Projects
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Eco-Entrepreneurship: OrganicMatters

OrganicMatters is an Eco-E project that manufactures certified organic fertilizer out of poultry waste from the egg industry.

Faculty Advisors: Arturo Keller, Emily Cotter

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Planning and Incentivizing Native Oyster Restoration in Southern California

2017 Master's Group Projects

Faculty Advisors: Hunter Lenihan

Clients: Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Honda Marine Science Foundation

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Workplace Charging to Promote One Million Zero Emission Vehicles in California by 2020

2017 Master's Group Project

Faculty Advisors: Sarah Anderson, James Frew

Clients: California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

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A Greater Gray: A Larval Connectivity Assessment of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary

2017 Master's Group Project

Faculty Advisors: Steve Gaines

Clients: Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Feasibility Analysis of Conservation Banking for the Greater Sage-Grouse in Montana

2017 Master's Group Project

Faculty Advisors: Gary Libecap

Clients: American Prairie Reserve

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A Citizen Science Monitoring Protocol for the Rocky Intertidal Habitat

A Citizen Science Monitoring Protocol for the Rocky Intertidal Habitat

Faculty Advisors: John Melack

Clients: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

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Assessing the Environmental and Economic Impacts and Benefits of PV-battery Microgrid Systems in Off-Grid Communities

Assessing the Environmental and Economic Impacts and Benefits of PV-battery Microgrid Systems in Off-Grid Communities

Faculty Advisors: Roland Geyer

Clients: First Solar, Inc.

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Fire Mitigation Strategies in the Wildland-Urban Interface

Assessing the Effectiveness of Fire Mitigation Strategies in the Wildland-Urban Interface

Faculty Advisors: Sarah Anderson

Clients: City of Santa Barbara Fire Department

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Factors Influencing the Expansion of Environmental Water Markets

Factors Influencing the Expansion of Environmental Water Markets

Faculty Advisors: Gary Libecap

Clients: Mammoth Trading, Inc., Water for Food Daugherty Global Institute - University of Nebraska

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Economic Analysis of Invasive Giant Reed (Arundo Donax) Control for the Lower Santa Clara River

Economic Analysis of Invasive Giant Reed (Arundo Donax) Control for the Lower Santa Clara River

Clients: UCSB Riparian Invasion Research Lab

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Not a Drop to Spare: Sustainable Water Management Solutions for the South Coast of Santa Barbara County

Not a Drop to Spare: Sustainable Water Management Solutions for the South Coast of Santa Barbara County

Faculty Advisors: Robert Wilkinson

Clients: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper

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Microfiber Pollution and the Apparel Industry

Microfiber Pollution and the Apparel Industry

Faculty Advisors: Patricia Holden

Clients: Patagonia

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More Housing, Fewer Cars: Reducing Commute-Related Emissions on the South Coast

More Housing, Fewer Cars: Reducing Commute-Related Emissions on the South Coast

Faculty Advisors: Mark Buntaine

Clients: City of Santa Barbara Planning Commission

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Global Spatial Analysis to Identify and Characterize Wood Sourcing Regions

Global Spatial Analysis to Identify and Characterize Wood Sourcing Regions

Faculty Advisors: Lee Hannah

Clients: The Sustainability Consortium

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Biological and Social Tradeoffs of Implementing Fair Trade USA in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Case Study of Costa Rican Snapper

Biological and Social Tradeoffs of Implementing Fair Trade USA in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Case Study of Costa Rican Snapper

Faculty Advisors: Hunter Lenihan

Clients: Conservation International

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Eco-Entrepreneurship: Fruit Forward: Recapturing the Beneficial Properties of Wine Grape Skins and Seeds to Produce an Organic Preservative

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Fruit Forward: Recapturing the Beneficial Properties of Wine Grape Skins and Seeds to Produce an Organic Preservative

Faculty Advisors: Emily Cotter, Bruce Kendall, David Tilman

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EVMatch: Reducing the Barriers to Electric Vehicle Use by Matching EV Owners With Reliable Charging Options in Their Community (Eco-E)

Connecting EV owners in need of reliable charging with nearby owners of residential EV charging infrastructure on a reservation basis.

Faculty Advisors: Emily Cotter, Kyle Meng

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Eco-Entrepreneurship: InGrain: Transforming Brewery Waste Into Sustainable Packaging and Marketing Solutions

Eco-Entrepreneurship: InGrain: Transforming Brewery Waste Into Sustainable Packaging and Marketing Solutions

Faculty Advisors: Emily Cotter, Matt Potoski

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Finding a Place for Conservation: A bio-economic analysis to inform the re-zoning of the Galápagos Marine Reserve

Finding a Place for Conservation: A bio-economic analysis to inform the re-zoning of the Galápagos Marine Reserve

Faculty Advisors: Christopher Costello

Clients: National Geographic Society Pristine Seas