2019 Master's Project Final Presentations

Join the Bren School at our annual Master's Project Presentation Day. The MESM Class of 2019 presents 15 Master's Group Projects and 2 Eco-Entrepreneurship Projects, the culmination of a year working in collaboration with a client partner or on a business plan which addresses an environmental problem.

Concurrent Presentations, Reception and Poster Session to follow

1:00 – 1:10  

• Welcome by Bren School Dean Steve Gaines

1:15 – 1:50

• Pros in Procrastination? An Analysis of the Consequences of Delaying Management Actions in the Midriff Islands, Mexico
• Improving Citizen Science Data Management for Effective Resource Protection
• Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Floating Offshore Wind Energy in California

2:00 – 2:35

• Evaluating Ecosystem Services and Market Mechanisms in Douglas County, Nevada
• Smart Charge: Charging Electric Vehicles to Support a Low Carbon Grid
• Reef Resilience: Motivating Investments in Coral Restoration

2:45 – 3:20

• Roots: Connecting Tiny Home Dwellers and Residential Landowners to Alleviate the Housing Crisis (Eco-Entrepreneurship)
• Balancing Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment in Rwanda
• Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Island Oak (Quercus tomentella)

3:30 – 4:05

• Conservation Benefits of Commercial Aquaculture for an Endangered Species
• Where the Wind Goes: Motivating Low Ecological Risk Wind Development
• Cumulative Impacts Assessment for Timber Harvest: How to Best Incorporate Wildfire Risk and Hazard
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials Innovation in the Apparel Industry

4:15 – 4:50

• The Hurd Co: Waste to Wear. Reducing the Impact of Apparel Supply Chains with Cannabis Waste (Eco-Entrepreneurship)
• The Dangermond Preserve: Integrating Historical Change and Future Projections to Guide Conservation
• Mountains to Metro: Proactively Managing the Risk CECs Pose to the Denver Drinking Water Supply
• Pathway to 100%: A Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement Strategy

5:00

• Reception and Poster Session 

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