Master's Project Directory

Overview of MEDS Capstone projects Overview of MESM Group projects

San Joaquin Valley Landscape-Scale Planning for Solar Energy and Conservation

Working with the Defenders of Wildlife, this project aims to ensure that the proper balance is achieved, with smart planning for renewable power that avoids and minimizes adverse impacts to wildlife and lands with known high-resource values (agriculture).

Faculty Advisors: Mark Buntaine

Clients: Defenders of Wildlife

The Bathtub Ring: Implications of Low Water Levels in Lake Mead on Water Supply, Hydropower, Recreation, and the Environment

This project explores the impacts to each stakeholder group if Lake Mead reaches each key elevation outlined in the Interim Guidelines, as well as 1,000’.

Faculty Advisors: Christina Tague

Clients: Western Water Policy Program - University of Colorado

Evaluating Management Scenarios to Revitalize the California Commercial Swordfish Fishery

The goal of our project was to evaluate different management scenarios composed of the main gear types used to catch swordfish to simulate an increase in domestic swordfish catch while incorporating current and proposed conservation regulations in the California swordfish fishery.

Faculty Advisors: Hunter Lenihan

Clients: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, The Nature Conservancy

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Solo Energy: A Social Impact Venture Providing Affordable Electricity to Energy-Impoverished Individuals in Less-Developed Nations Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean

Solo Energy builds standalone renewable energy kits for individuals with energy needs that cannot be satisfied through traditional fuels. The kits are complete and contain a solar panel, battery, and everything else needed to ensure the electricity produced is reliable and available.

Faculty Advisors: Emily Cotter, Jeff Dozier

Discover TURFs: A Global Assessment of Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries to Determine Variability in Success and Design

Faculty Advisors: Christopher Costello

Clients: Rare Conservation

Fish Scraps to Food: New Markets in Mexican Artisanal Fishing Communities

Group Members: Jessica Couture

Faculty Advisors: Andrew Plantinga, Gary Libecap

Clients: Olazul

Program

Clients

Year

Faculty Advisors

San Joaquin Valley Landscape-Scale Planning for Solar Energy and Conservation

The Bathtub Ring: Implications of Low Water Levels in Lake Mead on Water Supply, Hydropower, Recreation, and the Environment

Evaluating Management Scenarios to Revitalize the California Commercial Swordfish Fishery

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Solo Energy: A Social Impact Venture Providing Affordable Electricity to Energy-Impoverished Individuals in Less-Developed Nations Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean

Developing a Wild Pig (Sus Scrofa) Management Plan for Tejon Ranch

Comparing Mitigation Alternatives: Ecological Outcomes and Policy Implications

Data-driven Sustainable Food Purchasing

Evaluating Offshore Wind Energy Feasibility off the California Central Coast

California Climate Action Plan Implementation

Reducing Plastic Debris in the Los Angeles and San Gabriel River Watersheds

Offshore Wind Energy in the Context of Multiple Ocean Uses on the Bermuda Platform

Discover TURFs: A Global Assessment of Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries to Determine Variability in Success and Design

Fish Scraps to Food: New Markets in Mexican Artisanal Fishing Communities

Exploring Innovative Management for the Red Spiny Lobster Fishery in the Galápagos Islands

The Restoration of the Catarina Scallop (Argopecten Ventricosus) in the Ensenada de La Paz

Beaver (Castor Canadensis) Impact on Water Resources in the Jemez Watershed, New Mexico