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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Still lake water surrounded by boulders.

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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Conservation Planning for Blue Oak Woodlands in the Southern Sierra Foothills

Conservation Planning for Blue Oak Woodlands in the Southern Sierra Foothills

Faculty Advisors: Lee Hannah

Clients: UC Integrated Hardwoods Range Management Program, The Nature Conservancy, County of Tulare