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 Framework to Evaluate the Effectiveness of No-Take Marine Reserves in Mexico

2017 Master's Group Project

Faculty Advisors: Christopher Costello

Clients: Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI)

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The Waterfowl of Wall Street: Using Water Markets to Provide Habitat for Migratory Birds

2017 Master's Group Project

Faculty Advisors: James Salzman

Clients: The Nature Conservancy

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Carbon Zero: Curbing Climate Change and Driving Energy Efficiency at UCSB

2017 Master's Group Project

Faculty Advisors: Roland Geyer, James Frew

Clients: Institute for Energy Efficiency, TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project

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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