The
Environment:
Studies of Ecological Interconnections
May 2002
| Editors John Latto, Matt Orr, Justin Remais and Manish Desai |
Senior Research
Seminar Environmental Sciences Group Major University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720-2922 |
Table
of Contents
I. Public Health
Regulation of Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaning Facilities - Mariel Kusano [16 pp.]
Pesticide Policy Changes in California School Districts - Krista Lepper [16 pp.]
II.
Environment and Society Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Consumer Misperceptions - Arif
Syed [12 pp.] Induced Automobile Emission Comparison between Two Retail
Land Use Types - Delia S. Chi [18 pp.]
III.
Environmental Restoration Determining an Effective Buffer
Against Reinvasion of Restored Sand Dunes - Anna Kim [12 pp.] Restoration's Influence on Aerial Arthropod Diversity
- Damien Clauson [ 9 pp.] Effect of Wildfire on Invertebrate Communities in Riparian
Chaparral - Laurel Martin [10 pp.] Are Clipper Cove's Sediments Suitable For Redevelopment?
- Blaine Pedlow [ 9 pp.]
IV.
Ecosystem Change Channel Cross-Section Analysis
in Alhambra Creek - Maureen C. Mason [24 pp.] Sierra Nevada Mixed-Conifer Species Response to Gap Openings
- Jedediah Parr [ 8 pp.] Land Use and Water Quality at Wildcat Creek, CA - Tim
Hassler [16 pp.]
V.
Invasive Species
VI.
Bioremediation
VII.
Animal Behavior Juvenile Dispersal in Peromyscus boylii
- Geoffrey C. Burch [12 pp.] Vigilance and Group Size in California
Sea Lions - Jill Fortuna [12 pp.] The Effects of Substrate on the Burrow Morphology
of the Chinese Mitten Crab - Valerie Chan [12 pp.]
Statement
about the authors
These studies were undertaken by seniors in the Environmental Sciences Group Major, an Interdisciplinary Studies program jointly administered by the College of Letters and Sciences and the College of Natural Resources at the University of California at Berkeley. The Environmental Sciences major allows students to concentrate in one of three fields of specialization: biological science, physical science, and social science. In their senior year, students in the major participate in a two-semester Senior Research Seminar, investigating an environmental topic of current concern. This project gives the students experience in field work, general research techniques, and oral and written presentation of research results. This volume is the compilation of research reports from the fall 2001/spring 2002 Senior Research Seminars.