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University of California, Santa Barbara Operational Effectiveness: Energy Management Initiative

This project created an energy management plan that will provide a frame-work that UCSB Utility and Energy Services can use to reduce UCSB campus energy consumption.

Faculty Advisors: Sarah Anderson

Clients: UCSB

Developing a Water Risk Analysis Framework for Suppliers and Applying it to a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Developing a water risk analysis framework for suppliers and apply it to Eli Lilly’s supply chain for two insulin products, Humalog and Humulin.

Faculty Advisors: Patricia Holden

Clients: Kaiser Permanente, Eli Lilly and Company

The City of Santa Barbara Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment

This project conducted a vulnerability assessment to determine the impacts of sea level rise on: human impacts, critical infrastructure, recreation and public access, and ecological resources. It also identified preliminary adaptation policies that address the impacts of sea level rise hazards.

Faculty Advisors: James Frew

Clients: City of Santa Barbara

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

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Slightly Nutty

Slightly Nutty developed insects as an alternative protein ingredient to significantly reduce price-volatility and environmental impact of meat industries.

Faculty Advisors: Emily Cotter, Matt Potoski

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

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

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

Faculty Advisors: Steve Gaines

Clients: Conservation International

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

Faculty Advisors: Hunter Lenihan

Clients: Noroeste Sustenable A.C.

University of California, Santa Barbara Operational Effectiveness: Energy Management Initiative

Developing a Water Risk Analysis Framework for Suppliers and Applying it to a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

The City of Santa Barbara Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment

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

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Slightly Nutty

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

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Re:Think Buildings

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

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Ecolodgical

Comparing Mitigation Alternatives: Ecological Outcomes and Policy Implications

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Charborn

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