Master's Project Directory

Overview of MEDS Capstone projects Overview of MESM Group projects

Clients

ADCO Group (1)
Adidas (1)
AECOM (4)
AIG International (1)
Albertsons Companies (1)
Algalita Marine Research Institute (1)
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Skylight) (1)
American Motor Honda Company (1)
American Prairie Reserve (1)
American Rivers (1)
American Samoa Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources (1)
Apeel Sciences (1)
Aquarium of the Bay (1)
BHP Biliton (1)
Big Sur Land Trust (1)
Blue Forest Conservation (1)
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP (1)
Burbank Water and Power (2)
Bureau of Land Management - California State Office (1)
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (2)
Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board (1)
California Abalone Association (1)
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) (1)
California Department of Fish & Wildlife (2)
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection (2)
California Department of Toxic Substances Control (1)
California Department of Water Resources (1)
California Energy Commission (1)
California Environmental Protection Agency (1)
California Governor's Office of Business & Economic Development (GO-Biz) (1)
California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (1)
California Lobster & Trap Fishermen's Association (1)
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (1)
California State Water Resources Control Board (1)
California Water Data Consortium (1)
CALStart (1)
Carbon Direct (1)
(-) Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve (1)
Cawthron Institute (1)
CB Consulting - Casmalia Steering Committee (1)
CBS Corporation (1)
Center for Climate Protection (1)
Cesar Martinez-Alvarez, UCSB Political Science (1)
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (10)
China Rivers Project (1)
City of Santa Barbara (4)
City of Santa Barbara Fire Department (1)
City of Santa Barbara Planning Commission (2)
City of Santa Barbara Public Works (1)
City of Thousand Oaks (1)
Clean Power Alliance (1)
Climate Adaptations Solutions Accelerator, funded by the National Science Foundation (1)
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) (1)
Collective Energy Company, LLC (2)
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission - CRITFC (1)
Community Environmental Council (2)
Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI) (2)
Conejo Recreation & Parks Department (1)
Conservation International (6)
Conservation International, Center for Oceans (Liberia) (1)
Conservation International Indonesia (2)
Conservation International Tuna Program (1)
Cori Lopazanski, UCSB Bren School (1)
County of Santa Barbara Sustainability Division (1)
County of Santa Barbara Water Agency (1)
County of Tulare (1)
Cygnus Ocean Farms (1)
Darn Tough Vermont (1)
Deckers Outdoor Corporation (3)
Defenders of Wildlife (2)
Denver Water (1)
Desert Tortoise Council (1)
DNV KEMA (1)
Dominica Sperm Whale Project (1)
Doris Duke Foundation (1)
Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (1)
Driscoll's, Inc. (1)
DUDEK (1)
Earth Pledge (1)
Earth Resource Foundation (1)
ECOTRUST (1)
Editors of California Grasslands, UC Press (1)
Edwards Air Force Base (1)
Eli Lilly and Company (1)
ENSR (1)
Environmental Coalition of Faith Communities (1)
Environmental Defense Center (1)
Environmental Defense Fund (9)
(-) Equinix (1)
Eric Masanet, UCSB Bren School (1)
Evergreen Action (1)
Everlane (1)
Farm Bureau of Ventura County (1)
First Solar, Inc. (2)
FORVIS (1)
General Electric (1)
Gills Onions, LLC (2)
Global Energy Monitor (1)
Global Fishing Watch (2)
Global Student Embassy (1)
Goldring Family Foundation (1)
Google, Inc. (1)
Government of Bermuda (1)
Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary (1)
Greenopia (1)
Green Seal (1)
GSI (1)
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (1)
Hewlett Packard (1)
Honda Marine Science Foundation (1)
(-) Hope Ranch Homeowner's Association (1)
Infinity Wind Power (1)
Innovation Center for US Dairy (2)
Institute for Energy Efficiency (1)
International Council on Nanotechnology (1)
Jayajit Chakraborty, UCSB Bren School (1)
Joint Institute for Wood Products Innovation (1)
Kaiser Permanente (2)
Kohala Institute (1)
KOMAZA (1)
La Fundacion para la Sobrevivencia del Pueblo Cofan (1)
Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County (1)
LegacyWorks Group (2)
Long Beach Water (1)
Los Padres National Forest (3)
Lynn Canal Conservation (1)
Mālama Maunalua (2)
Mammoth Trading, Inc. (1)
Mark Buntaine, UCSB Bren School (1)
MATE the Label (1)
Minerals Management Service (1)
Mission Linen Supply (1)
Monterey Bay Aquarium Sustainable Seafood Initiative (1)
Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research (National Science Foundation) (1)
Morro Bay National Estuary Program (1)
Moulton Niguel Water District (1)
Nada Grocery, Inc. (1)
National Association of Environmental Law Societies (1)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (1)
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) (2)
National Council for Science and the Environment (1)
National Geographic Society Pristine Seas (1)
Nautilus Minerals Ltd. (1)
New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission (1)
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (4)
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (1)
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (2)
NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (2)
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (1)
Nokia (1)
Nori Inc. (1)
Noroeste Sustenable A.C. (1)
North Irvine Ranch (1)
Oakwood (1)
Oceana (1)
Ocean Conservancy (2)
Ocean Defenders Alliance (2)
Ocean Rainforest (2)
Ocean Rainforest, Inc. and UCSB Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science (1)
Ocean Wilderness (1)
Ojai Valley Land Conservancy (1)
Olazul (3)
Organizations of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas (1)
Oryzatech, Inc. (1)
Osa Conservation (1)
Pacific Institute (1)
PANGAIA (1)
Paramount Global (1)
Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) (3)
Patagonia (7)
Peikert Group Architects, LLP (1)
PlanIT Geo (1)
Playa Viva, LLC (1)
Players for the Planet (1)
Professor Frank Davis (1)
Property & Environment Research Center (PERC) (1)
Protect Our Winters (2)
Rare - Fish Forever Program (1)
Rare Conservation (1)
Raytheon Technologies (1)
Regeneration.VC (1)
Restoration Science LLC (1)
San Diego County Water Authority (1)
San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board (1)
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute (1)
Santa Barbara Architecture 2030 Coalition (1)
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (2)
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper (3)
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (2)
Santa Barbara County Planning Division (2)
Santa Barbara Mariculture (1)
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (1)
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (2)
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Environmental Office (1)
Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District (1)
Sarah Anderson, UCSB Bren School (1)
ScootScience (1)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1)
Sierra Resource Conservation District (1)
Simple Shoes (1)
SIMS Metal Management (1)
Sony Pictures Entertainment (1)
South Coast Habitat Restoration (1)
Southern California Association of Governments (1)
Southern California Edison (4)
Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project (1)
South Yuba River Citizens League (1)
State Water Resources Control Board (1)
Strong Roots Congo (1)
Sunnyside Farms, LLC (1)
Sunnyside Institute (1)
Surf Conservation Partnership (1)
Surfrider Foundation Ventura Ecosystem Program (1)
Sustainable Aquaculture Research Center (1)
Sustainable Conservation (1)
Tejon Ranch Conservancy (6)
Terra Genesis (1)
The 2035 Initiative (2)
The Boeing Company (1)
The International Network on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (1)
The Limoneira Company (2)
The Nature Conservancy (23)
The Nature Conservancy, Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve (3)
The Nature Conservancy Peru (1)
The Nature Conservancy Santa Cruz Island Preserve (2)
The New Media Studio (1)
The Santa Ynez Chumash Environmental Office (1)
The Summit Foundation (1)
The Sustainability Consortium (1)
The Sustainability Project (1)
TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project (1)
Toyota - Environmental Coordination Office (1)
Tropical Forest Group (1)
Trout Unlimited (1)
UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (2)
UC Disaster Resilience Network + UCSB Natural Reserve System Collaborative (1)
UC Integrated Hardwoods Range Management Program (1)
UCSB (3)
UCSB Bren School (5)
UCSB Bren School & Environmental Studies Department (2)
UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society (1)
UCSB Chancellor's Sustainability Committee (1)
UCSB Community Labor Center (1)
UCSB Earth Research Institute (1)
UCSB Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) (2)
UCSB Environmental Science Department (1)
UCSB Environmental Studies Department (1)
UCSB Housing, Dining & Auxiliary Enterprises (1)
UCSB Marine Science Institute (1)
UCSB Purchasing Department (1)
UCSB Riparian Invasion Research Lab (1)
UCSB Sustainability (1)
Unión de Conservación Agua de la Sierra (UCAS) (1)
United Nations Environmental Programme (2)
University of California Natural Reserve System (1)
University of Montana (1)
US Environmental Protection Agency - Region 9 (2)
US Fish and Wildlife Service (2)
US Fish and Wildlife Service - Ventura Office (1)
US Forest Service (2)
US Forest Service - Angeles National Forest (1)
US Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, Port Hueneme (1)
Valle Verde (1)
Ventura Hillsides Conservancy (1)
Ventura Regional Fire Safe Council (1)
Volvo (2)
Wallowa Resources (1)
Water for Food Daugherty Global Institute - University of Nebraska (1)
Waterkeeper Alliance (1)
West Coast Regional Planning Body (1)
Western Water Policy Program - University of Colorado (1)
Whitebark Institute (1)
White Buffalo Land Trust (1)
WildAid (1)
WildEarth Guardians (1)
Wildlife Conservation Society (2)
Wild Salmon Center (1)
Workshop/APD (1)
World Wildlife Fund Brazil (2)
World Wildlife Fund Mexico (1)
WSP Sustainability, Energy & Climate Change Division (1)
Wynmark Company (1)
Yardi Systems, Inc. (1)
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (1)
Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Capital (1)
Zurich Financial Services (1)

(-) Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve
(-) Equinix
(-) Hope Ranch Homeowner's Association
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Many computer servers in a dark room in a data center

Understanding the tradeoffs of embedded energy and water use associated with Equinix's CA-based data center cooling needs

MESM 2025 Group Project: Understanding the tradeoffs of embedded energy and water use associated with Equinix's CA-based data center cooling needs

Group Members: Michaela Galarza, Tulsi Mistry, Matilde Saucedo, Vrunda Tol

Faculty Advisors: Eric Masanet

Clients: Equinix

Five students gathered around a transect in the sand

Planning and Incentivizing Native Oyster Restoration in Southern California

2017 Master's Group Projects

Faculty Advisors: Hunter Lenihan

Clients: Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Honda Marine Science Foundation

Microbiological Water Quality Investigation for Las Palmas Creek, Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, CA

Faculty Advisors: Patricia Holden

Clients: Hope Ranch Homeowner's Association

Program

Clients

Year

Faculty Advisors

Understanding the tradeoffs of embedded energy and water use associated with Equinix's CA-based data center cooling needs

Planning and Incentivizing Native Oyster Restoration in Southern California

Microbiological Water Quality Investigation for Las Palmas Creek, Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, CA