Program

Clients

Year

Faculty Advisors

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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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Aerial view of channel islands and pacific ocean

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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Underwater photo of coral reef

Visualizing Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Coral Reef Stressors Surrounding Moorea, French Polynesia

Determining how coral reef communities have changed due to anthropogenic and environmental stressors.

Group Members: Ingrid (Allie) Cole, Felicia Cruz, Jake Eisaguirre, Charles Hendrickson

Clients: Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research (National Science Foundation), UCSB Marine Science Institute

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Mitigation of Impaired Stormwater Quality in Los Laureles Canyon, Tijuana, Mexico.

Mitigation of Impaired Stormwater Quality in Los Laureles Canyon, Tijuana, Mexico.

Faculty Advisors: Arturo Keller, Robert Wilkinson

Clients: California State Water Resources Control Board