Program

Clients

Year

Faculty Advisors

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Evaluating Ecological Conservation Gaps Across a Proposed Sentinel Landscape

MESM 2025 Group Project: Exploring High-Impact Regional Habitat Connectivity Projects in Support of a Sentinel Landscape Partnership Designation at Vandenberg Space Force Base

Group Members: Thuy-Tien Bui, Madison Calbert, Andrew Palacios, Natalie Smith, Priscilla Ta

Faculty Advisors: Ruth Oliver

Clients: LegacyWorks Group

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Assessing Marine Debris in the Proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary

MESM 2024 Group Project

Group Members: Tatiana Bok, Elizabeth Braun, Eleri Griffiths, Heather Luedke, Anne Youngdahl

Faculty Advisors: Steve Gaines

Clients: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

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Seal Bomb Impacts to Cetaceans in California National Marine Sanctuaries

Analyzing the impacts of a legal marine mammal acoustic deterrent known as a “seal bomb," underwater explosives used in purse seine fisheries.

Group Members: Ian Brunjes, Anastasia Kunz, Taylor Lockmann, Caitlin Manley

Faculty Advisors: Steve Gaines

Clients: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

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Incentivizing Incidental Groundwater Recharge in Teton Valley, Idaho

Incentivizing Incidental Groundwater Recharge in Teton Valley, Idaho

Faculty Advisors: Gary Libecap

Clients: LegacyWorks Group

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From Sea to Table: Recommendations for Tracing Seafood

From Sea to Table: Recommendations for Tracing Seafood

Faculty Advisors: Hunter Lenihan, John Melack

Clients: Monterey Bay Aquarium Sustainable Seafood Initiative