Master's Project Directory

Developing a Toolkit to Optimize Community Choice Energy Programs

Faculty Advisors: Mark Buntaine

Clients: Center for Climate Protection

Characterizing the Ecological Risk to the Tidewater Goby from Pyrethroid Use in Coastal California

Faculty Advisors: Arturo Keller

Clients: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Securing Water Rights from Retiring Coal-Fired Power Plants for Instream Flow

Faculty Advisors: James Salzman

Clients: The Nature Conservancy

Eco-Entrepreneurship: KINN: An Assessment of Apparel Toxins' Impact on Mother and Newborn Endocrine-System Health

Faculty Advisors: Matt Potoski, Emily Cotter

Impact Investment and Fisheries: Can Private Capital Rebuild Chilean Hake Stocks?

Group Members: Nathan Grimes

Faculty Advisors: Christopher Costello

Clients: Environmental Defense Fund

Exploring the Return on Investment Case for Drinking Water Protection in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Faculty Advisors: Kelly Caylor

Clients: The Nature Conservancy

Next Generation Water Action Plan for General Electric

Faculty Advisors: Patricia Holden

Clients: General Electric

Prioritizing Cost-Effective Dust Mitigation at the Salton Sea

Faculty Advisors: Andrew Plantinga

Clients: San Diego County Water Authority

Motivating Private-Public Collaboration to Reduce Fire Severity in the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains

Faculty Advisors: Christina Tague

Clients: Sierra Resource Conservation District

Environmental Impacts of Utility-Scale Battery Storage in California

Faculty Advisors: Roland Geyer

Clients: First Solar, Inc.

Air-Based Land Management – Assessing Drone and Imaging Tools for the Tejon Ranch Conservancy

Faculty Advisors: James Frew

Clients: Tejon Ranch Conservancy

Incentivizing Incidental Groundwater Recharge in Teton Valley, Idaho

Faculty Advisors: Gary Libecap

Clients: LegacyWorks Group

The Living Laboratories- Improving Management at Two University of California Natural Reserves

Faculty Advisors: John Melack

Clients: University of California Natural Reserve System

Locating Ocean Acidification Monitoring Gaps and Hotspots within the California Current

Faculty Advisors: Bruce Kendall

Clients: West Coast Regional Planning Body

Achieving Carbon Neutrality at UCSB by 2025: A Critical Analysis of Technological and Financial Strategies

Clients: UCSB Chancellor's Sustainability Committee

An Analysis of Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots and Conflict Reduction Strategies in Northern California

Faculty Advisors: Ben Halpern

Clients: Defenders of Wildlife