This is the capstone experience. You identify, plan, implement, and evaluate a project that focuses on the skills and knowledge you have gained, or on your professional interests.

Sample titles of senior projects from the Environmental Studies Department:

• Hiking the Colorado Trail for Multiple Sclerosis
• Where the Wind Blows: Developing Wind Energy in Anchorage
• Ten Year Sound Sampling Plan: Denali National Park
• Alaska Pacific University Paper Audit and Analysis of Campus Community Views on Paper Waste
• Generation and Recycling
• A Guide to Algae of Southcentral Alaska
• Species Richness: Immigration, Speciation, and Community Size Comparing Detection Methods for Transient Killer Whale Vocalization Analysis
• Utilization of Methane Gas, Operating Unit 1, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska
• The Vertical Distribution, Abundance, Biomass, and Diversity of Canopy Arthropods in Two Different Aged Forests (100 and 500 years old) in Southern Washington
• Denali Tectonics: Using Longitudinal Stream Gradient Profiles to Determine the Nature of Recent Tectonic Activity
• Listing the Cook Inlet Beluga: Potential Effect on the Port of Anchorage Expansion