Program

Clients

Year

Faculty Advisors

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Conservation Gap Analysis and the Business Case for Protecting Surf Ecosystems

2025 MESM Group Project: Conservation Gap Analysis and the Business Case for Protecting Surf Ecosystems

Group Members: Ryan Anderson, Manuela Díaz, Sofia Gutierrez, Miranda Scalzo, Emma Tao

Faculty Advisors: Hunter Lenihan

Clients: Conservation International Indonesia

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Environmental and Financial Analysis: Single-Use Plastic versus Reusable Recycling Bags

Analyzing environmental and financial factors to develop a calculator and marketing tool to help a commercial recycling company make decisions about transport packaging.

Group Members: Karla Bonilla Cordero, Kat Cotti, Larissa Neilson, Morganne Sigismonti

Faculty Advisors: Matt Potoski

Clients: WSP Sustainability, Energy & Climate Change Division

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Improving Usability of Snow Data Through Web Based Visualizations and Tutorials

Expanding the Snow Today website's spatial domain coverage from the Western United States to all of North America, Greenland, and High Mountain Asia.

Group Members: Ryan Munnikhuis, Julia Parish, Marie Rivers

Faculty Advisors: Samantha Stevenson

Clients: UCSB Earth Research Institute

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Ridge to Reef: Land Use, Sedimentation, and Marine Resource Vulnerability in Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Ridge to Reef: Land Use, Sedimentation, and Marine Resource Vulnerability in Raja Ampat, Indonesia

Faculty Advisors: Thomas Dunne

Clients: Conservation International Indonesia