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Informing Biodiversity Conservation and Water-Quality Management in the Morro Bay Watershed

Because there is limited funding for conservation and water quality improvement projects, this project sought to identify areas of the Morro Bay estuary and watershed to prioritize for conservation, while also identifying areas where water quality improvements should be focused.

Faculty Advisors: Ben Halpern

Clients: Morro Bay National Estuary Program

Burbank Sustainable Water Master Plan

This project provided Burbank with a portfolio of tools and analytically justified strategies to enhance water sustainability:

Faculty Advisors: Robert Wilkinson

Clients: Burbank Water and Power

Motivating Water Conservation in Southern California through Allocation and Market Mechanisms

Our research examines the implications of water conservation on water allocation in Southern California. In this paper we consider two questions: How does the way water is currently allocated in Southern California encourage conservation? How could we develop a new allocation system to promote conservation, and how would the new system compare to the current system?

Faculty Advisors: Gary Libecap

Clients: Long Beach Water

Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution: Best Management Practice Impacts on Water Quality & Recommendations to Improve Monitoring Programs in Ventura County, California

This project represents an original attempt to use water quality and BMP implementation data collected under California’s CWP to provide a quantitative assessment of BMP efficacy in Ventura County.

Faculty Advisors: Andrew Plantinga

Clients: Farm Bureau of Ventura County

Investigating the Feasibility of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Santa Barbara County

The objective of this project was to determine the cost-effectiveness and implementation feasibility of GHG mitigation strategies in Santa Barbara County.

Clients: Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District

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

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

Faculty Advisors: John Melack

Clients: WildEarth Guardians

A Water Budget Analysis to Support Sustainable Water Management for Human and Ecological Needs in the Black River Basin, New Mexico

Faculty Advisors: Arturo Keller

Clients: New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission

Informing Biodiversity Conservation and Water-Quality Management in the Morro Bay Watershed

Burbank Sustainable Water Master Plan

Motivating Water Conservation in Southern California through Allocation and Market Mechanisms

Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution: Best Management Practice Impacts on Water Quality & Recommendations to Improve Monitoring Programs in Ventura County, California

Investigating the Feasibility of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Santa Barbara County

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

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

A Water Budget Analysis to Support Sustainable Water Management for Human and Ecological Needs in the Black River Basin, New Mexico

Incorporating Land Use Impacts on Biodiversity into Life Cycle Assessment

Eco-Entrepreneurship: SimpleCycle

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