Program

Clients

Year

Faculty Advisors

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Understanding Multiple Benefits of Floodplain Restoration from Flood Managed Aquifer Recharge in Madera County, California

This project is working to address California's groundwater resilience by analyzing the multiple benefits of using flood waters for managed aquifer recharge and floodplain restoration in the Madera Basin of the San Joaquin Valley.

Group Members: Alex Ehrens, Annika Leiby, Alex Milward, Nicole Schmidt

Faculty Advisors: Scott Jasechko

Clients: California Department of Water Resources, Environmental Defense Fund

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Accounting for Reductions: The Carbon Footprint of a Zero Waste Grocery Store

This project will compare Nada Grocery’s carbon emissions and plastic waste production under a business as usual scenario to a variety of probable scenarios that could happen as a result of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Group Members: Mike (Ruiheng) Jin, Andrew Salvador, Kate Shoemaker, Shelby Walsh, Victoria Wallace

Faculty Advisors: Sarah Anderson

Clients: Nada Grocery, Inc.

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Evaluating Offshore Wind Energy Feasibility off the California Central Coast

Evaluating Offshore Wind Energy Feasibility off the California Central Coast

Faculty Advisors: Bruce Kendall

Clients: Community Environmental Council, Infinity Wind Power

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Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Streams: Disposal Practices and Policy Options in Santa Barbara County

Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Streams: Disposal Practices and Policy Options in Santa Barbara County

Clients: Community Environmental Council