Program

Clients

Year

Faculty Advisors

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Identifying Justice40 Communities Based on Cumulative Environmental Burdens

This project enhances the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) by incorporating cumulative climate and environmental burdens, ensuring more equitable investment in the most at-risk communities. Using advanced geospatial analysis, it refines how disadvantaged areas are identified, strengthening the impact of the Justice40 initiative.

Group Members: Kat Le, Haylee Oyler, Josephine Cardelle, Kimberlee Wong

Faculty Advisors: Jayajit Chakraborty

Clients: Jayajit Chakraborty, UCSB Bren School

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Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution: Best Management Practice Impacts on Water Quality & Recommendations to Improve Monitoring Programs in Ventura County, California

This project represents an original attempt to use water quality and BMP implementation data collected under California’s CWP to provide a quantitative assessment of BMP efficacy in Ventura County.

Faculty Advisors: Andrew Plantinga

Clients: Farm Bureau of Ventura County

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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