Master's Project Directory

Overview of MEDS Capstone projects Overview of MESM Group projects

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Roadmap and Recommendations for Sustainability Reporting in Food Manufacturing

MESM 2025 Group Project: Food Manufacturing Impact Measurement and Reporting

Group Members: Akshaya Jagannathan, Madison Kilkenny, Wesley Martinez, Daphne Prodis, Brenda Vuong

Faculty Advisors: Matt Potoski

Clients: Albertsons Companies

Analysis of Pre-Consumer Textile Waste within the Apparel Supply Chain

MESM 2024 Group Project

Group Members: Karina Abou-Chakra, Kira Archipov, Simone Berkovitz, Elena Perry, Rachel Spellenberg

Faculty Advisors: Matt Potoski, David Tilman

Clients: Patagonia

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Paramount Global’s Emissions Reduction Strategy: VPPAs and On-Site Solar

MESM 2023 Group Project

Group Members: Ridhima Chaudhuri, Russell Fager, Allison Gracer, Benjamin Moscona, Julia Wilson, Anna Zauner

Faculty Advisors: Matt Potoski

Clients: Paramount Global

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

Advancing Methods for Corporate Climate Risk Assessment

This project first seeks to identify the climate weather events that will have the most signifiant impact on 19 Raytheon Technologies locations within the United States.

Group Members: Margaret Brickner, Derek Nguyen, Jordan Faires, Paul Rikhter

Faculty Advisors: Eric Masanet, Matt Potoski

Clients: Raytheon Technologies

Climate Change Impacts to City of Santa Barbara Water Supplies

This project provides an analysis of a range of potential variations in streamflow for the Santa Ynez River watershed, and therefore inflow to the City of Santa Barbara's reservoirs, from 2020 to 2058.

Faculty Advisors: Arturo Keller, John Melack

Clients: City of Santa Barbara Public Works

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Powered by Moxie

Powered by Moxie is an Eco-Entrepreneurship Project that analyzes the environmental impacts of different types of grocery and snack packaging and offers a solution to reduce packaging waste by using reusable packaging. Powered by Moxie delivers farmer’s market produce and snacks to corporate offices as a supplemental employee benefit program.

Faculty Advisors: Matt Potoski

Developing a 100% Renewable Energy Strategic Plan for CBS Corporation

This project aimed to estimate the greenhouse gas emission reductions which would result from powering CBS facilities nationwide with 100% renewable energy, and actions to implement this strategy.

Faculty Advisors: Matt Potoski

Clients: CBS Corporation

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Managing Endemic Species Across the California Islands Archipelago in the Face of Climate Change

This project team worked with The Nature Conservancy, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and other island conservation organizations to better understand how climate change will impact island oaks and their recovery.

Faculty Advisors: John Melack, Bruce Kendall

Clients: The Nature Conservancy, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden