2025 | Silas Garcia-George | The Geopolitics of Solar Geoengineering |
2025 | George Genieser | Harnessing the Anemoi: Analyzing Greece’s Journey to Wind Energy Sovereignty |
2025 | Alice Goyer | Optimizing Harvard's Electrification Strategy with V2G: Opportunities for Carbon Reduction and Price Arbitrage in Transactive Energy Management |
2025 | Edward Lee | Quantifying termite mound-driven carbon sequestration: an investigation across herbivory pressures in South African savannas |
2025 | Sierra Llyod | Compromise or Complementarity? The Promise, Reality, and Potential of Working Lands Conservation Easements |
2025 | Emil Massad | “We Never Said You Weren’t Exposed” - Risk Management and Communication in the Aftermath of the Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. |
2025 | Tomoki Matsuno | Charting Japan's Hydrogen Future: Strategic Integration for Energy Security and Economic Transition |
2025 | Jack O'Donnell | Surface Level: A Deep Dive into the Characteristics of Mobula Skin Denticles and Their Tentative Impact on Conservation Efforts |
2025 | Eamon Ocearuil | Charting the Water Transition in The European Union |
2025 | Thor Reimann | Sacred Lands, Shared Ground: The Politics and Future of Bears Ears National Monument |
2025 | Grace Taylor | Roots of An Outbreak: The Role of Deforestation in the 2013 Ebola Virus Spillover Event |
2025 | Jack Towers | The Fourth Agricultural Revolution: A US Policy Analysis for the Transition Toward Regenerative Agricultural Practices |
2025 | Eshaan Vakil | “Welcome to Hell” Class and Air Pollution in Delhi |
2025 | Cara Yu | When Protectionism Overshadows Progress: The Failure of U.S. Tariffs Against Chinese Solar |